PR Warrior
He's chock full of enthusiasm and literally bursting with marketing ideas! If you want someone to challenge your thinking, Tim's your (Ideas) Guy!
Suncorp Life
He had a personable practical approach, which was a refreshing change from the usual death by Powerpoint presentations so many of us have endured!
The Link Financial Group
Tim is a marketing genius... I sat spellbound through a 90-minute presentation, and came away with a mountain of ideas.
The Boomerang Effect
Helpful Marketing Returns More Customers & Makes You More Money
The marketing world has changed in the past month, 6-months and certainly the past 12-months. The great news is, these changes play right into the hands of business owners and marketers. In fact, there’s never been a better time to market anything. Ever!
In this educational yet highly entertaining keynote, you’ll discover:
- A simple yet highly effective marketing approach that makes you look like a legend, returns more customers & makes you more money
- How to bust those self-limiting beliefs holding many business owners back from nailing their marketing
- How Google works and the trick to getting on page 1
- How to position yourself as an industry expert
- A simple 3-step plan for never running out of content that will constantly surprise and delight your prospects and customers
- Practical ways to use video marketing, podcasting, blogging, self-publishing & social media to generate enquiry & grow your business
In no time, The Boomerang Effect will take hold, and Tim will have you punching way above your marketing weight and attracting more of the right clients without spending a fortune.
Beyond Mobile
Going Beyond Mobile
Augmented Reality is coming. Virtual Reality will take entertainment minutes away. Over the next decade we will look at our smartphone screens less and less as we use things like Magic Leap more and more.
Even if you use your mobile phone's screen to watch a virtual reality event, it will be quite a different experience than staring down at a mobile phone in your hands.
Plus, you will look at, and interact with your world quite differently thanks to beacons, Internet of Things, new kinds of sensors and artificial intelligence systems to fuse data, analyze it, and present it in new ways.
Think this is science fiction?
In this eye-opening keynote you will:
- Discover the companies that are bringing futuristic technologies to you today, including those in airports, football stadiums, and shopping malls
- Demystify cloud - We will discuss how cloud is everywhere in this new world and the trends that are soon to be hitting us, whether in self driving cars or augmented reality glasses
- Learn what your business can do now to keep up and ahead of these coming trends
General Manager, PULLMAN QUAY GRAND SYDNEY HARBOUR
Every person who attended has been talking about the content for the rest of the day and finding the yes…
The Future is Frictionless
If every aspect of your business isn't 'Frictionless' you will soon lose customers, just like Taxis are losing to Uber.
Motivation vs Design
In this video-clip, bestselling author, behavioral researcher and strategist Dan Gregory weighs up Motivation vs Design - Is achieving success really all about what drives us, or are the design structures we build into our lives more important?
Events in the Digital Age
It's no secret; technology is transforming the way we run events. While the value of face-to-face events can never be replaced, there are a number of new innovations and clever options that are starting to really shake things up.
Event Manager, BT Financial Group
It was a delight working with James. He listened, he was flexible and he very quickly grasped our objectives for our conference. As an MC, James kept the whole day running perfectly and as a keynote received the most highly regarded feedback out of any of our speakers. It was a pleasure working with James and I'd be delighted to do so again.
HR Manager, L’Oréal
Andrew was a true hit! He was professional AND accessible, easy going AND credible and competent. Extremely generous. He delivered important key serious message in an authentic, real way that resonated with all of us. Great sense of humour, witty.
RBS
Brett was fantastic. He received great feedback from all attendees. A number of attendees also commented on his presentation being the best they'd seen/heard. He was very gracious and obliging, and even made time to draft a thought-leader article for one of the attendees.
