In 2009 two friends and I launched Shoes of Prey - an online custom shoe shop. We were full of excitement, but also quite apprehensive. After all, we had left our well paying jobs and really had no idea what we were doing - although only faintly aware of this at the time.
Some act as if they believe that as long as they get the latest technology, their organisation will automatically be more innovative. Nope. It’s all about how you use technology.
For businesses who wish to break into the Asian market, one of their most critical needs is to become confident in their understanding of the culture. With relationships being at the heart of business in Asia, learning to build long-term, sustainable businesss relationships can only be developed when you understand and respect the culture.
Organisational and personal resilience are 2 of the most powerful traits you can develop in response to the challenges of today and tomorrow. When you can command your awareness and focus your resilience results will flourish.
Kamal has more than 20 years experience helping people developing one of their most precious assets – the mind. As the author of Mental Resilience – The Power of Clarity - How to develop the focus of a warrior and focus of a monk. Kamal draws on his personal experience as a monk and professional work with leaders and teams to facilitate a new level of growth and resilience
During this session Kamal will unpack:
Strong leadership of self and of your organisation is imperative for the future of work and business. Leadership is an ongoing challenge globally and presents limitless opportunities for growth.
To progress your personal or professional journey Kamal believes you need to un-learn many things you have been taught previously. He has identified 7 essential principals and suggests that un-learning these will accelerate your Leadership Journey.
On the Leadership Leap Journey Kamal will explore:
To gain an advantage in life and in business the most important skill you need to develop is connection. Yet we are never taught the skills that enable us to connect deeply with one another, our clients or our purpose.
Organisations that truly can connect at these 3 levels are able to flourish and deal with change, complexity and uncertainty.
In this presentation Kamal explores:
Adventure thinking is about bringing an expedition mindset to everyday life challenges, stages and situations.
It’s a state of mind and methodology for making the impossible possible. Its turns big dreams into reality, challenges what’s normal, and turns the unimaginable into the doable. It allows you to take on the unknown and risky with confidence. Adventure thinking means you won’t die with FOMO. Its foundation is the belief that we are all adventurous.
Here’s a question: How often do you allow your mobile phone to go flat?
If you’re like me, the answer is almost never probably because you’re never too far from your charger – at home, in the car and, oh, the tragedy of forgetting to pack the charger when you’re travelling, right?!!
So now consider that you are actually not dissimilar to your mobile phone. Highly sophisticated multi-tasking capabilities, indispensible and absolutely unable to function effectively unless regularly recharged. Yet most of us don’t think to manage our energy levels as astutely as we manage our phone’s! It’s quite astounding how much we take ourselves for granted.
The need for a personal energy management plan is something I learned early on in my sporting career. High performance athletes have to learn to master their energy in order to bring the best of out themselves when it really counts. There are many habits that helped me do this and they can work for you, too.
Start by observing yourself over the course of a week and see if you can identify a pattern in your energy levels. Most of us can relate to Wednesday hump day or that mid-afternoon slump but see what comes up for you. Start to work out times or days when there’s a natural drop in your energy when you can schedule in an energy booster.
Sailing, whether for survival or competition, is an unforgiving business. The teams that excel in such environments provide a multitude of learnings for leaders back on dry land. So, by drawing on my experiences, as well as those of some of Australia’s best sailors, I set out to explore the most important and universally applicable leadership lessons from the oceans.
It is impossible to predict all of the challenges that life will throw our way. There is absolutely no point even trying to predict and prepare yourself for challenges that haven’t occurred yet. What is important is that with every challenge that you do face, resilience is built, lessons are learnt and opportunities arise.
During my 15 years as an army officer and U.N. Peacekeeper I faced many challenges, in many different locations around the world. But challenge is a regular part of everyone's lives - not just those in high-pressure positions.
The great irony is that we often resist challenge, despite knowing that the outcome will frequently be enormous personal growth, and potential improvement in our lives - whether that be career, family, relationships or financial rewards.
So why do we resist challenges so thoroughly?
James Castrission, also known as Cas, is a renowned public speaker and one of Australia's 50 Greatest Explorers. He champions the power of an explorer's mindset and has written two bestselling books. With five years of experience as a management consultant at Deloitte, Cas shares proven strategies and invaluable leadership lessons from his world-record-breaking expeditions. He founded MyAdventure Group in 2013 to provide Australia's premium corporate Adventure-based development programs. His corporate programs aim to develop teams and drive competitive advantage in organisations.
