Keith Abraham

Keith Abraham has become the world’s premier thought leader on passionate performance and building passionate based cultures. Keith has been dedicated to researching, training and working with people to help them find their passion, harness it, and turn their passion into personal and professional capital.

Inspiring audiences in 23 countries for more than 20 years, with a client base of over 260 companies, it is no wonder that Keith has won numerous awards including the highest honour for professional speaking, the Nevin Award, and ‘Keynote Speaker of the Year’ in 2012. He is also the best-­selling author of 5 books, published in 12 languages, covering the areas of passion, goals, customer loyalty and focus.

Contact Keith     Email: ka@keithabraham.com.au    Phone: 0411 648 080

Anneli Blundell

Anneli’s on a mission to humanize the leadership landscape and change the way we see each other.

Known for her dynamic and engaging style, Anneli disarms her audiences with her natural charisma and cheeky banter. A skilful and fresh presenter, Anneli draws her audiences into a carefully crafted fabric of stories, insights and practical wisdom. She works hard to understand the challenges of her audience and tailors her unique presentations accordingly. Humour, relevance and a knack for practical reality are keys to her high levels of audience engagement and consistently outstanding feedback.

Anneli’s passion for decoding people and performance dynamics makes her a sought after speaker, mentor, and expert on interpersonal intelligence to help leaders build, influence, engagement and impact. She makes the complex job of understanding why people do what they do (and how to get the best out of them), both accessible and entertaining.

Contact Anneli     Email: ab@anneliblundell.com    Phone: 0423 023 032

Anthony Bonnici

With an extensive & unique range of keynote presentations, coaching programs and hands-on workshops, the Anthony Bonnici experience will leave your people inspired to make positive changes to their work and personal lives, and improve their performance & productivity by showing people how they CAN rather than CAN’T. 

Anthony is a charismatic, dynamic & super energetic coach & presenter who will leave your audience begging for more. 

Anthony has 13 years’ experience in corporate Australia in sales, marketing & people leadership roles. In addition to face to face selling for 4 years, Anthony turned “middle of the road” sales teams into high performing teams as well as looking after marketing teams with brands worth over $150 million.

Contact Anthony     Email: ab@anthonybonnici.com.au    Phone: 0414 481 769 

Nicky Buckley

Nicky Buckley is one of Australia’s most recognised female faces and well-respected household names. Known for the longevity of her successful modelling and television career, behind the scenes Nicky has spent the past 20 years working as an M.C for corporate conferences and functions with many well-known Australian companies. Some of these associations have spanned in excess of 10 years. Her relaxed and approachable manner coupled with her warmth, elegance and professionalism ensure that our Awards Dinner will be in good hands.

Contact Nicky  Email: michelle.tozer@img.com     Phone: 03 9864 1112

Sam Cawthorn

 

Sam Cawthorn is the CEO and Founder of Speakers Institute, a global company empowering masterful communication and speaking training. He is the author of 6 books including an International Best Seller and is the Young Australian of the Year. Sam and his team are dedicated to education and transformation for anyone who wants to present and tell their story powerfully. He does this through his world-class curriculum and training programs incorporating the latest in educating technology including Virtual Reality. His recognition through this education and technology platforms has landed him partnerships with TEDx and awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year by his peers.

Contact Sam    Email: ruchi@samcawthorn.com     Phone: 02 9279 2872

Emily Chadbourne

 

Emily has years of human behavioural education behind her and her funny, zero BS approach to life, business, love and spirituality has given her the endearing reputation of being a pioneer of the new personal development world. She is at the forefront of the fresh wave of mentors and coaches who admit that life can be really clunky and messy and scrappy and who don't try to deny or ignore it. She is the go-to for those who want to ride the fresh wave of REAL and RAW personal development. Originally from London, Emily now lives in Melbourne where she works internationally as a mindset coach, author and keynote speaker.

