Benjamin Chaminade shares practical experience in designing, selling and delivering high-impact Conferences and Keynote Speaking that inspire action rather than simply informing audiences.
Why is it that, when an Australian board talks about leadership, purpose or culture, the names in the room belong to Simon Sinek, Brene Brown or Adam Grant, and almost never to one of the Australian management speakers who could…
From time to time the question comes up, from a colleague, a consultant or a client: is it still worth doing a TED talk? The useful thing I can tell you has nothing to do with whether the brand still…
If you run an organisation and you are looking for new managerial approaches, a management innovation speaker probably looks like the answer. Before you book one, there is a definitional problem worth twenty minutes of your time, because it decides…
Intergenerational management is a useful approach for building teams that work well together across ages and experience levels. It is also the topic most likely to be delivered badly, because the easy version writes itself. Be careful here. A session…
Yes, it is possible to talk about conference trends without embarrassing yourself. For evidence, ask when you last heard anyone mention TEDx, which was the entire conversation not so long ago. The business events sector is genuinely changing, and most…
Choosing a keynote and the person who delivers it is the first real decision of your event. Everything downstream, the venue, the running order and the catering, adjusts around that choice rather than the other way round. I have no…
A professional obsolescence keynote that turns the fear of becoming obsolete into a career opportunity, by naming the five risks that make people anxious and giving them something to do about each one. The situation in the room What most…
Picture a corporate event where the audience yawns and checks the time. Now replace that scene with a room where every participant leaves holding ideas they can apply in their own team next week. The difference sits with an HR…
A management keynote is worth understanding before you book one, whether you are a manager, an executive or somebody being sent to sit in the room. Bringing in an outsider to share their experience and their view of where management…
Knowing how to brief a keynote speaker is turning into a capability worth developing. The Australian business events industry generates 36 billion dollars in direct economic benefit and employs around 229,000 people, and convention centres alone recently hosted 3,700 events…
This began as an interview with a business school student who asked what the activity of a conference speaker consists of. I noticed he chose the word activity rather than profession, and he was right to. Not being an academic,…