Scott Dutton (CSP) is the Conflict Whisperer and Fun Maker! Scott is the most engaging, insightful and fun keynote speaker / master trainer (virtual + F2F) in the global conflict resolution + communication arena.
Scott is in high demand as the ‘go to’ conflict + communication + culture expert for over 500 client organisations and 20,000+ professionals across all sectors. He is the Founder of Fighting Fair + Creator of Conflict Intelligence (CI) and is passionate about sharing insights, strategies and skills that will transform conflict into connection. Scott is all about creating an energising, interactive and empowering experience for the audience. Scott takes a serious subject like conflict and makes it fun!
Karen James is a purpose expert with a no-nonsense approach to igniting ethical transformation for organisations.
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.
If you?re looking to transform the customer service culture in your organisation, to decrease complaints and increase compliments, Jaquie Scammell's approach is simple and more human than introducing better processes and procedures ? and it works. Jaquie has studied Australian organisations that provide the best customer service and created a system that, if followed will increase loyalty to your business.
Stephen partners with Australia's business leaders to help them master digital strategy, culture & leadership, and build innovative, global, billion-dollar businesses.
Al Jeffery is an internationally renowned community-architect, integrative performance facilitator, and mindfulness coach. As a ‘millennial’ himself, he connects wisdom from across generations to help clients create vibrant inter-generational and human-centered places.
Justin Dry is an Entrepreneur, Investor and Co-Founder + CEO of Vinomofo, one of Australia’s fastest-growing companies.
Over a career spanning more than twenty years, Alex has developed a deep level of experience in growing and transforming businesses into profitable enterprises.
Michael is the Head of Culture at Vinomofo, one of Australia’s fastest-growing companies and a leader in innovation, disruption and values-based company culture.
Claire Madden is a social researcher and Director of Research at the internationally recognised McCrindle Research. Armed with her research methodologies, business acumen and communication skills, Claire effectively bridges the gap between the emerging generations and the business leaders and educators of today.
Louise Ransome is a Presenter, Reporter and Producer for FOX Sports News and Australian News Channel (Sky News), a position she has held since 2011.
Bard is a philosopher, writer, practitioner and teacher with a deep compassion for the human condition and a burning desire to help people live better lives, do better work and create a more sustainable and socially connected society in the process.
In 2001, Andrew fell off a 100-foot cliff while skiing in Canada. He stopped breathing and broke much of his body from the waist up. Since then, Andrew has built an exceptional record of achievement in business as well as a unique breadth of non-business experience.
In a world of infinite capability, connection becomes the advantage. Kirryn Zerna is a Connection-Driven Leadership keynote speaker who helps organisations build trust, align their people, and turn connection into real momentum. With 20+ years' experience advising leaders and navigating complex change, she delivers high-energy keynotes that shift how people lead, collaborate, and perform, grounded in her framework The Connect Effect (Trust → Tribe → Thrive).
This 30 minute show invites you and your guests to sit back and witness astonishing magic, manipulation of the mind, comical audience interaction and a spell binding conclusion! *Dependant on your event the length and nature of the stage show can be tailored.
In this keynote you will learn why regardless of who you are and what you do, we all take part in the Art Of Selling. This is an interactive and engaging presentation where Josh uses Magic as the metaphor and illustrates each content piece with a performance. He shares lessons from his own background in sales as he draws a correlation between magic and business. Helping people understand how this concept can translate into an improvement in sales and influence.
Sales is helping people believe in a solution. Magic is the same. Without the ability to sell others on either your ideas or products there is no business. As a magician without the ability to sell there is no magic….
Josh explains and demonstrates live on stage the principles that allows you to engage your customer and create an atmosphere more conducive for buying.
“Engage me and you can make me convince myself"
Your audience will not only be entertained but will leave this session with a deeper understanding of how they can effectively nurture and propel their results.
The Mingle Magic package allows Josh to reach each and every guest while performing Close-Up Sleight-Of-Hand and intimate illusions. This style promotes interaction amongst your guests ensuring a seamless, entertaining event.
Are you in charge of sculpting your mind? Or is your mind being hacked?
Digital transformation has been revolutionary. It has given humans the ability to consume whenever and wherever. We are now entertained endlessly, more informed and constantly stimulated.
As a species, our tools have evolved from the simple hand axe, to the always-in-the-palm-of-your-hand phone.
We are aware of digital disruption, digital Darwinism and the impact that technology can have on our lives. However, our carbon brains do not change at the same rate as silicon digital devices.
Without truly understanding the impacts that technology has on our minds, we are powerless against our minds being hacked. This ‘hacking’ can lead to digital distraction and ultimately, digital depletion.
