In just 5 months, Chris Baldwin was named the fastest growing speaker in 2018 and the #1 in the top 10 speakers in the Netherlands. He now charges upwards of $15,000 for each keynote engagement and has been the speaker of choice for Google, Microsoft, and many other Fortune 500 companies. Chris shares the mindset and steps he took along this journey to become a top keynote speaker.

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Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation. Welcome to another episode of public speaking secrets. I’m your host, Victor Ahipene and as always, super excited to have you here so you can take your speaking to a whole another level and make a bigger impact on the world. And I’ve got somebody here who has been doing it. He’s out on the beat out on stages making a big impacts. His name’s Chris Baldwin. He is a bit of everything. And what I mean by that, he was born in Vanuatu, grew up in Australia where I am based and is now in the Netherlands and he was named one of the fastest growing speakers in 2018 and the number one speaker in the Netherlands and he charges up to an excess of $15,000 for each key note engagement. So we’re going to tell into that and a whole lot more because he’s been the speaker of course for places like Google and Microsoft and a lot of other fortune 500 companies. And we’re going to also have a and an insight into the mindset that it takes to be able to grow that fast. And also be an effective speaker to your audience. So with all that being said, welcome to the show, Chris.

Chris Baldwin: Thanks Victor. Thanks for having me.

Victor Ahipene: So lit. Let’s get a bit of a, as a slight background into you, you’ve obviously grown massively in you and you’re speaking at space last year and this year. What are, what are you speaking about? And I guess what gives you the credibility to speak to different audiences?

Chris Baldwin: So speaking as being something that I took on recently, like I’ve only really been speaking professionally for a year and, and speaking for two years, and the first year was actually within my organization. It was within IPG, which is one of the big five media companies in the world. IPG Mediabrands specifically. And, uh, and I started, um, actually we’re, where it all started was I was tasked as a strategy director. I was tasked with giving, with actually building the new mission vision for the agency, like the next chapter. And I had to, um, to communicate this internally. So I started speaking internally and, and one of the requirements I gave to people is that they needed to present this themselves. Okay. And, uh, and a lot of people had trouble presenting it. And so I started to train people to speak internally within my organization to present the mission, vision themselves so that they could bring this up in pitches, client pitches, and then just one thing led to another. And all of a sudden I started being tagged as the speaker within my agency and I started being asked to go into industry podiums and actually present on digital marketing. And, um, and then that’s how it all started. And what I did was, um, I built a model, cool, meaningful connections. I made it up. I literally made it up. I literally, I woke up at 3:00 AM on a Sunday morning and within 40 minutes I had this model written out. It’s, it’s basically, uh, the steps on how to build customer happiness. And it’s a four step process and it’s a model that describes sort of the digital ecosystem we’re in and how to build relationships through the digital ecosystem. And I call it meaningful connections. You know, in a hyper connected well, people would seek out the meaningful connections. And so what I did, I actually made something up that nobody else had. And that