Richard Woodward

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Keynote Conference Speaker

Richard Woodward

Richard is a frequent speaker at corporate and industry association conferences and events around the world providing audiences with powerful content and inspiration in the area of business development performance and partnerships.

A conference program is not complete without Richard Woodward. Richard is a breath of fresh air and will inspire and motivate conference delegates. He is memorable and engaging and more importantly, will be the highlight of your next conference.

Tarnya Van Driel,  Asthma Foundation

Many thanks for your involvement at the Professional Conference Organisers annual conference, there has been an overwhelming response to your outstanding presentation with many requests to have you back again next year.

Peter Sugg, CEO Professional Conference Organisers Association Inc

Richard Woodward

Richard's key conference talks include:

Business Development That Works

Based on Richard's Business Development That Works book and workshops, this powerful and motivating talk provides practical advice for people looking to become more effective at sales and business development. Whether your audience is running their own business or employed in sales and business development roles Richard will provide your audience with practical content and the inspiration to use it.

How to Attract and Retain Sponsors & Partners

Based on Richard's How to Attract & Retain Sponsors & Partners Workshops, and book this session provides a power packed journey through the key stages of the sponsorship seeking and retention process, providing case studies and practical advice to help you secure and retain sponsors.

Strategic planning that will inspire your team and achieve your goals

Drawing upon his experience from facilitating workshops with Australia's leading organisations, Richard outlines how to structure and deliver strategy sessions and planning days that will inspire your people, drive meaningful outcomes and achieve your long term organisational goals.

Passion to performance - being the best we can be

A practical and inspiring talk on how to turn the passion that we have for our roles, businesses or organisations into a performance that will deliver the outcomes that we originally intended.

The talk outlines strategies for accessing a positive resourceful state on demand, how to communicate effectively and how to learn from our experiences to drive our performance.

Why use Richard for your next conference?

Experience

With experience working in the corporate world (ex CBA, KPMG, RAC etc) and with clients in a range of sectors, Richard is the ideal speaker to relate to and engage with corporate, not for profit and association conference audiences.

Content and Inspiration

Richard delivers practical content, current case studies with engaging delivery that will inspire your audience.

Absolutely fantastic and inspirational. Thank You. This information is priceless.

Rebecca Goodman, State Theatre of South Australia

Richard conducted an in house presentation at our two day Event Summit, the feedback has been extremely positive and everyone felt Richard was the highlight of the event and have already started to apply the key learnings as soon as they got back to their office.

Frances Lemon, Australian Institute of Company Directors

Results

Richard is invited back to speak time and time again!

Richard has spoken at:

  • ASMA/Sponsorship Australasia Conference (7 occasions)
  • FIA International Fundraising Conference (5)
  • Fundraising & Philanthropy Big 4 Conference (4)
  • Communicating the Museum in Paris
  • Culture Business Conference (2)
  • Fundraising Institute of New Zealand (FINZ) Conference (3)
  • Professional Conference Organisers Association Conference (4)
  • Priava Client Conference in London (2)
  • Tourism & Events Queensland Regional Events Conference (3)
  • Business of Events
  • The International Not for Profit Convention & Exhibition (INCE) (4)
  • Sponsorship News Conference
  • Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Conference
  • Australian Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Conference
  • Sister Cities Association Conference
  • Horticulture Australia Limited Forum
  • NSW Foster Carers Conference
  • Exhibition & Event Association Conference (EEAA)
  • Leighton Contractors Senior Managers Forum
  • Australian Business Events Expo
  • Asia Pacific Association Executives Congress (APAEC)
  • Asia Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo (AIME)
  • Meetings & Events Australia (MEA) National Conference (2)
  • Austereo Sales Conference
  • Australian Events Symposium
  • Associations Forum Conference (2)
  • Australian Institute of Company Directors Event Summit
  • Australian Conference & Event Bureau (ACEB) seminars
  • Beaumont Consulting & Human Jigsaw client breakfasts
  • Plus a host of events such as Flying Solo Live!, Cultural Development Collective, Last Thursday Club.

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About Me

Richard is a business development strategist, trainer, speaker and author who has worked with leading organisations since 2004 to help them attract and retain new business.

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Richard Woodward & Associates Pty Ltd PO Box 908 Bondi Junction 1355 Sydney, Australia

Phone: + 61 2 8964 4350
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Email: richard@richardwoodward.com.au

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