About this event
If you are a speaker or speak as part of your business or work, then join us for a morning of:
- Deepening your understanding of professional speaking.
- Networking with fellow speakers.
- Learning from generous and friendly peers.
- Standing out as a speaker.
- Growing your business by speaking better and more.
- Conscious connections and collaborations.
Join us and meet two talented international speakers, Lisa Kaye-Bell and Darren Harris, who are travelling to Ireland for this event.
Lisa Kaye-Bell
This session explores how professional speakers can elevate their storytelling by creating compelling characters and using vivid language to captivate audiences. Taken from her experience as a scriptwriter and actor.
Learn practical techniques to develop relatable characters and paint vivid scenes that resonate emotionally and intellectually.
This talk is a comprehensive guide for speakers aiming to master storytelling as a transformative tool. The keynote covers foundational elements like identifying powerful stories, structuring them for maximum impact, and using advanced techniques such as pacing, humour, and audience interaction. “Bringing Stories to Life” delves deep into crafting the visual and emotional elements that make stories truly memorable, aligning seamlessly with the broader focus on storytelling mastery.
Darren Harris – Stage Time, Stagecraft and Stage Presence: Using Collaboration in Your Evolution as a Speaker
Take away’s from this session
By attending Darren’s keynote, you will come away with:
- A 3-step plan for getting more time on stage so you can earn the 10,000 hours you need to be an expert.
- The dos and don’ts that ensure your audience is listening, whether you’re speaking in-person or online.
- How telling the right stories from the stage increases your presence on stage, and your authority off it.
Keynote speakers
Lise Kaye-Bell is a theatre director, scriptwriter, and the founder of Soundproofbox, an innovative organisation delivering impactful interactive theatre pieces on critical societal issues. Her acclaimed show, Red Flags, has reached over 11,000 people in the past year alone and was featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In her early 20s, Lise worked as an actor before transitioning into leadership development, where she collaborated with global organisations to foster cultural change.
Darren Harris is a speaker, coach and facilitator who gives people in business and education the psychological skills to overcome adversity. He works with organisations that want a fun, unique and positive perspective.
He lost his sight after he was diagnosed with cancer of both eyes. But although he couldn’t regain his sight, he could unblind his mind, which meant transforming how he viewed blindness.
A dual Paralympian, Darren is best known as England’s most capped blind footballer. But he also competed at the Games in judo.
His motto is “Your eyes are useless unless you use what’s between your ears”.
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