Jordana Borensztajn

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Dynamic, electrifying and endlessly entertaining, Jordana Borensztajn brings high energy, deep insights and laughter to every event.

Fearless, authentic and incredibly charismatic, Jordana is a multi-talented keynote speaker, event MC, humourist, public speaking trainer, author and workshop trainer.

Jordana is inspired by inspiring others. Her captivating and vibrant energy lights up every room, and her one-of-a-kind stories, lessons and insights hit audiences straight in the heart.

She loves creating ‘aha’ moments for delegates that lead to lightbulb transformations, and her mission is simple: to educate with joy and laughter. Jordana customises every keynote for each individual group she presents for, and she writes new jokes for every corporate audience to ensure every experience is fun, memorable and meaningful.

Her effervescent enthusiasm and uplifting presence inspires crowds to feel excited, confident and passionate about exploring and expressing their own joy, creativity and true potential.

Jordana’s experience includes being a News Corp Australia journalist, working as online music editor, content producer and social media manager at Nova Entertainment, writing two business marketing books and an illustrated children’s book, and performing two sold-out shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Jordana has been featured extensively in the media, including on Channel 10’s The Living Room, Channel 9’s A Current Affair, Nova 100, ABC Radio National, Hit 100.9 Hobart, ABC Hobart, ABC Northern Tasmania, WIN News, Channel 31, and across the Herald Sun, mX, the Sunday Herald Sun, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Jordana is also a talented performer, offering corporate comedy, magic and mentalism. As Australia’s only female magician and mentalist in the corporate world, Jordana gets the ultimate joy from surprising audiences by creating an atmosphere of awe, wonder, laughter and delight.

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Talking Points

Enhance your sales skills and power of persuasion with a dynamite presentation toolkit

Powerful presentation skills are essential when making sales, creating connections, developing your career, and building your leadership skills. Whether you head up meetings, connect daily with your clients, or present on camera, it's important to deliver your key messages with clarity, impact and confidence. In this high-energy, interactive and hands-on session, Jordana shares valuable techniques to help you pitch, promote and sell your key business messages with passion, flair and conviction. You'll learn how to enhance your power of influence to deliver your messages in a truly memorable way. Jordana will teach you how to transform fear into positive energy, how to use your body language and voice for maximum impact, how to use storytelling to inspire, how to showcase your unique point of difference, how to manage awkward moments with grace, and so much more. Most importantly, you’ll identify the biggest fears that show up in your own sales process, and you’ll gain new tools and strategies to break through these fears so you can eliminate all roadblocks to create a brand new path to success.

Who is this for?
Leaders, CEOs, Executives, Managers, and anyone seeking to build their leadership skills and feel more confident and passionate about presenting. Audiences seeking new tools and fresh ideas in both the professional development and self-development spaces.

Key takeaways:
- Manage your public speaking nerves with proven (and fun!) strategies
- Build a powerful public speaking and presentation toolkit
- Learn how to use storytelling techniques to deliver your key messages with impact
- Enhance your expression and delivery with powerful vocal and body language techniques so you feel confident and comfortable no matter what message you’re sharing
- Identify your biggest fears that show up in the selling process and apply proven techniques to eliminate any roadblocks to success
- Learn to deliver your key ideas with authenticity and passion
- Develop your self-belief: Identify and own your unique point of difference

*This can be delivered as a keynote presentation or a workshop

MCing with a humourist twist

Drawing on her stand-up comedy, public speaking, and extensive media experience, Jordana brings humour, fresh ideas and an innovative approach to the role of MC. Jordana creates a completely uplifting and undeniably energising experience as MC, weaving your event together with customised comedy and witty observations. This always adds an electric, playful and memorable point of difference for delegates. For MC roles that include panels and forums, Jordana create a unique space where both speakers and audience members feel at ease with her curious, creative and fun interviewing style.

Who is this for?
Conference Planners, Event Managers, HR directors, Business Development Executives, Department Heads.

