Booking FAQs
- Room layout and requirements
- Why book Kim?
- Meet Kim
Room layout and requirements
Our belief is that an appropriate room layout can be of benefit to both the presenter and to the audience.
We can be flexible with room arrangements, though the preferred layout is in curved row seating, widthways across the room. The equipment required is usually a whiteboard and TV/VCR, and sometimes a datashow for PowerPoint.
Why book Kim?
As a professional speaker, Kim believes in high content and practical, easy-to-use advice.
She has a lively, easy-to-relate-to, humorous presentation style and consistently receives high marks on her feedback forms.
She provides quality handouts, constantly refines her topics, and is easy to work with. Oh yes, and she sometimes teaches people to speak in a Liverpool accent!
Meet Kim
So, Kim, what are your qualifications?
I've got an MA Honours in Linguistics, a professional speaking qualification APS (one of only 7 people in New Zealand), a Postgraduate Diploma in Careers Guidance, a Diploma in Freelance Journalism, a National Vocational Qualification in Management, an Advanced Toastmaster qualification, ... and I won a prize at age 7 for being the best speller in the class!
What's been some of your main achievements?
- Becoming the Founder and President of Wellington National Speakers Association
- Being voted as one of the Top 10 newsletter writers in the world
- Winning the 2002 New Zealand Toastmasters National Evaluation Championship
- Receiving several awards for speaking
- Being invited to speak at national and international conventions and functions
- Having several books published
- Emigrating to New Zealand
- Setting up my first business
- Having a great husband and two wonderful children
- Having a husband who doesn't like sport...
- Winning my (all-girls) school's beauty contest when I was 11!
Tell us an interesting or unusual work experience you've had
The worst introduction I've had was when I was giving a presentation to a large group of students in North Wales. I was standing in the middle of the stage when I heard the introducer say "Ladies and gentlemen, we have here today the MOST IMPORTANT person you will EVER meet in your ENTIRE LIFE" I looked round, expecting to see the man from Lotto arriving with a big cheque. Then I realised they were talking about me...
What's your favourite snack?
I can always be tempted with a bar of chocolate
Do you have a favourite film?
For light-hearted viewing I love 'Notting Hill', and for a thought-provoking film I find 'Priest' very powerful (especially as it's set in my home city)
What's a favourite inspirational saying of yours?
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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