Geoff Mcdonald Email & Phone Number

Greater Melbourne Area

Every Speaker, Author and Thought Leader needs a big idea. In the age of social media and AI, generic content is everywhere.You need an idea that is big, unique, and interesting enough for you to lead a conversation for change.This is how you can be seen and heard today.It's how you establish a following.And it's how you earn keynotes and sell books.Creating your big idea can be tough on your own. It's hard to know what's special about what you do.Plus, it's hard to know what the emerging trends are. If you need a new big idea or to refresh a stale and tired one then read some of my posts on LinkedIn.If they appeal to you, then send me a message and we can chat to see if we can help each other.

Geoff has written and self-published eight books on topics ranging from home-office design and the future of architecture through to project design and the future of leadership. He has even written a children's book.His books include:• The Done Game Plan: A nine-step framework for designing powerful projects• Weekly Done: 52 fast-proven strategies to help you get more done this week• Weekly Done 2: 52 more proven strategies to help you get more done this week• Done: Why traditional project planning fails and what to do instead• Disruptive Leadership: Why our leadership is failing and what you can do about it• What the $#%?! is Going On? - 25 big ideas to help you make informed decisions• Manifesto - Lead with your ideas, build cult-like communities and attract your ideal customers• The Seven Design Principles of Every New Product• Beyond the Electronic Drawing Board• The Cuckoo• A Home-Office You Love

One of my proudest work moments was being involved with the Leukaemia Foundation both in Victoria and nationally to facilitate a series of strategic planning meetings that culminated in the construction of a multi-million dollar care facility for patients and their families in Melbourne. I have also facilitated a range of planning meetings for small business groups, masterminds, local government, NFP organisations and a few unruly mediations. This includes: Centre for Organisation Development, James Hardie, Cavill + Co and Mornington Peninsula Shire.For me, the key to good facilitation is to be able to manage a conversation across the group. This includes the obvious things of having everyone involved - you never know who is going to say something important and with different thinking styles some will be faster or slow to add their viewpoint. Beyond this, it's managing all the 'unsaid' things. For instance, what is the background conversation that is shaping what people are saying or not saying, what is the mood of the room, are we moving too fast or too slow...This all leads to the end result: have we answered the question asked by the agenda and provided a clear pathway forward?Personally, what I like about facilitating compared to training or presenting is that I never know what is going to happen. To be successful I need to stay in the moment and listen like crazy to what is happening around me.

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Over 1000 blog posts written and published on topics including: productivity, change, design thinking, idea design, information products, thought leadership, manifestos, book reviews, podcast episodes, content marketing, strategic thinking and more...

Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Usa

Geoff has presented at a wide range of conference and in-house corporate events. This includes presenting at two of the biggest architectural conferences in the world - UIA and AIA. Geoff has presented on topics ranging from the future of architecture, social media, change management, innovation and productivity - and usually based on his most recent book. He has also presented more than 100 webinars or online seminars including the Content Marketing Blitz and Project Done. Geoff has a reputation for making the complex simple and sharing fresh insights to familiar topics. This includes facilitating in a variety of presentation formats including a game show, quiz night, personal audits and with his crisp, clean and inspiring slide design. Some of the groups Geoff has presented to: • Melbourne Business School• Australian Institute of Management• American Institute of Architects (USA)• Leadership Development Centre (NZ)• Union of International Architects (Canada)• Leader Newspapers• James Hardie• NEC• Macquarie Bank• Leukaemia Foundation• Thought Leaders• Business Blueprint• Professional Speakers Australia• Local Government Lawyers• Toastmasters International• And more.

As a former architect I no longer design buildings. Instead, I design ideas. This ranges from sparking ideas, developing them and packaging them. Our services include Information Design like Book Rapper, the Ideas Hour, Ideas Lunch, Ideas Mentoring, Ideas Modelling, Keynote Presentations, The Create Workshop and Project Fulfilment. My speciality is customized Board Games. This is the work I've been doing over the past 5 years under a single umbrella.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ideas Marketing helps businesses design, build and sell their ideas.

Greater Melbourne Area

While there are a lot of Content Creation courses and training being promoted, most only focus on one side of the equation - publishing lots of content. And usually to attract clients. These are worthy goals but they're missing something important. A champion can be defined in two ways. First, you have elite skills and results. Second, you support or defend a cause. A Content Champion has both. You need the skills AND the cause.Plus, the goal is not simply to attract clients, it's also to develop the deep IP you need to add value to clients over time. Without this, you may attract clients but you won't keep them.

