Gavin Sharples - Motivational Speaker, Keynote Speaker and MC - Johannesburg

Meet Gavin Sharples, the Action Man. South Africa’s top motivational speaker and humourist. A professional and experienced platform Speaker, delivering change to you and your business, corporate events and functions, business days, themed talks, MC events, and personalised talks.

Gavin Sharples

Gavin Sharples does not just talk about being different, he IS DIFFERENT. By creating ground breaking and different business philosophy's and ideas, he taps into THE HEART of the matter and tells it like it is!

He’s been called: a maverick, crazy, intense, outspoken & creative, nice guy, not normal, naughty and passionate. His titles include: son, brother, student, captain, detective sergeant, body guard, entrepreneur, boss, national training manager, consultant, author, comedian, friend, husband, and his greatest achievement – DADDY! ("anyone can be a father").

With over 14 years on the circuit and thousands of conferences, Gavin has worked local as well as international platforms.

Many motivational speakers profess to be busy and sought after, but GAVIN SHARPLES actually is one of, if not the busiest, speaker on circuit and averages about one talk every working day.

Gavin Sharples
 

GAVIN attains “outstanding” ratings from delegates 90% of the time (5% no responses, and the other 5% from conservatives who's ideas were challenged and they disliked him for it). He has been on the speaking circuit since 1994 locally and internationally and speaks to thousands of people a year and gets standing ovations from coast to coast.

GAVIN is about change, innovation and doing things differently. He has easy, practical but certainly different ideas that work by liberating others' uniqueness. Breaking the ordinary and thinking out of the box is what he does best. He has also been described as a special, down to earth human being, committed to helping others succeed in life.

Gavin Sharples

By being his natural self, he hopes that people are able to realise that they are good enough to be 'themselves'. He believes the greatest gift you can give anyone is to be yourself. His life is about helping others LIVE theirs and his passion is to help you succeed in yours.

He interacts well with groups as diverse as primary and high school children, teachers, varsity students, lecturers, professors, doctors, engineers, accountants, cleaners, clerks, cops, Supreme Court Judges, junior admin clerks, junior or senior management, sales teams, service departments, black, white and mixed audiences.

Gavin Sharples

Some words we like from Gavin:

"People are paid to work not to go to work - working from home and using technology will save the country millions in 'downtime' and billions in fuel and roads."

"Get tough on your staff - the 3 words that made America a great nation according Lee Iacocca are "you are fired". Until South Africans become performance managed with unforgiveable consequences for slackers, nothing will change."

"Meetings are a waste of time and kill business - The average meeting in a city like JHB including back and forth travel, parking, downtime, no specific agendas, poor time management and no structure, costs up to 3 hours. This means the only reason for a meeting being held,  is to fill a bored managers' diary, who have to justify his or her salary and share options by filling a diary."

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Gavin Sharples - Motivational Speaker, Keynote Speaker and MC - Johannesburg