Speaking Topics:
• Spark Creative Marketing Strategies That Market Your Organization, Not Just Promote It!
• Deliver Powerful Presentations That Spark Winning Relationships With Influential People
• Insights Into Your Personal Style...Attracting and Retaining Volunteers and Support for Not-for Profit Organizations
• When Sparks Fly! IGNITING YOUR CREATIVITY

Seminars And Workshops:
• Spark Creative Marketing Strategies
• Spark Powerful Presentations
• Spark Creativity
• Insights Into Personal Effectiveness

Spark Creative Marketing Strategies That Market Your Organization, Not Just Promote It!
How do successful not-for-profit marketers create a dynamic marketing presence and a recognized "Brand" image in the over-communicated marketplace? How can your organization develop marketing promotions that will ignite powerful responses with your target audiences? Discover the secrets of successful marketers and propel your not-for-profit organization to the next level: find your target market, create the right promotional mix, use your limited resources effectively with co-operative, cross-promotion approaches, and leverage today's technology to gain recognition in your market.

Deliver Powerful Presentations That Spark Winning Relationships With Influential People
Developing support, attracting funding, securing volunteers and growing your organization often means having to present your ideas to win over influential people outside and inside your organization. Discover the secrets of interpersonal dynamics and how you can win friends and influence people. Gain insights into presentation dynamics from a person who has risen to the top of numerous not-for-profit organizations. Discover unique approaches you can use to enhance your presentations, from a presenter who spent 25 years presenting advertising campaigns pitches to clients, 15 years as a professional speaker, and 5 years as an actor and performer in musical theatre.

Insights Into Your Personal Style...Attracting and Retaining Volunteers and Support for Not-for Profit Organizations
A unique and entertaining look at entertaining perspective on individual styles and how we can reduce conflict and stress in our environment. Based on the work of eminent Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, this presentation explores interpersonal dynamics but moves beyond existing 16 quadrant typology, and puts these concepts into easy to apply practical ideas. At its simplest level, Insights uses four contrasting energies. At a more in-depth level, Insights has 72 succinctly individual profiles. Insights not only provides an understanding of the behavior of individuals but also how to enhance personal effectiveness in the areas of communication, creativity, sales and negotiation, teambuilding and a number of other areas in not-for-profit organizations.

When Sparks Fly! IGNITING YOUR CREATIVITY
Discover secrets of creative thinkers and high achievers and how you can apply them to your not-for-profit organization to create success. The enthusiasm, creativity and pure energy of one person can move thousands of others to achieve their goals and dreams. What fires them up and sparks others to follow? Overcome barriers and fast track idea generation, solve problems with more ease and create innovative solutions to everyday challenges.

SPARK CREATIVE MARKETING STRATEGIES
Learn how to create a dynamic marketing presence and a recognized "Brand". Develop marketing promotions that will ignite powerful responses with your target audiences. Discover the secrets of successful marketers and propel your not-for-profit organization to the next level: find your target market, create the right promotional mix, use your limited resources effectively with co-operative, cross-promotion approaches, and leverage today's technology to gain recognition in your market.

SPARK POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS
Developing support, attracting funding, securing volunteers and growing your organization often means having to present your ideas to win over influential people outside and inside your organization. Discover the secrets of interpersonal dynamics and how you can win friends and influence people. Gain insights into presentation dynamics from a person who has risen to the top of numerous not-for-profit organizations. Discover unique approaches you can use to enhance your presentations, from a presenter who spent 25 years presenting advertising campaigns pitches to clients, 15 years as a professional speaker, and 5 years as an actor and performer in musical theatre. Learn hands-on, practical exercises; techniques and tools for planning and preparing presentations, improving their voice quality, understanding and interacting with their audience and keeping a presentation interesting.

•	Speak Effectively; increase perceptions and communication including non-verbal communication
•	Plan an effective environment for impromptu and prepared presentations How to Open and Close a presentation
•	Determine Our audience needs, influence and persuade our audience and get audience involvement
•	Rehearse, Rehearse, Rehearse Daily exercises to improve your voice and create vocal variety including techniques for rehearsing and how to use microphones effectively
•	Keep Audience Interest when speaking, facilitating, training
•	Handle questions, interruptions and feedback Audio/Visual tools: overheads, slides, flip charts and multimedia

SPARK CREATIVITY
Discover secrets of creative thinkers and high achievers and how you can apply them to your not-for-profit organization. Learn how to fires up your creative mind and sparks others to perform at their best. Overcome barriers and fast track idea generation, solve problems with more ease and create innovative solutions to everyday challenges. Practice creative thinking techniques that will increase personal and team productivity, idea generation, problem solving and decision making.

