Steve Prentice Motivational Speaker from Toronto, ON

As a keynote speaker and emcee, my goal is to deliver comfort. My keynotes on leadership, technology, and change use energetic storytelling to teach and encourage interaction. When people become comfortable with the ideas, they then start to generate motivation naturally. Similarly, as an emcee, I set the event's tone, ensure it runs on time, live-tweet, and ask relevant questions to make everyone comfortable, without upstaging. I’m always prepared with a speech if needed. For either role, the event planner, will feel comfort in having chosen an experienced professional who customizes, prepares, and delivers a performance that ensures audience satisfaction and achieves your objectives. I am new to The Bash. Here's more detail, written in third person: For more than 30 years, Steve Prentice has worked as a specialist "that place where people and technology crash into each other." Since the mid-1990s he has helped people understand the mysteries of the technologies around them as well as the challenges of change and work in a fast-changing world. His joint backgrounds in psychology, IT, and project management allow him to deliver valuable insights into how business technologies work, and more importantly how people react to them. Steve is a talented performer and storyteller. He uses case studies and analogies to help people understand how best to work with the new developments of the time. His clients include large companies like Cisco, SAP, and major banks, as well as many other smaller companies and organizations worldwide, and he also is a visiting lecturer at Ontario Tech University near Toronto. As a speaker, his aim is to establish optimism, engagement and understanding with each audience member. He is often called to open, close, or emcee multi-day team retreats, and he also delivers keynotes, in person and online. With the quick wit of a comedian and an endless library of stories to draw from, he delivers a collection of his best stories, lessons and anecdotes into powerful, motivational keynotes. His topics include creating customer service through comfort, leadership, time management, dealing with the new era of work, communication skills, and understanding AI. His sessions always include "yeah, me too" moments and quirks from a century of technological innovation and change, but also deliver solid awareness, immediately usable skills, and optimism. When not speaking publicly, Steve is an in-demand emcee for corporate events as well as an author and a ghostwriter, with 10 books on management and leadership written for high-profile executives. He is also the host and producer of two major podcasts, Cyber Security Headlines and the Thales Security Sessions podcast. Steve is also a performing musician, and has a musician's profile here at The BASH.