Trolling for keynote inspiration #1

Every time I prepare for a keynote presentation (Title: LEFT AND RIGHT, UP AND DOWN: CONNECTING GROUPS AND NETWORKS) I sit with three big buckets to work on:

  1. What IS the focus (as I have a busy, full brain that can go down ratholes in a nanosecond)
  2. What is the balance of performance, sharing and engagement?
  3. Who is inspiring me right now.

I wanted to share some of my answers as a way of thinking and prepping for my keynote next Thursday in Melbourne at ConVerge, and a subsequent massive set of shorter workshops on facilitating online learning in the following weeks. Thinking out loud with you really helps me. Did you know that? Thank you.

In this first post I’m going to start with the inspiration, because that’s where I feel the need this morning. I seriously don’t want to start in old PPT. I have tons of glorious images. I can DRAW glorious images. So what. Who cares. I want to MOVE people when I’m in Australia and I want to be OF VALUE. So there! Let’s talk inspiration…

Jim Groom – Occupy Education

I love Jim and he drives me crazy. In a good way. Clearly he leads with passion. He follows with conviction and he IS a performer. He blends the three buckets into a nice stew. He also alienates me a itty bit, which is good. I can’t step away. The edginess is something I often lack — authentic edginess. Not performance edginess.

I have seriously considered doing this:

Any other inspiring clips to share with me? As I scanned my YouTube favorites, clearly I have not been keeping track of great keynote presentations. I mean, look, THIS inspires me!

Unpresenting With Heather Gold in Seattle

You may notice the uptick in blogging. I have such a queue of draft blog posts that I resolved to start getting them out. In April, the amazing, wonderful and talented Heather Gold came to Seattle and ran one of her “unpresenting” workshops for us. While I was still raw from the death of my dad, I was still able to absorb some of her wonderful advice, mostly captured with some sketchnotes. What was most significant for me was that the advice she gave resonated with my best experiences. Being fully present. Don’t focus on content, focus on people, connection and conversation. Be fearless and fully yourself. Own it. Unpresenting with Heather Gold …a few visual notes by @NancyWhite :: bookr ::pimpampum.