Speaking

Keynote speaker Trevor Romain uses storytelling and humor to help audiences make influential impacts on their world. How? Trevor uses more than thirty years of experience speaking in sixteen countries to amplify their connection. From connection comes communication, and confidence builds. Trevor helps audiences understand the strength and value of meaningful connections. He helps others maximize their potential and uses a unique cinematic storytelling style, served up with a liberal sprinkle of humor that has audiences laughing while they learn. He engages with groups from the moment he steps in front of them, and leave them empowered and focused with tools and mindsets they'll use long after the event. Trevor is truly passionate about connecting with people. He inspires people to connect, communicate, and confidently take their careers -- and themselves -- to unprecedented levels.

TREVOR'S SIGNATURE PROGRAMS

How to Use Stories to Build Brands

Storytelling is the most ancient and powerful information-sharing motivational and educational tools we have at our disposal. We are genetically wired to love and respond to stories, and a memorable story is exactly what people need to feel connected to their business, organization or brand. In this session, Trevor Romain shares ideas and case-histories about how brands can be developed, built and enhanced through storytelling. Trevor shares ways to not only touch but transform people's lives so they can positively affect society.

Takeaways:
-Find out how stories can change people's lives
-Learn case histories that showcase the power of storytelling
-Learn how to structure a compelling story
-Learn how and why storytelling helps generate awareness and revenue
-Learn how to share a story so people can attentively listen to your message

The Power of Empathy

In this talk, Trevor Romain shares insightful stories and case histories showcasing the power of empathy. He explains how the sharing of stories can elicit empathy through the release of Oxytocin which helps us to deepen connections, while simultaneously enhancing the way we engage and educate. Trevor shares ideas about how to connect with others in a real, authentic, and meaningful way by harnessing the power of cognitive and compassionate understanding.

Takeaways:
-Understand the power of empathy
-Learn how to feel empathic to others
-Learn how empathy can change your life and the lives of those around you
-Learn how empathy can enhance both business and personal growth
-Find the importance and value of practicing self-empathy

The Healing Power of Humor

Understand how laughter can improve immune function, lower a person's blood pressure, enhance an individual's mood and decrease stress and depression. In this session Trevor Romain, also known as the Doctor of Mischief at his local children's hospital, shares insights into the healing power of humor and how storytelling can be an extremely powerful elixir. Trevor shares humorous and unique storytelling techniques and strategies he has used over the last thirty years while working with sick kids and those who have experienced trauma.

Takeaways:
-Learn how to introduce humor into tough situations
-Be capable to use humor to break the ice and open opportunities
-Understand that laughter is, indeed, the best medicine
-Learn a variety of ways to be funny and mindful
-Create your own laughter-repository for any occasion

Comical Sense - How to Use Humor in Teaching

In this session, Trevor helps educators understand how humor generates a sense of pleasure, appreciation, and creates a common, positive emotional experience for both the students and the teacher. Trevor shows us how adding humor to education can help students better retain knowledge. Learn how laughter releases dopamine, which activates the reward system in our brains. When dopamine is released, long-term memory and goal-oriented motivations are stimulated, which means students not only have the drive to learn more, but they hold onto information longer. Trevor shows us how to use humor to become a more effective teacher.

Takeaways:
-Find out how to incorporate humor into your teaching style
-Learn how to be funny even if you don't think you can be
-Explore how to build humor into your lesson plans
-Discover the effects of laughter on the learning brain
-Learn how to make humor in the classroom relevant

The Life-Changing Power of Storytelling

In this talk, Trevor explains the transformative power of storytelling which allows us to see the world in a different way than we do if we just encounter it on our own.

Stories are an entry point to understanding a different experience of the world. Trevor shares story-telling techniques and explains how the telling of stories gives us all an opportunity to learn from another person's experience and how it can shape, strengthen or challenge our opinions and values. Trevor offers insights on how to tell an engaging story while sharing some of his own life-changing experiences from his travels around the world.

Takeaway:
-Learn how to turn a powerful experience in to a story
-Find out why your story is so important?
-Learn how and why stories can change people's lives
-Discover the power of tapping into your own vulnerability while telling a story
-Learn how to use stories to motivate and inspire people