How to Not Bore Your Audience to Death

February
25
2026 (Wednesday)
Time 10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST
Duration: 60 Minutes
86 Days Left To REGISTER
Id: 210724
Instructor
Yoke Van Dam 
Live
Recorded
Live + Recorded

Overview

Most presentations die not because of bad content but because of dull delivery. Whether you’re speaking in a boardroom, on stage, or over Zoom, your audience decides in seconds whether to tune in or zone out.

This session will show you how to turn any talk into an experience, using the principles of storytelling, contrast, and spontaneity to keep your audience engaged from start to finish.

Why you should Attend

These are the real frustrations your audience feels daily the “why” behind their need for this training:

  • Boring Meetings & Presentations
    • “Our meetings drag on and people tune out.”
    • “We’ve got great ideas but no one’s excited about them.”
    • “We can’t seem to hold attention beyond the first 5 minutes.”
  • Poor Engagement During Virtual or Hybrid Sessions
    • “Our online sessions feel like monologues, not conversations.”
    • “People multitask, turn off cameras, and disengage.”
  • Data Without Impact
    • “Our presentations are full of facts, but no one remembers them.”
    • “We can’t translate technical information into human language.”
  • Nervous, Over-Rehearsed, or Flat Delivery
    • “Our leaders sound robotic when presenting.”
    • “We overprepare the slides and underprepare the energy.”
  • Lack of Emotional Connection
    • “We don’t tell stories that resonate.”
    • “Our messages don’t move people they just inform.”
  • Fear of Improvisation
    • “We freeze when something unexpected happens.”
    • “We can’t pivot smoothly when things go off-script.”

This workshop helps teams bring energy, storytelling, and spontaneity into every communication moment whether it’s a boardroom briefing, client pitch, or all-hands meeting.

Areas Covered in the Session

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Craft stories that stick and spark emotion
  • Use contrast and pattern interruption to re-engage attention
  • Adapt delivery style to suit diverse audiences
  • Leverage props and visuals for maximum impact
  • Rehearse effectively while staying authentic and flexible
  • Improvise with confidence when things don’t go as planned

"How to Not Bore Your Audience to Death" helps organizations:

  • Transform communication culture from dry to dynamic.
  • Improve presentation impact across all levels from boardroom to frontline
  • Boost employee engagement by equipping leaders to connect authentically
  • Enhance client trust and retention through more relatable storytelling
  • Develop confident communicators who represent the brand with charisma and clarity

Who Will Benefit

This program is ideal for professionals who regularly communicate, present, or lead discussions, but want to level up their ability to capture attention and inspire engagement.

Specifically:

  • Corporate leaders and executives who present to clients, boards, or staff
  • Managers and team leads who need to make meetings more dynamic and productive
  • Sales professionals who must connect emotionally, not just logically, with clients
  • Trainers and facilitators who want to make learning experiences more engaging
  • Technical experts (IT, finance, engineering, compliance) who often deliver complex or "dry content
  • HR and L&D professionals responsible for internal communications, onboarding, or leadership development

Leaders, Trainers, Facilitators, Educators, and Presenters who want to make a lasting impression.

Speaker Profile

Yoke van Dam has been called the Kintsugi queen™ because of her ability to join, repair and transform teams into something quite wonderful. Her work is like Kintsugi, the Japanese art form that mends broken pottery with gold. Yoke works with teams that may have become disjointed, to reconnect and -find their flow again. This approach helps leaders stay optimistic when they encounter flaws and missteps in their organizations leading them to the gold at the 'end of the rainbow.’ As a qualified behavioral change coach with veri-fiable in-the-eld experience (2000+ team members, 2 300+ hours training, and 350+ coaching hours) she’s eminently suited to uncover the real issues holding teams back. Her hard-won experience (15 years) and tried and tested high-performance processes have seen even the most under-performing and fractured teams join together and become stronger and more remarkable. She works with leaders who want to effectively articulate and communicate their vision so that their teams buy into it and are prepared to follow them to hell and back to make sure that vision is achieved, as well as new, untested leaders who need a strong foundational roadmap of how to work with and lead teams to successful outcomes. Her advisory, speaking and coaching work empowers leaders and teams to create meaningful workspaces by tapping into their purpose and enhancing human connection. She empowers leaders and teams with confidence and influence, to find their flow and develop a growth mindset. The specific areas she focuses on are Leadership development, Culture, Emotional intelligence, Time-management, Negotiation, Communication, and Presentation skills. Her clients have been as diverse as sales executives, business leaders and owners, customer service agents, marketers, lawyers, engineers, and accountants. The industries she has covered range from automotive, retail, manufacturing, and engineering to advertising, publishing, legal, and academic. She is the founder of Y-Connect and a Professional member of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA). Her Emotional Intelligence program, and Women in Leadership for Executives have been offered in Canada, Dubai, Egypt, South Africa and is scheduled for Malaysia.
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