Vance Morris explains how speakers can create Disney-level experiences by staying true to themselves. Authenticity beats gimmicks. When your performance style, language, and energy match who you actually are, audiences connect deeper and moments feel genuinely magical.
How can speakers, in your opinion, create a Disney-level experience without it feeling forced or gimmicky? And how do you do that in your talks?
Well, I mean, it's got to be congruent with who you are.
Yeah.
So if you're not naturally gregarious or fun or, like, I speak, this is how I speak when I'm on stage. I'm very blue-collar. plain-spoken. I don't use big fancy HR words and things like that. And so, I can stand to be a little goofy. I do a lot of self-deprecating humor because I've got plenty in my past that I can make fun of. Engaging the audience is one of the things. I mean, like, I never will come up on stage just from the side when they announce me. I have walk-on music. Everybody should have walk-on music. Um, and so they'll play my song and I'll run through the audience doing high fives and things like that just to get people, because they've been sitting there for a couple hours, you know, they're like, oh, thank God I'm moving around a little bit. I make the joke that, you know, my wife thinks that I'm just flying around the world, um, going to hotels and, you know, drinking beer and eating bonbons. So let's at least prove to her I'm working. And so we'll, you know, I'll do a selfie. You let your personality shine through. I think that's what. Really, a lot of speakers seem to think that they've got to be somebody else when they're on stage, as opposed to who they really are. And if you get off stage and they start talking to you and you're not like you were on stage, there's that incongruency in messaging and you start to lose them.
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