Ideas Worth Doing

MASTERCLASSES IN PRESENTATIONS / PITCHING:

How can I Impact and Inspire like at TED?

by Dave Lim-Light, pioneer TEDx curator and TEDx Ambassador since 2009.

For over a decade, Dave has helped over 200 TEDx, TED speakers, and C-level leaders design, structure and deliver their talks and presentations. And as an industry practitioner in innovation and ideas for over 25 years, he has also delivered numerous talks in global and local summits. He now shares decades of his diverse experiences and deep expertise with you through customised Masterclasses in Presentations / Pitching.

Above all, out of the thousands of talks, presentations, and pitches out there, WHY should I care about yours? or even remember what you said?

A well-crafted talk/presentation/pitch can spread new ideas, transform people's worldviews, evoke emotions, inspire action, raise millions of dollars.

What are talks you have heard that made impact on you and you still vividly remember years and years later? Why?

Regardless of whether you're speaking, presenting, or pitching for 30 mins or 3 mins (even more challenging), and regardless of your contexts and audiences, communicating powerfully is a lifelong journey of learning and using techniques and your skills based on fundamental principles and practices to get the impact you wish to make.

Through our Masterclasses, you will design and develop yourself, gain expertise and experience through case studies of the best talks examples, learn best-practice techniques, practice, and overcome the common shortfalls that beset speakers.

"Dave gave me great insights and recommendations to help me draft, practice and deliver my talk at TED in 2017. And it's the best talk I've ever given to date."

-Dr. Neo Mei Lin, TED Fellow with 1.3 million viral views of her TED Talk to date.

WHAT WE BELIEVE. Everyone is unique. We do not offer generic, one-size-fits-all Masterclasses. We start with understanding your context, purpose and needs. We then customize content and structure to focus on the most important elements for you to make impact. Also, the greatest improvements happen when you learn-by-doing, when our Masterclasses are combined with practical sessions and specific feedback and coaching.

We have custom designed and delivered different types of masterclasses for MNCs, organisations, governments, start-up venture accelerators, and conferences. For over 15 years, we have served >300 global women impact founders of Cartier Global Women's Initiative, science and research institutes, The US State Department, National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, global corporations like Kellogg, Merck, Johnson, U.Melbourne MBA Innovation sprint, Startupbootcamp, Tech for Good accelerator to name a few. We have also delivered personal design and coaching sessions for CEOs and C-levels.

Contexts, purposes, and needs are diverse:

Speeches and storytelling
Talks and inspiration
Pitching and fund raising
Proposals and plans
Science and technology presentations

Examples of customised elements are:

Present with purpose and authenticity
How to resonate with your audience?
How to draw in and keep your audience engaged?
What is the structure of a compelling story?
What are the principles of persuasion and how to apply these?
How to create compelling openings and memorable closings?
How to convey and clearly explain complex concept or technologies?
How to choose, design, integrate demos, video, slides?
How to bring it all together: Structure + Flow + Impact
Best-practice techniques of being comfortable and compelling when delivering on stage
How to look your best, connect, and be impactful when presenting online?
How to get buy-in and handle pushbacks and difficult Q&As?
...and more.

Dave Lim-Light www.linkedin.com/in/davelimtm www.IdeasWorthDoing.org

As a pioneer TEDx Ambassador and curator since 2009, Dave has attended TED conferences, main stage TED speaker rehearsals and training workshops, and has designed and delivered presentation masterclasses for multi-national corporations, non-profits, governments and organisations. Dave has coached TED speakers, >200 TEDx speakers, >100 researchers and scientists, 150 presenters from >15 countries in the pioneering multi-disciplinary innovation festival in Asia-Pacific, presenters at the US State Department's Young SEA Leaders 5th Anniversary Summit, C-levels and leaders, >500 entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and youth.

Dave is also an industry practitioner in ideas, innovation, and investments, and has been invited to speak on a diversity of topics at global and local summits, such as, the 10th Anniversary of American Creativity Association, Australian Incentive and Meeting Exhibition, Ministry of Education's Gifted Education summit, MNC conferences of Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Singapore Institute of Directors annual conference, global MICE forums, and others.

Since 2000, Dave has been a high-tech venture capitalist (twice), a judge/mentor in numerous new venture competitions, and has diverse and deep expertise in crafting powerful pitches and proposals. Since 1996, he has been founder of Coca-Cola Innovation X, a high-tech VC in $1 billion APAC fund that had invested in a small startup called Alibaba.com in 1999, global partnership head at Earth Hour-WWF headquarters, a central banker and global fund manager of >$100 billion.

As an educator, he has designed and delivered a diversity of programs and workshops at universities. Dave’s multi-disciplinary education spans 4 countries and he has studied at Singularity U, Stanford, Berkeley, University of New South Wales, and University of British Columbia.

One of his favourite quotes and challenge to you is "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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