Keynote Speaker

What’s a Keynote Speaker?



A keynote speaker is someone who brings together the strands of a conference and delivers the theme or key message. The timing of the speech varies depending on event planners requirements and can be the kick-off at the beginning of an event, the after lunch graveyard slot to rev everyone up or the last speech closing an event sending people away on a high.

Chris believes it takes more than 10 years to become a good keynote speaker able to understand the complexities of an event, different organisations, the needs of all parties involved and how to deliver the message in an appropriate way.

Recent examples of headline keynote speeches Chris has delivered:

Resilience presentations: ‘Making the Best of Life in Challenging Times’

In this uplifting and humorous presentation for our time, Chris will share learnings from unique experiences surviving as a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and being blown up whilst clearing landmines for a charity in Mozambique.

Motivational and Inspirational Keynote: ‘Step Beyond’

Chris shares experiences on the balance of life and death and limit of human endurance to illustrate principles everyone can use in their daily lives to help them step beyond limits and do what they do better. This presentation delivers feel, know and do outcomes.

Health Safety and Wellness

For more than 20 years Chris has been involved in leading high-risk operations and delivering health and safety presentations and workshops about real life experiences to change behaviours. He provides a fresh invigorating perspective on health and safety and wellness creating engagement.

The Inconvenient Truth About Change -‘Adapt or Face Extinction’

Despite the challenging title of this presentation Chris reassures people about dealing with change, empowers and equips them to adapt and deal with any new reality.

All presentations are bespoke and tailored to the client’s brief.

“Your presentation was extremely thought provoking, motivating and of great benefit to the overall conference message and the delegates feedback has been extremely positive.”

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