Many business experts fail to become the go-to person in their industry or niche because they don't convert what they know into ideas that sell. This means they're constantly chasing work they don't like with people they don't care about for less money than they expect.

How do you lead with ideas?I believe this is the big question for our time. Gone are the days of leading by position or authority. In it's place is the need to believe in a future possibility, an ideal. Without it your audience will click onto another site, find another job or just plain switch off. To lead with ideas you need three things:1 To keep up to date - out of date ideas are like a wet box of matches - no sparks happening there. 2 Inspire yourself and others - create a manifesto or vision that you and others can believe in and aspire to.3 Project action - you need to translate your ideal into real world results and expressions (products, services, experiences, communities). Completing inspiring projects is a foundation skill for leading with ideas. The Create Club is an online learning centre to help business experts create and lead with ideas to inspire your clients into action.

The big challenge that I've had through my entire career has been turning my ideas into reality. I've had way more unfinished projects than ones that I've completed. For instance, I've published eight books and have more than 25 unfinished ones sitting on my computer. I used to think that this was simply the flaw of being a creative, an innovator and an ideas guy. When I explored my strengths, I realised that I can design clear strategies from a whole bunch of loose threads. And, so I started how to research how people like me fail to complete things. Project Done is the result of this research. It's based on the simple idea that most Project Planning focusses on the wrong thing. It focuses only on the doing part of the project. This is crucial. If we don't take action, nothing changes.However, most projects fail due to a lack of motivation. It gets too hard, we lose interest or simply get distracted by the next shiny object. So, instead of doing traditional Project Planning we need to do Project Design which bakes your motivation, your inspiration and your passion into your project. As a result, Project Done is based on our seven Project Design Rules:1 Stop planning.2 Don’t fix your problems3 Inner over outer4 Rules rule5 Ship smaller sooner6 Structure shapes success7 You have to changeMore: http://geoffmcdonald.com/project-done/

Book Rapper's RAPs are like book summaries on steroids. We track the hot trends through books, dig out the key ideas and present them visually with do-able actions for you to implement. You can read each issue in 30 minutes. My role is to research which books to RAP, create the summaries and design the visuals. Almost 900 pages of content was created in 65 RAPs that were distributed over 100,000 times through a syndication business model.

Rewrite Business Books so you can grab the big ideas and apply them in under 30 minutes. It's big ideas for business leaders! Downloaded and shared over 100,000 times.

Melbourne, Australia

Assisted graduate engineering students to develop their awareness and understanding of business models, experience design and innovation using real world examples - New Business Models for Book Rapper.

2011 is the Year of the Manifesto. And, we've created the Manifesto Project to create and publish 1000 manifestos this year. Central to this is the Manifesto Manifesto outlining the 9 principles you need to create your manifesto and rate well on the Manifesto Score. Create your manifesto to ramp up your brand, win on social media by creating a community game or taking your results to a new level.

The Lifestyle Health Check is an online tool for individuals and coaches to assess your current levels of satisfaction across all areas of your life.

Completed a range of roles on a range of projects. Training, Instructional Design and Support. ACM, WFII, CitySearch, Morph, Facilitator Skills, Member of the award winning Instructional Desgin team of the Yellow Pages launch 2007.

Creator, innovator, trend tracker, game designer - board games and card games, IP creation and development, business design, information design, design research, idea design.

Web Design and Strategy for small business and not-for-profit clients.

March, Architecture

Graduate Representative on the UNL Student Government Represented Sweden in the student United Nations program.

Barch, Architecture

Leader, Deakin Architecture Club

Tmlp, Team Management And Leadership

I was Team Leader three times in eight quarters. Plus, I redesigned the game sheet in a form that is now used throughout the region.

Dip Ont Coach, Ontological Coaching

This 18-month program provided extensive training in the use of language and conversation, emotional possibilities and somatic or body.

Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence

Cutting edge combination of mindfulness and emotional management. 12 week course with Mark Molony.

Nlp, Practitioner And Master Practitioner In Nlp

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Education record

Mindful Life Program, Mindfulness And Emotional Balance

Activities and Societies: An 8 week program practising mindfulness as a way to achieve emotional balance.