Speaker Category

Ben Elias followed a magnificent Rugby League career with a highly successful transition to business. In a career spanning 12 years, Ben appeared a record number of matches for the Balmain Tigers. He represented New South Wales in state of origin...

Lauren Brown was an accidental entrepreneur – unable to find the right job, she started her own business with a laptop, $5,000 and a mobile plan that allowed her to make a lot of cold calls. Since these early days in...

Michael Slater is a former opening batsman in the Australian Test cricket team. Known in the media and by friends simply as ‘Slats’, he was a highly-competitive and aggressive strokemaker with the full complement of cricket shots. Born and raised in...

Shane Crawford was an amazing talent of the Australian Football League and a crowd favourite both on and off the field. Following his 16-year professional career with the Hawthorn Football Club, Shane transitioned seamlessly from footballer to highly marketable media personality....

Craig Hutchison began his career as a journalist with News Corporation’s Australian newspaper, before moving on to establish a highly-acclaimed career within the Australian commercial television industry. Following a successful run at Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper within their Sport department, Hutchison...

Michael Vaughan will be forever known as the man that led England to successfully recapture the Ashes in 2005. When Vaughan took over the English Test captaincy from Nasser Hussain in 2003, he was already a technically proficient and disciplined batsman...

One of Australian Rules football’s most recognized personalities, Dermott Brereton is an accomplished speaker and highly sought after MC with corporate and sporting groups. After an illustrious career with the Hawthorn football club where he played in five premiership sides and...

Wayne Bennett is the most successful coach in Australia Rugby League. Wayne was the coach of the Brisbane Broncos for 21 years between 1988 and 2008. He was then lured to St George-Illawarra, taking the team to the 2010 premiership, its...

Caroline Wilson is a sports journalist who has covered predominantly AFL since 1982.  During that same year she became the first woman to cover Australian rules football and in 1989 became the first woman to win the AFLs Gold Media Award....

Mark Howard is one of Australia’s most dynamic sports journalists. He has spent the last few years as a roving sports journalist with television station One HD covering PGA Tours, Formula 1, Australian MotoGP, IPL Twenty20 and boundary riding AFL games....