Presentations

Every human being - whether they are a sales professional, accountant, I.T. expert, an armed forces commander, real-estate agent, health worker, teacher, parent or partner - can benefit from understanding the way we think, learn and laugh. Through such understanding comes the creation of cultures and environments that allow people inspired and continued growth. Glenn Capelli helps us create these environments by helping us make sense of a world that can often seem crazy. He gives us the opportunity to learn about ourselves by giving us real, useable strategies that help us to discover and use our own talents and maximise the talents of those around us. Never underestimate what passionate, creative people can do and bring to an organisation. Always consider the need to create those environments that attract and harness such creativity and passion. Glenn Capelli has the content knowledge and presentation methodologies to make it happen.

When you want people to think deeply

When you want people to laugh uproariously

When you want people to carry learning with them

When you want people to have their best ever conference

When you want involvement

. . . then you want to use Glenn Capelli.

Here’s why and how

Think deeply

Glenn presents Dynamic Leadership Thinking Programs for organizations such as the Defence Department of Australia, the Young President’s Organisation and Ernst & Young. These programs vary from one through five-day programs and include:

• Leadership Thinking
• The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Thinking
• Systems Thinking - Scenario Thinking
• The Art of Developing True Teamwork
• Creative, Analytical, Practical, Emotional Smarts
• How to Spread Ideas
• Communication and Dialogue Process
• Presentation Skills for Leadership

Laugh uproariously

Believing that people learn more when they have a chance to laugh and to talk with each other, Glenn artfully uses humour, jokes and anecdotes to make points and illustrate themes. His high impact keynote presentations are a captivating blend of humour, activity and learning. This entertaining topic area delivers some great laughs and even better messages about the need for optimism and joy in challenging times. Participants laugh, think, discuss and laugh some more as they journey through personal and organisational value systems using a series of jokes and humour as the foundation and discover how to laugh their way to health, happiness and business success :

• Strategies for Success in this Crazy World
• Smart Behaviours and How to Have Them
• What we can Learn from Laughter - humour and its impact on our way of thinking
• A Bohemian Rhapsody - everyday creativity
• In Bed & In Business - the pitfalls & peaks of combined business & personal relationships
• The Work/Rest/Play Balance - morale & motivation

Carry Learning

Glenn is recognised worldwide as a content expert in the field of learning. When he teaches you something, the concept sticks! His award winning television series, Born to Learn, aired weekly to over 26 million households throughout the USA. His research and presentations in the field of Learning Styles are applicable to any person of any age who wants to understand learning and maximise their learning potential. Glenn is the co-author of The Thinking Learning Classroom and Maximising Your Learning Potential, listed in the top 15 books on accelerative learning methodology on amazon.com. Glenn’s work in this area includes:

• Learning Styles and the Empathy Factor - Understanding the different way people process information is the foundation for effective communication and diversity management.
• Memory Skills for Everyday Use - An exploration of memory including the seven factors ofmemory awareness and how to get your memory working for you. Throughactivities, examples and interaction, participants discover they have abetter memory than they first thought.
• Presentation Skills- for small and large group speeches, meetings, radio and television presentations. How to design, develop and deliver with the speaking skills of a professional.
• The Magic Brain -Neuroscience and Managing Behaviour - Explores our notion of intelligence and I.Q. and introduces research on the brain in everyday terms. A users guide to managing emotions, anger management, discipline, empathy and self esteem. It’s practical neuroscience with healthy outcomes. * The Many Lands of Smart : Crayons & Creativity - How to use Creative, Analytical, Practical and Emotional intelligences - your CAPand CAPe of thinking - to survive and thrive. A look at innovative thinking, creative strategies and implementing best practice methods. How to be a learner and thinker who drives change rather than being driven by it and how to accomplish a cultural overhaul through the process of constant corporate renewal.
• The How to of Visual Note Taking - Most people don’t take notes. Those who do usually never look at them again. Visual note taking is a way to ensure that people not only effectively take notes but enjoy the process of doing it, and look back on their notes as useful and valuable resources. A hands-on presentation where participants learn how to overcome learning barriers, tap into their creative impulses, maximise their learning, improve their memory and discover how to get the most out of any seminar or conference. A valuable topic for conferences, seminars or any situation where participants are attending on-going concurrent sessions, lectures and keynote speaker presentations

Have the Best Ever Conference

Testimonials reflect that Glenn can reach people of all demographics. His years of travel, his entertaining manner, his breadth of content knowledge and his presentation experience of more than twenty years, means that people get a message that makes significant connections for their work, families, children and themselves. Glenn has written over forty recorded songs, many which have been used to great effect at conferences throughout the world.

Be Involved

People laugh, play, think, chat, experience and do. Glenn’s mix of story, activity, humour, music and movement engages all learners.

The Primacy Effect

Glenn is often used to start a conference. He sets a mood and climate of optimism and teamwork that flows through the entire conference. He also equips people with learning strategies they can use in business, life and for maximising their learning in the conference itself.