Contact Emily    Email: emily@emilychadbourne.com     Phone: 0413 850 277

Nadine Champion

 

Nadine Champion is a truly inspiring keynote speaker, martial arts teacher and author. She is a thought leader on courage, inner strength and resilience who has dedicated thirty years of her life to studying martial arts and strengthening the mind. With a Gold Medal at the World Cup of Martial Arts and an undefeated record as a title holding kickboxer, she embodies the competitive mental edge. Through sharing her knowledge via colourful anecdotes from lived experience, Nadine provides practical tools which motivate you to move beyond knowledge to implementation. Nadine is an inspiring speaker with an inspiring story.

Contact Nadine  Email: info@saxtonspeakers.com.au    Phone: 1300 799 283

Nigel Collin

Nigel Collin CSP is a change and change leadership expert. He helps organisations and their people make change happen using a proven framework distilled from original research with 100s of successful businesses that focuses on two areas. Mindset and process. 

He has a passion for understanding why businesses and organisations are successful. As founder of ‘Ingenious Oz Project’ and author of ‘Game of Inches’, Nigel has discovered that the only way for change to succeed in any organization is via a proven framework and process. Nigel’s ‘Game of Inches’ process works on the basis that effective change is made up of small achievable steps than any one-off single event. Nigel started his first business at the age of 20 and sold it at 21. He then went on to build one of Australia’s largest creative entertainment design companies within the Business Events Arena.

Contact Nigel     Email: nigel@nigelcollin.com.au    Phone: 0410 415648

Daniel Flynn

 

Driven, resourceful and determined, Daniel Flynn is one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs under the age of 30. He is the founder and managing director of the social enterprise Thankyou, which has given more than $5.5 million to help end global poverty. Thankyou has directly impacted the lives of 755, 338 people in 20 countries, including Australia. Daniel is also the author of best-selling book Chapter One – a book that tells the raw and real start-up story of Thankyou and is sold using an unorthodox ‘pay-what-you-want’ method. In a challenging publishing landscape, the book defied all odds by generating over $1.4 million in sales and selling over 55,000 copies in its launch month.

Contact Daniel     Email: hannah.e@thankyou.co               Phone: 1300 655 887

Adam Fraser

 

Dr Adam Fraser is a human performance researcher and author who studies how organisations adopt a high-performance culture to thrive in this challenging and evolving business landscape. While other speakers talk about research, he does the research, partnering with various Universities through the Asia Pacific. In fact, he is thought to be the only keynote speaker in the world to have had the impact of his keynote presentation measured in a University study (It improved the behaviour of attendees by 41%).

Contact Adam  Email: www.dradamfraser.comnull    Phone: 02 9564 5763 

Natalie Giddings

Natalie is a strategically minded, marketing leader with over 12 years experience working with brands such as Toyota, Westpac, Coles, Kmart, Bunnings, Target, John West, Specsavers, Leggos, HostPlus and South Australian Tourism. She recently joined The Remarkables Group, experts in influencer marketing strategy, having been specialists in space for five years. In 2014, Natalie was approached to head up Mediabrands Melbourne’s social media agency – Society. As Managing Director, Society grew to be the largest content and social media team in Melbourne.

Contact Natalie  Email: remarks@theremarkablesgroup.com.au 

Amanda Gore

For more than 25 years, Amanda Gore has been one of America’s and Australia’s most admired experiential speakers. She uses the principles of emotional intelligence to transform the spirit of people and cultures by changing perceptions, improving relationships, connecting people, managing change, leadership, innovation, and team dynamics.

Amanda believes success in business is always about feelings – the way we feel about a product, organization or person influences how we behave and informs our decisions about how we spend or who we conduct business with. Until we change our perceptions, we won’t change our behaviour. Amanda’s presentations changes perceptions… And feelings.

Author of five books and several video and audio training programs, Amanda is also the CEO of the JOY Project and has a bachelor's degree in physiotherapy, a major in psychology, and expertise in ergonomics, stress management, group dynamics, neurolinguistics, neuroscience, and occupational health.

