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More Than a Meeting – This Is the Brainy Speakers Bash
This June, we’re bringing the energy, the insight and the collaboration evolution to Reigate!
Keynote: The Brainy Speakers Party with Dr. Lynda Shaw – Neuroscientist, PSAE, FPSA, Communication Strategist
What version of you steps onto the stage?
What version of your audience greets you back?
This keynote will take you inside the psychological dynamics of speaker and audience interaction, with a ton of humour, science, and practical tools. Lynda brings her brain-based brilliance to help you connect more authentically, read the room faster, and adapt with power.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand your own mindset and how it shifts
- Decode what’s happening in your audience’s heads
- Use neuroscience to make stronger connections and deliver more impact
Masterclass: A Consensual KISS of Feedback with Fiona Brennan-Scott – Audience Engagement Coach
How you give feedback says everything about your leadership and credibility as a communicator.
In this warm, powerful masterclass, Fiona will walk you through her KISS feedback model — blending Kindness, Insight, Safety, and Support — to help you offer feedback that lands well, lifts others, and reinforces your personal brand.
Key Takeaways:
- Explore 3 powerful feedback models
- Practice giving feedback that builds trust
- Enhance your influence as a communicator, coach, or peer
As part of PSA South East’s 2025 Vision: Ignite, Innovate, Inspire, we’re inviting you to an unforgettable evening that blends speaker psychology, feedback mastery, and connection magic — all wrapped in a vibrant, high-energy PSA-style gathering.
NEW! Collaboration Spotlight: Know Who’s in the Room – Interactive Workshop
As speakers, we know: the room is full of potential — but are you truly tapping into it?
We’re launching a new workshop designed to spark powerful collaborations by helping you get to know the incredible people around you. Whether you’ve been coming for years or it’s your first time at PSA South East, you’ll walk away with new contacts, new possibilities… and maybe even a future project.
Bonus Challenge:
We’ll follow up in December or January to see who turned connections into collaborations — and give them a chance to showcase what they created!
Why You Can’t Miss the Brainy Speakers Bash:
- Two expert-led sessions with immediate practical value
- A fun, interactive collaboration workshop
- Your chance to step into the Collaboration Challenge
- A room full of ambitious, supportive speakers & pros
- Learn, laugh, connect — and take your speaking to the next level
We can’t wait to see you in Reigate for an unforgettable night of brains, bonding, and breakthroughs.
Keynote speakers
The skills Dr Lynda Shaw shares come from her wide experience. She holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in unconscious processing of emotion and behavioural change. She has owned 3 businesses. She works with senior leader to help them understand the science of human behaviour and development. All of this experience and more, is delivered to you in an informative, fun and extremely relatable and practical style.
Fiona is an award-winning and CPD accredited audience engagement skills trainer, coach and speaker. This is underpinned and enhanced by her listening skills as a Time to Think Certified coach. She works with subject matter experts to increase their impact in organisations, working nationally and internationally to help leaders engage with their audiences in-person and online.
Fiona published her first book, ‘Breathtaking Communication: Tools and Techniques for Everyday Leaders’ in 2023 and is currently working on Breathtaking Communication, the online course. Her life is divided between South Wales and Oxfordshire, and she is occasionally mismanaged by two adorable labradors!
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