Gray’s passion for communication infuses the speeches and presentations he delivers to a range of audiences, from financial services executives and pharmaceutical sales representatives to municipal workers and university students.

His keynote talks and workshops, notable for their candour, humour and practical advice, include:

1. Branding Your Way to Career Success

In our competitive business world, it can be difficult to stand out and get noticed — so you get the account, or the promotion or the recognition. To attain your career goals, you need a brand, a personal brand.

Gray reveals the 10 steps to branding success — simple, powerful initiatives that business professionals at every level can take to develop their personal brand, and convey it in ways that produce significant results.

2. Communicating in a Crisis

A crisis, badly handled, can damage your organization — and even kill your career. The key to responding effectively to emergency situations comes down to a core discipline that’s often poorly planned and implemented: Communication.

In this presentation, Gray integrates news coverage of various crisis responses to demonstrate how an organization needs to deal with the “unthinkable.”

Detailed, escalating crisis scenarios, created for specific audiences, bring the learning to life.

3. How Leaders Speak

The ability to address others effectively has become the essential mark of a leader.

In this presentation, Gray reveals the five keys that accomplished speakers employ to engage and inspire their audiences. Integrating video clips of great (and not so great) speeches from the past and present, he demonstrates the elements required to communicate with confidence and authority.

Gray relates how to overcome nervousness, how to organize content quickly and efficiently, how to employ compelling verbal and physical techniques to forge a solid connection with listeners, and how to make messages “stick.”

A customized presentation skills session, featuring several audience members, engages participants and observers alike.

4. The Generation Trap

Today, four generations work side by side in offices, institutions and manufacturing plants throughout North America. That’s created a big challenge for workers and their employers — how to communicate effectively with the members of several different age groups.

Gray discusses the factors that compel and motivate each generation, how to avoid common inter-generational communication mistakes — and how to build consensus and trust across the generations.

Scenarios, in which employees “role play” in challenging, age-related situations, can be included.

5. The Top 10 Writing Rules

How well you write says a lot about you.

Unfortunately, many in the workplace are saying bad things about themselves. They’re producing emails, letters and memos that are jumbled, laden with self-interest and long, much too long.

Gray relates how to communicate with clarity, conciseness and impact by following the top 10 writing rules. His presentation can feature an evaluation of writing samples submitted by audience members.