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PRESENTINGANDREW KLEIN...(how to present and pitch yourself and your business to STAND OUT from the pack)

SO, WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?You have no doubt sat through countless dull and uninspiring talks, presentations and pitches over the years. But are you one of those people who have actually ever given one?

It’s hard to know as corporate audiences (large or small) are generally polite enough to look at you, nod intermittently and possibly applaud at the end of a talk.....even if you were very ordinary.

Andrew’s dynamic, energetic, interactive, educational, thoroughly entertaining and extremely thought-provoking sessions (conducted either in keynote-address format or as training workshops) pinpoint some of the key areas where corporate presenters can improve the design, structure and delivery of their pitches and presentations.

WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS?

Truth is we are presenting and pitching ourselves and our company all the time. At internal staff meetings and briefings, trade expos, conferences, networking functions or when pitching to clients or potential clients, the reality is life’s a pitch. So these sessions can really benefit any corporate or association group.

Andrew’s sessions are ideally suited to people who deliver corporate presentations – be they staff, sales teams or managers who present within your own company, perhaps to company meetings, boards, people who run training workshops or leaders who present to their teams or at conferences.

Andrew’s sessions are also invaluable for people who present your products or services outside of your company, for example to your industry, to your sponsors, to your clients or perhaps most importantly to potential clients.

Whether you present to one person, small groups or a large audience and whether you are a regular “talker” or not (or have attended a public speaking course before or not), these highly entertaining and interactive sessions aim to invigorate, educate and entertain.

Apart from being highly entertaining, Andrew’s sessions are fully tailored to your organisation and give countless tips on how to make your own pitches and presentations dynamic, memorable and different, ensuring your company stands out from your competitors.

Being an energetic, interactive and humorous speaker, Andrew is ideal for the start of a conference, after lunch or late in the day where your attendees may be tired and in need of a “pick-me-up” session.

IDEAL FOR CONFERENCE KEYNOTES, CONCURRENT SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS AND IN-HOUSE TRAINING DAYS

PRESENTATION TOPICSAndrew’s 2 workshop or keynote sessions are:

"LIFE'S A PITCH" (How to pitch yourself and your company so that you stand out from your competitors).

"HOW TO AWE THEM, NOT BORE THEM!" (How to radically improve the design and delivery of your presentations to make them memorable, dynamic, effective and oozing with personality).

Sessions can be tailored for a 1 hour or 2 hour format or for smaller half day workshop format.

AREAS COVERED INCLUDE:

• What will make your presentation or pitch STAND OUT from the pack?

• How to bring out your (and your company’s) “personality” in your pitch or presentation.

• How to pitch and present in ways that make people learn and remember more.

• Making your pitches and presentations more interactive, entertaining, educational and memorable.

• Engaging with audiences

• Simplifying your content to ensure your KEY MESSAGES are delivered clearly.

• Preparing, structuring and practicing your pitches and presentations.

• The use (and extreme misuse) of PowerPoint

• Improving your voice, body language, eye contact, humour, nerves and your ‘UMM’!

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

• Director of leading Presentation Skills training company SPIKE PRESENTATIONS, Andrew is one of Australia’s leading trainers and presenters in the area of corporate communications, presentation skills and pitching for business.

• He is also one of this country’s most in-demand professional MC / facilitators, working throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

• Over the past 17 years, Andrew has been working as an MC / moderator / facilitator / trainer with a wide variety of companies and associations, across a range of industries, including oranisations such as CGU, NSW Health, Ernst & Young, Minter Ellison, Westpac, Suncorp, NAB, Bayer Healthcare, AMP, MLC, Telstra, RCSA, Wella, Hotondo Homes and BT.

• In his time as an MC and facilitator, Andrew has also witnessed first-hand countless excellent (and not so excellent) presenters at work.

• A trained and fully qualified corporate lawyer (who worked in litigation for several years at Clayton Utz), with years of experience in public speaking, training, acting and improvisation (with formal performing and theatre-studies training), Andrew brings his experience in the art of presenting and public speaking to the corporate world.

• MLC• Minter Ellison Lawyers• Ernst & Young• Chep / Brambles• Howards Storage World• Allergan Eyecare• Recruitment Super• Conexus Financial• Hall & Wilcox Lawyers• Wyeth / Pfizer Healthcare• Randstad Recruitment• BT Financial Group• ipac Financial Planning• Cth. Dept of Families, Housing, Community Services • MEA (Meeting & Events Association)• Quest Serviced Apartments • Vic. Dept. of Human Services • Tynan MacKenzie Financial Advisers• Landcom• Hire & Rental Industry Assoc. • Credit Agricole Bank• Inst. of Chartered Accountants • PHOTON Group• Wizard Home Loans • Equiset Property Group• Franchise Council of Australia• CGU Insurance• RCSA (Recruitment & Consulting Services Association)• Hotondo Homes• Wella Haircare• PLAN Mortgage Brokers• ACLA (Aust Corporate Lawyers Assoc)

CLIENTS:

SO, WHAT DO ANDREW’S CLIENTS SAY?

“During the course of my career I have attended numerous presentation skills presentations. Without a doubt yours was the best I have attended. It is always important that the facilitator practices what they teach so that the audience can watch a master at work, as was evident during your session! It was packed with extremely valuable and practical information and everyone would have walked away with at least a few relevant ideas that they could practice immediately. Your creative, very humorous approach would have left an impression on all who attended and without a doubt would have been the highlight of our conference. It is without hesitation that I would recommend you to anyone interested in further developing their presentation skills and having a good laugh at the same time.”

