Leading with humour & heart to unleash your team's potential
Leading with humour & heart to unleash your team's potential
UK
Jaz Ampaw-Farr challenges conventional thinking and reshapes diversity into true belonging. As CEO of Be Human First Ltd, she empowers organizations with authenticity.
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I've worked in media and events for more than 20 years, but rarely do I see a keynote speaker receive a standing ovation, which is what happened when I asked Jaz to speak at a school event and a few weeks later open our Festival of Media Global conference in Rome. Not only is Jaz an amazing speaker who connects with the audience and has them hanging on every word, but she is real, brave and an amazing person.
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About Jaz
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We all want things to be better but many of us are afraid of change. This keynote allows you to have your cake and eat it by swapping fear for curiosity.
Jaz focuses on the power of WITH-ness, human connection, and the importance of taking ownership of the story we tell ourselves about what’s possible.
Main Themes
What’s it like to be on the other side of you as a leader?
In this keynote, Jaz boosts your human hacking skills while delivering proven strategies to galvanise your people beyond inspiration into taking action.
Embrace the unique strengths of a multi-generational and neurodiverse workforce by calibrating the right amount of support and challenge for your everyday heroes.
Main Themes
You haven’t worked this hard to live a mediocre life!
This keynote is an invitation to stop living as if you have spare lives hanging up in the wardrobe.
Upgrade vanilla-flavoured resilience for a more ambitious minty choccy chip variety!
Main Themes
You know the power stories have to connect, inspire and build belonging, but not everyone conveys their message with clarity.
World class storyteller, Jaz uncovers your secret weapon for turning every member of your organisation into amazing advocates with
unstoppable communication skills.
Discover how to connect, inspire and enrol others by mastering the art of impactful storytelling.
Main Themes
If it were down to accessibility, we’d all be as fit as a butcher’s dog, have achieved the perfect balance between life and work and be living our best lives. There are thousands of YouTube videos on how to be more productive, happier (and even taller!) yet we’re more dissatisfied and less fulfilled at work than ever.
In this life-affirming keynote, Jaz creates clarity around self-leadership, self-awareness and choice that will reinvent your attitude to wellbeing and allow you to show up for others without sacrificing yourself.
You will leave with a proven formula for transforming your ever-growing ‘To Do’ list into a more powerful and achievable ‘To Be’ list.
Key Takeaways:
All successful organisations value engagement. Changes in the world of work demand a new self-leadership approach.
Business has seen an industrial, technical and digital revolution. The next iteration, is a deeper connection, linking the employee’s desire for fulfilment and purpose with the employer’s need for productivity and loyalty.
In this exciting keynote, Jaz will help you rewrite the unwritten rules that enable you to build authentic engagement for the digital age.
You will leave with your own impact roadmap to help you show up as your full-fat self at work (and at home too).
Key Takeaways:
Winners have one thing in common – agility. The ability to reframe and overcome adversity are essential skills for success. However, feelings of overwhelm, uncertainty and self-doubt are just three obstacles preventing you from achieving your full potential.
In this engaging and compelling keynote, Jaz shares lessons from her journey of overcoming extreme adversity such as foster care, abuse and homelessness to becoming an international advisor on education, CEO and full-time resilience ninja.
You will leave with a winning strategy for rebranding failure and helping those your lead in life and at work to tackle challenges confidently.
Key Takeaways:
For anyone in the business of events, HR or marketing that uses keynotes at their events or live experiences, please, please check out Jaz. You’ll not find an Olympic medal, ultra-endurance event or un-supported climb of Everest on her CV - what you will find is pure unadulterated truth, passion and some seat-of-the-pants observations from one of the most genuine, hardworking and riotous personalities I’ve ever met. Jaz is real deal, real life and a real wake-up call. Having worked with Jaz she bought a senior leadership event to tears - of both laughter and through some gut-wrenching personal commentary. We all talk about quantifying ‘return on investment’ at events - Jaz doesn’t just deliver on this she packs an absolute punch on ‘return on experience’ too. Her attention to detail and the way she works with clients is beyond exemplary. When you work with Jaz she gets under the skin of your organisation ….. and peels back a few layers of the corporate onion. Life changing, larger than life and the speaker that every business and organisation needs to shake them up. Please, please - if you are at a loose, ditch doom scrolling on social and check out Jaz’s site and watch a short video ….. it’ll change your mood and for sure your outlook on what a good game-changing keynote speaker is
Andrew White
Great public speakers know how to tell a story and use humour. You don't need to be a comedian to have impact and Jaz has got it all going on! Her style (in her own words) is to 'make 'em laugh, cry and leave on a high'. This is also the basis for a great Edinburgh Fringe show or a Netflix Special - both of which I fully expect Jaz to do at some point in the not so distant future! I first encountered Jaz at one of my Stand Up to Stand Out workshops and she went on to enter the Funny Women Awards and reached the semi-finals.
Lynne Parker
I don't write recommendations. But here I was compelled. Give someone a slot to present in a conference just before lunch time and good luck - I'm going to be flagging as my body is thinking of food. However, not when Jaz was presenting. I've heard many speeches, but this was easily the most inspirational, intriguing, hard-hitting and engaging I've ever heard. I was locked in completely. I thoroughly recommend Jaz as a speaker, not just here but I do in person frequently. Thank you for giving us the benefit of your passion and doing the incredible job of reminding us that the world is both impossibly hard and impossibly wonderful.
Sam Chegwin
Jaz has a special way of captivating an audience, she is a powerful storyteller. The story she tells is one of resilience, overcoming adversity and taking life by the horns. What makes Jaz different is her unique ability to win not only the heart but also the mind. Jaz’s speeches and coaching not only inspire, but they also result in positive change. To the extent that a 5min conversation with Jaz, has unlocked incredible value and perspective for my business! Above all, Jaz has a kind heart, she is extremely generous with her time, advice and bolts of inspiration, she genuinely wants to see people do well.
Kian Bakhtiari
Jaz’s no nonsense approach to moving forward with positivity is solution oriented and encourages individuals to be the victor not the victim.
I've worked in media and events for more than 20 years, but rarely do I see a keynote speaker receive a standing ovation, which is what happened when I asked Jaz to speak at a school event and a few weeks later open our Festival of Media Global conference in Rome. Not only is Jaz an amazing speaker who connects with the audience and has them hanging on every word, but she is real, brave and an amazing person.
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