Matter
Matter
How to become the obvious choice
As the pace of commoditization accelerates and the emergence of technological disruption threatens our existing business models, we must find ways to remain relevant and differentiated in the hearts and minds of our customers! This inspiring, case-study rich session will show you how to find opportunity in disruption to reverse the downward spiral of commoditization and matter more to your customers than your competition. This journey will require that you:
- Understand the difference between value creation and value extraction
- Move towards the very disruption that challenges you and your customers
- Elevate your Impact in the Five Critical Dimensions that clients and customers value most during times of rapid change
- Elevate your Perspective by learning at the ‘Edge of Disruption’ and becoming a thought leader in the business models of tomorrow
- Elevate your Relationships to position you not just as a trusted adviser but as a strategic partner for your customers
- Act in a way worthy of your desired leadership position
Chairman of the Middle East Banking Forum
Scott delivered a scintillating presentation for us at our Middle East Banking Forum in Dubai. He ranged far and wide on how innovation in the financial services sector is disrupting traditional ways of doing things and creating exciting new business models, products and services.
Event Manager - The Upside
Amanda was an absolute pleasure to work with. True professional from beginning to end! Our audience loved her and so we look forward to working with Amanda again in the future!
Designing a Content Strategy That Will Sell Your Event
Let's look at the 5 key ingredients to designing a content strategy that effectively sells your event.
Useful Belief…..
Because it’s better than Positive Thinking.
Imagine your team having a useful belief about their approach to the customer experience?
This presentation is a game changer in the field of motivation and performance. For years, people have been told to try and be “positive”. The reality is that when most people try this they are unable to sustain it and end up feeling worse than when they started out.
This is a presentation about “action”. It is not about being “positive”, but rather asking questions of yourself such as, “What is the most useful thing to believe about this situation?” and “What is the most useful thing that I could do today to get me closer to where I want to be?” Positive thinking is about a feeling, while Useful Belief is all about “action”.
This presentation will help participants to:
- Alter the approach and be more effective when tackling tasks
- Give a new framework to help improve the focus of your time and energy
- Improve your approach to make practical decisions in the workplace
- Increase your results by taking the right action
- Feel empowered and motivated by changes they can make right away
Executive Chairman, EBM
You and your team were a delight to deal with from initial contact to final delivery and we would recommend you to any corporate client seeking to engage a professional, informative and entertaining speaker of a world class calibre.
Global action on climate change has begun... & that's great for business
It couldn't be clearer. Big business is committing to climate change. TED speaker, sustainable business strategist, advisor and author of The Big Pivot, Andrew Winston talks mega trends, and what savvy corporations are doing to capitalize on The Big Pivot shift towards a sustainable and profitable future.
Thank You! The Stage is Now Set for Innovation...
John Sweeney's new book The Innovative Mindset: 5 Behaviors for Accelerating Breakthroughs helps you identify what you need to do in order to become more innovative and less fearful, and assists in creating a regimen that transforms how you act.
In this video, John says 'thank you' for your collaboration on the journey, and makes a very special offer to celebrate the launch of this exciting new book.
Achieving High Value Customer Experience Transformation and Rapid Compliance Without Breaking the Bank
FinTech expert, innovator, radio host and Amazon best-selling author Brett King highlights tensions between enriching the customer experience and brand versus compliance.
CEO Standard Bank Group
Thank you for making the trek to Jo’burg for our executives’ conference and for giving us such a thoughtful and thought-provoking presentation. You’re completely right about us – we face the same existential challenges as every other incumbent but we're unusually well-prepared to take on the fin techs. We owe a significant part of that preparedness to having your voice in our ear!
Food marketing Terrasoft
Alex was amazing and the people were really interested and involved into the hot discussion! This is a great experience for us.
Marketing and Communications Officer, Australian Security Industry Association
You were fabulous and the audience absolutely loved you. The feedback has been superb.
The 4 C's of Customer Advocacy
As a thought leader, consultant, speaker and author Amanda Stevens works with sales and marketing teams across Australia to decode the science of customer advocacy.
Watch this video to learn the four key strategies that can wake up this untapped opportunity residing in your current customer base.