To make sure organisations, teams and individuals can perform in a digitally transformed world, we must be able to use technology in a beneficial way, sculpting our minds and remaining digitally resilient.
In this session, Kamal Sarma will cover
Tony Eades is a business re-thinker who uses a combination of strategy and new technology to help businesses optimise their brand positioning, customer experience, and digital transformation. From start-ups to global enterprises - he is passionate about future-proofing brands and helping them engage with the new consumer and thrive in the ever-changing marketplace.
As an international keynote speaker, he is a Certified Speaking Professional and the Chief Strategy Officer at Salted Stone, a global award-winning digital marketing agency and HubSpot Elite Partner.
Stevan Premutico is one of Australia’s leading tech entrepreneurs. In 1997, in the middle of the GFC he conceptualised Dimmi on the back of a napkin and went on to revolutionise the Aussie restaurant industry. In 2015, his startup was acquired by one of the great tech businesses of our time, TripAdvisor.
More than ever we need to broaden what it means to lead. Leadership has a too limiting definition. It seems to relate to only the chosen few, and we need to challenge this perspective.
We can respond by starting to build in our organisations unlikely leadership. The founding principle of unlikely leadership is knowing that leadership is inherent in everyone if it is developed and empowered. There is so much untapped human potential hidden within every work place. Increased complexity and constant disruption means that organisations need as broad a leadership bench as possible. Developing unlikely leaders - unleashing leadership from unexpected people and places makes sense.
Brand and reputation specialist Kirryn Zerna helps ideas, businesses and teams to stand out in the age of online influence. Kirryn is a captivating and creative keynote speaker whose presentations immediately translate into action.
Widely recognised as an expert in brand communication strategy, Kirryn’s passion is to help individuals and teams to stand out in the age of online influence. Having spent almost two decades working with corporate and public sector clients large and small, Kirryn’s passion is to help clients get the attention they deserve and the cut-through they desire.
Rt Hon Sir John Key was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016, winning three general elections as leader of the centre-right National Party.
Dale Beaumont is best known as an award winning entrepreneur, technology enthusiast and a passionate promoter of education. Having started his first business at the age of 19, Dale went on to build three different million dollar companies before the age of thirty.
In this video Dale proposes seven ways smart business owners can manage their time.
Amazon is a corporate behemoth, the largest Internet retailer in the world based on revenue, selling everything from books to groceries to garage door openers. It’s also an electronic commerce and cloud computing giant, its very success since its founding in 1994 based on remaining ahead of the technological curve. As such, this Seattle-based company is a microcosm of much of today’s corporate world – a business that’s underpinned by technology.
This coming year is shaping up to be full of exciting challenges. Our speakers give you an insight into what trends to follow, what thought processes to consider, and what innovations should be on your radar.
Agile, adaptive, resilient, collaborative, creative, emergent, regenerative - we live in a VUCA world: Volatile; Uncertain; Complex; Ambiguous. This most definitely is not new news to most of us. Everyday we hear stories about how the world, business and our economy is changing at a velocity we’ve never experienced.
Aviation is a very safe form of transport, in fact THE safest by a large statistical margin. This culminated in the perfect score of 100% fatality free year in 2017. Not bad when you consider over 45 million commercial flights took place with the equivalent of half the global population or 2 billion people travelled by air that year.
Creative content is more important now than ever before because the digital world is noisy. It’s more than noisy. It’s loud, chaotic and it’s so easy to get distracted, right?Every hour, every minute, every second, millions of people around the world are posting, commenting and chronically oversharing.
Cyber security and data breaches – why should we care? Because it will happen to you - And it will hurt. That may seem flippant, but it’s based on some hard facts.
I love the New Year, it brings fresh goals, hopes and possibilities. It’s also terrific that Woman in Leadership is one of the hot trending topics in 2019.
What makes this The Future Consumer’s generation so significant is that they are not shaped by an analog past, instead their default is digital. A magazine is not a magazine; it’s a broken iPad. They may not understand why there was ever a need for a physical street directory, because in their world everyone, everywhere has Google Maps at their fingertips. Interestingly enough, the pure digital native doesn’t know why the save icon in Microsoft Word has the image of a floppy disk, because they’ve never used one.
No matter who you are, or what walk of life you come from, we all have something in common - money. Whether you have a little or a lot, money will be at the top of the list for people to talk about, as Australia experiences its first real property downturn in over 10 years, and banks tighten lending conditions due to the Royal Commission into Financial Services.
