International Speakers Group

Jacqui is a 25 year old ultra runner from Brisbane, Australia. Coming from a tennis background and working as a personal trainer since the age of 16 Jacqui always kept fairly fit. At 19 Jacqui signed up to her first 50km Race, not even knowing this counted as an Ultra Marathon at the time, she[…] Read More

Nick O’Hern played a variety of sports growing up in Perth, Australia but his passion for golf won over. After completing a traineeship to become a golf professional, his journey to play the game for a living began at the age of 22. Struggling to break 80 in his early years as a pro, he[…] Read More

James Sutherland joined Cricket Australia, then ACB, as GM Commercial in 1998. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2001, a role he has held for more than 17 years. In June 2018 he announced his intention to step down as CEO by mid-2019. A former first-class cricketer for Victoria, Sutherland is also a qualified[…] Read More

Having created one of the most memorable moments of the Olympic Games by winning gold, Pottharst now takes organisational teams through the exact same process that took her to the impossible pinnacle of world sport. The powerful session helps staff overcome fear and doubt, convinces them to push past limitations and bolsters personal belief. And,[…] Read More

Uber Air has recently announced Melbourne as the first international test city for flying taxis and Clem’s Skyportz business is developing the network of landing infrastructure we are going to need for urban aerial mobility. Our cities are about to be hit by a transport revolution – think driverless cars, delivery drones, micro mobility on[…] Read More

Tania de Jong is a leading Australian soprano, inspirational speaker and storyteller, social entrepreneur and creative innovation catalyst. She is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators, having developed five businesses and three charities over three decades. Tania is a global authority on creativity, innovation and collaboration and is an agent for change.[…] Read More

Amanda has a passion to inspire and educate individuals to change their mind about what is possible in their mind, body and life. Believing that flexibility builds resilience, on her own personal journey of recovery, she has learned about the power of the mind-body connection. Achieving an integrated approach, she believes when given the right[…] Read More

Kate Sheahan is the Richmond AFLW football operations manager, a professional tennis coach noted for helping Daria Gavrilova return from a knee injury, and a former Australian rules football player who played for Collingwood in the 2017 AFL Women’s season. She is the daughter of sports journalist Mike Sheahan. Sheahan played Australian football until she was fourteen as the only girl in a boys’[…] Read More

Katie Brennan was signed as a player for the Western Bulldogs ahead of the inaugural AFL Women’s season in 2017. In July 2016, Brennan signed with the Western Bulldogs as one of their two marquee players ahead of the AFL Women’s inaugural season and was also announced as the inaugural captain of the Bulldogs. Born[…] Read More

Erin was crowned as the new golden girl of women’s sport in Australia after an outstanding season in the AFLW’s inaugural 2017 season. As co-captain of the Adelaide Crows, Erin lead her team to premiership success in 2017. Following in the footsteps of her father, Greg Phillips, Erin successfully lived out a life-long dream of[…] Read More

AFLW star and professional boxer Tayla Harris represents the power of female determination and proudly advocates for breaking barriers in women’s sport. Tayla Harris played in the inaugural AFLW season with the Brisbane Lions as a marquee player. Harris received All Australian honours two years in a row, as well as winning Mark of the[…] Read More

Robert de Castella is Australia’s greatest ever marathon runner. He set the world record in 1981, became Australia’s first Track and Field World Champion in 1983, won two Commonwealth Games marathons in 1982 and 1986 and dominated the event worldwide for most of the 1980’s. While he represented Australia at four Olympic Games, finishing 5th,[…] Read More