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Steve was compere at our first ever two-day Watertight Marketing conference. He was not only great on stage, he was a real asset to the team. He handled ongoing tweaks to the running order with ease. He was funny, engaging and kept everything running beautifully to time. He's a joy to work with, both for the event organiser and attendees.
Hiring Steve as our MC for both our B2B Events, was a great decision.
He was very flexible, working to ever changing scripts, and helped with the whole flow of the evening. Having him on board made the team relaxed in the knowledge this component of the evening was all taken care off. I would highly recommend Steve to any company looking for a reliable MC for any event. Thanks again Steve – Until the next time………..
Steve recently spoke at and compered at a CIMA conference on effective leadership. The talk was engaging and received fantastic feedback from the delegates, where they were able to take value from the talk and have the tools to make them better leaders. I'm already looking at the next event where we can work with Steve.
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"We recently had the great pleasure of having Steve Bustin as our Master of Ceremonies (MC) for the University of Brighton's Enterprise Awards. Steve was a delight to work with, and set the tone perfectly for one of the biggest high profile events for my department. Steve responded really well to our brief, and was an integral part of the success of the night! This was the first time that I have worked with Steve, and I would not hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking for a professional MC, who is flexible, humorous, and creative. If we have an event of a similar caliber next year, we will definitely be inviting him back".
"I booked Steve to be the compère for the Annual Convention of the Professional Speaking Association. That's not an easy gig because everyone in the room – all 200+ of them – were people who are paid to speak on stage at conferences. However, Steve was truly excellent. Not only did he keep the audience engaged throughout the event, he also managed everything exceedingly well. He kept the conference precisely on-time and he did everything he was asked by the crew and organisers.
Working with Steve Bustin takes all the stress out of your event preparation. Bringing years of experience to the table you can rest assured that he will add a capital P to professionalism and your audiences will love him.
Steve ran a media training session for a number of key staff at the Port. The training was a huge success, helping our staff to understand how to maximise the delivery of our key messages, especially when under pressure. The mock interviews that he ran were challenging and greatly improved by the research Steve had already carried out into topical areas at the Port. Overall the staff gave excellent feedback on the session, having learnt a lot, grown in confidence and also had fun – Steve was a pleasure to work with. We will definitely be working with Steve in future on a variety of communications projects.
If ever you need to run media training for colleagues at your UK organisation, Steve Bustin is your man. Thanks for a great session!
We were lucky enough to get Steve to visit some of the Wired Sussex team and share his fun and practical approach to finding your own brand of presenting. With Steve's guidance, we made sure to give dull PowerPoint slideshows and monotone speeches a wide berth and instead, were given practical tips on finding our own tone of voice. My favourite part of the session was getting positive reinforcement for the ways we were already naturally communicating well. This provided us with the confidence to fearlessly practice presenting to each other during the session. Which for someone that struggles with nerves when it comes to public speaking is completely unheard of! Myself and my colleagues came out of the workshop buzzing with excitement at the prospect of putting our new speaking skills to action. Would heartily recommend to anyone looking to improve their communication skills- the tips you come away with can be applied in many different scenarios, from presenting to big crowds to making sure your voice isn't lost in team meetings. Fantastic!
You might not remember me but you did a couple of days of presentation training at my company back in October. I was a bit rusty and nervous but you gave good feed back and I applied that feed back.
I went for an interview this morning at another company and I had to give a presentation which I was incredibly nervous about. I remembered what you had told me and tried to apply it throughout the presentation.
After I left, they rang me to say they were impressed that I came across as a natural and offered me a decent raise to my base salary and a nice signing on bonus as well.
I wanted to email and let you know that your presentation day certainly worked for me.
The sessions Steve ran have helped develop my confidence in public speaking. As a result of the sessions Steve has provided I have now won multiple awards which have given me the opportunities to run my own business. I can honestly say that these sessions have given me the confidence to achieve more – an extended thank you goes to Beepruple of the University of Brighton for making Steve and his sessions available to me!
I cannot recommend Steve highly enough to deliver engaging and tailored communication skills programmes. We recently worked with him to prepare and deliver a workshop with a group of vaccine key opinion leaders, who are most comfortable discussing high science. Steve was incredibly well prepared ensuring he gained the respect of the audience, understood their world and took them from fact-based traditional presenters to animated story tellers in 2 days – amazing! Very much look forward to working with Steve again.
Steve's incisive advice and coaching never fails to impress me. His insights are thoughtful, personalised and actionable. A few suggestions gave me a massive return in speaking and facilitating performance. On top of that, by 'walking the talk' as a speaker with his knowledge, he is highly informed on the contemporary audience. Highly recommended.
"We have used Steve to conduct bespoke communication and presentation training sessions at our organisation. We found the content and delivery of the training to be of the highest quality, relatable to the diverse group of candidates and highly enjoyable. The feedback from all candidates was overwhelmingly positive and the application of the principles we learnt has helped our organisation in numerous ways.
Steve presented a communications and social media presentation for Soroptimist International London Anglia Region at the regional development day. He was the keynote speaker at the end of the day. He was brilliant. He had to manage a wide age group and variety of levels of experience and managed to find a way of presenting his material that appeals to everyone. He presented with an abundance of energy and his session was both informative and fun. Everyone at the meeting said how much they really enjoyed the session and how much they got out of it.
The group have now been inspired to rethink their communication plans. As a result of Steve's presentation, communication was a key topic at the next regional meeting to align on how to take the information he share to the next level. I know all the members really appreciate the time he spent and are already putting their plans into action.
I would highly recommend Steve as a speaker. He really understands his topic and how to present it in understandable chunks that leave the audience knowing just what to do next.
Your social media course was amazing today. Thoroughly enjoyable and very informative – you'd obviously put a lot of time into the preparation. I had a few misgivings and just wanted to make sure what we were going into was worthwhile and manageable. You answered and assured me about any concerns I had and I am sure my colleagues felt the same. We can now move forward with confidence, with much greater knowledge about how social media can help us at Dunedin.
Extremely informative workshop! Takes the fear out of social media and helps you formulate a clear strategy.
I spent a day with Steve Bustin at the Garden House in Brighton for his Social Media Class. His class was full of in-depth expertise. Our business offers international training, consulting, speaking and more, so our expectations have been high and he exceeded them by far. Anyone who is strives for excellence in Social Media or needs expert advice on what to do and what not to do should book this class immediately.
We would like to thank Steve for being a speaker at the Eastbourne Conference on May 5th at the AEGON Lawn Tennis Centre, for our Seeds of Growth Business Event.
His style of presenting was very engaging and every person at the event commented to us on how wonderful and different the speech was.
Several of the delegates have also sent me tweets and messages to say they really enjoyed the day, and it was partly down to Steve for being such a professional speaker.