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6 Components to change your business & life
Busy days. Big ambitions. Still feeling stuck? Explore six components to take back control and move your business — and your life — forward.
Global keynote speaker · Tactical strategist
Strategy is nothing
without tactics.
Darren Pratley helps leaders and organisations turn ambition into action — on stage, in the boardroom and through programmes that stick.
Member - International Network of Knowledge
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Standout Keynotes
Conferences and Events
Consulting
To change business results
Programs
Courses & Workshops
International
Conferences & Events
Signature keynotes
Talks built to change what happens after the applause.
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Change the Result - creating your new outcome
Working harder but ending up in the same place? Challenge the habits holding you back and turn the outcome you want into action.
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Your customer is leaving - and how to get them back
They used to call. Now they have gone quiet. Rebuild the connection, make customers feel valued and give them a reason to return.
Highest Booked Events
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Business step up program
The Business Step-Up Program is a tried and proven performance change program designed to help teams reshape their businesses, strengthen their habits and achieve better results.
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Client presentation skill
Client Presentation Skill is a hands-on workshop that sharpens how your people plan, build and deliver presentations that win business and strengthen client relationships.
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The human skills and tools of connection
From first impressions to powerful conversations, Darren challenges audiences to rethink how they engage, communicate and connect in an increasingly distracted world.
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Meet Darren
Energy on stage. Rigour in the room.
Professional Speaker of the Year 2022/23, Educator of the Year 2025/26 and a Certified Speaking Professional, Darren brings more than 35 years of executive and board-level leadership to every engagement. Audiences leave inspired — and with a plan.
His storyIn the room
Not reading slides. Working the room.
Sessions are live, direct and interactive — questions, challenge, and a clear action list before people leave.
Auckland to the world — and
every boardroom in between.
Check datesWhat clients say
Having Darren Pratley regularly work with our company and our agents has been an absolute game-changer.
Darren doesn’t just train — he inspires, challenges, and equips our team with practical tools that make a real difference in their day-to-day performance. His sessions are engaging, relevant, and always leave our people buzzing with new ideas and renewed motivation.
Braydon Coldicutt
Owner, Harcourts Hawkes Bay
“Yeah whatever…”
So there I was, sitting at the front of the first lecture supplied by the company, to learn about how I should be presenting myself and reviewing the structures of what I present! Yeah… whatever, I’ve been in sales ALL MY LIFE and I know a rar rar phony when I see one.
SO, now we’re at lecture number four… the integrity and authenticity of Darren along with his message has gone through the roof, my awareness of my accountability to myself has been drilled into place and the change in mindset has become real, why?... because Darren has understood where my personal headspace has been, and where it needs to be, almost intuitively.
Without doubt, I wasn’t willingly open to change… but in hindsight realise that without it, personal goals were never going to be achievable. THAT belief is now history, Darren is THE sole reason, and my wife can’t thank him enough for the effect this has on our lives.
Lester de Vere
Cooper & Co - Business Sales