Keynote Speaker, Dennis R. Curyer
Great motivational keynote speakers are rare and yet vital if a conference is to change people’s lives. Yes there are many good speakers, but few great speakers. A great keynote speaker is different from a good speaker in a number of important ways.
A great keynote speaker has a deep and rich reservoir of knowledge and experience to draw from. They have paid a high price for this in time, energy and money. You cannot fill this reservoir in moments it takes years to accumulate experience and to gather knowledge from the four corners of the world. They cannot have someone else to do it for them, only they can do it.
Their knowledge is gathered in a number of important ways but in particular from the experiences of their life. A great keynote speaker has an innate ability to process analyse and package their life’s experiences. This is why their audiences identify with what is being said.
A great keynote speaker is not afraid, embarrassed or ashamed to share intimate stories of their life with their listeners. Their failures as well as their triumphs as they speak what others think about. They understand the commonality of the experience. In speaking of this there are no ulterior motives, no grandstanding, no pontificating, just a desire to assist another human being in their quest for a meaningful life.
It is in this arena that something happens. Some thing that is hard to measure and even when it can be measured it is hard to give it a label. A connection with their audience has been made. You could say at that point something mystical has occurred. The audience leaves the past and the future and is absorbed into the now. This connection is at an emotional or feeling level. It has to do with, being, energy and presence. Empirical analysis is difficult but those who have been caught up into the presence of a great speaker will understand.
Great keynote speakers are not thespians. They do not turn into some one else when they leave the stage. They are authentic and live by what they speak; this is what gives their message energy and passion.
A great keynote speaker captures the attention of their audience with ideas that are provocative revolutionary and visionary. They use stories from the great bodies of world literature. Stories that reveal timeless wisdom, and teach profound lessons. They have the ability to take the complex and make it simple, and then make the simple profound. They understand the big picture of life, knowing it is constructed from many small pictures none of which can be neglected.
A great keynote speaker knows how to entertain as they inform. They use humour to introduce the serious, to relax the audience, and to create an atmosphere.
A great keynote speaker is easy and flexible to work with using best business practices. For them getting it right is about paying attention to the closest detail and satisfying the requirements of those who engage them thereby making the meeting planner’s job enjoyable.
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