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Cyrus Mavalwala, ABC is an accredited, award-winning and passionate PR practitioner with 18 years of communications experience. He’s travelled the U.S., Europe and Canada while on assignment.

Companies, organizations and associations have brought Cyrus in to speak – often for repeat performances. He’s earned high praise from speaking to audiences from three to 300. Why you ask?

Because he researches his audience and dials in to focus on the business of communications – how can it improve your specific business today. He customizes his stories to connect to the audience and produces high quality exercise materials that extend the learning. And, he believes that humour and passion engage listeners.

Satisfied customers include: Acuity Forums, Allied International Credit, BMO Bank of Montreal, Canadian Depository for Securities, Canadian Public Relations Society, Federated Press Conferences, International Association of Business Communicators—World Conference, IABC Leadership Institute, Ivey Alumni Association, MetLife and York Technology Association.

Speaking Topics

Act Like An Agency
Branding (Corporate & Team)
Social Media
Media Relations & Digital PR
Driving Sales with Social Media

Act Like An Agency

Corporate training to ensure communications and marketing departments deliver measurable value to their internal clients. How to become trusted advisers within your organization by developing key consulting skills and transforming your role from tactician to strategist.

“These guys were great. The neat part of the session I found was it actually forced you to refocus from being a tactician to a strategist and I think as a communicator that is a really critical point…”

- Clay Adams, ABC (Vancouver Coastal Health)

“Best presentation I’ve seen this year!”

- Attendee

“Other speakers should be encouraged to emulate the fun and interactivity of this session”

- Attendee

“This gave me hope that I can add value as opposed to fulfill orders”

- Attendee

“It was dynamic and kept my attention until the end”

- Attendee

Branding (Corporate & Team)

Integrate a system into your department to Discover → Develop → Package → Communicate → Maintain your personal and team brand attributes.

Feedback

“Great information, great skill sets to take away…great energy, tons of knowledge, very engaging…”

- Attendee

“Made me think differently about our team and how we can operate more cohesively”

- Attendee

Social Media

Selling to the C-Suite, integrating and measuring social media within your organization to help achieve your business objectives.

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Evaluation Survey:

45% of attendees rated their satisfaction with Cyrus as a speaker a perfect 10
93% of attendees rated the relevance of content an eight or higher out of 10 and 38% of attendees giving a perfect 10

“Our members have gone past the basics of social media and are now interested in how to sell it, implement it and measure it. You delivered the practical content they are looking for and they appreciated your engaging presentation style and use of real-world examples to bring the concept to life.”

- Louise Armstrong, VP of Professional Development (International Association of Business Communicators, Toronto Chapter)

“Cyrus was a great speaker and gave some concrete examples that I can bring back to my coworkers”

- Attendee

Media Relations & Digital PR

Leverage new strategies, new tactics and new media to win the hearts and minds of both the media and prospects and customers directly.

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“Cyrus is a wonderfully engaging speaker and clearly very knowledgeable about all things PR. He used excellent support materials and provided our members with concrete take-aways that they could use in their own organizations.”

- Sean O’Donovan, VP Sales & Marketing (Commsolv Corp.)

Driving Sales with Social Media

Prospecting with social media to close sales faster. Need I say more?

Feedback

“His engaging presentation style fused with his deep knowledge of social media marketing and memorable stories always leaves the audience wanting more. ”

- Tim Rooney, Founding Partner (Rooney, Earl & Partners)

“I will recommend the program…”

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“I did not even consider social networking as a sales tool!”

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“Very knowledgeable…”

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“Interesting ideas presented – informative about new pieces of technology.”

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