Carl Honoré
Carl Honoré is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and TED speaker. He is the global spokesman for the Slow Movement.
Carl Honoré is an award-winning writer and the world’s leading voice of the Slow Movement. After working with street children in Brazil, he covered South America and Europe for the Economist, Observer, Houston Chronicle, National Post and Time magazine. His books on the surprising benefits of slowing down have been translated into more than 35 languages and landed on bestseller lists in many countries. He presents radio and television programs and his TED talk in praise of slowness has been viewed 2.67 million times. While writing his first book on the Slow Movement, he was given a speeding ticket.
The Slow Revolution
To thrive in a fast world, you have to slow down. Doing so will boost your health and bring more depth, pleasure, and meaning to your life. It will also make you more efficient, creative, accurate, and productive. As The Economist concluded: “Forget frantic acceleration. Mastering the clock of business is about choosing when to be fast and when to be slow.” Packed with stories and case-studies from around the world, this keynote shows how we can all work, play, and live better by unleashing our inner tortoise.
Slow Wins The Race
Faster is not always better – even in the workplace. In this keynote, Carl shows how to find the right pace at work in order to:
- Lead, think, focus and innovate better
- Win and retain customers and clients
- Build strong teams
- Find real and lasting solutions to problems
- Simplify what seems complex
The Slow Fix
Many problems we face today are to complex for quick-fix solutions. By spending time with the best thinkers and innovators, Carl has built a superior problem-solving recipe called the Slow Fix. In this keynote, he shows, among other things, how to:
- Learn from mistakes
- Lead and motivate your team
- Find and tackle the root of any problem
- Harness ideas from everywhere
- Embrace uncertainty
The Power of Slow: Unleashing your inner tortoise
When every moment is a race against the clock, we rush through life instead of living it. Slowing down can make us happier and healthier as well as more efficient, creative and productive. In this talk, Carl shows how to harness the power of SLOW in every part of life in order to:
- Sharpen your focus and boost your creativity
- Build empathy and become a better leader
- Achieve peak performance
- Boost health and happiness
- Get more done – in less time!
Slow Parenting: Raising Children in a Fast World
Children need to strive and struggle, but without turning childhood into a race to perfection. “Slow Parenting” means letting kids explore the world on their own terms, which is how they learn to think, invent and socialize. In this keynote, Carl shows how to:
- Keep technology in its place at home
- Find time to be together as a family
- Deal with pressure from school and peers
- Build resilience, creativity and a growth mindset
- Turn the family home into an oasis of calm and connection
Carl Honore: In praise of slowness
“I could listen to Carl speak all day! Very dynamic, funny, insightful and engaging. I thought he and his subject matter was the perfect way to end the conference.”
“For me, this speaker was worth the PDC fee! We could easily relate to his topic and hopefully all take home and put into action his points – for our families and for our workplaces. He was polished, flexible and adaptable.Thoroughly enjoyed him and could have listened longer!!! I would listen again if we repeated him in the future.”
“Carl put on an amazing show! The whole audience was energized by his insightful and fun presentation. He was fantastic! We got amazing comments! A huge, huge thanks!”
“An amazing public speaker that engages the audience from the first to the last minute. He shares his wisdom….and the best part…he doesn’t peddle anything (but you go and buy the book after haha) and he is a pleasure to work with….no prima donna in sight!!!! Great job in Montreal at the CSSE conference!”
“Many thanks for a superb, insightful, dynamic, fun and fully inspiring presentation! Just had excellent feedback from all participants with no exception!”
“Carl’s presentation was a hit, delivering a fresh perspective to our latest conference that tackled speed in business. Carl’s insights and passion managed to inspire so many C-level executives that going slower at times pays more and as a result it helps us improve and possibly find ways of doing things smarter and faster. I highly recommend Carl as he is a very good public speaker and able to adapt his ‘Slow Movement’ to so many different contexts.”
“The excellent Carl Honoré closed the first edition of WELLNESS986 generating a great success and becoming the highest rated speaker! His fast talk about Slow hit the spot and provided excellent insight on how putting on the brakes could help us have more productive and more enjoyable lives.”
“Getting city lawyers to slow down is impossible surely? Carl was faced with this task at our latest Life With Law event, and succeeded in every way. Carl captured the whole room’s attention with his thoughts on The Slow Movement. His talk resonated with everyone in slightly different ways, but we all left wanting to find our inner tortoise.”
“Mr. Honoré spoke at the conference we annually host at the University of Cologne in Germany – the World Business Dialogue. His speech and participation in the panel discussion “Happiness in a modern world” vastly enriched and inspired us and the entire audience. We thank Mr. Honoré for contributing to our event in such a great way and would love to welcome him anytime at our events in the future!”
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