Bianca Chatfield Leadership, Master of Ceremonies, Netball
After taking the sporting world by storm, Gold medal winning netballer Bianca Chatfield’s journey from professional athlete to leading media personality and business owner is indicative of her vivacious nature, dedication and professionalism across all fields. Following her debut as an 18-year-old for the Australian Diamonds netball team, Bianca quickly established a name for herself as[…] Read More
Andrew Lock Inspiration, Motivation, Teamwork
Why use Andrew Lock to inspire and motivate your team? Andrew specializes in creating, leading, and managing teams in highly adverse and uncertain environments. Precisely what organisations are facing in today’s constantly and rapidly changing financial, political and technological world. Andrew Lock is not just a mountaineer. In addition to being the only member of[…] Read More
Jimmy Bartel AFL, Community, Domestic Violence
Jimmy is one of the most decorated AFL players of the modern era. Having played 305 games for the Geelong Football club he has won three premierships, a Brownlow Medal, a Norm Smith Medal and twice been named All Australian. Jimmy was drafted to the Geelong Football Club from the Geelong Falcons U18 at number[…] Read More
Luke Hodge AFL, Leadership, Sport, Teamwork
Leading by example and regarded as one of the AFL’s toughest players physically and mentally Luke Hodge became one of Hawthorn’s all time great captains in 2015 by captaining the Hawks to their third straight premiership. In 2014 Hodge captained the premiership team and won the Norm Smith Medal for the second time. His two[…] Read More
Layne Beachley Corporate, Inspiration, Sport
Layne Beachley AO is regarded as the most successful female surfer in history. Layne’s dedication to success saw her as the only surfer, male or female, to claim six consecutive world titles between 1998 and 2003. Layne went on to win a 7th world title in 2006 before retiring from the ASP World Tour in[…] Read More
Kieren Perkins Business, Motivation, Olympian
Kieren Perkins is a hero of the Australian sporting arena. From Captain of Swimming at Brisbane Boys’ College in 1990 to dual Olympic gold medallist just six years later, Kieren has added an impressively long list of awards and achievements to his name. His technically perfect Olympic gold-medal winning performances at Atlanta and Barcelona over[…] Read More
Nathan Burke Business, Corporate, Education, Facilitator
Former AFL legend Nathan Burke played over 300 games for St Kilda, Nathan is now using the skills he learnt from elite sport and post sporting career being responsible for over 1000 staff members in the corporate World. “I’ve found over the years that too many people seem to allow the fear of failure to[…] Read More
Kirk Peterson Business, Facilitator, Motivation
Kirk Peterson is a renowned thought leader with over 30 years’ experience in leadership, business strategy, operational management and people management, along with a history of being a player and coach of high performance sporting teams. He was Executive Director of an advertising and manufacturing business for over 20 years before founding Performance Shift. Having[…] Read More
Margie Warrell Business, Education, Facilitator
Find Your Courage. Stop Playing Safe. Brave. The titles of Margie’s three previous bestselling books reflect her passion for helping people make braver decisions and lead bigger lives. Margie’s had to find her courage many times since growing up the big sister of seven on a dairy farm in rural Australia. Personal struggles, family tragedies, an armed[…] Read More
Russell Mark Business, Master of Ceremonies, Olympian
Russell Mark was one of Australia‘s four Individual Gold Medallists at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, putting him in the company of Kieren Perkins, Susie O’Neill and fellow Clay Target Shooter Michael Diamond. Competing in his third Olympic Games, Russell won the Gold Medal in the Double Trap Competition. In this ultimate test of hand[…] Read More
Cathy Freeman Indigenous, Motivation, Olympian
Cathy has not been an overnight success. She has achieved her goals through hard work, commitment and natural talent becoming a world-class athlete and winning the ultimate prize in any sport – an Olympic gold medal. As one of Australia’s most popular high profile personalities, Catherine is recognised for her modesty, free spirit and passion[…] Read More
Ian Carson Business, Community, Entrepreneur, Human Rights
Ian Carson is the co founder of SecondBite. Formally established in 2005, SecondBite was the idea of Ian and Simone Carson who decided they could no longer watch good food go to waste while people went hungry. In its first year, SecondBite was run by just three volunteers in Victoria and moved just over 600 kg[…] Read More
