Brendan Dooley | Speaking Engagements
From Harewood To Hollywood
At only 23 years of age, Brendan Dooley is living his dreams working as an entertainer, despite facing major challenges throughout his teenage years.
Sharing his experiences on stage and off stage, Brendan’s keynote presentation tells the story of overcoming adversity and shows how with the right attitude and determination you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
Keynote Description
Titled “From Harewood to Hollywood” this 45-60 minute keynote presentation shares Brendan’s roller coaster of a journey from growing up in Harewood, Christchurch to headlining stages internationally including Hollywood, California. Combining his knowledge from what he has learnt on and off stage along with some magic on the way, Brendan shares what has happened in his life behind the curtain with the adversity he faced.
Within this presentation, Brendan shares how he and you can deal with adversity, the importance of choices and the understanding of influence.
What do Brendan’s clients say?
Christ The King School
Absolutely wonderful show with an absolutely fantastic message of resilience he brings to our children. Thoroughly recommend, if you don’t have Brendan in your school you are missing out on something really phenomenal.
Eddie Norgate
Cobham Intermediate Principal
Brendan has a natural knack with students. He is able to use his magic to draw then in and what we genuinely appreciated that he was able to do was incorporate our school values in his story. He has a great story to tell, can intertwine your school values and maximise effect for your students. I strongly recommend using Brendan, he is an approachable and affable young man.
Darrell Thatcher
Christ’s College
Thank you so much for the sessions, the combination of magic and life messages was just perfect. Brendan was outstanding, it was more than just magic, there were so many life lessons and “take homes” for the students. I highly recommend him.
Metka Conlan
North Otago Primary Principal’s Association
Brendan was an absolute highlight of the conference.
Brendan struck a chord with so many people, both with his comedy and his personal story. Such a clever magician as well and many delegates commented they had never seen a magician perform live before (or no one of Brendan’s calibre) and they were truly amazed!
The evening social function was just the icing on the cake for those that attended that. Brendan delivered an extremely polished keynote that incorporated very clever comedy and one-liners, incredible magic tricks as well as a truly humbling and inspirational personal story to tell.
Every single person left the auditorium beaming! All in all, we really appreciated the time Brendan took to research how elements of teaching/students/Oamaru could be incorporated into his keynote. That absolutely gave him the x-factor performance.
Conference Attendee Comments
As usual the conference was a great experience, loved Brendan Dooley especially, he is brilliant.
The keynotes were great. I have really enjoyed this conference. Thank you for adding some comedy – Brendan Dooley was exactly what was needed!
Great idea to have Brendan. Great for mental health.
Very inspirational keynote speaker. As well as innovative and fun.
Brendan Dooley totally brilliant. Thank you for bringing such talent to our region. Great job team!!!