Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey* - Canada

James Taylor* - Scotland

Claire Boscq-Scott - Jersey

Tom Lightning - Holland

Drs. Joyce Carols - Holland

Amelie Yan-Gouiffes - Spain

Paul ter Wal* - Holland

Alison Burns - Scotland

Marina Naomi Smolyanov* - Israel

Jonathan Holloway* - Spain/Australia

Julie Lewis* - UAE

James Taylor, M.B.A., F.R.S.A.
Keynote Speaker on Business Creativity, Innovation and Artificial Intelligence

PSAI, GSF

Presentation Title: What I learned from interviewing 150 professional speakers

In this fast-paced presentation James Taylor will share key insights and lessons learned from interviewing 150 of the world's top professional speakers. He'll share how these speakers launched and built their speaking businesses, how they get booked time and time again, how they position and market their speaking programs, how they work with speaker bureaus, and much much more. Be prepared to take lots of notes!

About James: James Taylor is the Founder of SpeakersU, host of International Speakers Summit and The Speakers Life podcast and an in-demand global keynote speaker on business creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence who gave 50 keynote speeches in 26 countries last year. For over 20 years he has been teaching and advising entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders, writers and rockstars on how to maximise, market and monetise their creativity. As the founder of C.SCHOOL™ and host of The Creative Life Podcast and TV Show he’s taught thousands of individuals in over 120 countries through his online courses and membership programs. James Taylor is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts whose Fellows have included global innovators and leaders including Benjamin Franklin, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Bob Dylan, Adam Smith, Nelson Mandela and Professor Stephen Hawking. www.jamestaylor.me/

Amélie Yan-Gouiffes

former member PSASA, APSS, GSF

Presentation Title: Speak and live your Legacy

What is the legacy we leave behind? When are we going to answer this question? The day we depart from this world! There will be no time to catch up, to create or to complete what we have not yet accomplished. Amélie invites you to look at the legacy we LIVE now, when it really counts. Today we crave purpose – something bigger than ourselves, something that fuels our life and business. Something that makes us jump out of bed, all fired up. Answer the questions that matter today: why do you speak, what do you speak about, how do you speak and live your legacy?  Here she is speaking in South Africa

About Amélie: From war zones to the business world... Amélie’s mission is to entice entrepreneurs and leaders to speak and live their legacy©, in their company, in their lives and in the world. She worked for 25 years in Asia, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, in areas hit by war or natural disasters.  She works in English, French and Spanish and mentored and coached thousands of speakers, leaders, MPs, government officials, start-ups, NGO reps, students, in France, Thailand, the Philippines, Iran, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Spain, Sri Lanka, etc. Disaster recovery, resilience and empowerment are her passion. Her book Speak and Live Your Legacy is available globally in English and Spanish (Expresa y Vive tu Huella). Her philanthropy initiative Speak and Live Your Legacy © Project, empowers children and youth to share their voices and shape their legacies, through public speaking.www.ameliespeaks.com

Paul ter Wal, LLM, CSP, FPSA
International President GSF

PSA Holland, PSA Belgium, PSA UKI, NSA, GSF

Presentation Title: Happiness Makes Money: how knowing your core values will help you speed up your career

Knowing what your “non-negotiables” as a speaker, consultant or trainer are, will create more engagement with your audiences and with that higher effectivity, productivity and profitability. Knowing why you do the things you do and why it creates more happiness in doing it will help you to boost your career. It will help you to see what opportunities you have and then make the right choices. Paul will show how knowing your non-negotiables and making choices increases your productivity and your success. It will be a profitable choice to go for more engagement!

About Paul: Paul ter Wal is a balancing specialist and health architect. He carefully seeks the balance between man and machine. Between economy and ergonomics. Between organization and organism. Because one cannot function without the other. Paul is a strategic advisor and conceptual architect. This is how he prefers to describe himself. Paul´s ideas and plans can be implemented by service providers in small and large organizations. He designs with passion. He would prove a passionate and convincing representative for the Ministry of Employment and Wellbeing. He is a Certified Speaking Professional and PSA Fellow currently serving as the President of the Global Speakers Federation. www.paulterwal.com/

Claire Boscq-Scott
#1 Woman Global Gurus (2020)

PSA UKI, GSF, Women Keynote Association

Presentation title: Shaping your speaker journey to create smooth and buzzing customer experiences

We are entering a new era, it is time to start evolving into the next phase where a deeper connection occurs when businesses are becoming accountable for their people, their environment and their customers/stakeholders. I will show you practical ways to shape and map out your speaker journey; the physical interactions before, during and after events so you can create smooth and buzzing customer experiences, for your clients and for your audiences, connecting with them at an emotional level and creating unforgettable moments for them and for you. Plus, that one thing that will make a speaker business sustainable for the next disruptive… wouldn’t you like to know what that one thing is?

