About
Mark Direen is a motivational speaker for hire in Hobart, TAS.
Mark Direen speaks from the frontline, and he doesn't dress it up. His keynotes deal with adversity, staying steady when nothing is certain, and working out what you're actually good at. The Value of Experience argues that in an age of screens and virtual everything, real experiences matter more, not less. The Power of Adaptability takes on the obvious truth that change is the only constant, and what flexibility really costs. Each talk is shaped around the room, whether that's a school hall, a boardroom or a sporting club. Every engagement also includes eight to ten images and their stories from the Point and Shoot Australian Veteran Photography Exhibition, which gives an audience a look at service life they rarely get.
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The show
Mark shapes each talk around who's sitting in front of him, and a school hall gets a different session to a boardroom. Three keynotes come up most. The Value of Experience makes the case that as more of life moves onto a screen, doing real things in the real world matters more than it used to. The Power of Adaptability looks at flexibility as a skill worth building rather than a personality trait you either have or don't. And Thriving Through Trauma is written for emergency services and first responders, about holding performance together when the job is hard. All of it comes from things he's actually done, not theory.
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Every booking carries something extra that most keynotes don't. Mark brings eight to ten photographs from the Point and Shoot Australian Veteran Photography Exhibition and tells the story behind each one. It gives an audience a look at the service life of fellow Australians that they'd otherwise never get, and it lands differently to slides. Talk to him about which images suit your audience.