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Wanderful: an immersive keynote for anyone navigating change
Getting conference audiences on their feet.
The Wanderful Immersive Keynote brings a unique and powerful experience, breaking up the confines of the plenary space and boosting the energy of participants. Delivering high value to both your business and individuals, whatever the scale of the event.
An engaging, funny and thought - provoking keynote from David Pearl draws on his experience designing and leading high-stakes meetings around the world and includes tips and techniques to develop our experience skills and perceptions, particularly in finding the amazing opportunities hiding in plain sight.
David then sets up a Walkshop that is delivered with a combination of live facilitation and specially pre-recorded audio-guide which takes place in the grounds/ surrounding areas of the conference venue.
Whether delivered in-person, hybrid or online, everyone is on their feet out and about in the real world. Learning how to harness their everyday environment to help them make better decisions, boost creative thinking and develop team connections.
This provides a unique experience for each participant – at scale. David has delivered successful events using this format for 900+ participants.
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An innovator in business, the arts and social change.
David Pearl is an innovator who works in business, the arts and social change. A performing artist by background, David was boy soloist at the Royal Opera House where he first sang with Placido Domingo at the age of 9. He has toured the world as an orchestral player, written for the great Stanley Kubrick, presented a music series on BBC2 and set up two mould-breaking opera companies.
In 1994, when one of the world’s leading service firms was looking for a radical new way to boost creativity they asked for David’s help. Two decades on he’s a creative confidante to the leaders of some of the world’s leading businesses helping them and their teams perform at new levels.
David combines his performance background with his boardroom experience to offer clients talks and workshops which are highly entertaining, unusually interactive (he can engage even the hardest-nosed crowd) and richly insightful. He is also known as the Experience Engineer: designing, orchestrating and animating on and off-line high stakes meetings. David’s work has appeared in media such as the BBC, The Sunday Times, The Times, New Statesman, The Independent and The Telegraph.
His book on the art of meeting, Will There Be Donuts (Harper Collins) was amongst The Times Top Ten Summer Reads in 2013. Yes, a book about meetings that was so popular people took it to the beach with them! David’s 2nd book Story for Leaders, explores how leaders can harness the extraordinary power of storytelling to engage whole organisations and, indeed, entire countries. Wanderful: Human Navigation for a complex world, is his latest book and explores a forward-thinking system designed to help people answer their life questions and find new non-linear direction in our complex AI focused world.
Beyond business, David’s non-profit venture, Street Wisdom, transforms ordinary city streets into extraordinary learning zones. Founded in 2013, it’s already active in 68 countries and counting, helping people and businesses find clarity, focus and inspiration. David’s TEDx talk shares the insight and research behind the enterprise.
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