Professional Speakers Australia’s (PSA) ‘Breakthrough Speaker of the Year Award’ is designed to recognise and identify emerging speakers who have achieved recent extraordinary prominence and success.
Nominees and awardees are individuals who have captured the attention and fascination of the marketplace. More than simply an overnight success or flavour of the moment, the winning speaker may well have been speaking for an extended period of time but has recently gained traction or achieved a breakthrough.
On Saturday 23 March 2019, PSA held its annual convention at Kingscliff, New South Wales, and honoured its top achievers.
Watch Daryl win the award and thank someone very special in the audience who has been with him at every step of his journey.
On the evening of Wednesday 16 May 2018, something very special took place at Parliament House Brisbane. It was an event for Lifeline hosted by the Minister for Police and Minister for Corrective Services, Honourable Mark Ryan MP and attended by audience over 200 strong, including the the Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Jackie Trad MP.
‘Full Investiture Ceremony – Government House, 6 May 2016’
‘The Kerrie Nairn Scholarship Experience’ – PSA Summit Talk
‘Award for Policeman Involved in Shooting’ – Nine Network News Brisbane, 11 April 2015
‘Investiture Ceremony, Group Bravery Citation Segment – Government House, 6 May 2016’
Once a year, Australia’s professional speakers award a scholarship to one emerging speaker, who has demonstrated the most potential to become an outstanding speaker. Daryl Elliott Green was only a member of their organisation, Professional Speakers Australia, for seven months when he learned of the ‘Kerrie Nairn Scholarship for Public Speaking.’
Daryl thought this opportunity may be suited to someone like him. However, he quickly learned professionals in the field were applying for the scholarship – in fact, there were nine submissions. Daryl’s heart sank, thinking ‘I’m just a copper.’ He had sat in the shower in the past and felt sorry for himself. But he had learned that only action got him anywhere in life. So he put pen to paper and with the advice of Mike applied for the scholarship.
Scholarship applicants were required to fly to Canberra for a gala event, where the announcement of the scholarship was made. No one on Daryl’s table knew he had applied. See what happened? Learn how an unfortunate twist of fate turned into an amazing opportunity? See why Daryl believes, ‘What you put out in life, you get back, it just might take some time!’
It was a crime that left three Queensland Police Officers, Chris Mulhall, Sharnelle Cole and Daryl Elliott Green, fighting for their lives and north Brisbane in lock down. Australia Day 2000, gunman Nigel Parodi ambushed the officers and shot them all multiple times. He then vanished and triggered one of Australia’s largest manhunts in its history. Fifteen years on, Daryl has been recognised for talking on resilience. He has been awarded by Australia’s peak speaking body, Professional Speakers Australia, the prestigious Kerrie Nairn Scholarship for Public Speaking. See and listen to Daryl in uniform, at the location of the shooting, 15 years on, discussing how speaking helped him and now how he is helping others imparting hard learned lessons of resilience.
On 19 August 2015, Daryl Elliott Green was officially notified by the Secretary to the Governor-General, that he, Chris Mulhall, Sharnelle Cole and Brett Price, had been awarded the Group Bravery Citation by the Australian Bravery Decorations Council. The officers were recognised for their actions after Nigel Parodi ambushed and opened fired on the three of them, 15 years ago. Listen to Daryl talk about the strength of the camaraderie that got them through on that fateful night.
Bravery awards for some of Queensland Police’s finest. Sergeant Chris Mulhall, Constable Sharnelle Cole and Constable Daryl Elliott Green were all awarded the ‘Valour Award’ for their actions on 1 May 2000. Learn why they earned Queensland Police Service’s highest award for bravery.