About Claire: Claire is on a mission to inspire businesses to thrive by bringing more care into what they do, alluring the senses to connect with employees and customers on an emotional level; enhancing business environments, increasing employees’ engagement and customer loyalty, through sensorial experiences. Number 5 Top 30 Global Customer Service Guruand UK Top 10 CX Influencer, Claire is an authority in the Customer Experience Industry, Caring in Business Specialist and Sensory Queen, bringing a more holistic approach to Employee & Customer eXperience. She is a Keynote Speaker, Consultant & Trainer. She is the author of 2 books, Thrive with the Hive and Thriving by Caring, with its Audible version and its French version Prospérer en étant attentionné. www.claireboscqscott.com

Tom Lightning
Director Personel Disruption

PSA Holland, GSF

Presentation Title: Welcome to Disruptionland

Welcome to Disruptionland is an energetic Keynote Speech with great content and a lot of humor that shows how to do just that. The four steps to Disrupt Yourself are a great takeaway that your audience can use the next day. Tom has been on stage for twenty-five years and done more than four-thousand performances. There is also an interactive session, which can be tailor-made. Perfect, if there is a theme you would like to discuss. My Catapultizer will disrupt the audience and make the room open-minded for an interactive session. Answers that will be recorded on stage so I can use them in the closing of my keynote. Tom speaking at PSA India

About Tom: For 25 years, Tom has tailor-made shows for events, company meetings, and Government, and given more than four thousand performances. (8 - 2800). Tom performed for the King of the Netherlands, flew to Afghanistan for the Army, and was the opening act for singers, ie, Paul Anka. Tom’s highly energetic delivery and practical takeaways inspire audiences. Clean and visual slides reinforce his message and he customizes each talk to connect deeply with his viewers. They will be engaged. They will laugh. But most importantly, they will leave with a new perspective that helps them deal with the genuine stresses of change. Here is Tom's new showreel. nextglobalspeaker.com/

Drs. Joyce Carols
Success Mindset Psychologist & Behavioral Expert

PSA Holland, GSF

Presentation Title: Maximize your Performance & Impact as a Speaker is a thought provoking Keynote Speech with neuro science & experience based content that will challenge you, make you smile and put you in (e)motion. The energy, amazing story and key take-a ways drs. Joyce Carols brings, can be immediately applied by you in your everyday life and on stage, to maximize your performance & impact as a speaker. After this speech you’ll know: what the key ingredients are to best connect with your audience. What you can do to strengthen your success mind-set. How to deal with the hectic speaker life, all from a psychological point of view. Are you ready to maximize your performance & impact? View her teaser video

About Drs. Joyce Carols:

Drs. Joyce Carols is a Success Mindset Psychologist and Behavioral Expert. She is the CEO and -founder of  Enjoy EsC, an International Speaker and Bestselling Author with a strong drive 4 diversity. Joyce started working for major Fortune 500 Companies in her early 20s. By the time she was 36 she founded her own companies with which she achieved her goal of becoming a self-made millionaire. Joyce overcame severe adversities in life and still managed to achieve all the big, unthinkable dreams & goals she planned for herself. Her experiences inspired her to share this knowledge with others and she was soon mentoring, training & teaching thousands of people all over the world to create the lifestyle, wealth, and happiness in their lives by maximizing their performance & impact. www.joycecarols.com

Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey, AS, CKD-Emeritus
Author, Global Speaker

CAPS, NSA, PSA-Spain, GSF

Presentation Title: Building blocks for 'YOUR' speaking success

Building a successful, sustained speaking business can be challenging, frustrating and amazing! This business will stretch you and your long-term growth needs to be built on a solid foundation with focused building blocks. Leverage from the lessons of others! Over the past 25 plus years, Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey has been sharing his Ideas at Work around the globe. Bob has learned quite a few idea-rich lessons along the way, many of them the hard, expensive way; and is willing to pass along some of his experience with us today. Bob in Paris, France.

About Bob:

Canadian Ideaman, Bob Hooey partners with committed leaders and organizations to enhance profitable growth and success. Call today to engage inspirational leadership keynote speaker, sales leaders’ and employee development trainer, Bob Hooey. Engage his innovative, idea-rich, audience based, results-focused, Ideas At Work! for your next company, convention, leadership, staff, sales, training, or association event. He has the proven idea-rich programs and leadership success publications to reinforce that mutually profitable commitment. He is the 48th professional level Toastmasters Accredited Speaker in the world. Bob travels from Alberta, Canada and has been a global leader in our industry for many years. He is a charter member of CAPS and the Global Speakers Federation. He is also a long-time member of NSA and more recently a charter member of PSA-Spain. Call today, you’ll be glad you did and so will your teams!Bob's teaser video. www.ideaman.net

Alison Burns
The Ethical Futurist

Presentation Title: The ethical speaker: Doing Good By Being Great

In this thought-provoking keynote Alison Burns, The Ethical Futurist™, will share insights on how to build a successful speaking business that is based around universal ethics, integrity, trust and honesty. Today global companies and governments look to Alison Burns to provide insights on the application of ethical thinking to help them adapt to changes ranging from artificial intelligence and robotics to climate change and sustainability. As a speaker you’ll discover how to apply ethical thinking techniques to common challenges that speakers face including assessing and offsetting the environmental impact of your air travel, developing a good reputation in the speaker community, and how to lead a speaker’s life that benefits the world.

