As a long-time Toastmaster and professional speaker, Garry has honed his platform skills to communicate business messages which are unique to the hiring entity. Each assembly of businesses in the form of conferences or conventions come together for a specific purpose. That purpose may be to address a real or perceived threat to their industry, to expand their industry into heretofore unexplored markets, or merely to create or enhance solidarity between and among industry participants. Whatever the purpose, meeting planners look to craft a gathering which will initiate or support the direction of the industry and their company in particular.

Garry provides keynote, breakout, or facilitation services which are designed to support the vision of the meeting planner, and are an integral part of the image the meeting planner wishes to create. Each speech is crafted in concert with selected attendees. Following the identification of the message the meeting planner wishes to be delivered by the speech, an iterative process is begun. Garry requests, and usually receives, the names of a few enrolled attendees along with their contact information. The due diligence of placing the telephone calls to determine what those attendees would consider the important issues of the conferences reveals valuable, and sometimes new and divergent information, which often becomes the framework for the speech preparation.

Garry’s theme is solidarity of a business vision within an organization, and this theme permeates the speech content and delivery. The practical application of spreading that word is the heart of each speech. The how of moving attendees forward is the measure of effectiveness of Garry’s efforts. It is in how attendees feel “three-days-after” which is the true measure of the effectiveness of the speech. It is in the changing or influencing of attendees’ behavior where the value of a speaker’s worth is found. The partnering of the meeting planner and the speaker to form agreement as to what is desired as an outcome is where the real speech value is found.

Speaking categories

• Events
  Events are venues at which you may be asked to speak wherein you are providing a service to an organization or community. These are unpaid “gigs” and yet they can provide a valuable opportunity to a speaker. Find out more here.
  
  
• Conferences
  Conferences are meetings of two or more interested parties for the purpose of discussing matters of common concern. Many opportunities will come to speakers to speak at conferences. Find out more here.
  
  
• Programs
  My signature speech is that leaders must delineate and promote the company vision. They must live and breathe that vision, and continually educate workers at every level to deliver this company vision. Find out more here.
  
  
• Platform Skills
  Platform skills are the ways in which a speaker reaches out to connect with his/her audience. When audience members make a change in their lives three days after you’ve spoken, you’ve arrived as a speaker. Find out more here.
  
  
• The Business of Speaking
  One’s overall purpose in speaking is to either gain clients, earn money, or both. That is a business. This section is about how one runs that business and how one delivers value there and how one gets paid to deliver value. Find out more here.
  
  
• Seminars
  Seminars are gatherings of members of the same or similar industry to discuss, study, and further the knowledge and advancement of a particular field of study. Find out more here.