NOT JUST ANOTHER SPEAKER
Inspiring Teams and Leaders To Fulfil Their Potential, Influence More Effectively, Collaborate
More Productively and Unlock Their Creativity Without Compromising Their Values
A Couple Of Words From Duncan
Everything I do is about adding value to your organisation and helping you move the needle on your performance.
I believe in changing perspectives and unlocking untapped potential in teams and leaders.
I prove this through my fun, interactive, content-rich, inspiring keynotes – and people say I’m easy to work with too.
If you’re interested in partnering to help make your event amazing, I’d love to hear from you.
Before that feel free to have a browse of my speaker topics below to see how I can help.
I look forward to hearing from you,
THE TOP 6 REASONS WHY CLIENTS LOVE TO WORK WITH DUNCAN
1. RELEVANT
We are living in unprecedented times. Duncan has reworked and re-engineered his keynote and masterclass content to make it relevant to the current global economic uncertainty. Unprecedented times aside, Duncan’s keynotes are always contextually sound, tailored to your situation and your company, using your language, to your people, and delivering your objectives.
2. LEADING AUTHORITY
Duncan is a leading authority on helping to create high performing teams and leaders. His background in behavioural psychology has helped hundreds of teams and leaders influence and collaborate more effectively and unlock their creative potential. He is a professional mentalist, the founder of the Influence Association and author of the best-selling book ‘Effective Influence’.
3. EXPERIENCED
Duncan is a professional keynote speaker, coach and facilitator. He is has over 10 years of experience delivering keynote presentations across hundreds of industries and over 50,000 people. He feels most at home on stage in front of an audience. This gives him the confidence and agility to adapt if necessary and understand what it means to create lasting relationships with clients.
4. UNIQUE AND MEMORABLE
Duncan is not just another speaker. Duncan weaves part of his Mentalism Influence show into his keynote to hang the bigger message of the conference on, meaning that the content will be remembered long after the event. This results in a compelling mix of high-quality content, entertainment, and inspiration to really impact your team and organization.
5. EASY TO WORK WITH
Duncan prides himself as being a stress-free speaker. He has no ‘diva’ demands and understands he is hired to serve and compliment the event, not ‘be’ the event. Duncan has a long list of delighted clients who invite him back to their events due to both his inspiring speeches but also his warm and approachable personality. Navigate to his contact page to get in touch.
6. CUSTOMISED FOR YOU
It is with these five points in mind that Duncan creates his keynote presentations that combine the perfect mix of content, inspiration, education and entertainment. Duncan customizes each and every one of his keynote speeches and guarantees that your delegates will leave with actionable, bite-size tools that they can immediately apply to your organization and your teams with maximum results and impact.
TAILOR THE THEME OF YOUR KEYNOTE MESSAGE
Consider How Duncan Can Tailor The Focus Of His Keynote To Help Meet Your Conference Outcomes
INFLUENCE MORE EFFECTIVELY
COLLABORATE MORE PRODUCTIVELY
LEAD WITH
MORE
IMPACT
NAVIGATE CHANGE FEARLESSLY
LEARN ACTIONABLE SKILLS
UNLOCK
YOUR CREATIVITY
COMMUNICATE
WITH
CLARITY
CULTIVATE A
SUCCESS
MIND-SET
INCREASE TEAM MOTIVATION
WATCH DUNCAN IN ACTION BELOW
CHOOSE YOUR PERFECT KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - LEADERSHIP, INFLUENCE, COLLABORATION OR CREATIVITY:
"THE 3% RULE - UNLOCKING HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP".
Helping to Create High Performing Leaders Through An Interactive Keynote Full of Powerful Insights and Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways.
Why is it that some leaders are more influential, effective, and successful than others? Often it is the result of attitude and mindset and constantly adapting and evolving their leadership skills.
Designed to inspire, motivate and educate leadership teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bitesize strategies, techniques and habits that leaders can employ immediately to create more collaborative, purpose-driven, innovative teams and the mind-set and habits that are guaranteed to have a positive impact on your bottom line.
BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Use Duncan’s High Performance Model to transform yourself and your teams.
- Learn the mind-sets and attitudes of high performing leaders.
- Reframe what it is to be a leader and not just a manager to enhance collaboration.
- Learn a proven empowerment strategy to drive commitment over compliance.
- Learn the psychology of leadership and how accountability and response-ability are the cornerstone to success.
- Learn how to build and create an innovative culture and creative teams.
- Understand what drives engagement and motivation in a workplace to overcome silos
- Leave with actionable, practical strategies you can apply immediately.
“Duncan delivered an exceptional leadership keynote and workshop for us, and ability to provide practical and specific solutions and insights that support our Leadership teams to operate at a high performance level was exceptional and delivered excellent value.
I would highly recommend Duncan’s services to anyone looking to deliver a step change in performance in their organisation”.
Trystan Powell – Finance, Strategy, Business Growth, Infinity Blu
"UNLOCKING POTENTIAL - BUILDING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS".
Helping to Unlock The Potential Of Teams & Cultivating a Mindset For Success With Powerful Easy, Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways.
In this powerful keynote designed to inspire your teams to embrace change, and the power of collaboration and cultivate a mind-set for success to strive to better than the best and excellence as standard.
Designed to inspire, motivate and educate your teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bitesize strategies, techniques and habits that teams and leaders can employ immediately to work more collaboratively, think more creatively and keep pace with change with the world around them. Be it, increasing sales, impacting the bottom line or growing as an organisation, your team will be left inspired and thinking differently!!
BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Use Duncan’s High Performance Model to transform yourself and your teams.
- Learn the mind-sets and attitudes of high performing teams that you can apply
- Understand how to foster more collaborative relationships.
- Understand the difference between and fixed and growth mindset .
- Learn the psychology of high performance and how accountability, decisiveness and response-ability are the cornerstone to success.
- Unlock your creative potential.
- Use the frameworks and strategies used by high performing global teams.
- Leave with actionable, practical strategies you can apply immediately.
“I was blown away by Duncan’s keynote! Great tempo, lots of inspiring examples and super business oriented. Duncan kept me focused from the moment he started with eye-opening activity until the very end. One of the greatest sessions I attended”.
Wojtek Puchacz – Learning & Development Specialist – Northern Europe (Accor)
"MASTERING EFFECTIVE INFLUENCE"
(FOR BOTH SALES TEAMS & INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS AND SUPPORT TEAMS)
How Brilliant Teams and Leaders Leverage Effective Influence To Build and Maintain More Authentic Long-Term Relationships and hear yes more often.
All teams and leaders (not just sales teams) are having ever-increasing demands placed on them and our ability to have our voices heard as leaders, support function teams or sales teams in order to influence, collaborate and communicate authentically is becoming ever more crucial for business success.
In this custom, interactive, fun, and content-rich keynote audiences members will learn Duncan’s Effective Influence Model to will help them establish, build create longer client relationships and hear yes more often in negotiations. You will leave with the exact, proven, and easy to apply strategies you can apply to hear yes more often.
BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Use Duncan’s Effective Influence Model to influence and negotiate more effectively
- Master the art of active listening to understand client’s needs and behaviors
- Learn how to effectively communicate the value, not just the price of your offering
- Understand the behavioral psychology behind influence to hear yes more often
- Adopt a new, sustainable approach to leading others through the negotiation process
- Cultivate longer-lasting relationships with new and existing clients
- Understand how you can leverage influence to collaborate more effectively.
“Duncan literally blew our minds! He went above and beyond and I would highly recommend him as a keynote speaker. He added value way beyond what we paid him for and took a genuine interest in our business and our people If you are looking to create a buzz at your sales conference, hire Duncan, you will get this and much much more.”
