WE ARE STARTING TO GET EXCITED!
Put it in your diary now - Saturday 17th April 2021
Destiny 2020: PSA-Spain’s 1-day summit is Spain’s largest gathering of professional speakers and authors in one arena. It taps into the global experience and wisdom from some of the world’s best professional speakers. Our program is loaded with value and practical resources, advice, short cuts and essential action steps that you can apply and leverage to accelerate your speaking business. Just think of the networks you can build with like-minded professional speakers from around the globe. If you are a passionate professional speaker, trainer, coach, MC, consultant, author or a business leader who speaks, or someone who wants to be - then Destiny 2020 should be on your agenda. Become a GLOBAL SPEAKER. Come help us celebrate PSA Spain’s 1st year anniversary. (or birthday?) Block out your calendar to be in Barcelona April 17h and move your speaking onto the global stage. Details are in the works and will be announced in February.
What is a Rising Stars Showcase? At the March 9th PSA Spain meeting in Barcelona 11 speakers spoke in a quest for selection to showcase their talents and skills at Destiny 2021. A chance to share the international stage with global speakers from around the world. This is their chance to shine and to share their experience with our audience. Come and cheer them on. You'll be able to say, "I knew them when!"
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DESTINY Barcelona 2021 SPEAKERS
Jonathan Holloway
Jonathan Holloway
Jonathan Holloway
Master of Ceremonies
Michael Arnot
Jonathan Holloway
Jonathan Holloway
Back To Business: How to Guarantee Commercial Speaking Success in 2021
Bob Hooey
Jonathan Holloway
Jessica Breitenfeld
Pants Not Required: Presenting in the NEW normal
Jessica Breitenfeld
Jessica Breitenfeld
Jessica Breitenfeld
Activities Leader
PSAS Rising Star 1
Jessica Breitenfeld
PSAS Rising Star 1
Sam Knowles
Jessica Breitenfeld
PSAS Rising Star 1
How to Tell Powerful & Purposeful Stories
PSAS Rising Star 2
PSAS Rising Star 2
PSAS Rising Star 2
Charlotte Kemp
PSAS Rising Star 2
PSAS Rising Star 2
IT IS TIME TO PURSUE YOUR DESTINY
Simon Raybould
PSAS Rising Star 2
PSAS Rising Star 3
Presentation Genius
PSAS Rising Star 3
PSAS Rising Star 3
PSAS Rising Star 3
Penny Haslam
PSAS Rising Star 3
Penny Haslam
Make Yourself A Little Bit Famous.
Jonathan Holloway
DESTINY 2021 MASTER OF CEREMONIES
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR – CEO – SPEAKER - COACH
For almost three decades Jonathan Holloway CSP has been one of the world's most successful festival directors and chief executives. He headed up public events for London’s National Theatre and led three of the world’s largest international arts festivals (Melbourne and Perth in Australia, Norwich in the UK), receiving over 20 Helpmann Awards including Best Australian Special Event in 2012, 2015 and 2018.
Jonathan is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (fellows have included Nelson Mandela and Prof Stephen Hawking), and an Honorary Citizen of Perth (a title bestowed on just four people including Hillary Clinton), and now uses his experience of leading teams through massive change and dreaming up/delivering award-winning events to help major cities, companies and leaders hit personal best.
Jonathan has given 400+ speeches to over 30,000 people in fifteen countries across four continents, and in March 2020 he MC’d the PSA conventions in both Australia and Spain.
Michael Arnot
BACK TO BUSINESS: HOW TO GUARANTEE COMMERCIAL SPEAKING SUCCESS IN 2021
In this talk Michael will show you how to prepare for when conferences come back, and, even more urgently, what you can do right now to make the most of your time, until you can get back on a real stage.
Running a global speaking agency, Michael can give you exclusive behind-the-scenes industry tips on what clients will be buying in 2021. He’ll explain why it’s a massive mistake to think you can just do your ‘usual’ keynote on a zoom call and tell you what to do instead. He’ll teach you how to evolve your marketing, one sheet and website so they’re ready for what buyers in the events industry want this year. Michael will also explain who buys keynotes, why they buy them and how you can position yourself as the best speaker in your area. He’ll give you a crystal-clear plan for sustainable commercial speaking success in 2021.
Can you afford to miss out on hearing this talk?
Bob Hooey
PANTS OPTIONAL: PRESENTING IN THE NEW NORMAL
Covid made big changes in our speaking industry. Overnight, global conventions and meetings were cancelled or moved to virtual platforms. Overnight, speakers scrambled to learn new virtual skills in presenting on-line, from home, to serve their clients. Overnight, clients re-evaluated what they had planned and how to move forward as the pandemic spread.
This is a challenging time for all of us; some have given up and stopped promoting their businesses in this new normal. Bob will share a few lessons and observations along the way as he navigated and pivoted his business on-line. The biggest change has been our delivery method: the world needs our voices, our experience and our inspiration, even more right now.
Canadian Ideaman Bob Hooey has leveraged his speaking to allow him to travel the world; 60 countries until Covid19 hit. He now zooms around the globe to share his innovative ideas. He partners with committed leaders and innovative organisations to equip and motivate for sustainable success. Bob is the prolific author of a series of business and leadership books. He is a long-time industry leader and is a charter member of CAPS, GSF, PSA-Spain and VSAI. Bob says, “In these uncertain and challenging times people need help and they need hope! That is my purpose, business, and message!”
Jessica Breitenfeld
DESTINY 2021 ENTERTAINMENT BREAK HOST
Jessica trains a mindset that helps teams communicate effectively and individuals get the attention their ideas deserve. Through a powerful mix of focused game playing and practical tools, she enables teams to connect and grow their skills with confidence. Some of her esteemed clients include BBraun, H&M and La Caixa.