Speaker Presentation Tools To Wow Attendees
Wow attendees with stunning speaker presentations. We share 5 of the most useful tools to manage and fine-tune speaker presentations, and to arm yourself with the 'can-dos' when asked to edit or enhance a presentation at short notice.
Tony's Top 3 Sales Performance Tips
Starting off a new sales cycle? Chances are you are going to fall into the typical traps that come with any long-term goals. High Performance expert Tony Wilson shares THE top three key performance tips - worth thinking about - to help you & your team have one of the best sales years yet.
Helloworld Limited
Thank you so much for your fabulous workshop presentations at our helloworld Frontliners Forum in Cairns. Your sessions were a highlight of our conference program!
Green Electrics Council
The only comments I’ve heard about you from internal and external folks have been gushingly positive.
AI Is Going To Transform Finance
Brett King is widely considered the foremost global expert on retail banking innovation and optimised customer experience. As the CEO and founder of the world’s first downloaded bank - Moven, Brett remains the innovation trailblazer helping organisations plug-in new lines of connection between their brands and customers.
His disruptive insight for the finance industry: Artificial Intelligence will kill advice and paper pushing.
The Digital Transformation Deadline
According to futurist and bestselling author Mike Walsh, the big issue for leaders in 2016 will be digital transformation. Customers are changing. Competitors are circling. Employees are evolving. In Mike's view, without a plan for digital transformation, your company is living on borrowed time.
NEXT IN TECH: Robert Scoble, the infamous @Scobleizer shares top game changers
Robert Scoble reins in on what's next in tech. Welcome to the future.
The Power of Visionary Business Goals
TED speaker and author of The Big Pivot, Andrew Winston is one of the leading & loudest voices globally on how business can navigate and profit from the world's biggest social and environmental challenges. In this article he considers the question: how do organizations design innovative, visionary goals that propel the business forward AND tackle the world's mega-challenges?
Conference Director - Florida International Bankers Association
The conference success could not have been achieved without your participation and valuable insights with regards to the business.
Director of Sales & Marketing - Accor Luxury Apartment Hotels
He was everything you said and more!
SHOWCASE VIDEO: In 2015, Do You DARE?
DARE -- Ode Management's annual speaker showcase and much anticipated industry event visited Sydney & Melbourne on the 10th -11th of September.
Watch our video & find out who's on the leading edge.
Innovation Wars
Innovation Wars
Uncover The Competitive Innovation Edge
Innovation Wars dives into the competitive nature of innovation in the modern organisation, to uncover the secrets to driving innovation success.
A decade of technology driven progress has triggered a global shift in leadership practice, driving new demands on organizational capability, culture and design. Leading organizations around the world leverage the power of Customer Centric Design and Lean Startup methods, out pacing their corporate peers in the battle for future markets. Innovation Wars is your guide to market success in the battlefield that is corporate innovation.
Greater than 65% of corporate executives see innovation as the key to unlocking new value, new markets and harnessing the power of new technologies. But not everyone succeeds.
Key Takeaways include:
- Investigation in the competitive battlefield that is innovation. Who talks the talk? and who walks the walk?
- What are the strategic lessons from those that drive success?
- What are the frameworks, tools and key infantry that you will need to drive innovation in your organization?
- Simple practical tools for you to implement immediately
Our New Financial Year Resolutions
For business folks the New Financial Year can generate all the excitement of January 31st, without the fireworks. It's a fantastic opportunity to reflect on the successes of the previous 12 months, as well as to think around important lessons. Still, it's a great time to approach your business with a sense of newness, expectation and clear goals for the year ahead. Resolutions anyone? Our speakers share theirs for the 2015-16 New Year.
Apps to Keep Track of Your Events Budget
When you're in the events game, things can move super fast! With so many elements coming together, decisive action is a must. Then there are the added extras like supplier contracts, receipts and important notes around agreements and timeframes.
How to keep it all together?
The 1% Changes To MAKE Your Business
An excerpt from her soon-to-be released book, Turning Clients into Advocates, Amanda Stevens brings us 7 key ways to engage your customers and turn them into brand advocates.
