Posted: 1st July 2021
Dear Speakers and Clients alike,
We believe that there are genuine signs of recovery in our sector.
In Europe and the US we have speakers booked to attend and speak at live events this month in July. In Asia, Russia and the Nordic’s we’ve speakers confirmed and booked to travel to events in the Autumn.
We are really happy to see the intent by clients to return to hosting live events and we hope you can start to feel the positive change coming.
In our own case, these upcoming live events are with major clients and international forums, including Salesforce.com.
Clients are most interested in short informative and educational talks that help teams to move forward and adapt to the vastly changed way of working.
Hot topics in demand are:
What we have observed which we did not expect was less demand for traditional motivational speakers. In these difficult times, we’d have expected this group of speakers to be in high demand.
Whilst recovery of normal conditions might be slower than we would all like, don’t forget as I mentioned in my previous post, the aftermath of the Sars virus in 2004 also closed the international travel sector for a year. In 2005, some speakers to the present day had their best ever year.
Cultural Change – Rik Vera, Erin Meyer, Jos Virkx, Pelligrino Riccardi, Oscar Van Weerdenburg
Business Transformation – Kevin Gaskell, Paul Polman, Hamish Taylor, Marilyn Tam
Digital Transformation – Catherine Barba, Luc Julia, Dimas Gimeno, Giuseppe Stigliano, Rik Vera, Rachel Botsman
Business Sustainability – Patty McCord, Hamish Taylor, Michael Jacobides, Marga Hoek
Employee Wellbeing – Ricardo Diniz, Katarina Blom, Silvia Garcia, Nick Baylis, Dawn Metcalfe
High Performance & Leadership – Rasmus Ankersen, Sir Clive Woodward, Catherine Destivelle, Mindy Howard, Matthew Syed, Jim Lawless
Remote Selling – Frank Furness, Seth Godin, Kevin Kelly, Sean Callagy
Business Sustainability – Gitanjali Rao, Time ‘Kid of the Year’, Celine Cousteau, Fionn Fereira, Anna Alex, Gunter Pauli, Bertrand Piccard
Moderating & Hosting – Emma Crosby, Chris Burns, Sabinije von Gaffke, Martina Fuchs, Yan Kuszak
Forthcoming Ideas and Potential Events
Promotivate has provided leading speakers for virtual talks throughout the pandemic. We provide free consultation and advice on which speakers (from 1,000+) can meet a client’s needs, in terms of technical and inspirational requirements.
All expert subject matter speakers are ‘catalysts for change’. The pandemic means almost all organisations need external help to navigate the immediate path ahead.
If we can help with our expertise please call or email me directly.
Kind regards,
Jonathan Curran, Managing Director @promotivate