Key takeaways:
- Fun and interactive
- Uplifting and light-hearted
- Witty observations
- Customised comedy content created for each event
- Unique interviewing style drawing on a strong foundation of journalism, media experience, stand-up comedy and corporate comedy

Turning on workplace creativity: Ignite innovation, spark ideas, enhance productivity

Creativity fuels innovation and drives new ideas. It helps us problem-solve in unconventional ways and encourages an atmosphere of interactivity and engagement where everyone feels seen and valued. As a result, excitement and productivity levels soar to new heights. So how can you infuse your workplace culture with innovation, the joy of collaboration, and constant ideation so you gain a competitive advantage? In this high-energy, inspiring and interactive keynote, Jordana shares the entertaining story of discovering her inner magician to teach your team how to uncover your own untapped resources for creative inspiration. Strategically using mentalism, magic and laughter as tools to activate your own imagination and sense of play, you will learn how to create an atmosphere where creativity thrives. You’ll discover why we need to replace habitual thinking with curiosity in order to innovate and ideate in brand new ways, how to nurture intuition and empower your employees, how to embrace change with enthusiasm, how to connect and collaborate at a higher level with more productivity – and most importantly, how to have more fun at work – every single day. This is the exact session you need to magically make your company come alive and take the lead!

Who is this for?
Leaders, Executives, Managers, Sales & Customer Service, Internal Departments and anyone seeking a fresh, fun and inspirational approach to creativity, innovation, collaboration and ideas generation in the workplace. Audiences seeking new tools and fresh ideas in both the professional development and self-development spaces.

Key takeaways:
- How to connect, collaborate and innovate at a higher level with more productivity
- The power of replacing habitual thinking with openness, curiosity and wonder to create new business solutions
- Rewarding your team with a session filled with fun, laughter and creative thinking
- How to create an atmosphere where creativity thrives and new ideas are encouraged
- How to nurture your intuition, and empower your employees
- How to embrace change with enthusiasm
- How adopting the principles of a magician's mindset helps you create new and exciting possibilities in your workplace
- And most importantly, how to have way more fun at work... Every single day! This enhances productivity, joy, connections and satisfaction in every area!

Build a thriving brand online with innovative social media marketing

In today’s noisy digital world, brands and businesses are fighting for attention.
In this engaging, high-energy and insightful keynote, Jordana shares techniques to help you cut through the social media chaos so your business can soar above your competition. You’ll overcome social media fears and learn easy-to-apply tools, techniques and industry insights to develop a unique brand voice, generate captivating visuals, and use powerful storytelling techniques to connect with your audience in meaningful ways. You’ll learn how to apply innovative ideas to your content creation process so you feel confident and empowered to take meaningful action online and feel inspired as a team. Most importantly, you’ll feel excited about creating a compelling social media journey to build an unforgettable brand on social media. This will help you truly stand out and pioneer in your industry and creating meaningful connections with your current and prospective clients online.

Who is this for?
Leaders, Executives, Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and anyone who wants to build their brand and grow their social media presence.

Key takeaways:
- Gain a strong understand of social media fundamentals
- Overcome common social media fears
- Learn how to develop a creative and distinctive voice for your business online
- Learn how to use visuals and storytelling to bring your business to life on social media
- Understand how to apply creativity and innovative ideas to make your brand’s content stand out from your competitors
- Learn powerful and easy techniques to generate creative and inspiring content ideas that promote your core business goals and showcase your core values online
- Learn how to craft a truly captivating social media journey for your audience that builds meaningful and lasting relationships with your current and prospective clients

*This can be delivered as a keynote presentation or a workshop

Using laughter to unlock your fear and become exceptional

Let’s talk about a topic everyone loves to avoid: fear! In both business and in life, our fears and perceived limitations block us from achieving our biggest dreams, and discovering our true creative potential. As a bold risk-taker and creative pioneer, Jordana has faced and overcome fear thousands (and thousands) of times. From stand up comedy, to keynote speaking, to journalism, to writing three books, to magic, to mentalism, and with decades of executing wild creative stunts under her belt, Jordana has discovered they key to unlocking our biggest fears: humour. In this uplifting session, Jordana will teach you profound strategies using humour principles to unpack and unlock your fears in a light-hearted and highly effective way. Through sharing hilarious stories, deep insights and unique techniques, together you’ll identify your fears, distinguish between real fears and perceived fears, and learn to use your fears as a source of strength to open the floodgates for brand new possibilities and brand new business outcomes.

Who is this for?
Sales Teams, Leaders, Executives, Managers, Customer Service Staff, Internal Departments. Audiences seeking new tools and fresh ideas in both the professional development and self-development spaces.