The Recency Effect

As a finale to a conference Glenn not only has the participants leaving on a conference high, he facilitates the maximum gain from their conference experience by helping participants to understand and uncover the take home value from their conference experience.

The Top and Tails - more than an emcee

In addition to an Opening or Closing Keynote speaker role, Glenn is often utilised as a theme setter or theme weaver throughout a conference. This is so much more than an emcee role. His unique ability to set tone, establish sharing of learning, teach and utilise visual note taking, introduce speakers and ensure learning is tied back to the conference theme, has received praise from premiers, ministers, media professionals, CEO’s and participants alike.

The Speaker with Humour and the Humorist with Depth!

Glenn is able to play both roles, providing an equal blend of learning and laughter, depth with lightness, applicability without boredom.

"Awesome. Glenn Capelli is a twelve out of ten speaker. Fantastic."
Harvey Mackay - international best selling business author of Swim With the Sharks

Themes

Glenn can draw from a comprehensive selection of topic alternatives to custom build a presentation to best match the individual needs of each client. All centre on the themes of:

• Thinking Smarter in a Changing World - the kind of thinking and action needed in turbulent times and how to maximise people, profit and potential through working smarter.
• The Human Element of Business and Leadership - how to help people perform at their very best to create environments that encourage prosperity, improved productivity and profit growth.
• Using More of Our Magic Brain - there are more talented individuals, teams and organisations than are being tapped and utilised. Glenn Capelli helps people discover their own talents and shows how to help others discover their real potential.
• Emotional Smartness - looks at the components which make up emotionally smart behaviour and how to grow them throughout your organisation.
• The Bohemian in Us All - Creativity - A bohemian is regarded as someone who lives and thinks in an unconventional non-conforming way. Learn essential and imaginative methods for developing an innovative mind and a creative mind-set, plus insights and tools for leading edge thinking.
• How to Spread Ideas - the culture and science of memes and memetics - how ideas spread, the power of the environment in shaping performance, and the learning-doing gap. The knowledge of memes and how they function can help overcome the inconsistencies between company vision and behaviour.
• Learning and Thinking in Smarter Ways - hands-on, practical, useable strategies with applications for deeper learning, clearer communication, richer relationships and smarter companies.
• Humour, Communication, Values and Culture - the development of communication skills to foster values and a culture of morale, motivation and learning. The power and magic of laughter and why we need it now more than ever.

Glenn Capelli is a master communicator with extensive knowledge of and experience in implementing the ideas of cutting edge management and education theorists. His unique training style is renowned for its impact, relevance and use of exciting, practical methods. Glenn's presentations are multi stimulating and apply group dynamics, visuals, music, activities, interaction, movement and humour to communicate the message, speed the learning and enhance the result. He believes it has to be fun, has to have energy and has to be useful. In consultation with Glenn, clients are encouraged to choose from the topic lists to custom design a presentation according to their requirements.

Looking for something more than a Conference Speech? Glenn Capelli has topics that can be converted into whole conference themes. This means Glenn can provide a total conference package including :

• Opening and closing keynotes (the bookends)
• Emcee role
• Capelli Caper¹s ­ energising, revitalising, linking and reiterating activities
• Visual Note-taking ­ for additional speaker sessions as well as instruction on the process of visual note taking itself (refer Capacan topic)
• Workshops
• An especially composed conference theme song or music
• Theme linked activities and entertainment running throughout the conference

Particularly appropriate for whole conference themes are the topics

• Many Lands of Smart (Multiple Intelligences in the Workplace)
• From a Sumo World to a Sprinter World (Dealing With Change)
• What We Can Learn from Juggling
• Capacan ­ Visual Note-taking

We can also create whole conference approaches based on a theme your organisation or conference committee has already chosen.

CAP'S CAPE AND THE SEVEN ZENS

An adventure into the nature of change, where participants discover the kind of thinking and action needed for changing times and how to maximise people, profit and potential through working smarter. This lively presentation has participants working individually, in pairs and in groups They engage in thinking skills, teamwork skills and problem solving while discovering the seven strategies to becoming a smarter organisation.

Main Themes

• new intelligences for a new world of work
• seven strategies for decision making, forward thinking and diversity management
• the cost of poor thinking
• the association and balance between creative, analytical, practical and emotional smartness

Duration

• two hour workshop
• variations can be structured for 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote
• a one day workshop

THE MANY LANDS OF SMART

Want an all involving topic for participatory learning? The Many Lands of Smart combines origami, art, physical activity, music, thinking skills, learning skills, teamwork and humour. Participants learn the model of the MLOS through tapping into talents they didn't even know they had and discover what it means for themselves, their family and their work team.

