Is a TEDx Talk Worth It? An Honest Answer
Someone asks to me whether a TEDx talk is worth it roughly once a month, usually a consultant or an executive who has been offered a slot and cannot work out whether to be flattered. I have done several, so…
Conferences and Keynote Speaking
Benjamin Chaminade shares practical experience in designing, selling and delivering high-impact Conferences and Keynote Speaking that inspire action rather than simply informing audiences.
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How to Choose a Management Innovation Speaker
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…
how to choose an intergenerational management speaker
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…
Conference Trends and Where Events Are Heading
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…
How to Choose a Keynote Speaker
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…
Keynote, avoiding professional obsolescence
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…
Choosing an HR keynote speaker
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…
What to expect from a management keynote?
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…
How to brief a keynote speaker in 7 steps
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…
Disrupting the speaking business
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,…