
Engaging audiences, increasing comprehension, drawing live as he speaks for over two decades.
Paul Hughes is an internationally renown speaker with over 12 years of experience in over 35 countries. The unique quality of Paul Hughes’s performance is his ‘how’: Paul Hughes draws as he speaks along ten meters of paper. This unique visual verbal experience, where audiences are captivated by the revealing of stories along ten meters of paper, he calls Ten Meters of Thinking. Ten Meters of Thinking is not a speech. Ten Meters of Thinking is a performance.
Ten Meters of Thinking is designed to create individual and organizational transformation. In our interconnected world transformation is needed as we are now facing global challenges never faced before. Paul believes that these challenges are in essence design challenges and we can only feel empowered to address them once we embrace transformation and realize that the past is there for us to analyze, however the future is not and remains for us to design. ‘Design’, Paul says, ‘is now the difference that makes the difference’. Paul Hughes believes that success is not a point, success is a path. Along that path, Ten Meters of Thinking offers timeless stories, to be applied to timely contexts. By revealing stories, new visions and new narratives are created for us to live by.
For over a decade, Paul has spoken to thousands of people across a rich variety of educational, organizational and governmental bodies. While there is a rich variety of topics he speaks about, there are central themes which run throughout the content, specifically leadership, innovation and communication. The Circle of Leadership, The Circle of Innovation and The ABC of Communication are performances, key to individual and organizational transformation.
Every performance is tailored to each audience. In every Ten Meters of Thinking Paul applies timeless content to a timely context to create individual and organizational transformation.
“We kennen Peter als een regelmatige spreker op de door ons jaarlijks georganiseerde, en druk bezochte, Frontier Symposia. Peter staat bekend om zijn bevlogenheid en enthousiasme om de informatie van de Maya kalender te onderzoeken en met de mensen te delen. Tijdens zijn presentaties merken we dat de aanwezigen zeer geïnteresseerd luisteren. Daarom en om de enorme hoeveelheid kennis die hij heeft, waardoor hij ieder jaar weer met nieuwe en aanvullende informatie komt, nodigen we hem met plezier ieder jaar weer uit voor het Frontier Symposium. Dat is voor weinigen weggelegd, daar we graag ieder jaar nieuwe sprekers op ons platform willen hebben.”
"Paul heeft een inspirerend verhaal gehouden voor zo'n 300 medewerkers van MBO-instellingen. Deze medewerkers hebben allemaal een rol in digitalisering en het doorvoeren van veranderingen binnen de MBO instellingen. Verhaal sloot hier erg goed op aan."
“I had the opportunity to work with Paul Hughes on a leadership programme for our top 60 global leaders. What an inspiring and unique experience! The participants were caught by his presentation, which was customized to our leadership strategy. Paul is able to give his audience a complete different view on leadership by storytelling. A great pleasure to listen to and to learn from!”