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Unleash potential with Paris Norriss, who blends adventure storytelling with actionable principles of mental resilience and team alignment.
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About Paris
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Known for his exhilarating storytelling and deep insights into teamwork, leadership, and resilience, keynote speaker Paris Norriss captivates audiences with his adventurous spirit and unique experiences. As a motivational speaker, he draws from his remarkable journeys, including paragliding over ancient citadels and diving into lost shipwrecks, to illustrate powerful lessons applicable in today’s corporate environment. His adventures serve as metaphors for overcoming challenges, fostering collaboration, and embracing change, making his keynotes both inspiring and relevant to organizations striving for success.
Paris is also a successful television producer, known for his acclaimed series “Guy in the Sky,” which showcases the world’s most fascinating civilizations through breathtaking visuals and adventure sports. His productions are broadcast in 123 countries, reaching over 22 million viewers, which amplifies the impact of his message and underscores his expertise in storytelling and engagement.
When you book Paris Norriss for your event, you’re not just securing a speaker; you’re inviting a global ambassador of adventure sports who brings excitement and energy to every presentation. With a proven track record of engaging diverse audiences, Paris shares actionable strategies that empower teams to align their motivations and cultivate a culture of gratitude. His insights encourage participants to push their limits, enhancing team cohesion and productivity.
To inspire your organization and elevate your next event, consider Paris Norriss for your keynote speaker. He is your gateway to transformative experiences that resonate long after the event concludes.
See keynotes with Paris NorrissUsing dilemmas faced from rowing 14 hours a day for 39 days through storms and high waves on the Pacific Ocean as a case study, the talk drills down into how to identify your internal purpose and align your motivational triggers to be able to achieve the impossible. Listeners will walk away with an understanding of the mindset that unlocks the ability to keep going through the worst of times to reach that top tier of performers.
Using the principals of “A Happy Boat is a Fast Boat” the talk walks through scenarios to demonstrate how to place morale above all else. Managing the toxicity of politics within a team to get everybody pulling in the same direction and being able to identify the varying motivational triggers and communicate effectively to each. The outcome of this talk will unleash the magnifying effect of working together as a supportive unit.
Whether assigned a leadership role or not, we can all adopt the principals and traits of good leadership. Practicing what we preach, discipline and dealing with the emotional concerns of team members are some of the traits that we need to demonstrate and hone before realizing authority. The varying ways of designating a leader that gets buy-in from a team will be discussed as well as the power of the shadow leader in dealing with badly managed teams.
With an overwhelming amount of messaging being fed to us from all angles, attention span and connection has diminished across the board. So how do we as communicators cut through this to deliver impactful messaging and keep audiences engaged? Whether through video or live audiences we all face this battle and it’s the effective intertwining of effective stories that determine the success of any communicator.
In today’s world the most valuable commodity is being able to tell a story. If you want to sell a product, win an election or make it to the big screen, you need to know how to take people on a journey with you. As a TV producer and chief of narrative for every episode, Paris has used the typical story arc to construct the chronological plot of every story. Using behind the scenes narration of scenes from his shows to breakdown how we identified storylines and built upon certain facets to move audiences, listeners will get an insight into the story arc framework used to build a storyline and the editing process to draw out the desired emotion to get the most impact.
Once unknow and quaint destinations have become iconic tourist destinations by the use of film and TV, bringing in thousands of visitors and generating considerable tourism revenue. Combining visual storytelling with scenic locations is leveraging the power of the audience that channels like Netflix and Amazon Prime bring.
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