Speaking

Speaking, or Public Speaking as it is often referred to is as much of an adventure for the speaker as it is interesting for the audience.

I try to make the engagement as interactive, enlightening and humorous as possible. As I am all too aware how many of use have had to sit through interminable sessions by boring, outdated and out of touch speakers.

How to get `THE' Job

Having been afforded the opportunity to speak with a group of 70 Post Graduate Humanities students in late August 2022, I found that I have a passion and skill in transferring difficult to hear information, to people who need to hear it.

My speaking style focuses on sharing the facts and data around the job market with the audience and being brutality honest about their chances of entering this market.

For example, we found that in the Political Science field, there were an average of 3000 students per year, applying to just over 100 jobs. Not good odds?

Well, that is where I come in, sharing information around how to hunt for jobs, what techniques to use when applying and how to ace an interview. It is an introductory session of mine, that leads to a workshop on how to deep dive these skills and personalize them to the needs of each person attending.

The Future of the Job market

The future of the world of work is a complex topic, that often requires a lot of unpacking and contextualization. The constant challenge being that people are not often able to see past their own self imposed paradigms.

If you suggest to someone that a car dealership or a clothing store will be obsolete in as little as ten years from now, they are often caught off guard and respond defensively. However, we need only look to the postal service, card or coin operated public telephones, ADSL lines or milk delivery men to find that as times change, so do people.

The intention of this plenary session is to inspire people and become a catalyst for a new and unbridled way of thinking. Keep an eye on this space to see more soon.

What are you going to do after school?

And other terrible questions that grown ups dare to ask you.

The backbone and inspiration of my business is derived from this question. There are so many lost, uninspired and genuinely confused young people among us today.

I try to create a structure and a framework within which they have the best chance of being successful and I believe that can be achieved through honesty, transparency and sometimes, a little bit of tact.

We have a world full of amazing people and wonderful opportunities, but for whatever reason we have been unable to marry these two issues and create great lives for young people. I try to make things like this happen, and want to take as many people as I can along for the ride.

As Frederick Buechner so adequately states it:

"The place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need"

This is the space that I am trying to fill

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