Key takeaways:
- Learn to identify your fears and feel comfortable calling them out: when we face our fears together, they don’t frighten us
- Distinguish between real fears versus ‘perceived fears’
- Learn how to apply unique humour principles to break through your fears and limiting perceptions so you can achieve your big goals
- Discover how to turn the powerful emotion of fear into a positive driver for success in all areas of your life
- When we laugh at what frightens us, it can’t possibly scare us anymore: Laughter is the most powerful antidote
- Creating brand new possibilities from shifting our perspective in a profound way

*This can be delivered as a keynote presentation or a workshop

Next generation communication: Creating positive generational connections for exceptional business outcomes

Four generations are working together under one corporate roof and things can get… complicated. From the unique position of a Millennial, Jordana breaks down the qualities and traits that differentiate Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y (Millennials), and Gen Z so that we can finally understand each other, and learn to positively connect, communicate and collaborate. In this entertaining, educational and highly interactive keynote presentation, Jordana shares easy action steps to help managers decode, motivate and engage their young employees so that we can all work happily, and in harmony, to reach our core business goals as one. This is a game-changer for collaborating and connecting internally!

Who is this for?
Leaders, Executives, Managers, and anyone seeking enhanced communication and collaboration between colleagues from different generations.

Key takeaways:

- Understand the core differences that characterise Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y (Millennials) and Gen Z
- Gain insight into the unique characteristics, qualities and behaviours of Millennials and Gen Z
- Learn how to connect with the younger generations and decode their communication style
- Develop a toolkit to improve communication with your young colleagues to enhance collaboration and connection

*This can be delivered as a keynote presentation or a workshop

Reignite your work mojo: Finding inspiration, motivation and excitement to lead at the highest level in this new (new) normal

As we recover from the turbulence of the last 4 years, it’s hard to find the motivation to embrace this rapidly evolving world with excitement and grace. We’ve transformed and workplaces are different. The disruption hasn't been easy; it's been a big challenge for both employers and employees. So how can you find the inspiration, gusto and drive to lead at the highest level so you can collaborate, connect and perform in your workplace in a more dynamic and successful way than you did in the past?
In this fresh, fun and interactive keynote, we’ll deep-dive into how the workplace has shifted and explore powerful strategies to embrace unexpected change with strength, resilience and enthusiasm. Importantly, we’ll cover tips and techniques to fill your cup internally which will fuel your work mojo. When we are enriched inside, it allows you to give more and grow more, helping everyone at your workplace connect, collaborate, communicate, and create, in new, exciting and passionate ways.

Who is this for?
Leaders, Executives, Managers, Sales & Customer Service, and anyone who wants to re-energise, motivate and inspire their teams.

Key takeaways:
- Learn to embrace change with strength, resilience and enthusiasm
- Connect with your creativity to tap into your innovative power and innate strength
- Feel inspired to connect, collaborate and communicate in new and fun ways with your colleagues and teams
- Reflect, celebrate and appreciate how we have all become more creative, resourceful, resilient and innovative individually and collectively over the last 4 years
- Understand how the workplace has shifted, and where we are headed

Presentations for school students:

Discovering magic in the unexpected
How curiosity helps you create a career with passion
Embrace your fear to become exceptional
Communicate with confidence to express your authenticity

Corporate Entertainment

Additionally, Jordana offers the following after-dinner corporate entertainment:
Corporate comedy
Corporate mentalism
Corporate magic

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Jordana Borensztajn | Saxton Speakers

Jordana Borensztajn is a high-energy, vibrant and entertaining keynote speaker, MC, humourist, author, public speaking trainer and magician. In sharing her own creativity, humour, insights, lessons and learnings, Jordana activates the imagination and curiosity of event delegates. Jordana's enthusiasm and boundless energy during keynote presentations, workshops and MC is infectious. Jordana presents on - Reignite Your Work Mojo - Bring Magic Into Your Workplace - Express with Confidence, Joy and Authenticity - Master of Ceremonies (With a comedy twist!) - Next Generation Communication - Build an Authentic, Creative and Memorable Brand on Social Media

Jordana Borensztajn | Event MC Showreel 2024

Jordana Borensztajn | Creativity, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing | Saxton Speakers

