Stephen Robinson has spent the past four years learning over a 130 new skills, and documenting the process of learning those skills on his Youtube channel 52skillz and TV show “How to Learn Anything”. He is most well known for learning how to solve a Rubik's cube while skydiving, but has pulled off dozens of other crazy stunts during this time.
Stephen has leveraged this collection of experiences into a fantastic and unique talk, which central themes touch on the value of failure, persistence and why you should always be bad at something. Each talk is the perfect combination of entertaining and inspiring, and will leave the audience fired up to fail forward.
I needed a Keynote speaker for a Sales Conference for the Sales Team at Cargill in Alberta. Stephen spoke to our group of 100 people about the value of failing and trying again and again, his message of persistence was very valuable to our team. I would recommend 52 Skillz to any Sales Organization!
We initially contacted Stephen from 52 Skillz to provide an one-time motivational speaking opportunity to inspire our start-up engineering firm. The response and feedback was nothing short of phenomenal! He captured the audience by sharing funny yet engaging stories from his life-long journey of learning and the importance of embracing failure.
Since his speaking event, Stephen has become a special consultant and executive coach for the senior management where he continues to provide unorthodox yet effective strategies to maximize the productive and leadership potential of our staff to new heights.
We are thrilled to continue to work with Stephen! He is an amazing individual and a wonderful motivational speaker at your next event!
Stephen is an incredibly engaging and captivating speaker. We invited him to kick off a city-wide library campaign called 3-Skills YEG, and he was the perfect way to jumpstart the initiative. Stephen took the audience through his learning journey, sharing the behind-the-scenes insights from his YouTube Channel 52Skills - where he had vowed to learn something new every week! He also didn't shy away from the importance of failure, a wonderful and real lesson that our audiences greatly benefited from! I would definitely recommend Stephen for your event!
Price Range: $2000 and up
Gig Length: 30 - 90 minutes
Languages: English
Insurance: $2,000,000 - International Commercial General Liability Insurance
These are my featured keynotes. Each talk can be adjusted to meet the clients specific needs.
How to Learn Anything:
A Master Class on Failure, Persistence and Learning Anything
60 min - Keynote, Q+A
Can add a 30min skill learning workshop
This talk is designed to entertain the audience just as much as it inspires them. Throughout the presentation, Stephen extracts valuable lessons from when he learned to build a cake baking robot, survive in the wild for 5 days and solve a Rubik's cube while skydiving.
Using the Rubik’s cube skydive stunt as a framework, he will share with the audience the value of persistence, asking for help and most importantly, why failure is the number one ingredient to self improvement.
Key Takeaways
Frame the combination of failure and persistence as the key success
Outline the steps Stephen uses to make learning effective and enjoyable
Explain how to tackle boredom, and get out of your comfort zone
The audience leaves fired up, and ready to go out and learn something new
Master Class on the Basics of Youtube
60 min - Keynote, Q+A
Can add a 30min workshop
Over 300 hours of content is uploaded to Youtube every minute, with most of it never reaching more than a few hundred people. How do you stand out against the infinite options people have when they are scrolling through the abyss? This talk will outline the tangible things you can do as a video producer, media company or Youtube creator to stand out, increase your chances of success and get VIEWS.
Key Takeaways
Basics of Youtube’s Algorithm
Importance of Thumbnails and Core Design Tips
Provide Tools for Targeted Keywords
Pre-Production Strategies for Getting Views
Leveraging Other Social Media Outlets
How to Use Google Adwords effectively
Stephen is a professional speaker, Youtuber and expert at using failure to make learning effective and efficient.
Stephen Robinson has spent the past four years learning over a 130 new skills, and documenting the process of learning those skills on his Youtube channel 52skillz and TV show “How to Learn Anything”. He is most well known for learning how to solve a Rubik's cube while skydiving, but has pulled off dozens of other crazy stunts during this time. Training a cat to launch a rocket, building a cake baking robot and surviving in the wild for 5 days in clown makeup just to name a few.
Stephen has leveraged this collection of experiences into a fantastic and unique talk, which central themes touch on the value of failure, persistence and why you should always be bad at something. Each talk is the perfect combination of entertaining and inspiring, and will leave the audience fired up to fail forward.
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