David JP Phillips: Communication Speaker

  • Highlights:
    • He revolutionized public speaking and is on verge of doing the same in self leadership.
    • He has 3 kids, a wife and an awesome team of 15 people and lives in Sweden.
    • David JP Phillips is an international speaker, author, coach and a global authority on public speaking, communication and self-leadership.
    • He is currently running two successful training companies, one in the US and one in Sweden.
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  • Travels from: Stockholm
  • **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000

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The world’s most seen TED-talk on Storytelling with over 5 million views. This talk is on the cutting edge of practical Storytelling based on neuroscience and biology. The talk can be adapted to sales, leadership and professional trainers.

  • The power of Dopamine in stories and how to create it.
  • How to easily make stories more exciting
  • The psychological power of Oxytocin and Endorphins in stories.

An inspirational and humorous talk based on David’s BEST-SELLING book to 30 different countries “High on Life”. The audience will experience the difference between Dopamine, Oxytocin, Endorphins, Cortisol and Serotonin and how they can create the substances in themselves and others when they want to! All in all to lead better, sell better, live better – simply to create more success! Based on neuroscience your entire company will become energized with a lasting effect.

  • How to lead or sell from a biological perspective
  • How to create an even better working environment
  • The 5 biological substances to better self-leadership

The worlds most viewed TED-talk on visual presentations! Used by Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and MIT as training material! If you want to improve the use of PowerPoint’s in your organization this is the talk you want! Spot on, practical, insightful – actually, so insightful that there is no way you want to continue doing the PowerPoint mistakes previously committed.

  • How to make data dance – to make the boring the best!
  • 6 design rules to follow for a world class presentation!
  • 6 delivery tips which will have a huge impact on any slide!

David spent 7 years studying 5000 speakers to identify the 110 most common skills and no one can learn 110 skills – but the cool fact is that by knowing the key 6 of them, your delivery will improve by up to 100%. Add
brilliant content skills to that and you have one heck of a talk! Currently over a million views.

How to make any presentation interesting with the right delivery skills
Practical exercises which immediately inspired the audience to start applying!
Incredibly humorous and entertaining!

Video meetings are here to stay – for good! But STILL very few know how to do them! In this talk David will be broadcasting from his own studio equipped with 4 cameras, 3 settings, 200-inch screens and dedicated
technicians. The content will blow your mind and give the audience incredibly practical tips which they immediately can apply – and will want to apply! They will simply realize … digital can be just as good as physical.

6 commandments of video meetings and virtual conferences!
6 key delivery skills that make a massive difference.
Practical exercises where they get to apply their new learned skills during the talk!

David JP Phillips was raised in a small town in Sweden. When he was 14 years old, his mom gave him a book that would change his entire life.

The book was no other than Jean Paul Sartre’s “Existentialism”. Reading the book sparked this 14-year-old boy’s interest for how the brain truly works and why us humans react the way we do.

For instance, why does someone say “maybe” instead of “yes”, “should” instead of “recommend” or “actually” instead of “is”?

The young boy started reading more and more, in hopes of getting a grip of the 1,2kg lump of grey substance located between our ears. Fast forward a few years, David JP Phillips was now turning 17.

To get the full understanding of what this meant, you need to know that due to Swedish tradition, especially in small towns, there are only about three optional paths to take for someone soon-to-be 18.

  1. Option 1 is to start saving for your first car. You will also save money so you can customize it with cool stickers and exhausts.
  2. Option 2 is to start playing a sport, hoping that you will become a star.
  3. Option 3 is to be stuck at the local hamburger joint and never ever leave that small village.

David JP Phillips realized that he did not fit into any of these three options and chose a new path, the path of creating a new way of educating mankind in presentation skills from a biological aspect. Instead of a car, he started saving for his first EEG (Electroencephalograph) machine.

It took David JP Phillips a while to be able to afford it, but when the day came for the EEG´s arrival he immediately shaved his head and smeared silicone paste all over the scalp. He then connected 16 electrodes and started to read his own sinus curves on a monitor, curios to see how his brain reacted in different situations.

That planted the first seed in what would become one of Sweden’s biggest companies in Presentation skills and Communication. Today, we educate people in what many fear the most, even more than death itself. That is, to stand in front of an audience and deliver a presentation.

David JP Phillips teaches people how to become extraordinary in Presentation skills, Sales and Leadership using our own unique formula. We use techniques scientifically proven to work based on the latest findings on how the brain works easily provided in a lecture or class you simply cannot miss.

Have you ever felt that you didn´t deliver that message that you wanted, the way you wanted to? Did your audience not seem that interested in what you were saying? Did nobody remember what you talked about during your last presentation or sales pitch?

Then we are here for you!

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