Speaker 1 - Gary Edwards CSP

Trust Me I’m a Speaker!

Why We Need to Think like a Magician, Persuade like a Lawyer, and Negotiate as if your Life Depends on it.

As never before, speakers need to be able to win the trust of their clients and audiences. To be the clarions of clarity in a world of uncertainty. To be the truth-tellers in a world of lies and deception!

And who better to speak about trust than a lawyer and a magician??

Gary Edwards CSP has a unique background as a lawyer, negotiation expert and professional magician. He understands the world of perception, deception and influence like few others! And how speakers are perceived in the post-covid world is central to our ability to win work, engage audiences and influence behaviour.

In this session Gary will draw on his experiences to show you:

• How communication really works
• The four dimensions of trust that most people don’t understand
• How to build engagement and trust with audiences
• How to position your audience rather than continually positioning yourself
• How to use all that to build relationships and improve outcomes in any situation

And yes – there will be magic tricks!

Please note Gary will be attending IN PERSON, assuming there are no Covid dramas with travel from South Australia to Queensland.

About Gary Edwards CSP

Gary Edwards CSP has a unique background as a lawyer, negotiation expert, university lecturer, business consultant – and professional magician. Through his business Speak With Influence, Gary works with individuals and organisations to help them master the conversations they need to build their business and be more influential in tricky situations.

Gary is known for his highly engaging presentations which combine the principles of magic and the psychology of influence to give his audiences practical tools to build relationships and optimise outcomes.

Gary is the 2021 Nevin Award recipient for outstanding service to speakers and the speaking profession, and the current PSA National Accreditation Chair.

Speaker 2 - Julie Cross CSP

Energy Management!

Your energy is your mood, an attitude, a vibe… at it’s best it is a charisma and a vitality… something you ‘feel’ around people… I think in this current world of pandemic and disconnection, we will have to work on our energy more than ever before… we have been physically distanced with lockdowns and social distancing, our smiles are masked, so now our energy needs to move through these distances, through these spaces between us physically, yes, we need to use our energy to connect more than ever before.

And we can’t give what we don’t have so first we have to protect our own emotional and mental well-being, we have to fill up ourselves and restore our own energy and vibe, and then we are in our best shape to continue to inspire and impact from the stage, whether the stage be a zoom room or a stage in a room with people, I believe energy is taking centre stage.

So let’s get ready, it is time to reset, how are we feeling about moving back onto real stages, who wants to stay in the zoom room more often than not… let’s explore our energy around all of this… where are we going from here and how excited are we to get there?

I feel like we are moving to the time where we are heading towards the frontline in this Pandemic, the time where organisations will be looking to us, the speakers and trainers to reset, to reinvigorate, to motivate, to educate and to inspire their teams to take them through and out the other side. An overly optimistic vibe perhaps? Well, like I said, it is an energy thing! 

About Julie Cross CSP … Professional Speaker and Inspirational Entertainer.

Julie has presented both nationally and internationally on many different stages and has been in a lot of Zoom Rooms of late!

She combines powerful insights into human behaviour with practical strategies that leaves audiences with powerful tools for living their best life and setting a higher standard in all aspects of their personal and professional lives.

Julie is not just a high-energy speaker with a few shiny sound bites. She has an ability to connect her message of inspiration, motivation and practical personal development to all levels of business — she connects to corporate CEOs, to stay at home Mums, to teenagers and everybody in between.

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