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Iridian Grenada - Media and Motivation
- Abbotsford, BC
- Author
- Travels nationwide
- Contact for rates
Overview
A man who has lived in a bathroom for 30 years wants to talk to you about how we can make the living room a better place.
4 Reviews
I have had the pleasure of attending several different events where Iridian was speaking.
He has an easily likeable quality. I think his integrity and honesty exudes when he speaks. He is very eloquent and engaging.
He presents intelligently and well prepared .
Iridian seems to have an ear for the crowd that he speaks to. He easily connects with the audience which is quite obvious when you notice them smiling, nodding their heads and taking notes.
I would highly recommend Iridian to speak at any event that you require a likable, intelligent and engaging orator!
Arts/Entertainment Speaker, Business Motivational Speaker, Motivational Speaker
Iridian Grenada will wake you up to the real priorities in life. His voice is clear and unwavering and even after decades behind bars, strongly humanist. Iridian's insight and joie de vivre come through in every interaction. Wether he is speaking about mental health, social justice, spirituality or the rule of law, he will make you glad you are in that room to listen and learn. Few people are as articulate as he is, but even fewer can share what it is like to walk back from the abyss towards love and family. And no one that I have known can explain first hand the importance of maintaining and defending our values to keep civil society productive and safe. Invite Iridian Grenada to start a conversation with you and your team and thank me later.
Arts/Entertainment Speaker, Business Motivational Speaker, Family Expert, Motivational Speaker, Author
Amazing energy and brings a unique perspective to the table.
Motivational Speaker
I am blown away - forget TONY ROBINSON - I learned so much from Irdian he has brought me to an understanding of qualities necessary for being human and being OK with myself and with those around me. I think I see a halo around him. He brings out what is necessary to live by.
Arts/Entertainment Speaker, Business Motivational Speaker, Motivational Speaker
Booking Info
Price Range: Contact for rates
Gig Length: 30 - 90 minutes
Languages: English
What to Expect
Iridian is a life-sentenced Canadian parolee. He is also a writer, a former weekly contributor to the Province newspaper in Vancouver, BC, a senior project manager for the John Howard Society of Canada, a teacher and an experienced motivational speaker whose message of human resilience has recently earned him a Parole Board of Canada release into the community after 28 years and five months of continuous incarceration. His delivery style is inclusive, and dynamic. His 60 minute presentation invites audiences to see every personal and professional setback as a gift that forces them to innovate. Or die. Depending on client needs, Iridian is open to an interactive audience session of up to 30 additional minutes where he answers questions on his experiences and/or strategies for resilience.
About
Oakalla. In Vancouver, BC in the early 1980's, just a mention of the province's most infamous jail would raise gooseflesh on the necks of even leathered jailbirds. I wasn't one of those though. I was a teenager. Too young to be scared. It would be another decade before I could justify buying a twin blade razor. Yet there I was on the edge of 17, walking into the front gates of a 72-year-old jail that had witnessed the lawful execution of 44 men and women between 1919 and 1959, and more extrajudicial killings than historians dare chronicle. While the kids I started public school with a dozen years prior were being fitting for grad suits, I was donning a different uniform; the green garb of the convicted class, 1984.
What I could not have guessed that first day behind bars (for joyriding a stolen Chrysler Cordoba from Vancouver to LA) was that I would spend 37 of the next 40 years surveying the world social milieu through prison bars. Nor could I have imagined that my travels in that concrete time machine would grant me insights on human resilience, release, and community so greatly needed in a post-pandemic world. What a privilege it is to share those insights with all those who know that the future is the only antidote to the past.
Additional Booking Notes
Iridian can provide his own sound, lighting, and video production equipment if required. While best experienced from stage, he also works well amongst guest in smaller spaces.
Influences & Inspiration
Ben Nemtin
George Strombolopolous
Gord Downie
Chaz Thorne
Setup Requirements
Amplified sound system.