Clients

Seriously, I wanted to let you know personally that I was totally impressed with your performance at ASBA 2009 - as our "Link Presenter"!!

I don't think we could have had a more appropriate person to MC our Conference. You did it so well. I admired the way that you did the (brief) introductions, the way you "Worked the Room", the fantastic summaries and your energetic and entertaining demeanor. You did everything we asked, you made terrific suggestions and you carried everything off without any fuss.

It was a pleasure to work with you and I thank you for helping (ensuring, orchestrating) to make it the best ASBA Conference (in 8) that I've been to.

Vic Gibbons
Association of School Business Administrators

From the initial contact with The Learning Company through to Toby’s delivery the outcomes were faultless. The extensive research that Toby did due to the diversity of the cultures attending the event and the background on the Global IT company that was recognizing the attendees shone through during the events.

Toby was recommended by Solution RED when the client required an MC for the Gala Awards Dinner. During the briefing process it became evident to my client from Singapore that his talents were far broader. And so the journey began.

Welcome Dinner MC, Conference MC and Facilitator, Team Building Guru and at times English teacher! Toby knew that his research was vital, communicating with seven groups where English was the second language, should have been a challenge but no. Toby created visuals, signs and interpreters where possible. They were fascinated and requested he be included in their offsite dinners.

All keynote speakers were from the Global IT company, some of whom had never presented to an audience of this size. Toby ensured that they had all the necessary tools to enable them to communicate, interacted with them when he saw them struggle and added Trainer to his list of tasks. Toby has an astounding level of energy that is hard to keep up with and even harder to fault. The highlight of all the events was when Toby took to the floor and waltzed with the Asian President who had not danced in front of her peers before.

Being the professional that Toby timing is everything. When keynote speakers were on stage he was ensuring that the next presenter was in the wings and that the audio visual technician was fully prepared for each speakers requirements. Solution RED are qualified raving fans of both Toby and his company. He made us look good when we recommended him to our client and we will continue to use him internally for our sales coaching and customer service training.

Rhona Walker AFMEA
Managing Director, Solution Red

As a fellow speaker, I have had the privilege of working with Toby several times at conferences and on national corporate roadshows. Toby’s preparation as an MC is second to none. His attention to detail re introductions, content, overview of proceedings and his unique ability to support your professional needs, put you totally at ease and create partnership, are to be highly commended.

He displays enormous genuine enthusiasm, he’s articulate, appropriate, respectful, intelligent and creatively spontaneous Toby is also a wonderful facilitator. He is always “on top of” the theme, and brings rigour and his entertaining style to any inquiry/discussion…all the while, supporting participants 100% to look and be their best.

Every audience I’ve seen Toby with, adores him. He’s naturally “like-able” because he is the consummate professional, and confident without being egotistical. Toby has bucket loads of personality and enthusiasm which endears him to his audiences. You can’t help liking Toby! He recently became MC at a huge conference within a moments notice and had the 600 delegates in awe of his ability to step into this enormous responsibility so easily.

The most wonderful thing about working with Toby is that you just know that nothing can “go wrong”. Every unexpected thing that is thrown his way will immediately be handled with grace, dignity or humour.  Recently at a conference, the Running Sheet was changed without any  chance for consultation.  I was now closing a conference that had already taken the audience to an incredible “High Point”. With one look at Toby we both instinctively knew that we had to “raise the bar” to a new “finishing high” . Toby glided onto the stage and moved a chair which had been accidently left in front of the lectern, I delivered the presentation (free to seize every opportunity to make this a bigger finish) and Toby rode on the wave of spontaneity, wrapping the conference up seamlessly without the audience even suspecting what was happening for us. I can count on and trust Toby 100%. That’s “golden” in our industry...and when you are running an event or conference.

Robyn Moore - Speaker
(Considered by many as the most successful Female speaker in Australia)

 

Toby presented to a group of Senior TV Executives and tweaked his technique throughout to suit the group. His organization and preparation was well thought out and catered to the audience.  Toby was able to capture the interest of the group within a short period of time.  He was dynamic without being too overpowering or condescending and approached everyone as individuals (made an effort to learn names quickly) rather than assuming they all had the same learning techniques. He was dynamic, captivating and engaging which ensured the group maintained focus throughout the entire session. Toby is personable, down to earth and knowledgeable, therefore a pleasure to work with. Toby’s delivery techniques were excellent.  He got to know his audience very quickly and tailored his delivery to suit us. He was flexible and happy to bend with the breeze when asked to add/delete items to/from the agenda. I would most definitely recommend Toby to other organisations, in fact we would be delighted to use his services again in the future.

Tim Worner - Director of Programming & Production
Seven Network Australia

 

I met Toby at a DHL executive program and was so impressed with his work that I asked him to come to Singapore develop a one-one presentation skills course for myself and my direct reports. I thought that he did a fantastic job. The material he presented was very poignant and delivered in a very upbeat and accessible manner. He has a great ability to relay realistic and useful strategies that have made a noticeable impact upon my executive members and myself. I would recommend him/The Learning Company to anyone.

Scott Price - President and CEO (2007)
DHL Express, Asia Pacific

 

Toby has trained all the Corporate staff at Crazy Johns including the sales and admin staff for the last 2 years.

• He has taught them sales techniques and customer service skills
• Toby is energetic, informative and entertaining
• His ability to capture and maintain the attention of the class is exceptional
• Toby’s ability to impart knowledge to people regardless of role and level of intelligence is amazing
• Our staff are more informed and equipped with the tools and skills that are required to effectively deal with customers and increase sales after training with Toby
• He is very passionate about training and makes it easy to learn
• When he talks you listen
• Learning is easy
• I recommend Toby to anyone in any organisation

Bill Asimakidis - National Corporate Manager
Crazy Johns Business & Government

Would you please forward onto Toby our greatest thanks for MCing our event and linking the presentations at our Industry E-learning Showcase and Exhibition on Tuesday?
 
We have received fantastic verbal feedback and emails re the event and the consensus is that the event was a resounding success!! We think it’s our best ever and one of the key reasons for that was the diversity in communicating the different project outcomes in an interesting way all day to reduce the boredom!! Thanks for your suggestions in the early planning phase, the panel and Rove sessions were great and kept the interest going :) A direct quote from the online eval is ‘Toby the presenter was brilliant!’

Due to reduced budgets we won’t be having a showcase next year, but my colleagues around the country were VERY impressed with you and I think you’ll be receiving some calls.

Kerry Manikis
Canberra Institute of Technology