The energetic personality you want front and centre at your event, Yvonne Adele’s humour and enthusiasm are contagious. Her insights add value and resonance to ensure the event meets your goals and the expectations of delegates and sponsors.
Beyond smart introductions and smooth transitions, Yvonne stays connected in her role as MC, keeping your program on track.
Agile and quick-witted, she can intervene with tact to get the best out of speakers, or leap into the audience and drive engagement.
Planners love Yvonne’s hands-on approach.
Sponsors love her research and respect.
Delegates love her charm and energy.
Yvonne’s professional journey started with Microsoft in the 90s, travelling the world supporting education teams. She returned to Australia with a mission and a media profile as Ms Megabyte, demystifying tech across our most popular TV shows and magazines.
This profile naturally led to speaking and then MC invitations. Yvonne is now an inspiring, positive and lively annual presence at many Australian and international events. She engages audiences from the first minute to the closing address, bringing insight and relevance to every session, activity and break.
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MC & Host
Yvonne’s essential ingredients for event success:MC & Host
- Energy
Yvonne is up. Refreshing. She’s an invigorating breath of fresh air. She has a bright smile and a thoroughly energetic presence.
- Experience
Yvonne’s wisdom, insight and sharp intelligence will bring your event to life, and she knows exactly how to keep things moving.
- Engagement
Not just an on-stage presence, Yvonne attends workshops and networking activities. She is the secret sauce in your event recipe.
- Reputation
Yvonne is highly regarded for taking the raw elements of your day and weaving them into a compelling and engaging narrative.
- Support
Yvonne stays connected throughout your event, contributing her experience in support of your planners, teams, speakers, partners, sponsors and delegates.
-Action
Yvonne can contribute speciality knowledge in a range of domains, drawing connections, and sparking practical action.
Clients
Yvonne has facilitated over 500 events and conferences for Australia’s largest organisations for more than 20 years. At many annual events, she’s a reliable, highly respected and anticipated resident feature.
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Yvonne Adele | MC & Event Host | Saxton Speakers
10 out of 10….Yvonne brought energy and engagement to our conference. She connected the content well and supported time management and ad hoc requests. She quickly became ‘one of the team’. ... keep reading Bridgestone
Organising conferences can be a bit stressful! To have an experienced, capable, resilient, funny, and highly professional emcee at the helm took a great deal of pressure off me as the CEO. Yvonne engaged the audience from the minute she stood up, to the end of the day.
A sincere thank you for your working with us again this year, and at such short notice. Thank you for everything you bring to the event, your professionalism, your skills as an MC, your ability to make others smile, and your smile. You are amazing! Thank you again.
Loved your energy, knowledge and facilitation, your professionalism and how you moderated the sessions and looped the conversations back to each speaker so smoothly. I will definitely be calling on you again!
Yvonne is not JUST the person you hire to introduce your next speaker and keep time. She’s the person who brings together the strands of all the speakers, builds them into a narrative, and takes you on the journey to the next one. She’s armed with research, deeply immersed in the topic at hand, and has a genuine passion for what she does that everyone can see. Good fun with a wicked sense of humour, you would be hard pressed to find a better MC for your event than Yvonne.
Yvonne is in a league of her own. She keeps the audience engaged, she is organised and clear, quick on her feet and brings her own kind of ‘gravitational pull’ that focuses the audience on the content.
Yvonne played a crucial role on our team as MC/Speaker for over 7 years. She does her research and really cares about the industry. Our audience, staff, exhibitors and speakers love her. Yvonne is professional, hard-working, loyal, and fast of mind and feet if anything goes south. We highly recommend Yvonne.
Insightful and entertaining, you captivated the audience. Your individual style and sense of theatre captured everyone’s attention and we were all talking about it the next day!
Yvonne’s energy, humour and enthusiasm were contagious, keeping us engaged and entertained throughout the day. Yvonne had a way of making even the driest topics interesting and relevant. Highly recommend Yvonne to anyone looking for a dynamic and engaging MC.
You made the event run very smoothly and you injected entertainment and fun into it. Thank you again Yvonne and we hope to be working with you again.