Lucinda Harman – How to show up and thrive
If you want to step into your full potential, then you need to show up. Not only show up yet be curious and hungry to Shake the Trees in your life, so you too can achieve the extraordinary potential that exists inside you. At Lucinda’s powerful and energetic workshop, you will learn how to take focused and intentional action for optimal success (aka Shake the Trees) and conduct Your life inventory of growth versus getting stuck.
Make sure you show up. You never know to which level of your potential it is going to get you! Just show up… or you will never know…
About Lucinda
Lucinda is a TEDx speaker, author of ‘Go Shake the Trees’, an International speaker and sales trainer as well as a double Distinguished Toastmaster. She is also past President’s Distinguished Division Director in D74, and she is super passionate about sharing her tips, tricks and wealth of experience. Lucinda resides in Johannesburg, South Africa and is the world’s best mother to two dog children. When not speaking or training you will find Lucinda serving her community and the City of Johannesburg – or – did we mention that – conducting an inspirational keynote.
Foteini Vavitsa – Pitching your idea to your audience through effective storytelling
Convert the mess of a narrative to a powerful message that will make our audience say, “WOW, this idea has changed my life!” After attending this workshop, you will be able to:
- Distinguish which parts of your stories are valuable for your speech. Structure your narrative from the beginning to the end using some of the most compelling storytelling frameworks worldwide.
- Create authentic and effective speeches that hold people’s attention from the beginning to the end, no matter the duration.
- Level up your influential ideas with meaningful narratives and become the effective communicator you always dreamed of.
About Foteini
Foteini Vavitsa is a Business Mentor and a coach who helps professionals to convert their creative mess into powerful messages and thriving business ideas. As a content marketing expert, your words, with her help, will transform into a compelling story.
Simone Thommen – Designing your future with Vision boards
Discover the power of visualization! In this fun and creative session, you will create an inspirational collage from pictures that visualizes your goals. No artistic skills required – just bring enthusiasm and creativity! A vision board pictorially represents your dreams and aspirations in a certain area, e.g., your career. It helps you focus, gets creativity started and serves as a visual reminder of your goals.
In preparation for this session, please start collecting magazines, quotes, etc. that inspire you and bring them to the workshop. For those joining in person, we will also provide some material to get started.
About Simone
Simone is a natural scientist, turned marketing professional, turned coach, who recently founded her own coaching company in Switzerland. From her broad experience, she understands first-hand what it means to work in a fast-paced work environment and in different industries as well as the stress it can lead to. Most importantly, she also knows how helpful coaching can be to deal with everyday struggles and major changes.
She supports people in all career-related topics, including professional growth and direction, communication and difficult conversations, public speaking, creating work-life balance, and enhancing their leadership skills.
Diane Fryman – Change your mindset, change your life!
Whether you think you can or cannot, you are right! This famous saying by inventor Henry Ford makes us reflect upon how our own self-beliefs determine our futures. Come to this workshop if you want to:
– explore your mindset and how it impacts your decisions and behaviours. – identify what may be getting in the way of acting upon your objectives and dreams.
Come to get inspired to step out of your comfort zone and into the learning zone working with others who have the same curiosity and interest in breaking through their own barriers!
About Diane
Diane Fryman is an Organizational Psychologist, coach and CEO of Performance Technology Solutions based in Milan, supporting top multinational companies in Europe to improve their performance through their people.
She is an adjunct professor and coach for various Business School on Leadership, Empowerment and Entrepreneurship.
Meta Grošelj – Break-it-down to break through stage fright: mastering inner dialogue
There are two sides to the stage a professional speaker has to master to truly be authentic. The first stage is the stage of the exterior world. The second stage is the stage of the interior world. This is where your critical voice lives and breathes and throws tantrums and sometimes makes your life somewhat messy.
This workshop will help speakers examine the rhetorical representation of their inner dialogues with the aim to give their inner voices honest feedback and clear direction – and with this, you will be able to achieve the breakthrough you are looking for as a speaker. Congruency.
About Meta
Professional speaker and speaker coach helping caterpillars transform into butterflies! Meta’s clients received awards at different levels and events. She supports leaders, entrepreneurs and experts to attract the right customers, get the message to the right audience and receive desired outcomes and awards. Her speakers received best pitch award, best Start-up award etc.
Gloria Teo – Are you ready for Hard talk?
Problems that are not handled properly can become a conflict. Conflict management can be trickier to solve than a problem. Hence, my question to you, would you rather solve a problem or a conflict.
As a leader you cannot always avoid such situations. My first hard talk with a senior in my club was during my presidency. Then I had to share this experience during COT with this senior in the audience. At work I had to use such skills too and I am most happy to share what I have learned in TM and at work with you.
About Gloria
Gloria is a passionate engineer with master’s in computer science and is working for the Swiss Federal Office in IT. She is passionate about sharing her experience and helping people to be more effective at whatever they do by doing the “hard talk”.
