Gavin Sharples

Gavin Sharples's Biography

Gavin Sharples is a danger to anyone who enjoys mediocrity and likes to uphold the status quo. Gavin is in your face, provocative and controversial. He slays sensibilities and gets in to your psyche to power you towards change. He will challenge, frustrate, intimidate and confront all your preconceived ideas and pet excuses.

Gavin Sharples has been called: a maverick, crazy, mad, intense, outspoken and creative, nice guy, not normal, naughty and passionate.
Gavin Sharples is one of South Africa’s biggest, busiest, most sought after platform speaker. Gavin attains “outstanding” ratings from delegates 90% of the time (5% no responses, and the other 5% from conservatives who's ideas were challenged and they disliked him for it). He has been on the speaking circuit since 1994 locally and internationally and speaks to over thousands of people in a year and gets standing ovations from coast to coast.
Gavin Sharples will always provide a “take home” message that can be used to get results immediately. Having run his own companies and worked with hundreds of corporate clients, he delivers meaningful messages and can pick up on any event or other speaker's activities on the agenda and build on a theme thereby giving more value to the whole event and cementing other ideas.
GAVIN SHARPLES is about change, innovation and doing things differently. He has easy, practical but certainly different ideas that work by liberating others' uniqueness. Breaking the ordinary and thinking out of the box is what he does best. He has also been described as a special, down to earth human being, committed to helping others succeed in life.
Gavin Sharples is a danger to anyone who enjoys mediocrity and likes to uphold the status quo. Gavin is in your face, provocative and controversial. He slays sensibilities and gets in to your psyche to power you towards change. He will challenge, frustrate, intimidate and confront all your preconceived ideas and pet excuses. Gavin will rip you from your cushy comfort zone. Not for the faint-hearted, Gavin Sharples is only interested in one thing and that is to equip you to go MAD and make a difference. Gavin Sharples is so potent he carries a government warning!
Gavin Sharples provokes, cajoles and incites you with an intense, dynamic, highly interactive “enter-trainment” experience. Gavin will frustrate your sensibilities, challenge your mediocrity and confront your hypocrisy. He will shake the very foundations of conformity upon which you have built your comfort zones. He is in your face and he invades your space with confrontational, controversial and irreverent ideas that slay the status quo and equip you to go out, get MAD and make a difference.
Dare to experience Gavin Sharples! You will never be the same again. He will provoke you, challenge you, offend and amuse you. Gavin is intense and irreverent, unconventional and controversial. He shatters your sensibilities, massacres your mediocrity and confronts conformity head-on. Not for the faint-hearted, Gavin will rip you from your comfort zone and power you towards change. Warning: This experience may lead to MADness - making a difference in your life and in your business.

3 Reasons why you should NOT (under any circumstances) invite Gavin Sharples to your event (or attend his presentations):

1. You are happy with a mediocre existence; enjoy maintaining the status quo, and dread change.
2. You do not want your business to grow and sales to increase.
3. The idea of laughing, having fun and learning at the same time sickens you.
If any of these apply, stay away, because Gavin Sharples will change your life, change your business and blow you away with an exciting, intense and dynamic enter-trainment experience that you will never forget!
If you are planning to take some time off work to slouch in a chair and doze while some guy drones on about how to improve your sales figures, marketing strategies that “really work”, blah, blah, blah, snore! Pick another speaker - because Gavin Sharples will shake you from your slumber, shatter your sensibilities and power you towards change. You may lose out on a few Zees on company time, but you won’t regret it! Gavin Sharples will challenge, confront, provoke and incite you. Once you have been blown away by the intense, dynamic, unconventional and irreverent interactive “enter-trainment” experience that is Gavin Sharples you will never be looking for time off from life again!