Dave Crane is the winner of the prestigious Al Arouwad / MTV Award for Best Motivational Speaker in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

Dave is a former BBC journalist leading in motivational training, team building and development within the corporate sector, and working with some of the region’s best-known brands for the past 25 years.

Not only is he a motivational speaker, but also an NLP Master Practitioner, certified hypnotherapist, stage hypnotist and life-coach who employs cognitive strategies to build successful and productive teams for organizations.

Dave’s key focus is in delivering quality, incorporating tactics that boost productivity and effectiveness with a measurable ROI and learning outcomes.

Dave is very active on the international public speaking circuit, hosting awards, private functions, presenting at a range of regional keynote speaker engagements, industry expos and corporate seminars on a variety of business-related topics. He is often engaged in television-related projects and direct events and corporate promotions.

Throughout his career, Dave has worked with some of the giants of entertainment such as Bruce Willis, James Brown, Sylvester Stallone, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Robert Plant, Enrique Iglesias, Sting, Jean Alesi, Jim Courier, Stefan Edberg, and Kanye West. His events have been broadcast live to over 8 billion people and performed to audiences of over 50,000 people in the stadium. His vast entertainment and media experience and connections, enable him to play an integral role in facilitating some of the ME region’s flagship sporting and entertainment events such as Emirates Airlines Rugby Sevens, International Beach Soccer, Desert Rock Festival, Speedcar Series and Legends Rock Dubai Tennis. Dave works exclusively with decision makers of some of the world’s biggest brands and companies. His clients include some of the world’s most familiar names from Google, Emirates Airline, HSBC, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Toshiba, Panasonic, and Samsung. He is a prolific writer and influential blogger, has presented keynote motivational seminars at prestigious events across the globe (most recently in NASA and TedX), changed thousands of lives and is now going to change yours! Now is the time to become a more effective communicator.