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Rediscovering Play: Bringing Fun and Passion to Your Work...And Life
Kevin Carroll uses his masterful story-telling skills to communicate his vast and varied experiences to entertain, enlighten and challenge business leaders and worldwide audiences. Using lessons garnered from the spirit and dynamics of play, Carroll helps them understand how to enliven and enrich their work lives, enhance innovation, and improve team dynamics and interpersonal communication.
About Kevin Carroll
Kevin Carroll’s life-changing presentations unlock people’s passions, demonstrating tactics for inspired ways of thinking and creating an atmosphere where people enjoy working and living.
Breaking Down Barriers: There’s no one quite like Kevin Carroll. Able to reach audiences with a simple, transformative message -- find your passion, your joy -- Carroll reawakens drive and ambition in both individuals and organizations, allowing them to rediscover the things that propel them towards individual and operational goals. Energetic and humorous, Carroll deftly combines an anecdotal narrative with strategies for discovering new and creative ways of thinking and problem solving to help build mission-oriented teams. The result? A life-changing experience packaged in a presentation that’s not only fun, but provides return-on-investment, bottom-line success.
DREAMing to Live: Carroll shows audiences how to “DREAM” for success by being Dedicated, Responsible, Educated, by having the proper Attitude and by being Motivated. His presentation, rife with examples of these principles at work, provides audiences with the energy and tools to help bring individual goals in concert with organizational objectives.
Nike’s “Katalyst”: The force of Carroll’s personality was such that Nike hired him simply to act as “Katalyst” - someone who helps turn creative ideas into reality. In turn, he helped the company deepen its understanding of athletic performance to create better teams -- and better products. Carroll has since motivated and enlivened organizations such as Starbucks, The Discovery Channel, ESPN, HSBC, Mattel, Capital One and the National Hockey League, helping them improving team dynamics and communication.
Author: In addition to being the founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC, Carroll is the author of Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work, which was recently proclaimed by Newsweek to be the adult version of Dr. Seuss’ Oh, The Places You’ll Go. The book was featured in BusinessWeek's "Champions in Innovation" in 2006. His next book, What’s Your Red Rubber Ball?! Discover Your Inspiration and Chase it for a Lifetime, will be released in 2008.
Beyond the Keynote:
Reinforce Carroll’s message and effect real change with the following Beyond the Keynote services:
· WSBInsights: Build interest and momentum with these interactive web sites featuring videos from your Keynote speaker and other tools that get your people talking both before and after your live event.
· WSBWebEvents: The speaker’s expertise brought to your audience’s desktop with live video and digital question-and-answer sessions conducted by Carroll.
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