The Decent People Book as a speaker/entertainer for your next event

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Key Points for The Decent People

  • A passion to create outstanding, memorable performances.
  • Hilarious spontaneous sketch shows from World Improvisation Champions.
  • Over 20 years corporate entertaining experience.
  • A passion to create sustainable positive workplace cultural change.
  • Workshops for teams and leaders - Agile Thinkers, Spontaneity, Creativity & Innovation, Collaboration, Leadership and Presentation.

Topics for The Decent People

Workshops

  • Agile minds 
    Kick start your conference management program or event. We bring your people together in an interactive workshop by engaging their creativity, buy-in and collaboration. 
  • Train The Trainer – Activities YOU can run 
  • Agile Thinking for Leaders
  • Agile Thinking for Cohesive Teams
  • Presence for Presenters
  • Break The Ice

Keynotes

  • Dynamic Comedy Duo 
    Spontaneous and hilarious.  The Decent People use audience suggestions and participation to create twisted tales on the spot.
    World class improvisers Sarah Kinsella and Russell Fletcher conjure incredible characters out of thin air.
    We even turn your stories turned into side-splitting entertainment.
    Whether you need us for 30 minutes, an hour, a half day, a full day or longer, we will work with you to tailor our performance to help you achieve YOUR GOALS.
  • Creativity + Collaboration + Confidence = Performance
    The science of having a happy team is in. Conflict, or the perception that it is present, can destroy trust and productivity.
    Our presentation shines a light on how to deal with negativity and to engender a positive and open mindset in your organisation. The session can be delivered in a 60-minute interactive stage masterclass for
    audiences in a theatre or plenary setting. As a workshop, sessions can be 90 – 120-minutes, or an all day immersive experience for up to 40 participants.
    Benefits:
    • Unleash the creative and agile potential of your team
    • Gain confidence
    • Collaborate and communicate effectively
    • Build civility, trust and respect in the workplace
    • Improve productivity 
  • Creating Positive Workplace Culture – Retain People and Save!

Performance Activities

  • Bond-a-rama - You'll die laughing every day
    Make your next event shaken, not stirred, with an hilarious sketch comedy performance about your business, in the style of 007… Perfect entertainment for your conference, after-dinner, awards nights, off-sites, and more. Comedians hilariously recreate Bond films live on stage – with a twist: your work is the theme.
  • The Decent People Comedy Show – Spontaneous Sketches About You!
  • Your Company's Got Talent – Show and workshop

Testimonials for The Decent People

Russell & Sarah aka The Decent People, are simply incredible people to work with. Exceptionally decent, but also very entertaining, engaging and the ultimate professionals. I can't speak highly enough of their contribution to a recent event we managed and would be delighted to provide a recommendation at any time.
Lumino Events

Many, many thanks once more to you, for your wonderful performance last week, and for all the hard work and planning that preceded it.  We have received so much overwhelmingly positive feedback and joy expressed about it.
Vice President
Australian Society of Anaesthetists for BONDARAMA performance at ASA Gala

Russell, thank you so much for hosting the trivia last week - we have had nothing but amazing feedback from all the dinners and couldn’t have done it without you.
Project Manager
Interweave Group

Russell and Sarah were outstanding. They were also a huge hit with the kids and teachers with their Roald Dahl presentation but also at our dinner they were just hilarious. Many great comments from everyone.
Kelly Dunham
Festival Coordinator, Voices On The Coast Youth Literature Festival, Sunshine Coast


Russell researches his material extremely well and puts together very creative work as a result. He is very professional who focuses on the client’s objectives and delivers the product in a very entertaining way. He is also fun to work with and very reliable.
Managing Director and Principal
Vallance Consulting and Investments

A huge thank you to Russell and Sarah for taking our team on an improvisation journey, unleashing our creativity and helping us work together with the power of ‘yes, and’!  A few of us were hesitant about the project to start with, but by the end we were comfortable with ourselves and each other to come up with some positive and innovative ideas. Definitely a must-do for any organisation or team looking to further leadership and team work amongst colleagues.
Director
Centre for Workplace Leadership, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

In the expert hands of Sarah Kinsella our diverse group comprised of CEO's, first year university students and senior university management were quickly engaged in improvisation activities.  Even the cynics amongst the group were laughing and eager for more. There is much that can be learned about leadership from improvisation - our group learned about the power of stepping into the unknown, embracing uncertainty and being open to possibilities. Sarah's workshop formed part of our orientation activities and was a fantastic primer for fruitful working relationships.
Course coordinator
Bachelor of Science Advanced - Global Challenges (Honours)

Hi Sarah – I just wanted to say thank you to the both of you for helping to enliven our Brand Captain Workshop so much. Everyone loved it and the energy you helped to unleash has spread like wildfire back to the teams here at MYOB.
Marketing Manager-Brand
MYOB Australia Pty Ltd