•	Stimulating Ideas is the characteristics of creative thinkers
•	Understand your creative thinking style and be a catalysts to creative thinking
•	Recognize, and overcome barriers to creativity by understanding the creative process to use your total brain power
•	Adjust your mindset to change, stress, risk and vulnerability
•	Increase creativity through relaxation, imaging and idea generation
•	Re-energizing Your Thinking through individual and group techniques plus daily creativity boosts, brainstorming and other rapid generation techniques
•	Kill Time Loss with tools for more effective decision making and evaluating your ideas

INSIGHTS INTO PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
This system, developed in the UK in 1992, is based on Jungian typology (the work of eminent Swiss psychologist Carl Jung). This powerful tool helps organizations and teams to better understand the interpersonal dynamics of their workplace and helps individuals to work with each other more effectively. Insights moves beyond existing 16 quadrant personal typology programs, taking years of psychological research and theories and putting them into easy to apply layman's language and practical concepts.

At its simplest level, Insights uses four contrasting colour energies. At a more in-depth level, Insights has 72 succinctly individual profiles. Insights not only provides an understanding of the behaviour of individuals but also how to enhance personal and organizational effectiveness in the areas of creativity, presentation skills, sales and negotiation skills. In a team environment, Insights can be applied to 360 degree team profiling, team effectiveness, management, leadership and communication strategies.

Understanding yourself and others Perceptions The Insights Colors Self-identifying on the color system and Jung's Preferences

Orientation: Introversion/Extraversion
The Rational Functions: Thinking/Feeling
The Irrational Functions: Sensing/Intuition

Application aspects of the Insights Discovery System includes

Upon completion of the session participants will have the opportunity to receive a Personal Insights Discovery Report which is unique to the individual by completing an online or paper based evaluator of 25 questions form.

Marketing, Communications, Entrepreneurship
Presentation Skills, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
Performance Enhancement and Business Management

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Clients Have Said:

"Thank you very much for your presentation, Insights Into Your Personal Style, to our annual convention. The position of closing speaker is difficult and you sent us home with plenty to think about. Your presentation gave us a unique and entertaining perspective on how to understand and communicate with individual styles as well as how we can reduce conflict and stress in difficult situations. That is very important to our success.
On a personal note, there is an individual in our group whom I have been avoiding. I never really understood where he was coming from or his motives, so I distrusted him. It turned out that one of the few available spaces to sit to listen to your session was at the same table with this person....thanks to the information you presented, I began to understand how he forms his ideas and methods and the distrust I had been feeling melted away." Chris Dodd, Conference Co-ordinator, Canadian Western Wheat Growers Association

"Outstanding presentation you delivered at our national convention. ...One of the most insightful. ...Combined humour, insight and energy. A true Professional Speaker. P.S. Incidentally, the audio recording we produced of your session has been a hot seller!" Jeff Mowatt, Past-President, Canadian Association of Professional Speakers

"Evaluations from all our workshops have been compiled. The response was once again, very positive" Steven Dyck, Alberta College of Art & Design, Business Training Centre

"…a short note to formally express thanks. I personally enjoyed your talk very much. As a package, I thought the combined efforts by you and (others) worked very well." John Mount, Alberta Culture & Multiculturalism Visual Arts

"...very knowledgeable, in his area of expertise, and a professional, relaxed, and entertaining presenter." Lynn D.K. Fisher Coordinator, Training BDC Business Development Bank

"...well prepared, interesting and extremely well received. Greatly appreciated if you could once again participate." Brian E. Thompson, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)

"Your presentation was clear, yet detailed and interesting enough to capture and hold everyone's attention. You were obviously well prepared. Your effort is greatly appreciated." Brian E. Thompson, CIBC

"Thank you once again for participating in Alberta Therapeutic Recreation Association's Symposium. Your involvement was essential to the success." Janis McGregor Grace, Tracking Trends, Alberta Therapeutic Recreation Association

"Your presentation was entertaining, informative and practical. Gave me excellent ideas how to market my company. Attending your presentation was time and money well spent" Melanie Burnell, The Cheers Project

"We are very grateful... the session on Igniting the S.P.A.R.K. for Personal Productivity, was very productive." Helen Lugosi, DPSD Department, City of Calgary

"my gratitude and pleasure regarding the seminar you held for our management team. The feedback was extremely positive. the unique approach...provided us with a challenging afternoon and left many individuals with a new perspective and outlook on our work environment. Fun and informative. Hope to use your services again in the near future." Margaret Look, Calgary Regional Health Authority

"Very informative-lots of detail. Very knowledgeable-stated everything clearly. The speaker was very effective. Good ideas, food for thought. New ways of looking at/thinking about advertising. Liked the trend analysis, and info on ad structure. The package handout is very beneficial. Most beneficial Ð features vs. benefits and positioning." Judy Turner, Alberta Women's Enterprise Initiative Association

"feedback from the group...very positive...three stimulating hours learning." Claire Osterman, Program Director, Administrative Management Society Edmonton Chapter

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Sample Client List:

David has worked with a diverse range of industry sectors:
Associations:
Professional & Not-for-Profit
Banking/Financial
Communications
Franchise
Government
Medical/Pharmaceutical
Professional Services
Legal/Accounting/
Engineering/Architecture
SME's & Public Companies
Land Development/ Real Estate/
Building Trades/Suppliers
Technology

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