KEYNOTE: Leadership lessons from behind the lens.

LEADERSHIP: Keynote Speaking

Eight Billion views

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The X Factor, Big Brother, Q&A, The Celebrity Apprentice

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"Speaking Royalty"

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Eight Billion views ✦ The X Factor, Big Brother, Q&A, The Celebrity Apprentice ✦ "Speaking Royalty" ✦

LEADERSHIP:

Leadership and business development lessons from behind the lens.

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If we were sipping gin cocktails—and let’s be honest, that’s a meeting I’d totally take—and you asked me what great leadership is, I reckon I’d say this: 

Great leadership isn’t about being the smartest in the room. It’s about making everyone else in the room smarter than you.

It’s brave, but it works.

Obviously, I didn’t work this out for myself - I stole it from one of the superstars and world leaders I’ve worked with, whilst leading the biggest TV shows on earth—8 billion views and counting. Shows that won just about every international award you can think of - five series of the ground breaking Big Brother, The Celebrity Apprentice, Dancing with the Stars, The X Factor, The Farmer Wants A Wife, Ready Steady Cook, The AFL Recruit, and Q&A on the ABC. 

I’ve worked with the biggest egos on earth, hit impossible deadlines, and navigated some very tricky public mistakes—live, in front of millions. All part of the job. 

Show business and your business are no different. Bad leadership means little to no direction, zero motivation, unhappy teams, missed goals, lost revenue, death of creativity and burnout. Who wants to come to work?  No one. 

What I share in this keynote is not from Harvard, it’s from Hollywood - straight from the set of the biggest TV shows on earth and the famous people you’ve watched and loved.  Hollywood hacks—strategies I’ve stolen, sorry borrowed, from world leaders, global influencers and international superstars I worked with every single day- people like Troye Sivan, Sketchshe, Snoop Dog, Pink, Donald Trump, King Charles, One Direction, The Spice Girls, Guy Sebastian, Beyonce, Richard Branson, and hundreds more. All leaders in their field of excellence.

This keynote is full of practical tools and stories, to arm you to see Leadership in a new light and help inspire your team to deliver when failure isn’t an option—and really, when is failure ever an option?

If you want to be the leader others want to follow, Let’s zoom.

Takeouts:

  • How to Lead in Chaos: How to keep calm and steer the show when everything’s going to (shit emoji)

  • Managing Big Egos: Practical strategies for helping those big personalities be less of a pain in the (bum / peach emoji).

  • Turning Failure into Fuel: Mistakes happen. How do you use them to build momentum and turn that frown upside down. (Smile emoji)

  • Motivating in Crisis: Keep your team moving when they’re running on fumes. Because if you’re not currently in a crisis, one’s about to arrive in the next episode. 

  • Problem Solving Under Pressure: Let’s be real, there’s always pressure. 

I know this for sure - leadership isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about having the right attitude and the ability to motivate and solve problems on the fly.

This keynote is created specifically for you and your business - it’s wildly practical with brilliant and terrible examples from shows you know and love (or hate) and household names you have watched and loved (or hated). There are key take outs you and your team can instantly implement and it’s entertaining, because we know this for sure - when you are laughing, you are learning. 8 billion views and more than 300 five star Linkedin reviews can’t be wrong. 

If this keynote sounds like something that could boost your bottom line, let’s Zoom.

Keynote Speaking

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Keynote Speaking ✦

When you’ve made the biggest shows on earth with the biggest stars, teams, and budgets, and delivered more than 8 billion views, you know how to engage an audience, land a message and change behaviour.  Maz’s keynotes are created specifically for you, to make your people sit up, take notice, and act. 

I’ve led and created shows like Q&A, Big Brother, The X Factor, The Celebrity Apprentice, Dancing With The Stars, and many more. And I’ve worked with global leaders and influencers - everyone from Donald Trump to King Charles, Beyoncé to Buzz Aldrin, One Direction to David Bowie, Simon Cowell to Richard Branson, and I’ve shamelessly stolen, sorry borrowed, the strategies from these superstars, to share with you and your audience.

This keynote is custom-built for your business and industry, it’s wildly interactive, and packed with takeaways that change behaviour—instantly and long term.

Clients call me ‘speaking royalty,’ and ‘the best speaker ever. ’ Check out my LinkedIn reviews, there are more than 300, and they’re rock solid. - Maz Speaks Global.

Let’s Zoom.

Let’s Zoom.

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