About
Allan Turner is a keynote speaker for hire in Shepparton, VIC.
Allan Turner speaks about loss, and about what people can do with it. He co-founded Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation with his wife Kim, in memory of their daughter Zaidee, who died suddenly in December 2004 from a burst blood vessel in her brain. Since then he's built a national campaign for organ and tissue donation, drawing backing from the AFL, NRL, cricket, basketball, soccer and hockey, and putting Zaidee's rainbow shoelaces on grassroots players around the country. His talk walks an audience through that story. It lands personally and it lands at work, and it asks a straight question about what a life is for. He needs a projector, a screen with sound and a lapel microphone.
The show
Allan Turner takes an audience through what happened to his daughter Zaidee, and then through what he built afterwards. The campaign for organ and tissue donation, the backing that came from AFL, NRL, cricket, basketball, soccer and hockey, and the rainbow shoelaces that ended up on grassroots players all over the country. It makes people think about death, and then about what a life can still do after it. His line is that if a seven year old girl could be a donor, anyone can. Rooms tend to go very quiet, and then they don't forget it.
On the day
Allan Turner presents with visuals, so a projector and a screen with sound running to it are needed. He also asks for a lapel microphone, the mobile kind, so he can move rather than stand behind a lectern. That's the whole list. Any room your venue normally uses for presentations will already have most of it.
