A Keynote Talk
Happiness Is You Still Being You
A keynote talk by Derrick Tuke-Hastings.
For audiences navigating major life transitions: retirement, redundancy, bereavement, diagnosis and beyond. Warm, often funny, never a lecture. People leave lighter than they arrived.
Derrick in full flow
The talk in one paragraph
In this warm, honest and practical keynote, Derrick Tuke-Hastings draws on forty years of business experience and his own journey through retirement and a cancer diagnosis to show audiences that the biggest challenge of major change is not practical. It is the identity question: who am I now? Using his five-pillar method, Derrick helps audiences rediscover the qualities, values and strengths that have always defined them, and find a way to live by them again.
What audiences take away
Four things people leave with
Practical, portable and true long after the applause.
- A clear understanding of why major transitions feel so disorienting, and why that is completely normal.
- A simple, practical method for rediscovering who they are.
- A personal motto they can carry with them.
- The confidence that the person they have always been is still very much present.
Suitable for
Where the talk fits
- Corporate conferences and away days.
- HR, wellbeing and people development events.
- Retirement planning seminars and financial services events.
- Leadership forums and senior executive audiences.
- Charity and community events focused on resilience and wellbeing.
Talk formats
Choose the shape that suits your event
- 45-minute keynote.
- 60-minute keynote with audience Q&A.
- Half-day interactive workshop.
- Livestream presentation with a live Q&A session.
Formats shown as a starting point and will be confirmed with you when you enquire.
What happens when you enquire
Booking is refreshingly simple
Send a short note with your event date, audience and location. Derrick will come back to you personally to talk through the fit, agree a format and confirm the details. No account managers, no runaround.
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The livestream presentation
Cannot get everyone in the same room? Derrick delivers the same keynote as a livestream presentation that people can join from anywhere, finishing with a live Q&A session where the audience can put their own questions to him.
Well suited to distributed teams, member networks, retirement planning groups and community organisations, and an easy way to reach an audience spread across the country.
- Join from anywhere, on any device.
- The full keynote, delivered live rather than pre-recorded.
- A live Q&A session so the audience can ask their own questions.
- Available to book for a single organisation, or as an open session people join individually.
For event organisers
Need something to share with your team?
Download the one-page speaker pack with the talk summary, audience takeaways and formats, ready to forward to whoever signs it off.
One page. Everything your team needs to say yes.
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Interested in booking Derrick?
Contact us at derrick@ysby.co.uk or use the form on the contact page.