Peter Christie | SpeakerHub

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Current position (1)

Big Chief Talking Bull

Not The Bored Room

Achievements (2)

Best MBA elective - Storytelling - a Wits Business School

There are a number of elective course on offer to MBA students at Wits Business School. The elective which receives the highest rating from students wins an award granted on an annual basis. Peter has won this award on two occasions.

Best short story - The Star newspaper Weekend supplement

A story submitted by Peter Christie to The Star newspaper's Weekend supplement won the prize, from hundreds of submissions, for the overall best entry.

Degrees (1)

Industrial Psychology

University of the Witwatersrand

1985 to 1987

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Big Chief Talking Bull has over thirty years of public speaking experience, using a variety of traditional and contemporary stories to help make the world a better place. After five years of corporate experience, for the past three decades Peter has run Not The Bored Room, a strategic storytelling consultancy which specialises in storytelling for leadership, change and transformation and creative corporate communication purposes. With a master's degree in industrial psychology, he is the author of seven books on storytelling in organisations and has worked with hundreds of corporate clients, from large-scale multinationals to small family-owned businesses. The Big Chief was a lead faciltitator at the first global Storytelling in Organisations workshop, run in 1997 at the International School of Storytelling, in Forest Row, Sussex, England. Peter is a popular charismatic communicator, with his Storytelling in Organisations MBA elective at Wits Business School, one of the best in South Africa, still among the most popular and enduring electives on the MBA program since it's inception a quarter-of-a-century ago. His approach to keynote speaking is to ensure that they are crackling with energy and possibility. Among current favourite topics is 'Skeleton Woman - Addressing Toxic Masculinity in the Workplace,' 'Jumping Mouse - Engendering Change and Transformation in the Workplace,' 'Why there are no Tigers in Borneo - Corporate Culture in Crisis,' and 'The Blackamoor - Overcoming Racial Prejudice and Stereotyping in the Workplace.' Big Chief Talking Bull sends warm smoke signals your way. He would love to speak at your next event, being comfortable with crowds numbering in the tens, hundreds or thousands.

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Presentations

Presentations (4)

Skeleton Woman, Switch Bitch and Gawain and the Loathsome Lady -

Confronting Toxic Masculinity at the Workplace in the Age of the #MeToo Movement.

In a recent article in the Financial Times, writer Madison Marriage describes a corporate event at the Dorchester Hotel in London which she attended as akin to being ‘thrown into a pit of randy business boys.’ Many working women would agree with such a sentiment. So would some men.

In this new, original and crackling corporate keynote, the Big Chief Talking Bull dons his headdress and tasselled waistcoat, and moves into dangerous terrain, spitting fire on toxic masculinity.

In telling two traditional stories – Inuit and Arthurian legends - and some modern-day anecdotes, this captivating storyteller distils the essence of the gender-related problem and how it can be overcome. The presentation is not for the faint-hearted and superficial. But if you’re serious about confronting the issue at the nub of gender stereotyping and prejudice, this presentation will embolden your bravery.

Mice Who Make It - Personal Change and Transformation

In this cracking and captivating keynote, Big Chief Talking Bull tells the story of Jumping Mouse, a North American legend, and applies the beautiful story's great lessons to personal change and transformation. Estimated to be aged in the millennia, the story is a wonderful example of mythologist Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey story archetype. The Big Chief has told the story on hundreds of occasions to a wide variety of audiences, mostly in business settings, all of whom are inspired by the story and its passionate telling.

Why There Are No Tigers in Borneo - Corporate Culture in Crisis

In this mesmerising, cracking keynote, Big Chief Talking Bull tells a traditional tale from the North Pacific Ocean islands, which works as an insightful exposition of why corporate culture is in crisis, and how to evolve new ways of working which are in tune with modern times. Aspects of corporate culture including leadership and management, problem-solving and decision-making, and creativity and innovation, are all cast in a new light which shows the way. As the great rock band Queen would have it, 'It's a kind of magic!'

We Need New Leadership! The King, the Cat and the Fiddle

In this cracking and challenging presentation, Big Chief Talking Bull entertainingly tells, with high audience participation, The King, the Cat and the Fiddle, an allegorical story penned by renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin and South African novelist Chrisopher Hope. The story challenges the power of accountants and the bottom-line in contemporary corporate culture, introducing the more potent influence of heroic leadership. The story challenges the audience to confront and interrogate their leadership focus, and suggests a new way of thinking about what causes followers to rally around a particular leader. Audiences should prepare themselves for a controversial debate and discussion.