Doug Manuel
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- The Soul of Business: Rediscovering Purpose, Passion, and Vitality in the Workplace
- Do You Speak Djembe?: Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Interactive Experience
- Lead with Purpose: Driving Engagement and Success through Personal Growth and Leadership Development
- Embracing Change and Managing Stress: The Power of Mindfulness in Overcoming Challenges
- West African Culture and Values: Lessons in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- From Filmmaking to Social Entrepreneurship: The Journey of Pursuing Passion and Purpose
- Collaborating and Building Bridges: The Power of Partnership between Africa and the Occident
- Interactive Learning and Leadership Development: Bringing Theory into Action through Live Workshops
- Lighting Up Lives: How a Charity Partnering with Rural Villagers in Senegal is Fostering Collaboration and Solving Local Problems
- Amplify Your Impact: Connecting and Empowering Audiences through Stories, Music, and Rhythm.
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Doug Manuel is a keynote speaker, workshop leader, social entrepreneur, and documentary and stage show producer with a deep understanding of business processes and dynamics. Creator of the internationally acclaimed ‘Do You Speak Djembe?’ nominated for two JEFF awards, he uses stories, music, and rhythm to boost energy, break down barriers and build connections. Oprah Winfrey loves him.
He has a special talent for bringing people together, fostering connections and bringing purpose driven engagement and collaboration to life. To meet the challenges of our times, his keynote talks and interactive experiences are designed to energize and keep people connected at both virtual or hybrid as well as at in-person events.
He has an extraordinary ability to read and feel into his audiences and connect with them even from afar. With his natural empathy and deep understanding of the human being, he guides them to a place of active listening, building up emotions and energy: the ideal opener to any event format and the perfect re-energizer and connector throughout the programme.
Doug has collaborated with multinationals, sports teams, leading business schools and NGOs around the globe – not to mention TEDx, TED Global and Oprah Winfrey. In his keynote speeches, workshops and breakout sessions he uses stories, music, and rhythm to boost energy, break down barriers and create an interactive, multi-sensory experience. Delivered in his native English or fluent French, Doug Manuel’s presentations have a lasting impact on audiences large or small.
In 1995, Doug Manuel attended a drumming workshop and his love of Africa was born. The following year he set off for the mother continent to film elephants for a BBC documentary, and to West Africa to study the music of the Djembe. He eventually gave up his career as a BBC documentary producer to pursue and share his passion for West African culture and the Djembe drum, and to focus on his personal development work and extensive coaching. During this journey, he acquired the skills, insights and understanding which today enable him to empower people to connect with themselves, each other and their work.
Although the process began with the Djembe, over the years it has evolved exponentially. Doug’s keynote ‘The Soul of Business’ now focuses on the whole picture with a key focus on the values of West African culture and introduces key excerpts of his new documentary ‘Beats As One’.
Through his extensive travels across Africa and his experience as a filmmaker, Doug has become an expert in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
With a strong focus on empathy, his topics range from resilience to help embrace change, enhancing purpose and collaboration to drive success, developing leadership and personal growth to expand careers, through to mindfulness and managing stress to overcome challenges.
Delivered in leading business schools and Fortune 500 companies, Leadership Development and Team Building are the focus of Doug’s much-praised interactive workshops and live learning laboratories. Leading by example, he generously shares his expertise and personal techniques to bring out the best in teams and put leadership theory into action.
As well as running leadership retreats in West Africa Doug also leads his charity ‘Lighting Up Lives’, whose pilot project partners with the villagers of Abéné in Senegal, inspiring and supporting local action to solve local problems such as energy, health, sanitation and education. The charity builds bridges between Africa and the occident, fostering collaboration and putting words into action.
Doug Manuel has performed at TED Global and with Oprah, and for nearly 3 decades he has been delivering interactive virtual and in-person programs for clients such as Harvard Business School, P&G, The World Economic Forum, and LVMH.
An ex-BBC documentary producer, he has spent extensive periods of time pursuing and sharing his passion for African music and culture, whilst focussing on his personal and professional development.
His charity ‘Lighting Up Lives’, encourages partnerships with rural villagers in Senegal inspiring and supporting local action to solve local problems, fostering collaboration, and putting words into action.
On-site Programs:
THE SOUL OF BUSINESS
At a time when employee engagement and talent retention is at an all time low THE SOUL OF BUSINESS leads audiences to a renewed sense of vitality, purpose and passion. By going back to the source of our shared humanity, Mother Africa, this interactive and immersive keynote includes interview excerpts from village elders in rural West Africa and guides participants to explore their personal purpose, and to tie that to the purpose of their organization. With immediately actionable take-aways, through personal reflection, musical performances, small group sharing, and a collective music making experience (body percussion), audiences bring engagement and collaboration to life in new and dynamic ways.
DO YOU SPEAK DJEMBE?
Described as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Action, this is a ground breaking and immersive experience for corporate teams. Chosen by Oprah to open her 3rd SuperSoul Sessions and by TedX Hollywood and TED Global to explore how technology can enhance humanity, this award nominated stage show is now a unique corporate keynote. With a whole band on stage, and each audience member with an African djembe drum, your teams will take a deep dive into engagement and performance unlocking their collaborative potential with THE ULTIMATE unifying experience.
Virtual Programs:
At a time when employee engagement and talent retention is at an all time low THE SOUL OF BUSINESS leads audiences to a renewed sense of vitality, purpose and passion. By going back to the source of our shared humanity, Mother Africa, this interactive and immersive keynote includes interview excerpts from village elders in rural West Africa and guides participants to explore their personal purpose, and to tie that to the purpose of their organization. With immediately actionable take-aways, through personal reflection, musical performances, small group sharing, and performance enhancing exercises audiences bring engagement and collaboration to life in new and dynamic ways.
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