Motivation, Humour in business, Personality Styles, Communication. Auckland based. $2,500 to $3,500.00 Speaking style; Humorous, warm, relaxed, interactive

Jim Hainey established Drake Personnel in New Zealand. He then successfully ran the company in North America and Australasia before moving on to the speaking circuit in 1991. He bought Speakers New Zealand in 1994.

When you look at the feedback sheets from any of Jim Hainey’s presentations the one comment that comes through is “humour”. One client said “I’m not sure whether you’re a stand up comedian or a business speaker but your presentation was fantastic. Everyone really enjoyed it”

These comments are understandable! Jim Hainey does comedy to heighten audience attention, participation and retention and his subject “self motivation”. So you end up with a comedy routine based on business and self motivation.

Jim does not believe in the "talking head" concept of speaking nor does he beleive in "death by Power Point". He does believe in taking the speaker into the audience and ensuring interaction and knowledge transfer is the key. Ever noticed how some of the best material from a speaker comes out during the Q&A segment. All of Jim's presentation is Q&A.

He is also a much sought after speaker on customer service. His interactive sessions clearly identify the key elements of service from the inside out the only way that true change can take pleace.

Whether it's motivation or customer service Jim uses audience exercises, which he has developed, to ensure that the message learnt is not forgotten and can be used immediately.

As an example, when exmining self-talk he will show how it works by having members of the audience use it to hypnotise themselves. "Mind blowing"

Jim loves humour and motivation. He has studied both for all of his adult life. He was a top class competitive Stillwater swimmer and surf swimmer. Went on to coach swimmers and learnt early that in order to teach anybody anything they need to be in the right frame of mind - and awake!. This is why he learnt to use humour.

He also pioneered "Psycho Cybernetics" in New Zealand. The study of the self image and how this massively affects performance.

He even won an “open mike” competition in a Toronto comedy club in 1980 using business as the routine. “Humour in Business” he dubbed it. In North America he addressed many organizations and earned a reputation as the motivator from down under on local TV.

This approach has taken him around the world in business. Not bad for someone from the southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia who left school – really early! And we don’t mean in the morning!

From professional swimming coach to top salesman, to top manager then running Drake Personnel in New Zealand, North America and Australia with line responsibilities in Europe. His approach never varied all that much.

A Sydney Morning Herald reporter asked him one “Why have you done so well?” This was for an article in 1984 on why Australian mangers were running international companies. He paused for a moment and answered “Well I simply find people who want to do the job and let them get on with it.”

At Drake he made sure that his managers hired people who could do the job and had “willingness” and then he taught the supervisors and managers to get out of their way. This approach enabled him to establish Drake as the number one personnel services company in New Zealand and turned the company’s fortunes around in North America.

Jim thinks that too may companies hire the wrong people for the job and then try to change them. He laughs at this approach!

Today Jim doesn’t have a lot of time for speaking, what with running a speaking bureau, but if you’re lucky enough to have him at your conference you’re in for a real treat. He really knows about motivation! Not the hype you sometimes get but the way it really works and he’s not afraid to tell it as it is.

He did this for 2 years as the resident motivator on TVNZ and his articles are still requested for business publications.

He likes to work with a group from 2-4 hours but if time is short then 60 – 90 minutes will get the right results. It takes him 15 minutes to say hello. He may not have all the all answers but he sure knows what questions to ask!

He has appeared, on stage, with some of the top speakers in the world, including;

Denis Waitley
Zig Zigler
Alan Pease
Tom Hopkins Jnr
Brian Tracey
W Mitchell
Michael E Gerber
The late Jim Rohn


Jim has held the following positions in addition to his business appointments;

Director The Auckland Regional Chamber of Commerce
Director The Toronto Business Association
President The Federation of Personnel Services New Zealand
Paul Harris Fellow from Rotary International
New Zealand representative International Labour Organisation - Geneva
Affiliate The Canadian Psychological Association
Charter Vice President The National Speakers Association of New Zealand.