YVONNE ADELE

Brings energy. Drives Engagement. Sparks Action.

About Yvonne

Yvonne’s professional journey started with Microsoft in the 90s, travelling the world supporting education teams. She returned to Australia with a mission and a media profile as Ms Megabyte, demystifying tech across our most popular TV shows and magazines.

This profile naturally led to speaking and then MC invitations. Yvonne is now an inspiring, positive and lively annual presence at many Australian and international events. She engages audiences from the first minute to the closing address, bringing insight and relevance to every session, activity and break.

How does Yvonne work as your MC?

The energetic personality you want front and centre at your event, Yvonne’s humour and enthusiasm are contagious. Her insights add value and resonance to ensure the event meets your goals and the expectations of delegates and sponsors.

Beyond smart introductions and smooth transitions, Yvonne stays connected in her role as MC, keeping your program on track.

Agile and quick-witted, she can intervene with tact to get the best out of speakers, or leap into the audience and drive engagement.

Planners love Yvonne’s hands-on approach.

Sponsors love her research and respect.

Delegates love her charm and energy.

Yvonne’s essential ingredients for event success

Energy

Yvonne is up. Refreshing. She’s an invigorating breath of fresh air. She has a bright smile and a thoroughly energetic presence.

Experience

Yvonne’s wisdom, insight and sharp intelligence will bring your event to life, and she knows exactly how to keep things moving.

Engagement

Not just an on-stage presence, Yvonne attends workshops and networking activities. She is the secret sauce in your event recipe.

Reputation

Yvonne is highly regarded for taking the raw elements of your day and weaving them into a compelling and engaging narrative.

Support

Yvonne stays connected throughout your event, contributing her experience in support of your planners, teams, speakers, partners, sponsors and delegates.

Action

Yvonne can contribute speciality knowledge in a range of domains, drawing connections, and sparking practical action.

Disruption and Innovation – Creative Thinking and brainstorming
Yvonne believes everyone has unlimited ability to think creatively about everyday challenges, and she is on a mission to show people how to unleash those hidden talents. Discover a compelling new brainstorming technique which gets 80% more ideas and includes the vital ingredient: a one-page action plan.

She calls it a ‘friendly poke in the eye’.

Every conference or gathering aims to stimulate, educate and inspire new ways of thinking. So why not harness this energy by holding an “Ideas Summit” at your event? In this fun and practical think tank, Yvonne will facilitate a powerful idea-sparking process, using the participant’s actual business challenges to help them generate mountains of ideas. What follows is a practical system for evaluating the best ideas, then creating a one-page implementation process to ensure the ideas are swiftly brought to life back at the office. This is a great way to ensure that all the inspiration you have worked hard to create at your event is captured, also that the best ideas are discovered and acted upon.

Key learnings include:

A systematic, fresh and simple way to approach idea generation

Useful method for identifying the challenge

Effective activities to generate sophisticated ideas

A practical system for evaluating the best ideas

Most importantly, the creation of a one-page action & implementation plan to ensure the ideas are swiftly brought to life back at the office.

 

Selecting the best speaker for your next conference and event can be a challenging task. They must expertly impart their wisdom to your delegates and inspire them to take action back at the office. With 15+ years as a leading MC and Speaker, Yvonne is a recognised authority on the topics of Productivity; Digital Marketing & Innovation. Yvonne intuitively understands the key elements (big and small) required to maximise audience learning and impact, and has the skills to inspire action.

An experienced MC brings equal measures of value, knowledge, experience and energy to your team and your event.

Yvonne Adele has been described in client testimonials as inspiring, interactive, vibrant, thought-provoking, well-researched, experienced, memorable, flexible, friendly and ‘a breath of fresh air’.

With over 15 years as a leading MC and speaker, Yvonne is intuitive about the key elements, big and small, required to set the scene and continue to reinforce it at your conference or event.

What Clients Say

“Yvonne’s energy, humour and enthusiasm were contagious, keeping us engaged and entertained throughout the day. Yvonne had a way of making even the driest topics interesting and relevant. Highly recommend Yvonne to anyone looking for a dynamic and engaging MC.”
Think Business Events

““Yvonne is our favourite MC! She is absolutely part of the team during each event. Her level of professionalism and experience keeps the proceedings running smoothly, and her smile and audience engagement is welcomed by the organisers and audience alike. I’m confident the conference is in safe hands when we work with Yvonne!”
Better Boards

“Yvonne is in a league of her own. She keeps the audience engaged, she is organised and clear, quick on her feet and brings her own kind of ‘gravitational pull’ that focuses the audience on the content.”
Kimberley Clark

“Yvonne’s the person who brings together the strands of all the speakers, builds them into a narrative, and takes you on the journey to the next one. She’s armed with research, deeply immersed in the topic at hand, and has a genuine passion for what she does that everyone can see. On top of all of it, she’s good fun with a wicked sense of humour, and you would be hard pressed to find a better MC for your event than Yvonne.”
QBE Insurance

“Yvonne played a crucial role on our team as MC/Speaker for over 7 years. She does her research and really cares about the industry. Our audience, staff, exhibitors and speakers love her. Yvonne is professional, hard-working, loyal, and fast of mind and feet if anything goes south. We highly recommend Yvonne.” 
Retail Global Gold Coast & Las Vegas

“Made us better equipped about what to say, which platform to use and when.. so our messages are more impactful. Competence builds confidence!”
NAB

“Yvonne has been a cornerstone of the iMedia events across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia for over 4 years as our resident MC. She has become synonymous with iMedia  brand and we actively look to make her a part of everything we do. Our sponsors, speakers and delegates love having her with them on stage and this is reflected in our post event surveys where her feedback is always exceptional. At an event, her hands on, can do attitude means that everything ALWAYS works. She is intuitive and energetic and always makes sure she has control of the room. A total professional!”
Comexposium

“Your up-beat tutorials were entertaining and informative and we received a great deal of highly positive feedback from all participants. A great success.”
Telstra

“11 out of 10…With very minimal input needed, Yvonne was able to tap into what we were wanting and what we wanted the team to take away from the workshops. On the actual day, Yvonne was engaging and was able to convert the cynics amongst the group and those that stated they weren’t creative! Fantastic techniques that we are using within the business most days! Thank you Yvonne best feedback I have had for a presenter yet!”
Jo Fisher Executive 
Recruitment

“Very skilled at tying together pieces of the day and making insightful comments on speaker presentations. Great delegate feedback!”
realestate.com.au

“A tough week travelling around the country to deliver our MYOB events but – as MC – your patience, good humour and sense of fun got us through. We really appreciate the way you sought to improve things and were open yourself to suggestions.”
MYOB

“Yvonne plays a crucial role on our team: as MC, Speaker and Social Media producer for over 7 years at our events. She does her research and really cares about the industry. Our audience, staff, exhibitors and speakers love her. Yvonne is professional, hard-working, loyal, and fast of mind & feet if anything goes south. We highly recommend Yvonne.”
Retail Global Las Vegas

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