| After Dinner speaking is the high-wire act of presentation. Celebrity status is not enough to guarantee success after dinner. In this environment experience is everything. Working at approximately 100 events a year in front of a variety of audiences, Graham has developed his own distinctive speaking style, which is the key to his popularity. His success is due to an ability to be the right person, saying the right thing, at the right time. Accomplished at taking a brief, he skilfully utilises background information about the company, and more importantly the audience, to ensure his speeches are precisely tailored to the occasion. Graham can offer two additional features. If appropriate (and only then) he is particularly adept at targeting humour at personalities within an organisation. He is also a past-master of the art of the "wind-up". Adopting a persona to fool the audience for the first five minutes, Graham gives a serious, yet controversial presentation. Incredulity dissolves into laughter as the audience realise they have been "had". Corporate dinners need to end on a high note. Graham can deliver a professionally hilarious conclusion. Graham's professional speaking career started after being elected President of the Cambridge Union. As a result of success in this environment he started to receive invitations to speak at various dinners. He now combines a wide range of corporate presentation with his After-Dinner Speaking. He has developed a unique speaking style that combines corporate finesse with sharp topical wit. Graham uses his experience as a barrister in working to a brief about his audience. He can skilfully use background information about the Company to ensure his humour is precisely tailored to the occasion. His breadth of material allows him to be equally at home in front of diverse or specialist audiences. Graham’s customisation of material has given him a reputation for being corporately sensitive as well as extremely funny. On the personal side, Graham Davies was born on the Isle of Man and now lives in London’s Kensington. At 36 he remains aggressively single. When not speaking he spends his time keeping fit with squash, hockey and frequent visits to the gym. Graham relaxes by eating out, reading science fiction and listening to heavy metal. "...Thank you for providing such a professionally hilarious end to our conference dinner...I was glad when you finished as my ribs ached and I wanted to stop crying." Frank Whittaker, Sales & Marketing Director - Granada Food Services "By a wide margin, you were thought to be the most entertaining speaker we have had ... a tough act to follow next year" Brian Staples, Chief Executive - AMEY "I was not only impressed with Graham's ability to transform and translate pieces of 'localised' information into very humorous material, but also how he managed to keep an entire international audience amused for over fifty minutes! He tackled a variety of topics in a highly-amusing, constructive and very professional manner. Graham's brief was to help break down barriers amongst our team and engender team morale and spirit. The positive feedback from the entire audience showed that Graham's performance had really achieved this." Nick Martin, e-business Solutions Executive - IBM "All our guests thought you were brilliant. Your wit and timing are superb, especially the topical and up to the minute material." Morag Manson, Marketing Manager - Great Plains Software
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