Motivational and Inspirational Seminars, Keynotes and Training
Motivational Seminars with Facilitator Michael Bungay Stanier, Professional Keynote Speaker, Author and Coach
An internationally-acclaimed keynote speaker, Michael Bungay Stanier, is an expert at getting teams and organizations unstuck and going on the stuff that really matters.
His keynote speeches and workshops infuse the audience with enthusiasm and excitement for what’s possible, gets them unstuck and gets them going on stuff that matters. As a professional keynote speaker, Michael has a gift for sharing provocative ideas, practical tools, and ways of creating positive behaviour change.
Michael is the author of Get Unstuck & Get Going …on the stuff that matters, a creativity and self-coaching program and tool that has been enthusiastically endorsed by leading business thinkers such as Peter Block, Anita Roddick, and Seth Godin, and embraced by users around the world. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and holds an M.Phil, a law degree, and a BA.
Michael is the founder and Principal of Box of Crayons. From his office based in Toronto, Canada, he brings a combination of wise consulting, creative thinking and powerful coaching to his many clients around the world. These clients range from multinational organizations to individual entrepreneurs, including GlaxoSmithKline, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AstraZeneca, Verizon SuperPages and the Ontario Government.
Motivational Seminar and Keynote Topics
Michael offers a wide array of professional keynote speeches, and some of his most popular keynote topics include:
Get Unstuck & Get Going™
Based on his internationally acclaimed creativity and coaching tool of the same name, this keynote speech shows you how you can get yourself unstuck every time… and how to get going on the stuff that really matters. Among other things, Michael shares the three sources from which you can generate endless new ideas, and the one way to double the likelihood you’ll get something done.
Are you doing Good Work? Or Great Work?
The work you do (and indeed the life you lead) can be divided into three simple categories: Bad Work, Good Work and Great Work. You already know what the Bad Work is: the stuff that is a complete waste of your time. Good Work is the stuff that keeps us busy, provides a pay cheque, uses our skills. It’s engaging, but quickly forgettable. Great Work is the stuff that has us stand at the crossroads of excitement and trepidation, the work that speaks powerfully to what’s the right thing to do. Most work in professional organizations today is Good Work. As a keynote speaker, Michael helps asks the question – and envision the impact – of what would be possible if everyone doubled the amount of Great Work they were doing?
Spreading the Possibility Virus
Imagine a professional keynote speaker who can show your audience that the secret for a life of freedom lies in being able to create possibilities. Michael can! If you can create possibilities, you create choice. If you have choice, you can step into bold action. So, how do you create possibility? How do you spread possibilities? Find out in this keynote speech, designed to captivate the audience and open them up to the amazing possibilities that surround them.
Get Different! Or Get Dead!
If you’re an entrepreneur, executive or sales and marketing manager, you must be different to survive. In a crowded field, you (and most of your competition) probably come across as a lot of white noise to your customers. In this hands-on workshop, Michael speaks about the Eleven Levers of Difference by which you can make your business stand out from the crowd (and make money at the same time).
The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
Michael shares the Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun, and shows keynote participants how they can bring these principles into they way the work and live. What’s more, he’ll show how having more fun at work improves your bottom line.
Coaching 2.0
As one of the leading coaches and professional keynote speakers in North America, Michael is seeking new and different ways to spread the power and the impact of coaching. This keynote speech and workshop helps participants re-imagine what professional coaching can be, and plants the seeds for bringing a coaching culture into your organization.
Michael Bungay Stanier & logistics for getting going:
Michael Bungay Stanier likes to keep things as simple as possible, and he has fairly minimal needs for his workshops and presentations. Here are most of them. In our discussions in planning this workshop, we’ll uncover any others that might be there.
Audio
- Wireless lavaliere. And no podium please – I won’t be trying to hide behind anything!
Presentation
- Generally, I bring my presentation with me loaded on my laptop (which is PC, not Mac). Please provide a LCD projector
Handouts
- My workshops and keynotes are content driven and generally interactive. I may well ask you to make copies of handouts for your attendees. If I do, I’ll send you the electronic file ahead of time.
Travel
- Michael travels from Toronto, Canada. He flies coach class in North America and business class for any overseas trips.
No cookie-cutter stuff
Michael makes sure that he connects with your audience in their language and answer their needs.
Every engagement includes pre-session phone call(s) with the event planners to ensure that he understands your needs.
As he builds his presentation, he ensures that the event planners have an opportunity to review the slides he will be presenting and the handouts he’ll be sharing.
He also asks for the opportunity to speak to some audience participants before the event, to get some insights “from the floor.”
What People Are Saying…
“Michael is a dynamic and captivating presenter. His workshop left me quite inspired and, importantly, ‘unstuck.’” Mary Anne Neshevich, EVP Planning, Y&R
“Michael is an engaging and dynamic speaker. Not only is he fun to listen to, but his tools are easy to work with and extremely useful. Our group is a tough audience but everyone was blown away. In fact, several of our team members actually used the tools in brainstorm sessions the very next day. I would not hesitate to recommend Michael to anyone looking to add fresh, innovative thinking into their company.” Rebecca Singer, Pfizer Canada
“There have been nothing but good comments about the day and I know that many of the participants have already started to implement ideas they got from the workshop. The fact that a number of people were only booked for the morning but stayed all day was testament to your quality. Thank you for making the event so much fun whilst helping us to understand the very important messages.” Val Apps, leader, London Coaching Group
“Michael has real expertise in helping a team become clean and clear. He operates by these principles and it shows - he took our team to new territory, which took courage, skill and wisdom and he did it elegantly and joyfully. He is refreshingly straightforward, working in ways that are simple, clear and fun and which deliver surprising, meaningful results.” Sally Bonnywell, Director, Executive Development and Talent Management, GlaxoSmithKline