Contact Amanda     Email: admin@amandagore.com    Phone: 0414 282 218

Tammi Kirkness

 

Tammi Kirkness is an energetic and passionate speaker, trainer and coach. Her mission is to help individuals, teams and businesses find their true purpose and to achieve it. Tammi's history in people management, education and Human Resources has helped her grow an intuitive and incisive understanding of how perception, power and personality can combine to impact the world. She excels at working with people and teams who share her curiosity about reaching their full potential. Practical, candid, positive and growth-oriented, Tammi thrives on assisting and challenging people to embrace their lives and take ownership of their abilities.

Contact Tammi    Email: tammi@visionscopecoaching.com     Phone: 0423 011 012  

Andrew Klein

Andrew Klein is one of Australia’s leading Professional Conference MCs and a Pitching & Presentation Skills speaker, trainer and writer, working on conferences around the Asia-Pacific region as well as the US and South Africa.

A former corporate lawyer, Andrew quit the law in the late 90’s before starting up his own business as a corporate trainer and speaker.

As an MC, Andrew brings his casual yet corporate style to proceedings and is well-known on the conference circuit for his light-hearted and revealing speaker introductions, his improvisational skills and ability to adapt to different audiences. As the trusted ‘face’ and professional MC for so many conference clients (both live and online), Andrew’s experience together with his adeptness to think on his feet have seen him kick-off events, handle house-keeping, interview execs, introduce speakers, quell the Q & A and peruse the interactive polls.

Contact Andrew     Email: andrew@lunch.com.au    Phone: 0419187718 

Sam Lees

Sam’s career began at 16 with numerous direct sales and cold calling roles where she mastered the art of communication before she moved into marketing and social media consulting. She now specialises in social media strategy, lead generation and communication for direct selling businesses but her passion is working hands on with distributors to help them get better results, build confidence and break through the noise on social media. As well as working directly with companies individual needs and key-note speaking at events to inform and educate, Sam has built online social media courses specifically for direct sellers that now have over 1000 participants from all over the globe.

Contact Sam    Email: sam@auxanomarketing.com.au     Phone: 0428 811 828

Angela Lockwood

 

Angela Lockwood is a renowned occupational therapist, author of Switch Off and the Power of Conscious Choice, mentor, speaker and regular media commentator. Her health education company helps organisations, individuals and schools prioritise their health and wellbeing. With an aim to creating space to have a successful professional, personal and family life, Angela provides real-world tools for making positive changes to disconnect, re-energise and refocus. 

Contact Angela    Email: angela@angelalockwood.com.au     Phone: 0421 029 370

Jerry Macey

 

Jerry Macey is the Retail lead in the Commonwealth Bank’s Business and Private Banking division where he harnesses and develops the bank’s resources for the benefit of its retail clients.   He is well-known for delivering thought-leadership, insights and analysis that help retailers succeed. A strong thread of creativity, innovation and customer focus runs through Jerry’s financial services career, which has included roles in general management, product, go-to-market and strategy in Australia and the UK. Jerry is the author of the bi-annual CommBank Retail Insights Report.

Contact Jerry   Email: jeremy.macey@cba.com.au

Louise Mahler

Dr Louise Mahler is a leadership speaker whose informative, practical and actionable keynote, as well as the way she engages with humour, makes her very much a motivational leadership speaker amongst the best motivational leadership speakers in her area in Australia, if not globally. Mahler is an expert in body language, voice and emotion, with a PhD in business, and degrees and masters in organisational psychology as well as music. Her skills as a master practitioner in neuro-linguistic programming combine with her professional performance experience on the worldwide opera stage to give her a unique perspective on what presence and authority entail.