"Great presentation. Was very approachable and willing to meet our needs. Had great energy which the room picked up on”

“Andrew was a fabulous presenter and I would definitely attend any further presentations / training he was giving”. “Excellent - the best presentation on presentations I've been to". "Have already put some of Andrew's suggestions into practice”. “If there was a rating higher than "excellent" I would give it to him!” "A very dynamic presenter.”

- Various attendees from Keynote

“Andrew, thank you very much for your simply excellent session. I was hugely impressed and thoroughly enjoyed it and I know this feeling was shared by the room as a whole. In some of the conversations I have had with my team since, they have said it was the best session of the entire meeting! You have made us think about our presentations and what to include, but also importantly, what to leave out!”

"Definitely the most engaging, informative and helpful presentations skills session I have attended! Andrew's presentation was hugely entertaining, fun, and packed with practical tips on how we can become more effective communicators and presenters. Importantly, Andrew genuinely understood our business and the key issues we face in presenting information to our clients - and tailored the session to focus on the key things that can really help us. I have attended several presentation skills courses in the past, but this is one which has actually already made a difference to the quality of my presentations."

MORE CLIENT COMMENTS...

“What energy! Andrew presented the material in an interesting, easy to follow format. There was no time to go to sleep! My presentations are bound to be a success after hearing where I can improve.”

“Andrew, your presentation ‘How To Awe Them Not Bore Them’ was just fantastic. You kept me engaged throughout your entire delivery which was very interesting and highly interactive. The points you touched on regarding public speaking were 100% spot on. I have to say your presentation was the best I have witnessed. You were very ‘natural’ and ‘real’ - where others try to make it like a formal presentation, you made it look like you were talking to a group of friends and we were absorbing every minute of it”.

“Excellent; Great energy & useful information; Great ideas and useful hints on speaking; Wonderful!; Exciting and engaging; Entertaining and demonstrated amazing enthusiasm for his subject; Awesome - great impact, practiced what he preached; Turned a dry subject into something interesting, entertaining and hugely informative.”

- Various attendees from Keynote

“In my line of work, sales presentations may sometimes be a daily task, and after years of doing them, they can still be quite daunting. Andrew Klein not only explained how to conduct great, entertaining and captivating presentations, but was a perfect example of one. I found Andrew's 'Life's a Pitch' seminar one of the most beneficial and interesting training seminar's I've been to.”

“Andrews approach to improving presentation skills is hugely effective, totally practical and of course is complete with his wicked sense of humour which ensures the lessons stay learnt.”

“Andrew’s workshop was the best training program I’ve attended for improving public speaking skills. His ‘hands on’ approach provides an invaluable opportunity to practice and obtain feedback through group participation and DVD recording observations. I would recommend Andrew’s workshop to anyone who needs skill and confidence in public speaking”

A FEW MORE CLIENTS...

“The two hour presentation given by Andrew flew by – and as they say ‘time flies when you’re having fun’. Our staff really enjoyed the presentation. It was very informative and I am sure there will be a marked difference in their future presentations given to our clients."

“Thank you very much for the outstanding presentation skills course that you did with our team yesterday. It really hit the mark and helped them prepare their presentations for our event with a completely different mind frame. You are brilliant at what you do, and we appreciate you sharing your ‘trade secrets’”

“Great experience at the workshop, filled with fun and laughter but more importantly fact and learning. Andrew delivers the message in a subtle way which sneaks up on you with the killer punch that sinks in. Fantastic style and immediately able to apply it”.

“Andrew, the positive ripples of your presentation are still settling here. You delivered your message in a refreshing way that will have a lasting impression. More importantly, you have given us skills to make us better presenters and communicators."

"Exceptional keynote! Your empathy, sincerity and thorough research was outstanding"

“Excellent; entertaining; Andrew has been a great inspiration for me and an extremely useful tool for my own development; a fresh perspective; he tailor-made the day to our needs and our industry; really well researched; Andrew was a great and entertaining presenter” - Various attendees

“Thanks so much Andrew. Your workshop was highly informative, very easy to listen to and engaging from start to end, with a dash of humour and your appealing personal style of delivery”.

"Andrew is an entertaining and engaging presenter with fantastic tips on how to make presentations come to life. His session is valuable for anyone interested in giving their presentation an edge whether you are an experienced public speaker or a first time presenter. Highly recommended".

"We engaged Andrew to work with our team because we felt our presentation skills could do with a little polish. What we got exceeded our expectations. The series of workshops delivered for us were a great balance of theory and practice and he actively engaged the whole team. Andrew made us find fun in the art of effective presenting, so much so that we now have a 'presentation club' in our business where we meet to practice those important pitches and give each other feedback to keep our improvement going. Importantly we've been able to convert the learning into results too. Our skills are better and we're winning more new business as well as communicating with our Board more effectively than ever. Andrew Klein's Spike Presentations Workshops.........the best investment we've made this year".

"Andrew was the keynote presenter at our June Seminar and he was absolutely fantastic - I highly recommend Andrew, as his energy, knowledge and skills with teaching and educating people to present better was an outstanding success."

"Andrew’s presentation skills session proved to be hugely popular and a fantastic addition to this year’s conference program. The session was superbly presented with many well-thought out and actionable messages for both experienced and inexperienced presenters."

“Andrew presented to CGU Insurance at our national conference in 2013. This is not the first time Andrew has been involved with the insurance industry, and I have had the opportunity to see him previously. But for an impactful and inspiring presenter on “Presentation Skills”, you can’t go past this guy.”

“Excellent!; Practiced what he preaches; Excellent audience participation. Great skills. Sold the message well and taught well; Very informative and engaging”

Attendee evaluation comments. "A BIG THANKS for a great session yesterday......an enriching learning experience!!!"

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"My Daddy talks a lot" - LUCY KLEIN, aged 6.