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Conference Planning Guide
Get the best conference
speakers around and your reputation will shine like the sun.
Make a mistake with conference speakers in planning your event and it's the end of your
career.
The trouble is that the best global authorities
can be the worst conference
speakers. It's hard for
conference speakers to wow a sophisticated audience of senior
executives or board members in a one hour speech. The best
conference speakers are true professionals: it's their job.
Conference speaking is what these people do. Conference
speakers are good, mediocre or just plain awful, but the best
conference speakers are those that speak at conferences all the
time. Conference speaking has become a specialty in it's
own right. Conference speakers can have the best ideas in
the world, be the greatest geniuses alive, but if their audience
can't hear what they say, if they are dull and boring, if the
audience can't relate to the message, what's the point?
"Motivational speakers" are a particular risk. You need more than a set of slick slides, inspirational quotations and funny stories (jokes can badly misfire in multicultural gatherings). Most executives need to be convinced about purpose, vision, data and direction before they will allow themselves to be carried along by an enthusiastic presenter.
Great speakers focus attention on what is really important, have a deep understanding of each audience (preparation really matters), help people see the way ahead, provide practical answers and make people feel good about themselves and what they do.
See information about how Dr Dixon works with clients to create highly successful events.
Conference Speakers that Make History
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World class presentation
content |
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Conference lectures
that make people think in radical ways |
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Immediate practical
take-home messages from every presentation |
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Total focus on
the interests of the audience in every speech |
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Lecturer fits
material into whole theme of conference |
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Interesting,
entertaining, dynamic |
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Kind of corporate
presentation where conference audiences want more |
Dr Patrick Dixon is one of the world's leading conference
speakers. He's often described as Europe's leading Futurist.
As a corporate lecturer at large global events in up to three
countries a week, Dr Dixon aims to help conference participants
touch and feel the future with multimedia presentations on every
aspect of what tomorrow's management challenges will be like
It's not enough for a futurist to make informed guesses or detached,
philosophical comments on public platforms, or as part of workshops,
seminars, think tanks or client events. A successful futurist
has to be able to see, feel and taste the future and communicate
it in ways that are relevant, down to earth and life-changing. And
that means different messages for different industries and audiences.
No conference speaker on the future can predict
specific events such as the exact moment to buy or sell a stock,
but the underlying trends are usually beyond dispute and easily
described in keynote lectures or presentations. The key
for successful conference speakers is not only being able to interpret
the outworking of those trends and to be as accurate as possible
about timescale, but also to be an interesting, entertaining and
mind-stretching communicator.
Designing a great corporate event is an art, and
great executive conferences are rare. The secret of success
is a great opening visionary lecture that sets the scene, and
creates the whole atmosphere and drive for the conference.
A great conference speaker brings an electricity into the auditorium
almost before they begin to speak, instantly grabbing attention
and carrying conference participants along on the crest of a wave.
A poor conference speaker is obvious in the first
sixty seconds. There is no spark, no passion or fire.
The lecture delivery is flat and the content difficult to pay
attention to or even irrelevant.
Great presentations are hard work, physically, mentally
and emotionally - for the speaker of course - but should also
be stimulating, enervating, exciting and engaging for senior executives.
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