Professional MC Services by Steve Davis

An MC ensures smooth transitions, engages the audience, and reinforces key messages. Steve Davis’s approach is to imbue this work with thoughtful insights to achieve the outcomes noted by Carolyn Miller (Thrive Project, Gruen Transfer), who said he creates a sense of warmth and familiarity with the speakers, which helps to engage the audience.

Steve combines humour, professionalism, and strategic messaging from his multidisciplinary background. This adds nuance to his delivery. For example, a pure comedian might be entertaining but not ground their work in the business or marketing messaging important to the organisation. A warm and friendly MC might let things drag and not keep the event on time. And given he’s been in front of small and large groups in the business world many thousands of times in his 20+ years as a workshop presenter and speaker, his stagecraft is grounded in a quest to earn respect and trust, not swing in on the coat tails of celebrity and cash out on being a “known name”. He works hard for his money, as they say!

Steve meticulously plans and monitors the event schedule to ensure it runs smoothly. He is clear in his expectations with fellow speakers and should he need to intervene, it’s always done in a firm but friendly way, more like a velvet glove than an impatient tapping of the toes.

Yes. Everything Steve does is customised so that his approach aligns with your event’s theme and goals, and your organisational “voice” and style. That comes from years of “reading the audience” and, when he did talkback radio on Adelaide’s FIVEaa, having the audience give him direct feedback!

Character MCs like Professor Sebastian Longsword add a unique, entertaining element to the event. Everybody loosens up an little and relaxes when in the presence of the Professor. His disarming and eruditely cheeky banter helps people feel at ease and his networking exercises can melt even the hardest or most timid of hearts.

Steve uses humour, interactive segments, and relatable stories to captivate the audience, depending on the situation. One common rule of thumb is that he weaves the event’s or talk’s topic into his introductions of speakers, and draws from current events to further add relevance to the gathering. And don’t worry if your speaker has provided a long introductory bio full of jargon; the audience will get the engaging version!

Yes, Steve adapts his style to suit the tone and format of your event. One of the advantages of growing up with a dad as an Anglican priest is that he had to maintain a polite persona around the faithful. Later, in radio, he had to cover all manner of topics while respecting a general audience (unlike the anything goes model in the media today). Even in comedy clubs, he never enters vulgar territory, instead he pushes boundaries a little through euphamism and suggestion; always with a glint in his eye.

Yes, Steve is based in Adelaide but is available for events across Australia, and has done so, from the luxurious resorts of north Queensland to the most remote regions of the Northern Territory, from chilly Melbourne to most parts of Adelaide and South Australia.

Steve has experience with corporate events, conferences, and community events. He also does weddings and private events upon request.

Contact him through the website or via phone 0403022077 to discuss your event details and availability.