What kind of entertainers, experts and legends can best help your team achieve optimal cohesion? How do you keep people engaged and enthused? We recommend you get creative. Ovations know how invaluable it is to have a strong, happy team. That's why we provide events with charismatic, motivational speakers, explorers and other athletes, psychologists, musical legends, respected authors, even comedians. We specialize in building teams, from the ground up.
Dick Johnson is Australia's most successful Touring Car driver of the past decade and he now is a national sports personality. The colourful Queenslander is today readily identified with Ford's proud blue-and-white oval badge, but Johnson actually started his long and successful career in the rival camp, Holden. As a car racer Dick understand better than anybody the importance of a great team and ...
Called "a master in the art of the relationship", Parsons has been lauded for his ability to steer organizations to success - even in difficult economic times. One of the most influential and respected executives of our time, he is the current chairman of Citigroup and a former chairman and CEO of Time Warner, as well as a senior advisor at Providence Equity Partners. He has regularly appeared on ...
An accomplished TED speaker, Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, the home of the most intelligent t-shirt wearers in business.
Dr Ellen Joan Ford (Nelson) is terrifyingly ambitious about changing the working world, for the betterment of people and organisational performance. And when you see her track record for tackling the seemingly impossible, and bringing people along with her, you will find it difficult to fault her logic. As a speaker, facilitator and consultant in the leadership space, Ellen helps organisations to improve staff wellbeing, retention, leadership, productivity, innovation and business performance. Ellen provides a fresh perspective, delivered authentically with high energy, for how leadership can be done differently.
The foremost expert in the psychology of face-to face engagement. With a PhD in business and degrees and post-graduate studies in service management and music, together with a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Louise combines her years of professional performance on the European opera stage to put her in a league of her own. These skills blend to bring powerful observation that elicits discernible, positive change in those with whom she works.
Dr Neryl East is a former Olympic announcer, TV reporter and government crisis manager who weaves tales from the trenches into powerful gems to make you stand out – for all the right reasons.
Neryl shows leaders and teams how to accelerate success and avoid costly reputation mistakes – building credibility and influence along the way.
Drum Circle Events is Australia's premier Interactive Drumming Company servicing corporate events both nationally and internationally with over 30 years of combined experience. For centuries people have used drumming to release stress, raise their spirits, enhance clarity and focus, and develop a culture of co-operation and community. With the experience of over 2,000 events in 19 countries and h ...
Jones began his rugby career at Matraville High School playing alongside future greats David Knox and the Ella brothers. A small and mobile hooker Jones represented Randwick, New South Wales, and the Australian Barbarians before hanging up his boots and concentrating on his career as a teacher and school Principal. Jones began his coaching career at his much loved Randwick Rugby Club in Sydney bef ...
An active member of the National Speakers Association, Edward E. Scannell has given more than a thousand presentations, seminars and workshops across the U.S. and in several overseas venues. Equally involved in both civic and professional organizations, he has served on the Boards of Directors of a number of groups, including the Tempe Chamber of Commerce, The American Society for Training and D ...
In terms of pressure kicks, they don't come much tougher: penalties a minute before the end of normal time and two minutes before the end of extra time to keep Australia alive in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final against England. As the shining star of the Wallabies World Cup campaign Elton stepped up to both . . . and threaded them when all seemed doomed. Elton's extraordinary RWC performance came a ...
