Speaking

Dave Macdonald educates organizations of all kinds on how to become more effective in their strategies and day-to-day operations. Here is a brief background on Dave. He is a sound communicator with exceptional passion for organizational effectiveness. His style is engaging, his manner is thoughtful and every presentation contains its share of humour. His knowledge of organizational effectiveness in terms of finance, strategy, planning and business modelsis strong, which allows him to adjust presentations on the fly in order to adapt to the audience’s level of comprehension.

Dave has presented to business professionals of all levels from law firm partners to entry level accountants as well as non-profit executives, healthcare professionals and small business owners. You can book Dave to speak here.

Topics

Dave is able to speak on an array of business topics ranging from current events or technologies and their effect on organizations to specific methodologies that address organizational effectiveness.

• Business Planning for Your Audience:
  There is more than one way to construct a business plan because not every business plan has the same audience. In this talk, Dave shares insights on how parties receive business plans, what they look for and how you can effectively tell the story of your business in a way the people on the receiving end can understand and buy in. Every business has needs, whether it be bank financing, investor relations or internal communications and having the right plan makes all the difference. Book Dave to speak
  

• Performance Management & Budgeting Basics:
  This is easily the driest topic you can imagine, without a doubt. Dave brings a lot of enthusiasm and real life stories to this subject to engage the audience and get people thinking about how to measure the most important things in their business. If your idea of budgeting is looking at how this year’s office supplies line up to last year’s, you are in trouble. Identifying key numbers in your organization and having a budget that lives every day, not once a year, ensures longevity of your organization and bringing that to life couldn’t be a more exciting way to look inside your organization. Book Dave to speak
  

• Business Models for Artists:
  There is probably nothing more exciting than turning a labour of love into a living. This talk gives creative people an awesome overview of how to think like a business person in very fundamental terms. We define customers, define what it is you are really able to do for them and position it in a way that avoids ‘selling out’ – whatever that means to you and whether that’s important for you or not. We’ll also look at revenue models and marketing, which are the real meat of how to turn the creation of art into a livelihood. Book Dave to speak