How to Magically Connect with Anyone
🏆 2025 Cicero Speechwriting Award: Social Justice
🥇 2025 Anthem Awards: Community Voice Winner
🥈 2025 Anthem Awards Silver Winner: Humanitarian Action
Brian Miller: The Connection Specialist
Everyone wants to feel heard, understood and valued. Sure, we live in a divisive age- but the real problem is that we treat interactions as transactions. Yet when we feel truly seen by others we become deeply connected with ourselves, our families, and our community. In this session, we will learn what true human connection is, and how to make better and more meaningful connections in our personal and professional lives.
Attendees will:
- Develop an understanding of what human connection really means in the context of an increasingly distracted, divisive, and digitized world;
- Be able to define the communication skill ‘perspective-taking’ and how it differs from empathy;
- Identify and demonstrate the 4 steps in the E.A.R.S. system for mastering the art of active listening;
- Become inspired to carry the human connection revolution into their homes, communities, and workplaces.
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Additional Presentations from Brian Miller:
How to Magically Connect with Anyone
Keynote
30-75 min
Everyone wants to feel heard, understood and valued. Sure, we live in a divisive age- but the real problem is that we treat interactions as transactions. Yet when we feel truly seen by others we become deeply connected with ourselves, our organization, and our mission. In this session, we will learn what true human connection is, and how to make better and more meaningful connections in our personal and professional lives.
The Magic of Networking: How to Introduce Yourself to Anyone, Anywhere
Workshop │ 60-90 min
Everyone hates networking. And yet, meeting new people is critical to our personal and professional success. In this session you’ll learn practical ways to start a conversation in any situation, how to ask meaningful follow-up questions to quickly move beyond small talk, and four ways to remember someone’s name. Plus, a guaranteed one-liner for professional networking events guaranteed to make people lean in, engage, and connect further.
Connect Like a Magician: How to Instantly Earn Trust
Team Building Exercise │ 90 min
Magicians do the impossible: We turn antagonistic relationships into meaningful connections, often in the span of mere minutes. In this session, you’ll learn the real secrets. Small groups will each be given the instructions and props required to perform a powerful piece of magic. Work together with your teammates to learn the trick and develop a script that invites the audience into a story, lowering their walls, and creating room for wonder and connection. You’ll not only walk away with a practical understanding of the “perspective-taking” technique, but a magic trick you perform for friends and colleagues!
