For about three months of every year, my office floats. I headline on luxury cruise lines worldwide, which I’m grateful to say takes me all over, and most recently I did a full season in Alaska. It’s some of the best work I get to do. You’d think the big lessons from ship life would…
The real measure of a conference MC is not whether the days ran on time. It is whether people register again next year. A conference that feels flat gets polite feedback forms and a quiet drop in numbers. A conference where the room is engaged, where delegates leave feeling like they were part of something…
The end of year function should be one of the best nights a company puts on all year. No agenda, no sessions, no sales targets. Just the whole team in one room at the end of a long year, with the only job being that everyone has a great time and goes home feeling properly…
Auckland runs more corporate events than the rest of New Zealand put together. Conferences at Cordis and SkyCity, awards dinners at Shed 10 and the Viaduct Events Centre, client functions in Britomart bars and Waiheke vineyards, and Christmas parties in every function room in the city from late October onwards! Which means Auckland also has…
The 2024 gala was never meant to be a one off. Stonewood Homes had been trying to get me back ever since, and it simply took until this year for it to work! Two years is a long time to keep asking. It is also the best feedback a night can get, because nobody chases…
An awards night has a problem built into it. The whole room turns up excited, and then somewhere around the fourteenth trophy, half of them are checking their phones under the table. It is not the awards’ fault. Recognition is the point of the night, and the people collecting deserve their moment. The issue is…
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