Main Themes

• seven areas for expanding talents
• developing creative thinking skills
• managing diversity
• teamwork skills
• a holistic approach to management
• the many lands of smart and communication processes

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote
• a one day workshop
• a two hour evening creativity session for live-in seminars or conferences

THE FLOW EQUATION

PEOPLE AT THEIR BEST = PRODUCTIVE ORGANISATIONS

How to help people perform at their very best to create environments that encourage prosperity, improved productivity and profit growth. Based on the results of thirty years research from the University of Chicago in testing individual, team and organisational performance.

Main Themes

• the eight factors for enhanced performance
• performance management process
• the human equation - proof why people are the most valuable asset
• from the shop floor to boardroom - anecdotes of success

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote

THE FOUR ZENS MODEL FOR A CHANGING WORLD

Main Themes

• the nature and pace of change
• emotional smartness in changing times
• quality, creativity, scenario planning and health
• morale and motivation
• diversity management

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote

TALES FROM SERVICE HEAVEN - TALES FROM SERVICE HELL

Main Themes

• systems thinking and service
• how to behave when the going gets tough
• service as emotional smartness
• rewards - the good, the bad and the ugly
• service in changing times
• star performers

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote

CAPACAN - CREATIVE ARTISTIC NOTETAKING

Most people don't take notes. Those who do usually never look at them again. Visual notetaking is a way to ensure that people not only take notes but enjoy the process of doing it and then look back on their notes as useful and valuable resources. In this hands-on presentation, Glenn and Lindy teach participants how to overcome learning barriers, tap into their creative impulses, maximise their learning, improve their memory and discover how to get the most out of any seminar or conference. A valuable topic for conferences, seminars or any situation where participants are attending on-going concurrent sessions, lectures and keynote speaker presentations.

Main Themes

• the keys to visual notetaking
• how to build your visual notetaking library
• applications for visual notes
• the link between visual notes and improved memory
• how to create and use a personal learning journal

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory workshop
• half day workshop
• one day workshop

IN BED AND IN BUSINESS

Presented by Glenn and his wife and business partner Lindy, this topic is especially designed for couples, families, partners and friends in business. In 1987 Glenn first registered his business, the same week he met Lindy, five months later they married, five years later Lindy left full time work in film and television production to become a co-director of the company Now, more than twenty years later they have combined their talents and experiences to present the pitfalls and peaks of a business and personal relationship.

Main Themes

• what you can tell about your partner from how they open the cereal box
• the " where are my socks" "in your drawer" syndrome

honouring the differences

• knowing each others strengths, weaknesses and patterns
• the new maths, why 1 + 1 can equal more than 2

living companies

• what can be learned from companies who have survived for 100 years and more
• how to grow the business beyond 'you and me'

balancing more than the books

• relationship and romance
• creating 'me' time, 'you' time, 'business' time and 'us' time
• how to keep the spirit of love strong when you work together every day
• laughter as the best aphrodisiac

a personal excellence program

• seven factors for balance in business and in love

Duration

• 60 or 90 minute workshop
• one day workshop

HUMOUR, VALUES AND YOUR BUSINESS CULTURE

Main Themes

• people management
• offensiveness
• harassment
• miscommunication

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote

EMOTIONAL SMARTNESS

Main Themes

• the three key rooms of the brain and how to maximise each of them
• anger management and the role of stress
• how human beings differ from rats!
• the HOTS - higher order thinking skills
• the cost of emotional illiteracy
• developing key leadership skills

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote
• a one day workshop

MEMORY POWER

An exploration of the seven factors of memory awareness and how to get your memory working for you. Through activities, examples and interaction, participants discover they have a better memory than they first thought.

Main Themes

• the memory process
• how to develop a more powerful memory
• strategies for remembering your client's names and important information
• memory application for speeches, meetings and presentations

Duration

• a 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote
• a concurrent workshop
• full day training program

LEARNING STYLES

Understanding the different ways people process information is the foundation for effective communication and diversity management. Glenn has keynoted this topic at the International Alliance for Learning Conferences in Minneapolis, Boston, San Antonio and Los Angeles and at the Honouring Diversity Conference in Washington DC and various education conferences throughout Australia. Particularly applicable for education groups, trainers and presenters. Glenn wrote and presented the award winning Born to Learn cable television series based on this learning styles theme and the many different ways of learning.

Main Themes

• global and analytical thinking process
• honouring differences
• learning styles and maximising teamwork
• different strokes for different folks
• communication systems

Duration

• a 60 or 90 minute participatory keynote
• one day workshop
• one week program

THE POWER OF ENTHUSIASM

Exploring the key themes of optimism, motivation, the need for verve in challenging times and how to create sustainable energy. A topic often favoured for after dinner speeches as well as establishing the mood of a conference, this topic is of great value to organisations undergoing change, facing tough decisions and in need of a morale booster.

Main Themes

• the circle of learning
• the keys for developing thorough minded optimism
• the five qualities of 'entheos' - the sustaining power of enthusiasm

Duration

• 60, 75 or 90 minute participatory keynote

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