Technology is rapidly changing the way we do business. It’s shifting the way we communicate, the way we travel and the way brands are marketed. It’s dramatically altering the way today’s consumer interacts with their favourite brands, the way they shop and the way they form brand loyalty.
Align Your Conscious & Unconscious Mindset
Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan know how to change, shift and influence human behavior like no one else. Off the back of the book ‘Selfish, Scared and Stupid’, their rather disruptive perspective is to embrace human behaviour and accept ourselves at our often self-serving core. In this article Dan & Kieran bring us the Survival Mindset – and ask we align both conscious and unconscious thinking to create a culture of the willing.
Mindset of Discovery
As the owner of the oldest comedy theatre in the US, John Sweeney is a natural innovator as well as a successful businessman. In his forthcoming book The Innovative Mindset, John shares 5 behaviors known to help us embrace the 'Mindset of Discovery' and in turn spark innovation, maximize productivity and increase profitability.
Rooted deep within the practice of theatre improvisation and tested by a long journey of entrepreneurial growth, John introduces a well versed but non-rehearsed way to apply this fascinating new mode of thinking.
Do You Love Creating Connections?
Do you find yourself making friends with your customers? Do you believe your clients come first and that it's your world-class service that gives you the edge? Then you are just who we are looking for!
In Need Of A Eureka Moment?
It's 6.30pm. You’re completely exhausted. You barely notice the other people on the bus as you drift off into your own world. If you close your eyes for a moment, you’ll probably fall asleep. The headlights of the passing cars refract through the raindrops that are trickling down the window next to you. And that’s when it happens. Pure genius - only in hindsight it’s actually obvious. That solution to the problem you’ve been trying to solve since 2pm when you got back from a late lunch break. You feel a sudden burst of energy mixed with more than a little bit of relief. You write down this amazing idea in your diary, smile, and settle in for the trip home.
Where We Find Our Inspiration
Inspiration can be tough to come across, even when you make yourl iving from writing books, inspiring others and creating new ways for businesses to thrive, finding a never ending supply of light-bulb moments isn't easy.
So we thought we'd turn to our inspirational team of thought leaders to find out what they do to get the creative juices flowing, whether you are a bath person or love the outdoors there will be a gem in here that you can use in your own life - enjoy!
Robert Scoble discusses Smart Contracts & Bitcoin with Tim Draper
HOW SMART CONTRACTS, BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND BITCOIN WILL RADICALLY CHANGE VENTURE CAPITAL
How 'Age of Context' services are changing our lives and expectations
Uber is the best known "frictionless" service (it makes it much easier to get a ride) but is hardly the only example. Here's a bunch I've found in my journey around the tech industry looking for innovations and innovators for Rackspace, the leading managed cloud company.
Ode to Ode...
Thank you Arnold for only bringing the best of the best speakers to our events. We appreciate it! We appreciate you always thinking "outside the box" and never having us go with a speaker that so many others have – we are always unique and stand out with our keynotes – kudos!
Executive Director | Diversity Alliance for Science
In ODE I've found a team that are naturals at choosing the attitude, being present, making the client's day and above all, that love to play. Most importantly, for a person that travels consistently, I am always made to feel a valued part of the family.
Stephen Lundin - FISH! Philosophy
Working with ODE to build my US business was an awesome experience. In less than two years, we generated over one million US dollars of booking inquiries, accelerated my market penetration by at least 5 years and established relationships that many speakers spend their whole career trying to get.
Peter Sheahan
The team manage to balance their allegiance and commitment to those they represent, with an honest approach to who would work for our clients events and who wouldn't. A refreshing attitude that means if they do recommend someone, we listen!
DMP Marketing
Just wanted to say thanks for two great presentations last week, Lisa and Mike were both fantastic. They both totally hit the mark with the audience and helped take the event to another level. Thanks – ODE definitely have the best speakers!