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Conference Speaking

Gavan Podbury is "Mr Personality"      (Personality Profiler & Qualified Therapist)

Conference Speaking engagements are held on request. Click here to contact Gavan about your particular requirements.

If you want your staff to have a co-operative attitude in their day-to-day interactions and their morale to soar to new heights then it’s time to talk with Gavan Podbury - Australia's King of Personality Profiling. Most speakers inspire audiences for an hour but a great speaker can change a life forever. Gavan Podbury is such a speaker and is available for motivational keynote addresses, break-out and longer sessions.
Contact Gavan directly to discuss your requirements.

Some Topic Options include:

  1. How to always have a happy and co-operative workplace
  2. How to handle difficult people, behaviours and situations
  3. How to quickly identify what 'drives' other people and what to say and do to achieve the outcome you want
  4. How to more easily get along with people you don't even like

Gavan enjoys creating new material so you’re also invited to suggest a topic that interests you.

The Mr Personality presentation style is relaxed and free-flowing with high energy plus memorable content. The audience will feel positively empowered with new ways to communicate based on understanding natural personality differences.  Presentations show people how to identify the various different personalities and then, how best to communicate and work successfully with those people. Mr Personality presentations can range from a keynote address of 45-60 minutes through to a 90 minute break-out session to a 3 hour seminar.

Who is Gavan Podbury?

Personality Profiler, qualified therapist and former Government CEO, Gavan Podbury is an internationally experienced seminar presenter with a proven ability to capture and hold audience attention with his fast moving combination of stories, humour, practical ideas and no nonsense solutions.

Gavan Podbury conducts presentations and seminars for people who want to communicate more clearly and have a greater impact on their relationships at work and at home.

An entertaining, dynamic and powerful presenter Gavan has spoken to audiences from 10 to 2000 people and is known for his ability to always motivate, encourage and inspire.

Gavan's style includes using amusing anecdotes and self-deprecating humour to great effect.  Bringing a rich and varied package of skills and experience to his presentations Gavan's field of experience includes working with corporations, small, medium and micro businesses, the three levels of government, educational organisations from universities through to secondary and primary schools as well as health, welfare and community organisations and groups. His uniqueness is that he entertainingly combines content from such a wide diversity of experiences.

Gavan's primary academic training is in the human sciences including sociology, psychology, human development, and interpersonal skills. He has higher qualifications in Program and Service Evaluation, Strategic Planning and Personality Profiling.

His presentation style is 'non-threatening, captivating and energetic' and 'straight to the point'. His information and advice is practical - he focuses on solutions not theory. He concentrates on the things that work and is not interested in wasting time on things that don't work.

Gavan's journey to this point includes having been a four time winner of the Barwon Heads Tennis Classic and he has performed in six corporate training videos.

One morning while day-dreaming he invented the (NILS) No Interest Loans Scheme which is now the largest micro-finance scheme in Australia. This scheme has helped thousands of low-income individuals and families to access millons of dollars of goods and services to improve their quality of life without the pressure often exerted by finance institutions or unemployment. The NILS program operates at 229 locations in Australia and in several overseas countries.

Contact Gavan Podbury

Tel:  1300 137 232
Email:
podbury@bigpond.net.au or fill in the online enquiry form