Keynotes & General Sessions
Michael loves the excitement of speaking to all of your attendees at once because everyone can get the same take-home skills to use for their greater success. He often combines elements from different Keynotes into a custom-designed session for you! Michael is a speaker—but he knows it’s listening that makes great presentations. He will be delighted to talk with you about customizing sessions.
Please note: Many of Michael’s other presentations can also be tailored for the time formats and settings of a Keynote or General Session. So please click here to check those topics as well!
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Keynotes &
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Keynotes &
General Sessions
01
THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT STICKS AND STONES: Recharging Our Batteries for Greater Collaboration, Service, and Handling Change
Superb leadership and performance always begin with figuring out how to be stronger at leading ourselves. In this presentation Michael uses an engaging and entertaining approach to present a practical, “no touchy-feely” set of tools to help us take a refreshing and often surprising look at the one essential thing we are rarely trained to do: developing how we communicate with ourselves.
This affects our growth, resiliency, and the building of strong relationships. We’ll learn how we unconsciously hold ourselves back and unnecessarily limit our choices. It includes Michael’s “Reverse Engineering” two-step method to identify and expand successful tools to work effectively with others — and you’ll get a resource with 200 specific examples. You will be recharged and revitalized!
This nationally acclaimed session has been given the highest evaluations by professionals in dozens of different fields because it helps us do something that is challenging: Looking at ourselves.
Participants Will Learn:
How to take more control over your self-communication to make it support our growth and our handling of challenges
Michael’s “Reverse Engineering” two-step method to identify and expand successful tools to develop strong relationships and boost collaboration and service
Replace the less-helpful approach about people’s “styles” with more positive steps to help us be more flexibly effective
The number one surprising thing most of us do that unnecessarily wastes about a third of our available energy for solving problems — and how to fix this
How to be more flexible and open to learning new things
How to work better with others
Resisting burnout
Handling change in positive ways
02
THE LEADING SECRETS TO LEADING OTHERS: Why There’s No Such Thing as a Born Leader
After this nationally renowned, energizing, and entertaining session, you’ll know exactly what to say when someone refers to a person they admire as a “natural.”
Michael demonstrates that to be terrific leaders and team members who continually develop new and stronger skills in ourselves and others, we need to become experts at one thing: focusing on skills instead of qualities. This presentation will have discovering a surprising critical error in how we’ve been trained to look at successful people.
Participants will Learn:
Get practical techniques we can use every day to boost our professional development and continual acquisition of communication and other tools that lead us to succes
Use “Olivier’s Law” and two specific steps to more immediately improve individual and team skills
“Michael Brandwein was exhilarating! Had me on the edge of my seat!”
03
HOUDINI’S GREATEST SECRET WAS THAT THERE WAS ONE: Unlocking & Unblocking the Path to Personal & Organizational Success
Harry Houdini performed escapes and illusions that were so unbelievable that many intelligent people believed these amazing feats could be only performed with supernatural powers. You’ll be surprised to learn what Houdini did to prove them wrong. His legend still fascinates and entertains us—but we can learn some surprising and highly useful techniques from his approach to challenge, problem-solving, competition, innovation, and achieving the top goals that may seem unreachable.
As a highlight: We’ll see a regulation straitjacket—not a magic prop. And Michael Brandwein will, in full view, show us how the most famous magician in history broke free of this restraint in performances that thrilled the world.
This unique keynote presentation uses some incredible magic and mentalism to disclose some incredible secrets about the master magician that help us handle problems, fears, challenges, and change. They will help us achieve success as an organization and as professionals.