Emcee & event host
I keep your program on time, your backstage calm and every spotlight on the people you brought.
Run of show, day one: doors and welcome, opening remarks by your CEO, opening keynote, panel, break, awards for your top performers. Every segment on time, running late: zero minutes.
Your speakers get the spotlight. Your audience gets the moments.
And you finally get to breathe.
A great event has a hundred moving parts and one voice holding them together. That voice should never compete with your speakers, never make your audience the punchline, and never let anyone see the chaos behind the curtain.
That’s the job I take on when you hand me the mic, and I hand it right back to the people you brought. I script every introduction, own every transition and keep the room and backstage calm, so your speakers shine and your program runs exactly as you planned it. Even when it doesn’t.
Sylvie di Giusto, CSP, CPAE, is a professional event emcee and corporate host, and a keynote speaker in the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame. She emcees conferences, annual meetings, association events, leadership summits and awards programs, in person or virtually, in English or German, and can combine the role with one of her keynotes, Forever Human or Power of Choice.
Emcee
I host your program from the first welcome to the last goodbye.
Emcee plus keynote
One person carries your event: I deliver Forever Human or Power of Choice on the same stage, in 3D or on a regular stage.
Honestly? Nothing.
Throughout my corporate career I hosted conferences, leadership events and company-wide meetings, long before I ever stepped on a keynote stage. For my own profession, the National Speakers Association trusted me with its main stage at the 2018 Winter Conference, at Influence 2020, the annual convention we moved online overnight, and at Influence 2025, in front of a ballroom of professional speakers who notice every transition. That 2025 convention also earned me NSA’s Chair’s Award for Distinguished Service.
Five principles I bring to every program, learned on stages where nobody forgives a slow transition.
Every introduction, transition and handoff points at your speakers, your audience and your organization.
When backstage is calm, the stage flows.
You built this event for months. On the day, I absorb the chaos.
The only acceptable punchline is me.
Airtight preparation turns surprises into the moments people remember.
In their words, not ours.
She takes the time to learn about you, your audience, your conference. I’d put her right at the very top of the list.
All I could think the whole time was how many other people should be working with Sylvie for their event because what she does is so customized.
The absolute attention to detail, the going above and beyond, really making sure that we are fully customized, and really engaging with our content and our audience. I just can’t say enough good things.
I’m hearing in the hallways how they were just as impressed with her research into their company as they are with a 3D holograph, and that says a lot.
You’d think it’s really hard, but from the production side it wasn’t.
She worked with me putting personal touches on my presentation to fit into her technology, which is something I haven’t done with any other keynote before.
An emcee guides your audience through the program: the welcome, speaker introductions, transitions, timekeeping and the close. Behind the scenes, a good emcee keeps backstage calm, works hand in hand with your planner and AV team, and handles the unexpected so smoothly that nobody notices.
Yes. Many clients combine the two, so one person carries the program from the opening welcome to the closing message. I deliver Forever Human or Power of Choice on the same stage, in 3D or on a regular stage.
Your run of show becomes my script. I learn your organization, your speakers and your sponsors, write every introduction and transition, and rehearse with your team. That preparation is what lets me improvise gracefully when a speaker is late or the tech has other plans.
Yes. When the National Speakers Association had to move its 2020 annual convention online overnight, I was one of the hosts who carried it. On hybrid stages I keep the online audience as included as the people in the room.
In English or German, both fluent.
I am based in Tampa, Florida, and I travel constantly, across the United States and around the world.
Reach out to my team through the contact page and share your date, location and program. We will come back to you quickly.
