Jamie Fitzgerald - Gold Elite Speaker
Jamie Fitzgerald strives for success in everything he does, and is constantly searching for new ways to test his own boundaries. Early in 2007, Jamie became the first ever Kiwi to reach the South Pole unsupported on foot with fellow adventurer Kevin Biggar. This 52-day expedition created media attention world wide as they implemented a 'business-like' approach to reaching success.
Jamie’s other sporting achievements include the world record for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean (5000km) in a tiny row-boat, wins against both Cambridge and Oxford rowing crews during his management and marketing degrees, elite representation with New Zealand Rowing and double New Zealand representation in rowing and surf lifesaving.
Jamie's professional career has included marketing, financial, agricultural and education sectors. Whether using examples from growing his farm fencing business, or improving bottom-line performance during his various bank manager roles, Jamie’s rich supply of theory and real-life examples proves his ability to translate theory into action steps is very hard to beat.
Jamie has recent experience working with an internationally operating business consultancy which focuses on the following areas:
Strategy implementation and organisation effectiveness
Leadership development, management training and executive coaching
Instructional design, facilitation and adult learning methodologies
Programme development and large-group event design
Jamie is currently working with Rugby New Zealand 2011 and its Tournament workforce, ‘Team 2011’.
Jamie’s speaking and facilitation experience is enormous, with feedback to prove the quality of Jamie’s delivery. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have benefited from his inspirational, insightful and compelling messages. Jamie’s knack in turning his messages into meaningful dialogue between audience members is a tribute to his ability to ‘shape conversations’ too. Skills such as dealing with uncertainty, team effectiveness during the economic downfall, goal setting, communication techniques, dispute resolution and reaching objectives are among some of his strengths.
His ability to relate to any audience, and develop client specific presentations and workshops lead to very satisfied (and inspired) organisations! In short, Jamie’s inspirational messages are changing peoples’ lives.
Jamie is an amazing speaker and would be sure to wow your audience.
Testimonials
Jamie had an easy and enjoyable manner. The content of the topic was very well received and well pitched to a mixed audience. Jamie 'read' the audience well and added appropriate humour. He was inspiring, a delight to deal with and easy to relate to.—Viewpoint
Jamie exceeded our expectations. It was an outstanding presentation. Jamie was genuinely interested in our school and the achievements of the students.—Kristin School
Jamie's presentation was very well received. He engaged the audience with his easy manner and humour and exceeded our expectations.—AC Nielsen (NZ) Ltd
Jamie's presentation exceeded our expectations. He was interesting, energetic and everyone enjoyed his story and were motivated.—College Sport
Jamie was awe inspiring and the perfect choice for our speaker.—University of Waikato
Jamie's oral and visual presentation was excellent. It had a good mix of humour, motivation and business. The audience's reaction was very positive.—Property Council of New Zealand Inc
Jamie was an excellent presenter who showed a lot of wisdom, fortitude and was greatly enjoyed and admired by all. Awesome!—Ministry of Justice
Jamie met and exceeded our expectations. He did his research and put his story and message across brilliantly. The audience enjoyed his laid-back manner and fantastic attitude.—Harveys NZ Ltd
Jamie's presentation was fabulous. He had a great balance of experience, knowledge and group interaction. The audience loved Jamie. They said 'he is the best speaker they have heard'.—ASB Bank Auckland - Contact Centre
I enjoyed you as a key speaker at the Remax rally on Tuesday , I am in a business partnership with another agent and we both gained a lot from what you said. I wish you well with what ever your next endeavour is.—Villa Real Estate Limited
Jamie made a real effort to understand us and our business. He fully engaged with the preparation process for our 2010 conference, asked the right questions and was brilliant at communicating with us. He delivered more than just an inspirational speech - he facilitated a brilliant group session that motivated our staff to continue to succeed and they left reciting his key messages! His messages were highly appropriate and his use of humour, visuals and great facilitation made for a wonderful learning experience.—Agriculture ITO
Jamie went the extra mile joining us for the morning's walk up the Mt and our company values session in the morning. He also wove the new company values into his presentation that resonated with the audience as he exposed the values we launched. Great use of humour and a 'real' approach that connected with the audience.
Jamie mingled with the audience after the speech and enjoyed the dinner and talking to the Altum staff members to the point they were approaching him about assisting him with his next project and sharing their contacts to aid in this venture.—ALTUMComment from the ALTUM GM:
Jamie was outstanding and blended a fascinating story of personal and team achievement with humour and a positive message about personal challenges for our team. Including detail around photos and our conference theme was also extremely well done. We thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated Jamie and his presentation and would recommend him to anyone looking for these attributes.
General comments from all in attendance were that Jamie had a fantastic story to tell and in fact inspired them to set higher goals than they would perhaps normally set for themselves – both in terms of work AND personal goals. A large part of our conference focussed on health and wellbeing which Jamie tied in very well in his presentation – this was a nice cherry on the top of our health focus earlier in the day. He was also very funny and was able to engage the audience which I think had a greater impact on everyone. Well done Jamie and thank you so much for your time and energy – we thoroughly enjoyed our time with you.—ALTUMJamie is a down to earth, entertaining and knowledgeable speaker, who all attendees enjoyed. Jamie has a great knack of storytelling and at the same time being able to link the experience into a business context.—The Fletcher Construction Company Ltd
Down to earth, excellent presenter who’s content was made to be relevant to audience and very importantly, link to rest of the content from other key speakers. Related extremely well to the group and highly motivating.—ProPharma / Vantage
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