About Alison: Alison Burns is a lawyer, actor, award-winning jazz singer and keynote speaker on ‘Ethical Futurism’. Along with Hilary Clinton and Steve Jobs she is the recipient of the prestigious Brand Laureate Award as is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, whose fellows have included Richard Attenborough, Nelson Mandela and Stephen Hawking. Companies and governments look to Alison Burns, the ‘Ethical Futurist’, to provide insights on the application of ethical thinking to help them adapt to changes ranging from artificial intelligence and robotics to climate change and sustainability. In her role as a lawyer and activist Alison is dedicated to improving the legal rights of non-human animals and believes they deserve to live a life worth living free from cages, exploitation and cruelty. Alison will be spoiling us with a special musical number on Friday evening just before dinner. www.alisonburns.com/

Marina Naomi Smolyanov (Israel)
Global brand ambassador

About Marina: Marina Naomi Smolyanov is a global expert and passionate lecturer for innovation, creative communication, and entrepreneurship. Founder and the President of "Toast Tel Aviv" -The professional community of Speakers in Israel, Marina ranks among the very best speakers and innovators in Israel. She is a senior lecturer at the IDC (The first Israeli Private University) as well for government ministries and international corporates. A former Spokeswoman at the Knesset – The Israeli Parliament and keynote speaker at 'The Women Economic Forum," New Delhi, India. Marina immigrated to Israel from Ukraine. She lived and worked in 5 different countries (Israel, Spain, US, Guatemala, Ukraine)- as a Public Diplomacy Director on behalf of the Israeli government. She speaks 5 languages (Russian, Hebrew, English, Spanish, and Arabic). She is an electrifying speaker - with a spark in her eyes, her passion is contagious and she has a special talent to empower, motivate and inspire people  www.msmolyanov.com

Julie Lewis (UAE)
Award Winning Personal and Professional Development Specialist,
Speaker, Author, Adventurer & Resilience Consultant

NSA, GSF

About Julie: Julie Lewis is a seasoned  entrepreneurial adventurer who challenges and changes the way people think, act and dream. Her programs and keynotes use stories gleaned from real life adventures to create memorable and actionable strategies that can be applied immediately to take people to the next level in their careers  and lives. She is the author of C-Suite best seller “Moving Mountains“ ; has led multi-national teams of women and men on 60 expeditions to include the Arctic and Antarctica and loves to share insights and lessons in resilience  from around the globe. Julie has lived in the Middle East for 20 years , currently based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is also sponsoring Changing Melody to be with us.  www.julie-lewis.com

Jonathan Holloway, CSP, FRSA (Spain)
Artistic Advisor, Speaker, Writer

PSA Australia, GSF

About Jonathan: Jonathan Holloway started as a theatre director, before seven years heading up public events at London’s National Theatre. In the UK, he has been Artistic Director/CEO of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and in Australia the Artistic Director of Perth International Arts Festival, then Artistic Director/Co-CEO of Melbourne International Arts Festival. His Perth Festivals opened with 30,000 people dancing in the streets, as angels and two tonnes of feathers fell from the sky and concluded with the largest single arts event Australia has ever seen, 1.4 million people walking with giants through the city. In Melbourne he presented A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music. All three won the rare and prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Special Event. Artistic advisor to the Mayor of London, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and the GREC Festival in Barcelona. He is a Certified Speaking Professional, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and recently moved to Spain from Australia. www.jonathanholloway.com

PRO-Tips and guest table co-host

Julie Lewis (UAE)
Award Winning Personal and Professional Development Specialist,
Speaker, Author, Adventurer & Resilience Consultant

NSA, GSF

About Julie: Julie Lewis is a seasoned  entrepreneurial adventurer who challenges and changes the way people think, act and dream. Her programs and keynotes use stories gleaned from real life adventures to create memorable and actionable strategies that can be applied immediately to take people to the next level in their careers  and lives. She is the author of C-Suite best seller “Moving Mountains“; has led multi-national teams of women and men on 60 expeditions to include the Arctic and Antarctica and loves to share insights and lessons in resilience  from around the globe. Julie has lived in the Middle East for 20 years, currently based in Abu Dhabi.  www.julie-lewis.com

PRO-Tips and guest table co-host

Sheena Walker, BA, CIPD (England)
The Podium Speaker

PSA UKI, GSF

About Sheena: As the creator of The Podium Booster BY Design, Sheena shares her unique experience and habits of coaching Olympic athletes, combined with management and her HR & Business background inspires and educates you to want to achieve more. Her clients refer to her as the “Corporate Olympian“. Sharing how to break performance boundaries to be positioned as a Leader in industry and to have that competitive edge. Recognised as having mastery with a difference in performance, innovation, and staying relevant to the future with her unique formula using sports methodology, which is, designed to give you and your people  “The Olympic Winning Edge.” www.sheenawalker.com

Gys Hillmann
Cultural Diversity Speaker

PSA-Holland, GSF

About Gys:

Francisco Mahfuz

Peter McKenzie

Terry McLean

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Bob 'Idea man Hooey - Program coordinator
Ian Gibbs, President PSA-Spain
Javier Rios - Event Planner