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"Marina has been closely associated with NZIM Canterbury for the last 10 years. Marina has served our organisation as a course facilitator where she has special expertise in a number of subjects mainly around customer contact and group dynamics. Marina always gets excellent feedback and we would recommend her without hesitation to anyone contemplating using her talents."

Reg Garters
CEO NZ Institute of Management
23 May 2006

"Marina Shearer has contributed to New Zealand Institute of Management Canterbury's Women's Conferences for many years with her professional presentation and MC skills, as well as her warm, witty, informative and succinct style. She is an excellent communicator to all levels and this unique skill has been finely-honed by her years of speaking engagements throughout New Zealand.
"New Zealand Institute of Management Canterbury organises regular high level executive Women's Conferences with national, and occasionally, international speakers and personalities. Marina is one of our preferred presenters to this key demographic of top New Zealand business professional women. Marina is also a regular Facilitator with New Zealand Institute of Management Canterbury.
"During my many dealings with Marina I have found her to be prompt, organised, creative and totally professional in all aspects. From time to time she has even dressed up in costumes to contribute to the event themes, notably one attended by Hon Jenny Shipley. She has added pizzazz and creative excitement to our conferences and seminars, ensuring the enjoyment and value to our participants.
"Marina is an excellent, personable, knowledgeable speaker and I will be pleased and proud to work with her in the future."

Val Taylor
NZIM CANTERBURY

 

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Over the last 16 years Marina has facilitated for some of these well known NZ organisations: Amuri Health Centre, Hanmer Thermal Pools, Godfrey Hurst, Christchurch City Council, Ravensdown Fertiliser, Hurst Holdings, Waitaki Fuel Services, NZIM Canterbury, NZIM Wellington, Tait Communications, Air NZ, South Power, Westpac, Canterbury Breastcare, The George Hotel, Fulton Hogan, Mainpower.

Marina Shearer with the brokers of Anthony Runacres and Associates Ltd. Training held October 2009.

Marina's direct style provoked and confronted issues that would otherwise have been avoided. We were not looking for warm fuzzies and we didn't get them. This is definitely not "death by powerpoint" - you don't go to sleep when Marina is facilitating!! If you want to seriously work on team dynamics and performance - Marina delivers.
Allan Silcock
General Manager

Welcome to Inspired Talk - a place where you will find inspirational help in the fields of communication, customer service and interpersonal relationships. With 16 years of experience in training, development and consulting throughout NZ Inspired Talk brings you proven competence and reliable results. We would be glad to have the opportunity to quote for your needs, whether it be training needs analysis, one-on-one coaching, consulting or team training.

Take a look at a sample of the courses available to find out how Inspired Talk can help your business.

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Marina Shearer
Director


Testimonials:

I have known Marina Shearer as a consultant and trainer since 2001. During this time I have attended Marina's training and coaching sessions as a participant, and now as Customer Centre Manager I am involved in securing her continued presence in our organization. Marina has led out in the areas of telephone professionalism, customer service, relationship building, proactive outbound calling and other more specific workshops that we have requested. We have found her to be an excellent presenter, receptive to our needs, knowledgeable and well organized. Marina developed a good understanding of our team and goals and was able to deliver sessions that motivated and challenged us to improve our performance. Marina has facilitated workshops for many divisions of Ravensdown including our sales team, stores managers, field officers customer centre and soil testing organization. Her knowledge of the rural sector has been valuable to our organisation."
Jude Jamieson
Customer Centre Manager
RAVENSDOWN FERTILISER

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Marina organised Celia Lashlie to speak in her small rural community of Waiau in October 2009. Celia's presentation was witty, fun and incredibly enlightening. Marina highly recommends Celia as a speaker.