Thanks so much for last night. I thought you and Sarah did a fantastic job. The response to your workshop was excellent considering we gathered a disparate group of more than 40 small business people who were drawn from a great variety of industries (after school care, fitness centres, concrete works, web developers, general store and gallery owners) most of whom had never met before. What’s more they didn’t know what they were in for. We promoted the night as a way of building your team and your business.
To have these people curious, open-minded and participating in improvisational drama activities in a few minutes was outstanding. I’ve never heard a room full of strangers interacting so fully and with so much laughter so quickly. You two have an amazing skill of making people feel completely relaxed about shrugging off their inhibitions and opening their minds to new ways of thinking and acting.
We received a constant stream of happy “thank-yous” as people left. One local businesswoman wants to do this every week!
The feedback we received is that it was great food for thought and people were looking forward to practically applying these communication principles at work and at home, and that they had heaps of fun.         
Manager
Colac Otway Performing Arts & Cultural Centre

Russell has been coaching our science, engineering and technology research students for the 3 Minute Thesis Competition for three years now, and someone from our group has taken out the University prize every year! The students appreciate his humour and energy and his ability to make public speaking seem like fun. His help in improving their communication skills and confidence has definitely been a factor in our team’s success.
Swinburne University of Technology

Russell is the ultimate professional performer and creative mind for a corporate setting. He relates exceptionally well to the corporate audience, working hard to understand their needs. And he has a tremendous capacity for hard work.
Managing Director
2engage Pty Ltd


Hi Russell, thank you for following up the Hume City Council event. It was a great afternoon - participants were challenged, put out of their comfort zone but really enjoyed themselves (more so than I think they had anticipated) and got to know each other better - all key objectives for the day.  Sarah was great - she reduced participant's anxiety within the first 5 minutes and created some great energy in the room.  Look forward to working with you and your team again soon. Cheers.
Right Management

A further big thank you for your work today with the girls. The girls comments are overwhelmingly positive.  In response to the question ‘What did you gain from today?’, over a dozen girls have said that they were not previously considering applying for a leadership position but now they thought they might ‘give it a go’.  
The word ‘fun’ is used again and again in comments on your session and ‘Inspiring’. Others include ‘it’s ok to fail/made you take chances’, which seems to be a huge learning that links in to their readiness to ‘have a go at leadership’. ‘Importance of body language’ / ‘that in order for ideas and thoughts to flow, people have to be open towards each other’/ ‘ something you don’t do every day but a good experience’. Clearly the session was a success and complemented the other activities really well.  Also, please pencil us in for the equivalent Wednesday in 2015!
Year 11 Co-ordinator
Firbank Girls Grammar School

Thanks again for your amazing contribution to the Future Focus Group Induction Weekend.  Your Collaboration Skills Workshop has an average score of 9.2 (equal highest for the Weekend).  Ratings ranged between 10 and 8.  Nice work!
General Manager
Future Focus Group, Committee for Melbourne


LOVED the improv. session and how many lessons could be learnt from it around working with a partner & failure in particular. I learned to put myself on the line more, be less afraid to look like a fool/fail, always try to make my co-facilitators look & feel great.
Participant

I loved the Improvisation stuff- hilarious, great tools, interactive and great bonding with others.
Participant

We loved the session with Russell and Sarah! It was high energy, interactive and we failed constantly! It really helped the group warm up and start to act without analysing too much.
National Manager
L&D, Reach Foundation

Hi Russell, Sarah, Thank you for a great staff session today. Everyone really enjoyed it and it was great to have a laugh and relax. The whole office is buzzing!  I will recommend you to my friends!
Netball Victoria

YMCA Australia National Convention: 'Thank you and the gang for an outstanding job last Saturday night. Many believe it was one of the highlights of the Convention. Your ability to read the crowd, pick the right people, pick the right themes, and move things along is extraordinary. The feedback has been amazing.
Manager, Policy
YMCA Australia

Hi Russell, Thank you for following up the Hume City Council event. It was a great afternoon - participants were challenged, put out of their comfort zone but really enjoyed themselves (more so than I think they had anticipated) and got to know each other better - all key objectives for the day.  Sarah was great - she reduced participant's anxiety within the first 5 minutes and created some great energy in the room.  Look forward to working with you and your team again soon. Cheers.” Sarah Fair, Right Management “Russell is the ultimate professional performer and creative mind for a corporate setting. He relates exceptionally well to the corporate audience, working hard to understand their needs. And he has a tremendous capacity for hard work.” Simon Dowling, Managing Director, 2engage Pty Ltd “Russell researches his material extremely well and puts together very creative work as a result. He is very professional who focuses on the client’s objectives and delivers the product in a very entertaining way. He is also fun to work with and very reliable.” Andrew Stobart, Managing Director and Principal, Vallance Consulting and Investments “Russell, thank you so much for hosting the trivia last week - we have had nothing but amazing feedback from all the dinners and couldn’t have done it without you.
Project Manager
Interweave Group