Masterclasses

Best selling author, award winning speaker, Master Facilitator

Immersive, experiential and participatory.

Yamini's masterclasses are not a talkfest- but an immersive, participatory and transformative learning experiences. Yes but what does that actually mean? Or look like?

For example in our Storytelling Masterclass participants share their first story within 20 minutes. All the way through the masterclass they  experience the power of storytelling, through sharing stories and listening to their peers’ stories. Not through being told storytelling is powerful! Yamini walks the talk and also get you to walk the talk. 

Cognitive Load and Learning impacts. All the masterclasses are designed and calibrated for the most effective learning. 

There is a minimal use of bespoke power-points, along with live drawing, graphics and analogue tools like flip-charts (with zoom camera functionality for online sessions). Every tool has been handpicked to maximise learner engagement.

Science, not snake oil.

Our sessions are  based on leading edge research. This combined with behavioural and cognitive learning theories means our sessions deliver results! 

Are we having fun yet?

 The sessions are fun. You are both laughing* and learning. This is not an empty promise but a guarantee or your money back! (*Lifetime guarantee, more than one laugh per person, unlimited stock).

Practical and world-class.

 Yamini has been specialising in storytelling (yes just storytelling) for 15 years. All sessions are based in deep IP developed in the field globally working with leaders from companies like Google, Adidas and Tiffany & Co. 

Masterclasses

Hooked: Storytelling Masterclass

Storytelling is the fuel that drives compelling engagement and results. The authentic, well-told story will always wow. And this masterclass unlocks how.

Hooked: Storytelling Masterclass

Whatever it is you are trying to do in business — whether you are leading people, managing change, influencing the board or building your career — storytelling will help you... that’s a guarantee. Begin your journey today.

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X Factor: Masterclass

Trying to find your X factor on your own is like to trying to nail jelly to a tree. But don’t be disheartened. Help is at hand. To help you get there fast the X Factor Masterclass distils the process into three vital steps.

X Factor: Masterclass

The 3X Super Steps are:

  1. Gather. Gather field data from your personal life and use to inform and shape your X factor
  2. Zing. Learn how to make this data ‘zing’
  3. Craft. Use several tools to craft and recraft your X factor statement
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Humour Masterclass

Traditional humour is seen as joke telling – 3 horses walked into a bar…I know you are dying to hear the rest! Traditional humour is dad jokes. Let’s put an end to that crime right here and now.

Humour Masterclass

Today modern humour power in business is using humour skilfully, purposefully and appropriately to influence. It builds people up, is warm, gentle, emotionally friendly humour.
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Inspiring Presenters Masterclass Series

Presenting is a time in your professional life when you are at your most vulnerable. You must perform or ‘die’. Our two biggest fears as adults are of failing and of embarrassing ourselves IN PUBLIC! And every presentation offers both these opportunities on a silver platter.

Inspiring Presenters Masterclass Series

But now there’s a solution – the one ring to rule them all. The presentation training to end all presentation training. Our exciting offer ‘Inspiring Presenters Masterclass Series’ focuses on the inspiring and X factor part of presentations. The two key parts that make the difference between a good presentation and an “OMG, an unforgettable audience experience”.

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Yamini has worked with...

Coles GroupFordOracleWesfarmersLionANZTiffany & CoSA Power NetworksGoldman SachsAtlassianAccentureAMPArnottsIBMNielsenTelstraGoogleAdidasMicrosoftColes GroupFordOracleWesfarmersLionANZTiffany & CoSA Power NetworksGoldman SachsAtlassianAccentureAMPArnottsIBMNielsenTelstraGoogleAdidasMicrosoft
I have been privileged to have a long association with Yamini. She brings a positive spirit and infectious energy to her work and always leaves behind a lasting impression. More than 10 years on, people from my old team still comment on Yamini’s engaging educational sessions, with great content and challenging fun exercises that have made a real difference to their ability to connect with people in their lives.
John Burgin, Chairman ICT Committee, ANZ India Business Chamber
Yamini is to storytelling as apple is to pie.
Peter Baines OAM, Founder, Hands Across Water
Yamini spoke at our 2019 conference in June and the feedback overwhelmingly indicated that Yamini should have been a keynote! To address this, we invited her on our August lunch roadshow around Australia and had our biggest numbers in all locations. Yamini’s engaging and humorous style made her stories memorable, complimented by her warm and friendly nature. Her session on storytelling, with examples woven throughout, helped association professionals realise the potential stories can have including demonstrating the value of being a member.
Toni Brearley, Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Society of Association Executives
Our Executive Team at Dental Health Services Victoria had the privilege of a Story Telling Masterclass with the amazing Yamini Naidu. The team came away inspired and able to tell their stories in their own voice. We have been putting our new skill to good use to help join the dots for our teams and create authentic connections. The team rated it the best workshop they have done in decades. Thanks, Yamini.
Susan McKee, Chief Executive Officer, Dental Health Services Victoria
Yamini attended our all-company meeting and showed us not only the importance but also the impact of storytelling. She engaged the whole group from start to finish. She did it in such a wonderful way that had us all thinking hard about how we could tell our own stories; after all, we all have an interesting story to tell!
Allison Rossiter, Managing Director Roche Diagnostics Australia
One of the greatest enduring skills of leaders is their ability to convey messages and learnings through Storytelling. It has been with us for centuries and will remain for many centuries to come. Yamini is to storytelling as apple is to pie. They go together in a natural way. The ability to convey messages through stories, with humour and feeling makes them memorable. Yamini makes us all better story- tellers and therefore leaders.
Peter Baines OAM, Founder, Hands Across Water
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