Matej Miklavec – Authenticity: the key to bulletproof confidence
Boosting your impact and success in your professional career could be as simple as being yourself. Too often we block our creative potential by insecurely trying to be someone we are not- yet, mustering up much needed confidence to move forward. Plugging into your authentic natural confidence is the superpower and unlimited resource for the next level of success, always intimately at your reach. Matej will share the transformative power of listening to our true self, to be more authentic and confident regardless of the circumstances.
About Matej
Matej Miklavec is an engineer, author, and transformative coach, supporting innovative, ambitious leaders and their teams to more effective communication with less stress, through deep listening.
John Zimmer – Eagle vision: the right way to prepare for your speech or presentation
The best speeches and presentations – the ones we remember, the ones that make an impact – are the result of good preparation. But how do you prepare well? It all starts with “Eagle Vision”. In this workshop, John will share a powerful 4-step process that will ensure your preparation goes in the right direction. Come to this workshop with a specific speech or presentation in mind. We will use it to work through the process, and you will leave with a blueprint to guide you the rest of the way.
About John
An internationally recognized expert on public speaking, John is a nine-time European champion of Toastmasters speech contests. He is the author of a popular blog about public speaking called Manner of Speaking. In 2022, his blog was rated by Feedspot as the No. 1 public speaking blog in the world. A former lawyer with a major Canadian law firm and the United Nations, John also does improv theatre with the Renegade Saints in Geneva.
Sonja Klopcic – A new leadership code to survive in a VUCA world
Our old leadership paradigms no longer serve us. Playfulness, creativity, flow, connections with our natural cycles need to be unleashed again. We need to allow our intuition to be our gift, to lead our path through the noise. At the workshop, Sonja will introduce a new leadership model based on sustainability.
About Sonja
An engineer by training, Sonja has created and managed several companies in Slovenia in multiple fields of business. She is the author of four books on leadership, including “The AEIOU of Leadership”, presenting an award-winning model for sustainable leadership. She is a mentor and coach to multiple leaders and has earned industry awards in entrepreneurship and innovation. Sonja is also the founder of the global community of AEIOU leaders, whose mission is to support leaders who want to create prosperity for all. Sonja is interested in people, their potentials and the development of new approaches and business models for creative, successful and effective work.
Alice Ekonomou – Leading with purpose: how to develop a purpose statement that resonates and inspires?
Leading with purpose can accelerate our growth, deepen our impact and truly transform both our personal and professional lives. But the process of identifying, formulating, and putting to action our purpose can be daunting if we don’t know the right steps on how to get there.
This workshop will provide practical guidance on how to develop a purpose statement that captures our essence and the impact that we want to make in the world, and show how to turn this statement into a concrete plan of action that is bound to take our leadership, and personal lives, to the next level!
About Alice
Passionate about helping people rediscover their purpose, their passions and meaning in life, and inspiring them to create positive change and impact in their lives and those of others.
Danja Bauer – The five fundamentals of a powerful voice
If you want to discover how you can strengthen the power of your voice to create more impact with your speaking, then join this session. Danja will share her 27 years of personal experience on how you get a powerful voice so you get heard and increase trust from your listeners. You will also discover how to speak like music by using vocal variety and casting a spell over your audience.
Speak like music to convince and excite your audience!
About Danja
Danja Bauer is an award-winning international speaker, professional singer and public speaking trainer. The lively woman from Vienna, Austria, knows how to use her and your voice to rock the stage! Experience it, live it – with Danja, towards a better you in Milano! Her melodious voice earned her the highlight as a singer and moderator at business events held by Porsche, Microsoft, Sony and many more.
Danja has spoken in person and virtually on various international platforms like the Women Economic Forum, Toastmasters International and the Present to Succeed Conference. With her profound stage experience, Danja empowers corporates and entrepreneurs to give speeches as memorable, entertaining and impactful as music.
Fatima Carbonara and Valentina Panizza – Leading in a complex world
A wise leader is aware that we live in a complex world where every decision has its own trade-off. Moreover, decisions interfere with events which themselves influence decisions. A leader cannot have all the answers and solutions by him/herself; in fact, he/she is not supposed to.
Complexity implies that there’s no pre-defined solution to follow. It requires to adapt to continuously changing situations. In this workshop we will see how wise leadership can be used to lead in a complex world and we’ll discuss its activators and inhibitors.
About Fatima
Fatima is an Innovation manager, soft skills specialist, public speaking trainer. Fatima balances bookkeeping records with the brain, but driven by the heart and relaxes with a good glass of red wine. She loves working with people by innovating administrative processes (but not only). Curious, passionate about communication in many forms. Fatima supports entrepreneurs and their collaborators in developing sustainable business innovation plans, in dealing with complex situations in organizations through training and coaching in action.
About Valentina
Valentina is passionate about business as an instrument that can bring sustainable and positive social change. Valentina has a successful track as business for SME and startups. In 2018, she has been in the top-30 female entrepreneurs according to Gammadonna prize. Listen to Valentina’s podcast “Percorsi Complessi” (Complex Paths) to tell stories about outstanding individuals with non-linear life paths.