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About Don Packett
Don Packett is a dynamic South African speaker, author, comedian, and business strategist known for connecting corporate strategy with high-impact entertainment. With a background in business strategy and currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer at YOUKNOW, a business specialising in customer experience and data-driven growth, Don is passionate about helping organisations leverage technology to behave more like humans. Whether he is MC’ing a major corporate event, delivering talks that share lessons from businesses like LEGO, or providing a fresh, witty perspective on the psychology of sales, Don ensures his audience leaves with both valuable insights and a different way of thinking about life and business.
Areas of Expertise
From technology to culture, Don brings a fresh perspective to conferences and events by sharing his experiences with audiences, related to a number of hot topics, assisting CEOs and organisational leaders drive specific messages home. Every talk provides educational and entertaining anecdotes, tales, metaphors, analogies and a healthy dose of recapitulation for good measure.
With a wealth of deep-set knowledge and appreciation for the corporate beast, Don is hellbent on ensuring that the gap between organisational content and entertainment is not only bridged, but firmly set in order for all audiences to engage with speakers’ content as effectively as possible.
Having co-built an innovation consultancy in the late 2000’s, and working closely with organisations on their strategic intent for over two decades, Don’s magic power is to not only ensure objectives are measured and met in facilitated engagements, but to also ensure that participants are pushed to their paces on the road to excellence.
Talks
Highway to the Habit Zone: How organisations can create lifelong customers by optimising meaningful habits.
LEGOrise Your Business: Lessons from one of the most fascinating businesses in our history, guiding teams to think differently (inspired by LEGO) to build their businesses in a better way.
The Psychology of Sales: Shining a light on why people buy what they buy, and how to adapt sales approaches to suit the new world of buying decisions.
Speed Kills: How the rapid adoption of technology is killing incremental progress. Or is it?
In Search of Excellence: Excellence in organisations is not that easy. Tom Peters & Bob Waterman codified it in 1982, but the world has been trying to achieve that ever since.
Building a Culture of Collaboration: How defining a few simple steps in your business will lead to a collaborative and high-functioning team.
Contact Don for more of his available talks, or to create a bespoke talk for your event.
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