About this event
Join us for an inspiring event designed to help you elevate your speaking career by mastering the art of communication and presence. With two expert-led sessions, you’ll gain valuable insights and practical techniques to transform how you connect with audiences and clients.
Anthony Stears will present “Anthony Stears Conversations”, an engaging talk exploring the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of using verbal communication effectively to achieve your goals. Discover the 3 Golden Rules for impactful business conversations that ensure people are ready to listen, take action, and maximise the value of every call for your speaking business.
Jacqui Harper will deliver “Sharper with Harper: Opening the Gift of Presence”, a session that challenges you to reflect on your journey as a speaker and harness the power of presence to boost confidence and connection. Learn how to quieten inner doubts, engage more authentically, and leave a lasting impression on your audience with techniques used by leaders worldwide.
Anthony Stears: Anthony Stears Conversations
Anthony will look closely at ‘why’ and ‘how’ we use verbal communication to get what we want, and the things YOU can do to maximise it for your speaking business.
Your takeaways:
- 3 Golden Rules you can apply to your business conversations to make sure,
- People are ready to listen
- They take action as a result of speaking to you
- AND that you squeeze as much value out of each call as possible
Jacqui Harper: Sharper with Harper: Opening the Gift of Presence
‘Opening the Gift of Presence’ will challenge you to reflect on your journey as a speaker and use presence to be a more authentic and memorable speaker. Jacqui Harper shares insights for boosting confidence and deeper connection to audiences. Developing a powerful speaking presence, is something Jacqui has done with leaders in many countries over twenty years. The session is loaded with ideas and techniques you can use straight away.
You’ll learn how to:
- Assess your journey as a speaker
- Quieten the inner voices that affect your confidence
- Be fully present for better engagement
- Be more authentic and memorable.
Keynote speakers
A published author and international speaker, that often uses training to accelerate the learning process. He has fast become the go-to person when it comes to telephone engagement, and helping companies to improve both sales and service through conversation.
Anthony Stears is better known as “The Telephone Assassin” and he’s on a mission to get businesses talking again and stopping people from hiding behind their emails and social media. As a conversational strategist he helps clients to get in front of more of their ideal customers and getting more business from their existing clients.
Anthony has been speaking for over a decade now and is an active member of the PSA, Professional Speaking Association. He’s spoken all over the world in front of audiences of up to 4,000 people… some events with up to 11 different interpreters at the back of the room.
As the Past President of PSA London from 2019-21 (yes… through Covid) Anthony is passionate about helping speakers raise their game, and their fees.
Jacqui Harper MBE brings high spec skills to professional development. She’s a visiting professor at Europe’s top business school, INSEAD, where she teaches leadership communication. Her latest book ‘Present Like a Pro’ was published a few weeks ago. Her previous book ‘Executive Presentations’ was described as an outstanding self-development book by the international Business Book Awards.
Previously, Jacqui was BBC TV news anchor.
Fun fact. Jacqui is a film judge for BAFTA and watches over 200 films each year!
Event agenda
The venue
Online – Zoom
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