Jerry Walker
Keynotes, Workshops, Emcee, and Moderated Panel Discussions
Domestic and International
Author of Define Your Passion: Who are you and why are you here?
Broadcast and Internet TV & Radio
Providing Faith-Based and Corporate Audiences with Common-Sense Solutions
Travels From Georgia
When you select Jerry Walker as your event speaker, you are engaging him to make an encouraging difference for your attendees and your organization. This is why he does what he does. You can count on Jerry to be available before the event, before he speaks, and after he speaks, partnering with you and your organization to deliver the highest value to your attendees.
Jerry works with you to provide sustainable secular programming in the form of ... Keynote Presentations | Panel Moderation | Breakout Presentations for Corporate Conferences and Annual Meetings
Jerry also enjoys delivering lasting, faith-based encouragement for ... Men's and Women's Ministry Events | Wild Game Banquets | Graduation Keynotes
"We are born to make a difference in this world, and the lives of others. It begins by making a difference in our own lives first."
Jerry Walker
Speaking Topics Include ...
Enhanced Speaking Skills = Enhanced Outcomes
Is it the pitch or the product? It's both. A less-than-persuasive pitch steers no one to the produce offered. A compelling pitch pointing to a disappointing product is likewise a fail.
The acronym is VAMP: Venue Audience Material Practice
Jerry developed his VAMP Protocol to pass along the lessons learned from his front-of-the-room experiences. It is critically important to be empathetic (High EQ), straightforward, and honest with your audience, no matter the venue. Equally important is the material presented. A presentation should not be memorized. It should appear to be part of the presenter, so that it's delivered from the heart.
Benefits Delivered: Immediately implementable VAMP tools and methodologies to enhance / improve speaking and communication skills; positively impacting the audience and the greater outcomes envisioned from the podium or the pulpit.
Ideal Audience: Professionals and clergy who wish to impact their customers at a high level.
Structure: Keynote, 45-60 minutes. Customizable as an audience interactive workshop and onsite training.
Camping, Caving, Hunting, and Fishing ... Let the Good Times Roll
The wild game banquet is a fixture in small towns, local churches, and everywhere the hunting and fishing culture in the USA is celebrated. Truly, it is a slice of Americana ...
Camping - an activity involving family or friends who may or may not see the humor in your weekend getaway idea
Caving - underground exploration of fragile ecosystems blended with a lovely assortment of fears, anxieties, and dirt
Hunting - tracking a good time for outdoor memories while hoping the wildlife doesn't see you, hear you, or run toward you
Fishing - getting near enough to the water to spend hours doing as little as possible
D.R. 'Duck' Walker taught his son Jerry how to camp, hunt, and fish -- how to do them well and to never take them for granted. Jerry picked up caving at Lockheed in their Marietta, Georgia plant, but that's another story.
Our enjoyment of the outdoors is rooted in the fun and adventure we can experience because we live in a country rich in recreational lands and waters. Our experiences in the company of family and friends informs the fun!
In this inspirational take on the fun to be had while camping, caving, hunting, or fishing, Jerry shares the love with his audiences. He, like his audiences, enjoys a well-told tale, how to build a good fire, be still and quiet for hours on end, bait a hook, and reminisce about the one that got away. Let the good times roll ... or, as they say, in one particular outdoorsman's paradise, "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"
Benefits Delivered: Memories and inspiration to enjoy life outdoors, and to protect the fun to be had as a family or with close friends by getting away as often as possible. And laughter, always a benefit!
Ideal Audience: The good folks who love the outdoors whether hunting, fishing, or camping. Bring the wives, the husbands, and the kids -- and, if they'll let you, bring the dogs! Churchwide wild game banquets, men's ministry events, including retreats.
Structure: Keynote, 45-60 minutes
Caretakers of the Dream
At about thirteen or fourteen years of age we begin moving away from childhood toward adult decisions, driver's licenses, dating, and employment. Too often, it seems the dreams of our younger selves have been, or are pushed aside to make room for the responsibilities to come. Parents and teachers, it's time to wake up and help our children live their dreams -- and for you to live yours!
The call of this presentation is to be the caretakers of the dreams of our children and to revisit the dreams of our childhood.
Benefits Delivered: The 10 Takeaway Measures to immediately adopt in order to safeguard the dreams of the children in our lives.
Ideal Audience: Singles, adults, parents, educators, and students 18-25.
Ideal Venue: Civic organizations, churches, faith-based organizations, high school or college events and/or chapel services.
Structure: Keynote, 45-90 minutes; adaptable to include group breakout dialogs.
How Big is the God of the Bible? Bigger Than You May Know!
