About
Marlene Cole is a motivational speaker for hire in Adelaide, SA.
Twenty-nine jobs across 14 industries. That's the raw material Marlene Cole works with, and it covers retail, human resources, recruitment and the resources sector, plus international travel and time living in remote Aboriginal communities. She turns that into talks about career stories: Fast Track Your Career, Who Am I and What Is My Career Story, Strategic Networking, Personal Branding for Career Success, Careers with Purpose, and a resume session she calls Resume to YES-ume. Her argument is that a personal story told honestly connects better than a polished corporate line, and that the two can be made to line up. She's spoken to international crowds of 800, to 200-plus at the Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne convention centres, and to leadership groups of 10 or 20. Schools, industry associations and networking events all suit. A headset mic and she's away.
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The show
Marlene talks about work, and she has an unusual amount of it to talk about. Retail, human resources, recruitment, the resources sector, plus international travel and time in remote Aboriginal communities. She breaks the ice quickly, then gets people doing things rather than sitting and listening, and there's laughter in it. Her line is that a career story matters well beyond how a resume reads, because it's how you communicate credibility and build trust with the people around you. She's worked rooms of 800 and workshops of 10, and pitches the session to whichever you've got.
On the day
A hands-free headset microphone works best, because she moves and gets the room involved rather than staying behind a lectern. Beyond that she's flexible and will fit in with whatever your venue already runs.
Performance options
The format is yours to pick. A keynote is one option, and Marlene also runs workshops, sits on panels and does team building sessions. Each one gets shaped around how many people are in front of her and how long you want her for, since a room of 20 and a room of 800 are different jobs. Tell her the audience size and the slot length when you enquire and she'll match a format to it.
Insurance and paperwork
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