Patch Bennett – Global Sales Manager at CMH Heli-Skiing & Summer Adventures
"THE 'MAGIC' OF COLLABORATION"
How Collaboration Can Future-Proof Your Organization and Bring About Transformational Change For The Better.
Silo working is becoming one the biggest challenges for organizations. Silos can be hugely beneficial for laser focus but can often be more damaging and are often the result of underlying cultural challenges. This results in a lack of motivation, low morale, high employee turnover and low performance. Influence and persuasion expert Duncan Stevens, delivers unifying keynote speeches around the world to bring teams together and offers insights and actionable strategies to overcome silo working and bring teams together to work more collaboratively.
Using his skills as a professional mentalist for the past 15 years, Duncan brings teams together with his interactive, entertaining mentalist routines and interactive experiments that hang the bigger message of his keynote on. These same skills can be used to help equip teams and leaders with the ability to navigate change fearlessly, embrace collaboration and leverage opportunities these bring.
BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Use Duncan’s Effective Influence Model to nurture collaborative working
- Learn the #1 technique to create more collaborative, creative , innovative teams
- Understand the behavioral science behind building collaborative teams
- Discover strategies to strengthen both internal and external collaboration.
- Recognise why ‘traditional brainstorming’ is hampering creativity and innovation
- Have the skills to lead teams through times of change collectively
- Leave with a new sense of purpose and commitment to knowledge sharing
- Know your part in creating a collaborative culture and it’s importance
“I can’t say enough about how easy it was to work alongside Duncan. He was the consummate professional and really provided such a fun, engaging way to get his points across about the power of influence and collaboration. If you are considering a keynote speech on influence or collaboration then I would highly recommend Duncan to you.
"UNLOCKING TEAM CREATIVITY TO ADVANCE BUSINESS INNOVATION"
Helping Teams And Leaders Unlock Their Creativity In Order To Build An Innovative Culture And Keep Pace With Rapid Change.
A recent study has shown that 60% of CEO’s believed that creativity was one of the most important skills they need as we enter this era of AI tech revolution.
It not change that’s catching organisations out, it’s the pace of change. As a result we need to keep pace with that change. There’s only 2 ways we can do that: Learn fast and quicker than others or innovate and think more creatively than others.
With so many individuals having had the creativity educated out of them, this keynote gives your team the tools to unlock their creativity but for everyone to build an innovative and creative culture.
BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Use Duncan’s Creativity Model to unlock your creative and innovative abilities
- Learn what the most creative global teams and organisations are doing to keep ahead of change through creativity.
- Learn the #1 technique to create more collaborative, creative, innovative teams
- Understand the behavioural science behind building collaborative, creative teams
- Understand the five-step process for developing your creativity
- Learn how to lead innovative teams and foster a creative culture to increase ROI.
- Learn creative thinking skills to better evaluate new ideas
- Recognise why ‘traditional brainstorming’ is hampering creativity and innovation
- See how changing our perspective can yield increased creative flow.
Truly inspiring keynote from Duncan! He closed the event beautifully, giving all food for thought.
A remarkable ability to captivate a diverse audience while delivering key, insightful messages on leadership and how to increase influence and effectiveness“.
Ramona Branza – Head of Food and Drink Industry Growth (Scottish Government)
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READ SOME CASE STUDIES FROM SOME OF DUNCAN’S PREVIOUS CLIENTS
EFFECTIVE INFLUENCE
Do you want to learn how to be more effective and persuasive without worrying about complicated techniques and procedures?
If so, this is the book for you!
In this brand new best-selling book Duncan reveals his never-before-shared insights and applications that you can apply to your personal and professional life to make you a more influential and effective individual.
Calling on over 15 years’ experience in the field, Duncan has collated some of the world’s most intriguing influence-based experiments as well as some obscure, fun and rarely-seen-in-print examples. He deciphers, disseminates and decodes all of them to make this book not only easy to read, but the principles and techniques easy to apply in your own life. Effective Influence may very well change your whole perception on life.