Contact Louise    Email: info@louisemahler.com.au     Phone: 0419 720 754

Julie Masters

 

Julie Masters has spent a career decoding influence. Founder of ODE Management, the world’s largest dedicated speaker management agency with offices across the USA and Australia. She is now the founder and CEO of Influence Nation, working with business leaders and organisations to become the voice of authority in their space. Having won numerous communications industry awards across the USA, Australia and Europe, Julie now regularly advises CEO’s, entrepreneurs and executive teams on how to dominate their marketplace by turning their expertise into influence.

Contact Julie    Email: support@juliemasters.com

Lisa McInnes-Smith

Lisa was raised in a Direct Selling family, which laid the foundation for the positive and possibility thinking which she now teaches and thrives on. Lisa is a Performance Catalyst. She will touch and connect with your people as she teaches them the simple steps of growing and leading others. Your audience will love Lisa’s message and be inspired by her dynamic delivery style.

Contact Lisa  Email: lisa@lisaspeaks.com     Phone: 0411 871 999

Michael McQueen

 

Joshua Norbido

Home grown Australian Illusionist Joshua Norbido has been furnishing the minds of audiences with his neoteric & intriguing performances projected through the art of Magic. As you will come to realise, Josh does not only possess the ability to entertain, he seizes guests’ desire to learn and captures quite simply - human curiosity; leading him to local and international recognition.

Aside from provoking pure zest as an experienced performer; Josh allows each individual to experience his combined passions of business & magic. Options such as Roving entertainment, Comedy stage show, or his Keynote presentation - The Magic of Sales, all can be attuned to deliver an optimal experience for your next conference; training event or gala.

Contact Joshua    Email: sharmila@ovations.com.au     Phone: 0418 664 901

Phill Nosworthy

Phill Nosworthy is an executive advisor, futurist, speaker and author in the subject areas that surround making business and life meaningful. His insights into personal mastery and the future of work have gained him a cult following among high performers in Fortune listed companies the world over. He has worked in more than 50 cities and 25 countries globally and counts Apple, ING, Universal Music and the Commonwealth Bank amongst his clients. Phill has skilfully hosted bespoke invitational events in major centres around the world including New York, Los Angeles, London and Amsterdam with partners including SOHO House, The Standard, The Apollo, Vittoria and Microsoft. He is the founder of Switch L+D, a digital-first learning and development practice that gives anyone, anywhere the same level of career development that has only ever been reserved for the highest performers of Fortune 500 companies.

Contact Phill    Email: sarah@odemanagement.com     Phone: 02 8094 7305  

Tim Reid

Tim Reid believes there’s never been a better time to market your direct selling business. As host of The Small Business Big Marketing Show (Australia’s #1 marketing podcast), Virgin Australia’s in-flight business show, the author of The Boomerang Effect, and national radio personality, this year Tim will share his thoughts on why and how to attract more Millennials in to your business PLUS why and how your Distributors can build a strong personal brand.

Contact Tim  Email: tim@timreid.com.au     Phone: 0412 487 900

Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell is an award-winning global futurist and industry recognized inspirational keynote speaker on emerging trends in our hyper-connected world. He is a global pattern hunter, discovering and identifying how humans are changing and adapting to high-speed change, unlocking insights for businesses and leaders in today’s highly disrupted digital world. A global trailblazer, Chris Riddell has worked for some of the largest and most defining businesses and brands in our modern world. Having lived and worked in countries such as the UK, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Kuwait, China, New Zealand and lately Australia, his understanding of our new world is compelling and thought-provoking to say the least.

Contact Chris  Email: sayhello@chrisriddell.com 

Amanda Stevens

Amanda Stevens is a renowned thought leader on the customer experience.  She combines current consumer insights with fascinating research into buying behaviour, delivering organisations and business owners powerful strategies for connecting with their customers. Amanda has a double degree in consumer psychology and marketing.  She has consulted to some of the country’s biggest brands, including Lend Lease, Microsoft, Procter and Gamble.

Contact Amanda  Email: amanda@amandastevens.com.au     Phone: 1300 449 405