David Pearl : Session Ideas : SPEAKERS for BUSINESS

David Pearl

Thinking differently means entering another world

Session Ideas

Examples of David's Speaking Sessions

You, The Movie

What if the future was a movie - and you were the star?

A stimulating and provocative look into the future, for those thinking about where they want to take their careers, businesses and lives. Reason, logic and planning get you only so far. Here David engages the imagination and wakes up the creativity that is in all of us.

In a world where we often feel like we are responding to events rather than driving them, David pushes you and your business into the spotlight and think about the story you really intend to create. And how you can make that a reality.

This talk, complete with film clips and popcorn, draws on his work as a writer, performer, filmmaker and broadcaster

Ideal for individuals and teams.

Realise!

An appetiser for the groundbreaking personal reinvention public program, this talk helps you think about ‘what’s next’ for you in life and work. Designed for successful people who want to put more in and get more out of life, it helps you consider

What’s really important to me
How can I design my life around that
What should I do more of and what should I let go of
What areas and skills have I overlooked or forgotten

This interactive talk features a wonderfully simple, eye-opening technique called Your Personal Still Life, developed by the eminent business thinker Charles Handy and his photographer wife Liz

Works for larger audiences and smaller teams.

Work Smart

With the pressure on people continually mounting, this is the hottest of hot topics; how to get more done, with less effort. David lays out some of the latest thinking on

Getting things done
Using power not force
Managing our energy better
Working more effectively (and getting home earlier)

and lists some of the most common ways we are getting in our own way – and making things harder for ourselves than we need.

At the centre of this energising talk are the two questions –

Why do we keep doing what we know doesn’t work?

And how do we break the habit?

Meeting Hospital

Meeting Hospital breathes new life and health into that sadly neglected feature of our working lives - the business meeting.

At last count, British business lost an eye-watering amount of time and money to unproductive business meetings. And the problem seems to be escalating, with larger and more international teams needing more frequent interaction either live or on those endless conference calls.

Never fear. Help is at hand.

David and his colleagues don their doctor’s coats and admit you to the Meeting Hospital where you will

Audit your meeting health
Learn a simple way to diagnose where they are ailing
And some powerful emergency techniques to treat the symptoms

It is fun, highly involving and very valuable – as meetings should be, but rarely are.

Ideas from Nowhere

Would you like to have better ideas? And more of them?

There has never been more need for great ideas. Yet many of us find ourselves stuck in a pattern, thinking and doing things that have worked in the past.

Here David offers a radical kick-start to your ingenuity, helping you get new ideas literally gushing. In it he draws on neuroscience and his experience as a lifelong improvising performer. He will share trade secrets of the ideas generators.

Ways to get ideas flowing, even when you feel blocked…
Ways of generating more ideas than you need
Filtering out the great ones

(His company Impropera travels the world making up operas on the spot) and can be incorporated into the talk to great effect).

Fast Forward

Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster.

Jim Garrrison

The Future isn’t what it used to be! Recent developments have exceeded even the wildest predictions. Businesses and those who lead them are looking for new tools for handling the threats and opportunities that may come their way.

Navigating the future is no longer the preserve of the strategy department. Whether you are in a business or lead one, you’ll be spending increasing amount of your time assessing threats, sensing opportunities.

And its all coming at you like a speeding train.

Fast Forward program gives you and your colleagues a chance to hit the pause button and get some new perspective on what’s next; to clarify what is likely and prepare for what is unpredictable.

We’ll share some powerful processes to help you

Explore plausible scenarios
Increase your options
Develop your flexibility and capacity for change
Clarify your direction
Commit to what is of enduring importance (personally and professionally)

It’s a whole brain approach that draws on your experience and your intuition, reason and imagination, top notch scenario planning and high creativity. You just be thinking about what is coming, but rehearsing your practical responses, so when the future arrives you’ll be ready!