MC & hosting
Not the bloke holding the mic.
An MC's job isn't to be the most memorable thing in the room. It's to make everything else more memorable. Steve holds the day together so your speakers land better, your run sheet holds, and nobody in the audience ever feels the wobble.
What you're actually hiring
Funny when it lands, genuine the rest of the time. The room relaxes because he's clearly enjoying it too, and a relaxed room gives your speakers a much better day.
Runs late, speaker's a no-show, tech dies, someone's had a few too many. He rolls with it and the audience never sees the seam. CSIRO keep him on call to parachute into rooms at short notice for exactly this reason.
Real questions, answers that go somewhere, and a gentle handle on the one panellist who won't stop talking. Eighteen years of facilitation is why this bit is easy for him.
They know where they are, where they're going, and that somebody's got the day. That's the whole job, and it's the bit most people notice only when it's missing.
Why he can hold it
Facilitation is the craft sitting underneath the hosting, and it's the one he trained in. Strategy days, hard conversations, rooms that had gone flat and needed rescuing. Hosting isn't performing at a room, it's reading one and adjusting live. That's a different skill to being funny with a microphone, which is why the day holds together when it starts moving.
He's not there to be the best thing in the room. He's there to get the best thing out of it.
No diva nonsense, no fixed bit he performs at you regardless of what your day needs.What he hosts
Multi-day, multi-track, kept human from open to close.
Pace, warmth and timing, so every winner gets their moment.
Internal days that need momentum without the cringe.
Real conversations, not a queue of questions nobody asked.
The people at home get held just as well as the room does.
Rooms with heart, hosted like they matter, because they do.
See him do it
How it works
Your run sheet, your speakers, your sponsors, and what the day needs to feel like. Names and pronunciations included.
Your run sheet lives in his head, not on a card he's reading off. That's why the links feel like conversation rather than admin.
On the day he's already solving the thing that's about to go sideways, and you get to enjoy your own event.
What organisers say
"Steve is one of the best I have seen."
Kyla Campbell · CSIRO[ Testimonial ] An organiser on how the day ran, and how little they had to worry about.
Name · Organisation[ Testimonial ] Someone on how he handled the moment it all went sideways.
Name · OrganisationFormats & investment
Anywhere in Australia, in person or virtual. Further afield if the event's worth the flight. Indicative only. The final number depends on format, travel and how much of the day he's holding.
A session, an awards night, or half a conference day.
Open to close, including panels and the bits between.
Conferences that need one thread running all the way through.
Tell Steve the date and what your day needs to feel like. He'll come back to you himself, usually the same week.
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