Jordana Borensztajn is a Public Speaking Trainer, Presentation Skills Coach, Keynote Speaker, MC, Author, Humourist and Social Media Strategist. Jordana inspires, educates and entertains with high-energy, insightful, action-packed and vibrant in-person and virtual keynote presentations, workshops and training programs. Jordana draws on her experience as a comedian to use humour and storytelling to engage and connect with individuals, and audiences both large and small. Her energetic stage presence and enthusiasm captivates and adds a memorable point of difference to events and conferences. Jordana Borensztajn's experience includes being a News Corp Australia journalist, working as online music editor, content producer and social media manager at Nova Entertainment, speaking at corporate conferences around the world, performing two sold-out shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and running a schools program that explores online safety for students. Jordana's first book, Capture My Attention: How to Stand Out Online with Creative Content, taught business owners, entrepreneurs and marketers how to build their personal and professional brands with captivating digital content. Her second book, 21 Steps to Become an Awesome Public Speaker, is a fun and engaging pocketbook, filled with tips, techniques and strategies to help people overcome their fear of public speaking. Jordana Borensztajn draws on her diverse media and communications background to deliver high-impact keynotes and presentations, training sessions, and workshops on a range of topics including: - Public speaking - Presentation skills training - Connection across the generations - Personal branding - Creative social media marketing - Connecting and collaborating digitally - and much more. Jordana Borensztajn has been featured on Channel 10's The Living Room, A Current Affair, Nova 100, ABC Radio National, WIN News, Channel 31, and across the Herald Sun, mX, the Sunda

Jordana Borensztajn | Reignite Your Work Mojo: Finding Motivation, Inspiration And Excitement In The New (New) Normal

The Secret to Joy is Hidden in Plain Sight | Jordana Borensztajn | TEDxMornington

What's the fastest way to experience joy and wonder? What do we discover about ourselves when we give ourselves permission to play? In this colourful and vibrant personal story, Jordana shares the tale of how she unexpectedly became a magician – and the profound insights she learnt through this journey. Little did Jordana know at the time, she unearthed a potent pot of gold. Not only did she fall head over heels in love with magic, but it became the vehicle through which she rediscovered and reclaimed a profound sense of happiness, joy and meaning. In this talk, Jordana shares the discoveries that emerged when she allowed herself to fully immerse in play, and how this tiny act transformed her whole world. Jordana learnt that when we free ourselves from our own limitations, we experience a world filled with curiosity, wonder, and brand new possibilities. When we don’t inhibit ourselves with our own limiting beliefs, true magic unfolds. Whether through magic, or any other form of play, the secret to experiencing true joy is just one step away. Jordana Borensztajn is a magician of possibilities, a communications expert, and a corporate humourist. Jordana is inspired by inspiring others. Her mission is to empower as many people as possible with confidence, joy and laughter, so they can share their most authentic self with the world. Jordana Borensztajn is a multi-talented magician, mentalist, global speaker, conference MC, and humourist. Jordana is inspired by inspiring others. Her mission is to empower as many people as possible with confidence and joy so they can share their most authentic self with the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Feedback

As the first keynote speaker on Day 1 of the conference, Jordana's energetic, fun and inspirational presentation set the mood for the entire conference and provided content that was referred ... keep reading to throughout the conference. Jordana's presentation made the delegates feel welcome and prepared them for an engaging and informative conference. Jordana's pre-work and research on the records management industry was on point, as she tailored her presentation to suit the audience. RIMPA would happily recommend her for any industry conference Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia

The pocket rocket' that people instantly warm to, Jordana has the unique ability to take people out of their comfort zone and have fun in the process! Jordana was very professional, going above and beyond from start to finish. I would happily recommend her.

The Business Centre Pilbara

Jordana was awesome. She really did her research, hit the brief spot on and took day 2 of our conference to the next level. Her attention to detail was amazing, she engaged with numerous people in CUA to get the stories, information and lingo to make it feel like she was part of our team. Jordana is a very funny lady, had the audience laughing and achieved everything we expected plus more. I would highly recommend Jordana for her passion, attention to detail and most of all her great sense of humour.

Credit Union Australia

The audience was actively engaged due to Jordana's dynamic speaking ability and interactive presentation style. Also, through combining humour, and an informal but highly focused keynote presentation, Jordana demonstrated good communications principles and how social and digital media has changed the world. Jordana gave our audience immediately useful steps to take-away. True learning took place. The audience left feeling excited and motivated.

