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John Hotowka

John Hotowka

John Hotowka is a motivational speaker. He enables individuals and teams to build resilience and manage change so they become even more productive and even more effective. How? By sharing proven practical insights and tools that can be applied immediately.

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Biography

John Hotowka is a motivational speaker specialising in resilience and change management. By sharing proven practical insights and tools that can be applied immediately, he enables individuals and teams to become even more productive and even more effective.

Build resilience, banish anxiety and thrive with confidence. Even when your teams are working in silos from home.

Now more than ever, the ability to be resilient and motivated to keep going and stay focussed has never been so crucial.

John Hotowka is in the business of strengthening and protecting the mental wellbeing of individuals and teams, so that you can negotiate change and uncertainty, with peace of mind, focussed action and motivation.

With John Hotowka you will achieve:
• Boosted productivity
• Team bonding leading to more team working
• Focussed working
• Work/life balance and mental well-being
• Raised morale

You will learn (among many other techniques and tools)
• How to work from home or at work efficiently
• How to beat anxiety
• The most productive way of working
• How to stay focussed
• How to be self-motivated
• How to stay energised

All presentations are interactive and can be customised to achieve your objectives.

About John Hotowka

He’s a business speaker, humorist and magician who has first-hand experience of the highs and lows associated with running a business on his own. He started his solo career in 1989 and built a very successful business. In 2002 he suffered a crisis in confidence and nearly lost everything.

He studied high achievers, NLP, neuroscience and read through a mountain of personal development material. He also gained extensive industry knowledge and insight working with numerous blue-chip organisations and small businesses.

From his findings, he developed his ‘Achievement Thinking’ methodology which he used to rebuild his life and career. He now teaches ‘Achievement Thinking’ to countless corporate and smaller business clients each year, equipping his audiences with the tools they need to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals.

When organisations want their people to work smarter, be empowered and inspired, they turn to John Hotowka.

John Hotowka is perfect for: Online events, corporate events, industry events, conferences, webinars, away days, team-building events, lunch and learns, private functions

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Previous Clients

Unilever
Nestle
Auditel
Go Planet Fleet Services
Lucozade Ribena Suntory
NHS
Dunelm
Seafish
Tokio Marine
Virgin holidays
Prudential
Nestle
CISI
ABPCO

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Testimonials

“I found John’s presentation via Zoom inspiring, interesting and valuable. His presentation skills were excellent and it was interesting to see such new and innovative ways of presenting – had me on the edge of my seat!”
Julie Goodwin, Aston University, June 2020 

“Energetic, engaging and great content with takeaways that resonated with every single person at the event. As a collective group, we hadn’t laughed like we did in a long time. John’s great sense of humour and ability to command a “Zoom Room” is the perfect mix!”
Sarah Howson, BBO PA Network, January 2021

“John was funny, engaging, and honest, and most importantly had a great message to tell about the importance of resilience with straight-forward tips that everyone can use. His interactions with the audience were wonderful. […] John’s very easy to work with and his prep work for the presentation was a genuine effort to learn about our culture and our employees.”
Nate Nevas, Pitney Bowes, November 2020

“The content was extremely relevant, topical and timely during the COVID-19 outbreak and will definitely help me with resilience strategies. […] John brilliantly adapted to a virtual setting, he really knows how to engage the audience and motivate and I loved the interactive element [ …]. The Magic element of the session was so unique and it made it even more enjoyable for me. Thank you John, you are such a talented presenter!”
Deborah Guest, PwC, June 2020

“John delivered a session on resilience at our virtual company meeting. His style was engaging and polished accompanied with a model with tangible actions to enable everyone to leave with simple things they could actually do. The addition of snippets of magic during the presentation kept people watching and entertained.”
Nikki Walker, More2Gain, January 2021

“He positively surprised us with the best engagement I have ever seen through a virtual event so far, content was super interesting and insightful too. We have spent almost an hour without a blink, highly recommend.”
Cigdem Yildiz Kurtulus, CMO/Agile Coach, August 2020

 

 

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