Events, away days & facilitation

Keynotes & Conference Presentations

Bring fresh thinking, energy and audience involvement to your conference, away day or organisational event. PJA can provide an experienced keynote speaker or conference presenter, shaping the content around your theme and giving people ideas they can engage with, remember and take away.

When this is useful

An external speaker can help set the tone, bring a new perspective or give an important theme greater impact.

You need a keynote that will energise and involve your audience

A conference theme needs bringing to life with fresh ideas and a different perspective

You want people thinking differently about creativity, resilience or working with change

A conference session needs to be participative rather than another presentation to sit through

An online event needs a speaker who can engage people through the screen

Keynotes and inspirational workshops

Paul delivers keynotes and inspirational workshops at business conferences, both online and face-to-face.

Sessions can be shaped around the type and theme of your event and the contribution you want the presentation to make. Whether it is a keynote, plenary presentation or more interactive workshop, the aim is to give audiences useful ideas while including, involving and inspiring them.

Previous presentations

Paul’s presentations draw on his work in improvisation, creativity, innovation, resilience and organisational development.

Topics have included:

  • Making your organisation more creative and innovative
  • How to gain an improvisational edge in your organisation
  • How to apply improvisation in your organisation
  • Improvisation skills for coaches
  • Developing your resilience

Previous presentations include Developing Your Resilience at the Lush Summit, Applying Improvisation: The Power of ‘Yes…And’ at TEDx LSE, and Changing the World, One Conversation at a Time at SOL World.

“He’s sharp witted, engaging and insightful. He is superb at including, involving and inspiring.”

Caron Bradshaw
Chief Executive, Charity Finance Group

Applying Improvisation: The Power of ‘Yes…And’, TEDx LSE Talk

Paul Z Jackson describes how improvisation changed his life – and can impact your organisation too.

Changing the world, one conversation at a time, SOL World 2013

Five tips for giving a great presentation. When Paul Z Jackson was asked to give a TEDx talk he applied these five valuable tips.

He also describes the key points of Solutions Focus, by showing how to swtich from problem talk to solution-focused talk. And there are personal stories of TED chief Chris Anderson and SFBT founders Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg along the way.

Improvisation: Interplay Between Freedom and Structure

What people leave with

New perspectives that spark conversations beyond the event

Practical ideas and techniques people can put to use straight away

New ways of thinking about creativity, resilience and working with change

An energising shared experience that gets people involved rather than simply listening

Memorable ideas that give an important conference theme greater impact

Give your audience something worth taking away

Tell us about your event, your audience and the themes you want to explore. We’ll shape a keynote or conference presentation that adds energy, insight and something genuinely useful to the programme.