IKIGAI KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Wanting an Ikigai Keynote Speaker?
Looking for a keynote speaker who will not only move your audience and inspire change, but deliver accurate insights into the ikigai concept?
You don't want your keynote speaker misinforming your audience with romantic notions and appropriated westernised interpretations of ikigai.
Questions to ask your Ikigai Keynote Speaker:
- Have you lived in Japan?
- Can you speak Japanese?
- Have you read the Japanese literature on the ikigai concept?
- Have you spent years researching the ikigai concept?
- Have you built connections with Japan's leading ikigai academics?
- Are you published on the ikigai concept?
If your keynote speaker can answers yes to these questions, then you have found someone qualified who you can trust to deliver an accurate and inspiring ikigai keynote speech
If they answer with No for most of them, be concerned.
Beware of Pretenders
IKIGAI KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Be concerned If your Ikigai Keynote Speaker proposes the following Western appropriations:
- Ikigai is the sweet spot of a Venn diagram
- Ikigai is a concept and way of life from Okinawa
- Ikigai is the secret to a long an happy life
- Ikigai means you never retire
- Ikigai is your bliss
If your keynote speaker, an "expert" on the concept, is peddling the above, it means that they aren't even aware that what they are presenting is factually incorrect and nothing but westernised romantic notions of the ikigai concept.
While these above ideas might seem inspiring on the surface, they are at best Western romantic notions that offer nothing practicable or actionable to your audience.
You' will be hiring someone misinforming your audience. They should have no place on your stage.
Ikigai goes beyond these misconceptions and involves daily rituals, living your values, building intimate relationships, fulfilling your life roles, engaging in activities with a sense of purpose, expressing your creative self and pursuing a life goal with a healthy sense of urgency.
Nicholas Kemp ‧ The Ikigai Coach
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