10 year Speak event in the Kleine Komedie!
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Feast of Inspiration
"A 10 for your 10 year anniversary party. How cool, inspiring, witty, educational and fun it was. You would think, easy because that is the summary of what Speak is, but great admiration for how you have put this together"
"Congratulations on your 10th anniversary and what a fantastic and inspiring afternoon it was. What a treat that I could be there. Thanks!"
"I had to sleep on it overnight to express the experience in what way: Great! The atmosphere, the setup, the presentations and so on. It is obvious why you guys are so successful after 10 years. "
"As an audience, it was a joy to attend. The speakers all had their own story that inspired and stimulated. The trainers gave great context to the story. And the event itself was super tightly organized. Many thanks!"
What a great day it was!
Friday, June 23, 2023, we celebrated our 10th anniversary with our own speaker event at De Kleine Komedie. Together with 400 guests we enjoyed 5 wonderful stories from speakers we had the privilege to accompany over the past years. Kim Lammers, Peter Joosten, Wanda de Kanter, Jeroen van der Most and Jimmy Nelson brought the audience the entire emotional spectrum: from euphoria to wonder, through anger and bewilderment to fear and endearment.
Our Speak to Inspire coaches shed some light on the presentation techniques incorporated in these talks. De Speld live provided the perfect comic relief. And our own Rutger Mollee as chairman of the day brought all this and the audience together with a laugh and a tear.
So it became an afternoon full of excitement and inspiration. May we say that? Yes, we are allowed to say that. Because we were inundated with enthusiastic responses from our guests. In other words, this was an epic party!
Were you there and want to reminisce? Or were you unable to attend and are you curious to know what you missed? We present a review here, including photos and an aftermovie.
Photo album and aftermovie
Many thanks to Bob Bronshoff for the beautiful photos and to EMG Netherlands for the video recording and editing.
Take a look below!
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Read all about the stories of our 5 top speakers here.
Kim Lammers
As a former hockey star, Kim Lammers knows like no other how to do a kickoff. So a no brainer to open with her talk. Hearing Kim speak will make you want to play field hockey yourself, even if you don't like it:-). Her enthusiasm and willpower make you sit on the edge of your seat.
Kim was known for her nose for the goal and enormous drive. Yet her career did not come naturally. Even though she had the talent and commitment, sometimes she was overtaken by injuries, her own insecurity and coaches who didn't choose her. But by using the setbacks as motivation and an engine to think and work together differently, she eventually became a fixture in the Dutch national team and a fixture for herself!
We as an audience can only join in and take notes, because what works better than sports as a metaphor for life!
Kim Lammers as a speaker for your own event?
Peter Joosten
Futurist Peter Joosten talked about future-oriented organizations in his energetic speech. In high school, he played the game Command and Conquer: Red Alert. Recently, he discovered the overlap of that game with his work as a futurist. Indeed, it turns out that games have a long history in military organizations, think Risk or Stratego. The military realizes that these games train officers in new scenarios and situations. It also pays for companies to be forward-looking. Researchers show that these organizations are more profitable and grow faster. In doing so, Peter also related it to himself: how resistant is the speaker's profession with all the technological developments? Finally, he shared 3 concrete tips with the audience that will make them more future-oriented.
Peter Joosten as a speaker for your own event?
Wanda de Kanter
As a lung specialist, Wanda de Kanter saw the devastation that smoking causes. More and more she caught sight of the cool killer behind it. The tobacco industry with its guile, deceit, stifling cynicism and extremely sophisticated ways of continuing to influence politics and policy. Wanda came, saw and has been fighting it for years. She quit her job as a pulmonologist to focus full-time on exposing the tactics and filing lawsuits.
In her talk, she gave an inside look into the big tobacco playbook, offered a concrete solution to stop the outrages and invited the audience there and then to do their part by signing the citizen initiative "Nicotinee. For more information and to sign this initiative, click here. Let's hope that with her fight she manages to bring the tobacco industry to ashes for good.
Would you like to get in touch with Wanda de Kanter or learn more about her work?
Jeroen van der Most
Artificial intelligence (AI) artist Jeroen van der Most took us back to that one morning where, to his surprise, he reads on a Saudi website that someone has bought a painting of his for $3.2 million. Although the painting looks like a coastal work he did a long time ago, it is not by his hand....
Jeroen followed the trail of the Diriyah Star Night and took us on his thousand-and-one-night adventure in the sweltering heat of the desert of Saudi Arabia. His search teaches him that the painting was purchased by a Saudi princess and eventually leads him even to the painting. Once there, he manages to get the painting signed, giving him the rights after all.
His story is a work of art in itself and provides insight into concepts such as real, fake and ownership. And can serve as a metaphor for today's times, in which AI and our idea of reality are becoming increasingly intertwined.
Jeroen van der Most as a speaker for your own event?
Jimmy Nelson
Photographer Jimmy Nelson talked about his personal journey in his closing performance. To cope with the traumas of his youth, he wandered the globe in search of primitive tribes to capture their beauty and authenticity "Before they pass away. Only when he was accepted by those tribes did he learn to accept himself as well and establish healthy relationships with others.
A particularly candid and moving story in which he took us to the icefields of Kamchatka, the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the desert in Sudan. There, he and his traveling companion were ambushed by a band of child soldiers who eventually escorted them to the primordial tribe of his childhood dreams.
For those interested from July 8 to August 6, 2023, Jimmy's exhibition ite to be seen during SUMMER NIGHTS at Fabrique des Lumières
Jimmy Nelson as a speaker for your own event?
Speak to Inspire has years of experience in coaching and training both business professionals and speakers at events. If you are or know someone who would like to give better presentations, please feel free to contact us. We will be happy to discuss how we can help!
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