Vet Development Centre

The Business Centre, Pilbarra

From the very first briefing call Jordana has been an absolute pleasure to deal with. In fact, like no other. She really engaged and learned about our group which was evident on the day. Her energy is a breath of fresh air, although her request for me to capture a photo proved difficult. She doesn't stand still long enough! Getting down amongst the audience is something that particularly works well to keep the group engaged. She was wonderful and I'll be thinking of ways to have her back in the future, even if on a smaller workshop level.

National Mortgage Brokers

Jordana facilitated a one day pitching/presenting' workshop for the best of our best, during a multiple day training program. Her unique style kept everyone fully engaged through the entire day, which was incredible as there were people from all over the Asia-Pacific-Japan Region. She got everyone so enthusiastic about what they were learning, that the Japanese speakers attempted to present back in English! Jordana took a group of very competent communicators and made them much better. I will definitely be asking her to help us again and I can highly recommend her as a highly skilled trainer and communicator, and a pleasure to work with.

Dell EMC

Jordana was a keynote speaker at our Summit 2019. She is a highly engaging and entertaining presenter and her energy is extraordinary! She delivered an outstanding presentation that combined humour and great practical content about building a social media strategy and presence specific to our industry. Jordana was a dream to work with. From the very outset, we were impressed with her professionalism and easy-going nature.

Real Estate Institute of Queensland

Jordana delivered an inspiring presentation. Through her energy on stage, combined with her sense of humour, the session was very engaging. Feedback from our delegates was extremely positive. They felt they were walking away with new gained knowledge and motivation to start working on their social media strategy straight away.

Cruise Lines International Association, Australasia

Jordana was amazing. She really put thought into tailoring the presentation for our specific audience and consulted us along the way. Her presentation was active, engaging, funny and informative. I would highly recommend her.

Australian Podiatry Association

An afternoon with the magical Jordana away from the complexity of a major health service and its 2+ years of COVID challenges was awesome. Card games, mystery and fun were all features on the Borensztajn menu; our clinicians and operational leaders filled with the excitement of younger people as they focused on their arts and crafts in the warm sunlight. The few hours spent in the wonder of magic lifted the mood whilst the jokes and laughter flowed throughout the performance. Thank you Jordana for taking us all back to a time when the wonder of magic was the only problem to solve.

Eastern Health

The only brief we gave Jordana was to end our 2-day conference with a boom! And Jordana did just that! She left our audience in a mountain of laughter, wonder and inspiration! Up until the event, Jordana was fantastic to work with - she was proactive, professional, ensured she understood our organisation and our values, and really showed how much she loves what she does. Jordana is full of energy and extremely funny - our staff were fully engaged and energized. Her session entailed useful life tips, arts and crafts that brought to life the child in all of us and a whole lot of magic! She showed us how anyone can learn new skills and become great at them. Thanks a ton Jordana!

OET

We were absolutely delighted with the enthusiasm and genuine joy Jordana brought to our event! The communication prior to the event was a breeze and Jordana met our brief perfectly. It was so refreshing to not be served the same old tired jokes about people, but instead to be wowed, awed and inspired with magic, thoughtful insights and great energy. We were taken on a journey that resulted in a group of people, that are usually quite reserved, running to craft-filled tables trying to build the best Octopus! The resulting laughter and joy was real, and more than one person thanked Jordana personally on the night for her contagious enthusiasm. A memorable experience for everyone. Jordana is inspiring, humorous and a professional entertainer for the modern day. Simply Wonder-Full'. Thank you again for bringing your magic to our Conference.

Advanced Business Manager

Just book Jordana. We wanted a keynote that would bring the energy & fun to an otherwise fairly content heavy conference. Jordana brought this in spades (diamonds, hearts and clubs) Magic and a message all wrapped up in an entertaining and absorbing package. Our delegates left our conference with a twinkle in their eye and a spring in their step. Jordana was an absolute joy to work with.

Mackay Region Chamber of Commerce

Jordana was a massive hit at our conference! Our sales team held their conference for the first time in 4 years and we booked Jordana for some after dinner entertainment. She was able to keep the vibes high and the laughs rolling in. It was amazing to see her entertain the whole team and even win over some of the magic sceptics in the room. She was wonderful to deal with, from start to finish. I am looking forward to the next event we can hold, so we can book her again.

McCain Foods