Yamini Naidu CSP

Connection & Storytelling
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PROFILE

Yamini Naidu is the world’s only economist turned business storyteller and she is consistently voted among the top business storytellers globally. She co-founded Australia’s first storytelling company. Her work with clients is commercially savvy, results driven and sets them up for professional success. As a key note speaker she wows audiences all over the world with insights, inspiration and actionable advice.

Her clients include Google, Ford Motor Company, Tiffany & Co, Adidas and Goldman Sachs.

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Get ready to unlock the secrets of powerful storytelling in this immersive, exciting and inspiring keynote with Yamini Naidu, CSP the world’s only economist turned business storyteller.

Yamini pioneered business storytelling in Australia and now shares her secrets with you in this explosive keynote.

Discover what business storytelling is, why you need it right now as a leader and how you can apply storytelling for personal and professional results.

Stories and storytelling can inspire, influence, motivate and engage people where logic and bullet points may not. Think of your own experience. Isn’t it always the story, the anecdote, the example that you remember long after the event?

Business storytelling is storytelling with a purpose and for results. Whatever it is you are trying to do in business – whether you are leading people, managing change, influencing the board or building your career, storytelling can help you do it better…that’s her guarantee!

THE EXPERIENCE

Ideal for: Leaders, who never want to hear the words ‘I still don’t get this’, leaders who want to translate data so its compelling, and want to connect, engage and inspire with every corridor conversation, team meeting, group huddle, client pitch, and town hall.

Ideal for: Event and conference organisers looking for a insightful, exciting, and immersive keynote.
Audiences will leave with practical insights on what business storytelling is and how they can use it immediately at work to connect, engage and inspire.
Audiences will gain a fresh perspective on a new way of working, and leave refreshed, inspired and energised.

As a leader do you:

  • connect, engage and inspire your audience?
  • move people to action?
  • wow peers, clients and boards?

Guarantee these communication outcomes by unleashing a superpower, your X Factor. As the world’s only economist turned Bollywood-dancing business storyteller(her X Factor), bestselling author Yamini Naidu busts the myth that X factor is something you are born with.

It’s not about winning a talent show or becoming the Beyonce´ of business, and it’s not the reward of a tiny, exclusive elite. Her research is conclusive. Everyone has X factor potential.

Your X factor is an expression of you, that is rich, distinctive and desirable. This unique, world first and original session helps you start unearthing your singular X factor. Finding and unleashing your X factor will forever change the impact you have and the shift you can create in your world.

Warning! This radical session is ONLY for you if you want to achieve professional impact and business results. You don’t want to just communicate, present or pitch; you want to create an audience experience. You want to transform people, organisations and what’s possible.
Are you ready to discover your X factor, to unleash this superpower and for your new future?

THE EXPERIENCE

Ideal for: Leaders, who have done more presentation skills training than they can shake a stick at and want to get off this training band wagon once and for all!

Ideal for: Leaders who don’t want to just be another presenter, but want to be a presentation leader and achieve personal and professional impact and business results with every presentation. They don’t just present anymore they create an audience experience.

Audiences will leave inspired and bursting with ideas about their X factor potential, eager to apply it to their next presentation for mind blowing results.

You know how you feel after a good belly laugh?

Your brain and body flooded with endorphins, recharged, happier. There’s a spring in your step.

You feel anything is possible. Imagine amplifying this across your business, team and organisation?

Today humour is the new frontier in influence, engagement and performance. Generating laughs is Southwest Airlines official corporate motto. They test for humour as part of recruitment.

Humour? You have to be kidding, you might say. ‘I’m not funny!’. Humour in business is NOT joke telling. It’s using ‘Humour Power’. This is a new kind of humour – warm, inclusive, culturally sensitive and uplifiting. Humour power is using humour skilfully and appropriately to connect, engage and inspire.

Humour power can be taught and learnt. No matter what your message, humour helps you stand out and succeed.

This keynote is an invitation to learn how to use humour for unprecedented business success.

It is guaranteed to lower stress, and put a spring in your step, improving your performance and productivity.

And be prepared to laugh all the way there.

THE EXPERIENCE

Ideal for: Leaders who want to jazz up dry, boring meetings, pitches or presentation content and create joy, connection and delight one conversation at a time. You do not have to be naturally funny or tell jokes. Though being able to smile helps
Audiences will leave laughing, learning and ready to try new ways to make their next communication funnier.

What if you could convert the mundane into magic with some simple old-fashioned fun? And do this fast, in 30 minutes?

That is what this Keynote on Fun guarantees.
When you uncover fun, you discover incredible possibilities in life and business. Fun is NOT funny – making other people laugh. Fun is light-hearted pleasure.

But why would you bother with fun? Because fun helps you grow smarter, lower stress, and look younger??. Fun is the fastest acting potent potion for mental, emotional, and physical health. And the best bit – fun can be totally free! Fun at work can be safe, sensitive and considered.

This 30 minute practical, entertaining and fun-spiring keynote explores how to:

  • Find fun @work
  • Convert the mundane into fun
  • Create space for fun

THE EXPERIENCE

Ideal to shake up endless zoom calls, energise your week and boost your productivity. So are you ready to have more fun at work?

Audiences will leave with simple strategies they can immediately apply to have more fun at work.

Yamini is a wonderful storyteller, mentor and human being. Her wisdom and charisma are infectious and she is guaranteed to bring light into any gathering.

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