Barbara May - Speaker Demo Reel
Updated: Sep 13
If you’re considering Barbara May for a keynote this short demo reel offers a glimpse of what she brings to the room.
Barbara combines stories, humour, practical ideas and audience interaction to help people look at the stumbling blocks getting in the way of communication, teamwork and leadership—and figure out what they can do next.
Barbara May Speaking About Workplace Stumbling Blocks
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00
I was hanging upside down in a cartwheel, getting ready to do my dismount when I heard the bell ring.
Ding!
00:00:08:03
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[Title Sequence]
Get Past Your Stumbling Blocks
With Barbara May
Music by Chris Ayries
Stumbling Blocks Team Building Seminars
00:00:13:19
And I said, "I fell off the beam five times."
She said, "But you got back up, and that's the only thing that matters."
00:00:24:11
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♪Now that you're gone ♪
[Client Testimonial]
“She has a great story and kept the crowd motivated and enthused for the entire hour!” Brenda Kolasa, Success For Business Expo
[Client Testimonial]
“Barbara was excellent at detecting the key stumbling blocks for each person’s situation.” Carol Brandly, Seminar Participant
00:00:28:22
Well, I knew how to do cartwheels, but I had no idea how to coach.
And I don't know if you've had that experience of being asked to do something that you really have no idea how to do. And it's like, oh you'll figure it out.
Well this is how I figured it out.
I'm upside down in a cartwheel, and Spencer, a seven year old boy, jumps up, races past me, almost knocks me over because he doesn't want to learn how to do cartwheels. He wants to hang on the rings.
So I'm chasing him over the beams, under the vault.
Finally I catch him. He's hanging on the rings. I didn't know what to do, so I grabbed him, threw him on the ground, and I sat on him.
(laughter)
I looked up, and his parents had come into the gym.
They were like, "All right! You caught him!"
(laughter)
00:01:19:16
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[Client Testimonial]
“She was funny and thoughtful. Such a rare package for a presenter and a fabulous end to our retreat!” Joelle Brown, St. Albert Victim Services
00:01:23:14
When we're feeling stressed, we need to recognize what does stress look like for us.
The doctor looked at me, and he said, "You're lungs are full of blood clots. Two of them are stuck in your heart, and you're going to die." Or we could give you an emergency clot buster, and you might hemorrhage in the brain and die. What would you like to do?
[Client Testimonial]
“Barbara had the courage to show us the difference between care and caring.” Dr. Curtis Johnston, Royal Alexandra Hospital
00:01:51:03
If you think about the times in your life when you've gotten past your stumbling blocks there have been skills that you've used. The key is for us to figure out what those skills are.
00:02:01:03
When I work with teams, we talk a lot about stumbling blocks, and one of the biggest stumbling blocks that teams have is communication.
00:02:07:14
All right, okay. What are you sitting for?
(laughter)
(clapping)
Okay, it says RCMP there.
[Male Participant] - Yeah I'm a policeman.
You're a policeman? Nice to meet you. It's much better under these circumstances, don't you think?
All right, so have you ever done a cartwheel before?
(laughter)
00:02:34:13
The reality is we all have stumbling blocks, and the only way for us to learn and grow is to get past the stumbling blocks.
00:02:42:19
[Male Participant does cartwheel over chair]
Oh yeah! (cheering)
All right!
00:02:47:14
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[Closing Sequence]
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Barbara May has a great deal of experience and first-hand information to share about overcoming stumbling blocks at work. She has interviewed business owners on the Learning & Job News, hosted Access Television's May We Talk, and facilitated more than 500 Career and Employment Workshops.
In her keynotes and team building seminars, Barbara draws upon this experience to help people come up with new ways solving problems in the workplace such as dealing and communicating with co-workers and bouncing back from mistakes with confidence.
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