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Kerry travels around Australia giving hilarious talks and running workshops on using creative ideas to deal with work and life, often tailoring talks to suit the needs of clients by using humour to focus positively on one issue or a conference theme.
As Kerry explains 'My career as a humourist began with writing books about my madcap family. It was standing in front of an audience, however, that changed my writing. I found humour gets the audience's attention, but it is the serious philosophy that moves them. They take it home with them. So now I do both. I set out to engage and energise the audience with humour and move them with serious insights into life.'
Kerry is able to structure a presentation, seminar, workshop, or an after dinner speech, to suit the specific needs of the client, but always with an entertaining and humorous bent. In most cases, getting people to laugh at themselves, their own behaviour patterns or professional attitudes, brings a realisation which both enlightens the individual and binds the group.
As one seminar participant said: "Fun, Magic and Inspirational"
Some of Kerry's Keynote addresses and Workshops include:
Communication: How to Razzle Dazzle Them!
Work/Life Balance: Energiser Bunny Me!
Help! I’m a Cliché Get Me Outa Here!
Life Wasn't Meant to Be serious
Laugh Lab: How Humour Can Change Your Life.
My Job is 'I do Everything'
Enthusiasm Wanted: Apply Within
Outlines of Keynote addresses/ workshops:
In the workplace we use meetings, casual and formal conversations along with voice and e-mails to communicate. Sometimes, however, meetings can be so dull they grid participants down to the least contribution; casual conversations morph into monologues or whingefests; formal conversations turn into official nagging; voice mail becomes, um, ah, you know and e-mails are sent, it seems, to induce a coma in the reader.
In this talk I will step you through ways of making meetings more engaging, casual and formal conversations mutually productive and voice and e-mails more relevant. Moreover, the Art of Modern Communication is quite simple. All you have to do is get their attention, get to the point and use your own words. I could e-mail these thoughts to you, but you won’t act on them. You need to be engaged in the concept. So I am going to look you in the eye and, actually, show you how to do it.
The workshop involves participants in hilarious activities, which demand creativity, good communication and group co-operation.
‘Even though I know these activities have humorous potential, I am always absolutely astounded by the spontaneity, wit and sheer brilliance of participants. And so are they.’
The perfect work/life balance for me would be sitting by a pool, sipping a cocktail with a little umbrella in it reading a novel all day. But no one wants to pay me to do it.
So off to work we go. Of course, work delivers many benefits, but these days workloads are demanding. Combined with the stress of workplace protocols, constant change, dealing with the bureaucracy, health issues, family and home duties, your work life can drain your energy levels until you are dragging yourself through each day. I use humour to show you how to revitalise your attitude to life.
Moreover, when we laugh at our own foibles we see our lives in perspective. This talk provides the inspiration needed to get the work/life balance happening.
The workshop involves a variety of hilarious and insightful activities, which show you how to off load stress, re-energise and laugh out loud.
From health care to education to the corporate world many workplace procedures and protocols have been standardised to meet best practice guidelines. But there is one hitch. There is no such thing as a standardised patient, student, client or corporate team member. This fun presentation is designed to energise you, to challenge how you classify yourself and others in stereotype boxes such as old, young, talkative, shy, short, tall, X Gen, Baby Boomer, student, teacher, manager, employee and more.
This talk breaks down rigid thinking processes, which so often, have been absorbed over time from our culture, but serve no purpose. While the presentation addresses the serious issue of diversity, it is the laughter that counts the most for life viewed from a different angle through humour expands your thinking to allow for a more creative approach to work, life, love and relationships.
"Truly fantastic"
"Kerry, you've shown me I have energy after a circus day"
"Your seminar was like watching my favourite movie-I just want to rewind it and watch it again"
"Excellent! I really needed to be reminded of what's important"
"Thank you for giving me another fork in the road to follow"
"I was at a turning point ready to choose a new career. Not any more"
"Kerry had everyone in stitches. Her talk was spot on for our audience"
"We had an overwhelming response from those in attendance"
"Everyone enjoyed listening to Kerry immensely"
"Tremendous audience feedback"
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