Unlock the Secrets to Speaking Success at the Speaker’s Underground!

Unlock the Secrets to Speaking Success at the Speaker’s Underground!
Lunch Included! PLUS While the event itself will be a DRY event - plan to stay and network during an optional cocktail hour following the afternoon's sessions!

Hosted in Winnipeg’s only hidden bar and cabaret, this isn’t your average event—it’s where you’ll gain exclusive insights into mastering your craft.

Step into the Speaker’s Underground, where top speakers from the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers gather to share their hidden techniques in a secret speakeasy below ground. Ready to make your speaking business easy? What better place than a Speakeasy?

Join us on January 24th for a day filled with insider knowledge from industry experts who know how to captivate, engage, and elevate their speaking game. Here’s what’s waiting for you behind closed doors:

• Secret #1: “Your Slide Deck is a Gift to Your Audience” with Twist Light
  Imagine having slides that are so fabulous, people comment on them in surveys. Learn how simple choices can have profound results. Start creating a deck that elevates not only your audience’s experience, but also changes how you see yourself!
  
• Secret #2: “Livin’ Life Large – Simple Actions Create Speaking Success” with Tyler Hayden CSP
  Get ready to learn to add engagement in ways that are fun, content connected, and learner focused. In this session you’ll be taught road tested audience tools, experience high energy storytelling and much more.
  
• Secret #3: ”It Starts with Strategy” with Rob Rudy
  Learn to ask the 5 key questions to build a business strategy that works. Dive into the actionable steps you can take to strengthen your strategic direction and align it with your speaking business goals. You'll walk away with practical tools to implement immediately, helping you grow and succeed in today's competitive landscape.

In the cozy, intimate atmosphere of a speakeasy, you'll dive deep into the strategies and tactics that top speakers use to dominate the stage and the business. Plus, you’ll have the chance to network with like-minded professionals, all while sipping on secrets (and cocktails) and unlocking new ways to power up your presentations.

Don’t miss your chance to access these underground speaker secrets!

Time and Location:

10:30 Doors Open
11:00 Program Begins
11:15 Twist Light: Your Slide Deck is a Gift to Your Audience
12pm Lunch (included with purchase of ticket!)
1:00pm Welcome back
1:15 pm Tyler Hayden: Livin’ Life Large – Simple Actions Create Speaking Success
2:00 Networking Break
2:15 Rob Rudy: It Starts with Strategy
3pm Optional Cocktail Hour

Rob Rudy presents: It Starts with Strategy

Description:

In this presentation, speakers will learn to ask 5 key questions to build a business strategy that works. We'll dive into actionable steps you can take to strengthen your strategic direction and align it with your speaking business goals. You'll walk away with practical tools to implement immediately, helping you grow and succeed in today's competitive landscape.

Personal Biography:

Rob has had the privilege of growing several companies. His humble beginnings in a family textile business saw him and his brother steward the company from $3 million to $40 million in sales, which subsequently caught the interest of a Kentucky-based public firm. After the sale of their family business, a few years later Rob found himself in the role of COO for the parent company, valued at $200 million, where he was responsible for the global supply chain and factories across North America.

Upon the parent company's sale in 2013, Rob relocated to Montréal, his hometown, and offered his expertise as COO to a national lighting distributor undergoing significant restructuring. After dedicating half a decade there, he was invited to serve as the President of a $250 million medical device firm, with the goal of ensuring the company's culture resonated with the dynamic market environment.

In 2019, Rob moved to the world of business advisory by engaging with entrepreneurs in 3 critical areas: helping them build actionable strategies, develop next level leaders, and embrace innovation and change management. Rob is now a fractional CEO to privately held companies across North America,

Rob was also a 12-year TEC member when he moved to presenting to TEC groups and was acknowledged by TEC Canada in 2019 with the "Impact Speaker of the Year" award. More recently, Rob accepted the volunteer role of President for the Quebec chapter of CAPS Canada, an organization passionate about fostering a community of professional speakers through mutual learning.

On a personal note, Rob, together with his wife Kathy, love travel and cooking from their home base of Montreal. They are proud parents to Lauren, who's soon to be a clinical psychologist and Samantha, a CPA completing her studies in law.

Rob Rudy, The Fractional CEO

Founder and CEO Rudy Advisory

[email protected]

Alyssa “Twist” Light presents: Your Slide Deck is a Gift to Your Audience

Description

A great slide deck can be the difference between an average audience experience and an excellent one. Imagine having slides that are so fabulous, people comment on them in surveys. If you’re curious about how to level up your deck, this session is for you — Twist will be sharing lots of before-and-afters of slide designs! Using Canva, Twist will demonstrate the profound difference simple choices can make, including the Less-is-Better Method, animations and transitions, and how to stay on brand. Start creating a deck that elevates not only your audience’s experience, but also changes how you see yourself.

Bio

Alyssa “Twist” Light is a keynote speaker who teaches people how to cultivate the connections and build the relationships that move business forward. Twist's love of creativity and innovation really started flourishing when she went to trade school for Goldsmithing and made the 20th anniversary gifts for Blue Rodeo. Her forthcoming book, Lessons from the Lake, is for people who feel like they should be further along than they are in business or life. Using analogies, parallels and examples from Mother Nature, Lessons from the Lake speaks to the underrated yet invaluable experiences and lessons we can harness to develop strong business relationships. A self proclaimed lover of events, Twist’s mission is to make meeting planners look like superheroes and their attendees feel like rockstars.

Tyler Hayden, CSP presents: Livin’ Life Large - Simple Actions Create Speaking Success

For over 28 years Tyler has been a full time professional speaker and engaging team designer. Get ready to learn to add engagement in ways that are fun, content connected and learner focused. In this session you’ll be taught road tested audience tools, experience high energy storytelling and much more.
Who's Tyler Anyway?

Tyler Hayden CSP, is a keynote speaker like you’ve never experienced before!

Since 1996, Tyler continues to be a sought after internationally respected team building designer, best-selling author, and business speaker. He delivers a powerful punch that inspires teams, innovates management techniques, and invigorates team engagement.

When it comes to empowering audiences and teams to succeed—and to be their best every day—Tyler leads the way with insight and laughter.

His team building workshops and motivational keynote speeches receive rave reviews from managers and business leaders alike. "Energizing," "hilarious," "who knew learning could be this much fun." and "ideas I can easily implement," are things regularly said by Tyler's clients about his keynotes and team building events.

He is the author of over twenty-five books and the creative mind behind 100s of powerful and fun team building products including: The Business that Cared About People, Virtually Engaged Team Building Activities, The 14-Minute Mentor, Livin' Life Large, Father's & Mother's Message in a Bottle, TEAM Activities, and More.

Tyler is a thought leader who works internationally with Fortune 500, Inc 5000 and Premier Associations to level-up their learning design. Tyler's innovative gamification and in-depth understanding of multiple intelligences yields programs that increase engagement and learning in amazingly simple ways.

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