She is also the founder of ¨Laugh!¨, a non-profit that brings relief in the form of laughter and unconventional activities to the people who most need it. As one of only 80 Certified Improvisation Trainers with the Applied Improvisation Network and a licensed Therapist in Gestalt Psychotherapy, she offers surprisingly transformative workshops that help people deal with unpredictability, stress and pain in its many forms. Her 4 years of clown training and work as a hospital clown have led her to understand how humour is a necessity, not a luxury, which is why laughter is a constant in all her workshops.
Her speeches have received awards in four European international contests but she continues to hone her skills on a weekly basis with the best speakers from all over the world. Her passion to challenge the comfort zone of mediocracy and self doubt have led to many breakthroughs, which she generously shares both on stage and in her one to one therapy sessions.
Sam Knowles
THE SIX GOLDEN RULES OF TELLING STORIES WITH DATA
The most important skills in the modern knowledge economy are making sense of data and using insights extracted from data as the basis for impactful storytelling. The defining equation of our age is "Analytics + Storytelling = Influence". In this inspiring yet practical keynote, critically-acclaimed author Sam Knowles sets out the golden rules of data storytelling. In the wake of coronavirus, where most storytelling takes place online, getting the balance right between numbers and narrative – between the rational and the emotional – has never mattered more. Sam will demonstrate clearly how to use data to best effect, online and offline.
Sam Knowles is the founder data storytelling consultancy Insight Agents. He helps organisations make smarter use of data – in communication and in developing new products and services. An established and sought-after speaker, trainer, and podcaster, he is co-founder and co-host of the Small Data Forum podcast and chairs the Data Storytelling Council of digital marketing trade body, I-COM. Sam is the author of the 2018 best-seller Narrative by Numbers: How to Tell Powerful & Purposeful Stories with Data. He followed this in May 2020 with the critically-acclaimed sequel, How To Be Insightful: Unlocking the Superpower that Drives Innovation.
Charlotte Kemp
IT IS TIME TO PURSUE YOUR DESTINY - IT IS TIME TO BUILD AN INTERNATIONAL SPEAKING CAREER
As speakers, we are uniquely positioned at the moment to take advantage of a first-in-our-lifetime chance to define our Destiny!
This is a remarkable time in our history to build our professional network, connect with colleagues, nurture new client relationships, pitch for speaking opportunities, find new markets to sell to, find new audiences to speak to and tap into the experience and wisdom of colleagues in our industry.
Charlotte Kemp, Deputy President of PSASA, Futurist and former Social Media Consultant will unpack how we can use this unique situation to rapidly build a robust, sustainable, international speaking business.
Charlotte Kemp is the Futures Alchemist, a futurist keynote speaker who works with organisations to co-create preferred futures. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) as well as the Deputy President of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA).
Charlotte is also the author of a number of books, including ‘Futures Alchemist’ which presents a narrative of how to use her Map, Compass and Guide model to navigate unknown futures.
For research and insight, Charlotte hosts a podcast series called ‘Futures Facets’ and interviews people around the world to gain an understanding of how we see the future from our different points of view.
Charlotte also serves on a number of association boards and steering committees and works as an Association Futurist.
Charlotte lives in Cape Town, South Africa but loves to travel (Covid willing) and speak internationally.
Simon Raybould
THE FIVE 'BIG PRINCIPLES' OF BETTER PRESENTATIONS
Presentations are the heart of what we do as speakers, even if we're "people who speak" rather than full-time professionals... so it's a good idea to be better at them! In this research-based wiz-through of the five big principles that underlie well designed presentations and slides in particular. How you apply the principles is up to you and your circumstances (which should be different for each of us and for each message/presentation we give!) so there should be something for the beginner to the reasonably experienced speaker.
Simon will be drawing on nearly 400 research papers, plus untold videos and interviews with the authors of the papers so this is as close as you can get to "from the horse's mouth" without having to do the work yourself! ;)
Simon started his working career investigating the causes of childhood leukaemia and spent 24 years as a researcher at the UK's largest social science research centre... Very little of what he does is based on only his experience, no matter how comprehensive that experience is - it's based on an understanding of the science of presenting and storytelling and his books in the field have become best sellers on the high-street
He's also been a professional actor and playwright; he spent seven years as the technical director for dance companies, touring the UK and Europe; he's been a teacher and a fire eater!
Penny Haslam
MAKE YOURSELF A LITTLE BIT FAMOUS
Unless you actually want to be a best-kept secret, the importance of getting exposure for what you do cannot be understated. It’s the difference between standing out in a crowded market and being overlooked, in favour of the competition.
But ‘getting out there’ can be overwhelming and not always comfortable. We worry we’re not doing the right thing that will get us results, or that self-promotion is just showing off. And, if we're honest, we worry we're going to say the wrong thing and look like an idiot!
All of which means we miss out on the benefits of being 'known, liked and trusted'. We miss being seen by the very people we'd love to influence. People such as clients, potential customers, candidates, suppliers, investors and your wider industry.
Getting started is key to unlocking all of this, of course! Having been a best kept secret herself, with no clue as to how to get known, former BBC business presenter, Penny Haslam, now helps others showcase what they do – in order to get known, liked and trusted.
In Penny’s talk, you will learn:
- Why increasing your visibility is a big part of your job – even if you’d rather it wasn’t
- An easy way for you to be seen as an expert
- Ideas for getting exposure that don’t cost you time, money or embarrassment
- And, how to combat the self-criticism that often stops us from getting the visibility we need and deserve.