Ever experienced God outside your Sunday meeting place? When Paul spoke of not forsaking meeting with like-minded believers, was that a suggestion or a commandment? Some churches and believers think command, but Jesus only gave us one new commandment, and that is to love others as He has loved us.
This is not a clarion call to abandon church attendance! No, but it is a call to discover how much larger, practical, spiritual, and beautiful the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is.
- There are believers whom Christ loves and who love Him deeply in return, and they don't attend a local brick-and-mortar building on Sunday mornings.
- Others don't know God by name, and yet they are loving examples of Christ's selfless love, and they speak of the universe as we speak of God.
- AND the commandment from our Lord is to love others as Jesus continues to love us.
Jerry inspires his audiences with the encouragement that their faith is best and properly placed in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ... no matter their church affiliation or attendance.
Benefits Delivered: A loving dose of truth based upon real life and real grace.
Ideal Audiences: Christian leaders of all denominations and faith traditions, men's and women's groups and/or retreats, church and faith-based conferences and retreats, college and career groups, Armed Forces, and college chaplains.
Structure: Keynote, 30-60 minutes; adaptable as a moderated panel discussion.
Emotional Intelligence or Employment Blackmail? (moderated panel or keynote)
In the 1970s the standard bearer pointing to unquestioned success was a person's IG score. Today, in its place, a new standard bearer is rising up ... Emotional Intelligence. Valid reality or employment blackmail?
It is hard to doubt the sincerity of emotional intelligence advocates. On the other side of the debate are equally sincere objections to EI's continued adoption by Corporate America. Is EI leveling the playing field, improving the workplace, or blackmailing its opposition?
In what is certain to be a timely panel dialog, Jerry moderates as an observer whose interests lie squarely with the facts and the best interests of all employees. Is your emotional intelligence an issue, or about to become one? Hire Jerry and empanel the debate at your next convention or conference.
Beneficial Outcomes: An honest and frank assessment of EI's correct place in the employment landscape. Promotion and review guidelines based on the assessed outcome.
Ideal Audiences: All HR professionals, C-suit executives, front-line managers, union executives, business associations, chambers of commerce, labor/employment counsel.
Structure: Moderated panel dialog, 90-120 minutes. Adaptable as a keynote, 45-60 minutes.
Love the One You're With ... In Business
A conversation about employees, employers, and ownership of outcomes generating a positive bottom line for both.
What if absenteeism, job dissatisfaction, habitual tardiness, and other woes an employer experiences are symptomatic of a larger dysfunction? In small town 'Mom & Pop' businesses where employers know employees' hopes, dreams, and aspirations, there is a collaborative relationship. Both parties take ownership of positive outcomes. Why not American business at large?
Best as a moderate panel dialog, Jerry's history of hosting live shows and moderating national panels, plus the authorship of a book on this topic, gives him the unique ability to guide this dialogue.
'What if' American businesses served their employees as the Mom & Pops do, thereby leading to across-the-board reductions in the woes listed above? it is possible employees will be more likely to 'love the one they're with.' Let's have the dialogue ...
Benefits Delivered: 1. A high-level exchange of ideas and ideologies on the causes, effects, and nature of workplace satisfaction. 2. Dialogue on the benefits and challenges of turning human capital management into collaborative resources development.
Ideal Audiences: All HR professionals, upper-level managers, shareholders.
Structure: Moderate panel dialog, 90-120 minutes. Adaptable as a keynote, 45-60 or 60-90 minutes. Panelists selected by the client business.
The Fearless Speaker Clinic
Jerry Seinfeld said, "Public speaking is the number-one fear in the United States ... So, if you're at a funeral, it's better to be the one in the coffin than the one doing the eulogy."
The fact is, some people say they would rather die than speak in public. Three things take place in front of an audience of any size:
People who are afraid to speak nervously try to make it through their remarks without throwing up.
People who are not afraid to speak treat silence between sentences as a crime while they murder the language and kill us with nonstop 'ahs and ums.'
People who also are unafraid to speak but know how and who are an absolute delight ... only get five minutes.
The Fearless Speaker Clinic is designed to lend a lighthearted approach to public speaking. Even the most fear-racked, anxiety-ridden, and stage-frightened men and women will be able to take the stage! Attendees will learn the basics of vocal variety, proper posture, speech organization, eye contact, and meaningful use of hands and movement. An added bonus will be the elimination of keychain / loose-change jiggling in the trousers of our male participants.
Benefits Delivered: The ability to deliver prepared and off-the-cuff remarks with confidence. The ability to use voice, posture, eye contact, and movement effectively.
Ideal Audience: Everyone who wants to speak in public and fears it; everyone who speaks in public and desires to be better.
Structure: Workshop, Half-Day
