International Speakers Group

Simon O’Donnell had a sporting career that reads like a schoolboy’s dream come true. He excelled at sport while studying with Assumption College in Kilmore before moving to Melbourne to play Australian rules football with St Kilda. After two successful seasons, Simon had to decide between focusing on cricket or football. Simon chose cricket and[…] Read More

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. Caroline’s career has since been decorated by numerous awards.  She was the AFL Players[…] Read More

Brendon Julian is the anchor of Fox Sports cricket programming, a commentator, and host of Inside Cricket. A former Australian Test and One-Day cricket player during the 1990s, Brendon was a damaging 6’5” left-arm bowler and powerful lower-order batsman. Brendon won back to back Sheffield Shield titles with Western Australia in 1998 and 1999. Following[…] Read More

Tim Horan is a rugby great who played his first match for the Wallabies in 1989 as a teenager against the All Blacks. He was instrumental in the Wallabies’ World Cup win two year later. There is perhaps no try replayed more often than the gem scored from David Campese’s over the shoulder, no look[…] Read More

Janine Allis founded Boost Juice Bars 14 years ago. Her desire to own her own business led her to look at the retail market and review what the market was lacking as a consumer. Janine and her husband Jeff trialed a number of businesses like publishing and touring comedians, but nothing truly got the business[…] Read More

Gretel Killeen’s career started as an accidental stand-up comic when she was attempting to present a profound poem. Since then she has written and performed comedy on radio and TV, performed live on stage across Australia, in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, and for the troops in East Timor, The Solomon Islands and[…] Read More

Dr Clio Cresswell has established a diverse career as a mathematician, author, writer and presenter. Clio is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Sydney. She is author of Mathematics and Sex (published through Allen and Unwin); and features regularly on television, radio and press. You may have[…] Read More

Carolyn Creswell, founder of multimillion dollar business Carman’s Muesli, started at 18 by offering her life-savings to buy out her employer. The subsequent growth of Carman’s is the stuff of entrepreneurial dreams. Carman’s is now the number one selling muesli brand on Australian supermarket shelves and exports to over 32 countries. Although successfully completing an[…] Read More

With more than 30 years of sports broadcasting behind him, Ray (Rabbit’s) Warren is one of the most experienced callers in the game. Born in Junee, in NSW’s Riverina district, the son of a railway worker, Ray had always dreamed of being a sports broadcaster. From the age of six Ray honed his broadcasting skills[…] Read More

The title of Peter Sterling’s biography, Sterlo: The Story of a Champion (1990) best sums up the career of the P’matta and Australian Test halfback. Queensland-born but raised in the Riverina, the blond-haired teenager came to Fairfield Patrician Brothers on a scholarship in 1978. Sterling was a five-eighth then but incredibly, made his first grade[…] Read More

Craig Hamilton is a sports commentator best known for his work in Rugby League broadcasting. His career started in 1994 with ABC Radio Grandstand’s Rugby League coverage. Hailing from Singleton in the Hunter Valley, Craig worked as a coal miner in the Newcastle area before moving to radio full-time in 1999. Craig was a member[…] Read More

Bessie Bardot is an Australian businesswoman, author, body model, television host, and socialite. Her career began in the 1990s, when she was discovered by former Australian Gladiator Geoff Barker, who is now her husband. Bessie moved from modelling into business and media starting up Bubble Media PR and Movers Shakers which is Australia’s first celebrity[…] Read More