Motivation/Inspiration Speakers

Ovations’ Motivational and Inspirational Speakers help teams light internal fires. Whether the topic is about mastering adversity or achieving mission success, our motivation experts allow audiences and institutions alike to move mountains. Hear from Olympic Gold Medal winners, peak performance experts, professional football players and explorers, to name a few. Stay inspired.

Warren MacDonald

Challenging times call for a shift in perspective. Warren Macdonald's inspirational story and powerful message of hope deliver life-changing insight on not only navigating, but embracing change; with focus, energy and confidence. His unique perspective on change management will help foster a mindset in your team that seeks opportunities; not obstacles. As a keynote speaker, Warren works with innov ...

Wayne Pearce

Wayne Pearce is a prominent sporting personality who injects interest, humour and hard won success stories into the conference agenda. After seven years as a professional Rugby League coach Wayne still enjoys his current involvement in Rugby League as a Fox sports commentator, however since leaving club coaching in September 2000, his main focus now is corporate speaking, corporate teambuilding an ...

Wendell Sailor

Wendell Sailor is an exceptional sportsman who is revered as one of Australia's best dual code rugby football players and one of rugby league's greatest wingers of all time. During his rugby league career, Wendell Sailor played 19 Tests for Australia, five of which were in Super League, and 17 State of Origin matches for Queensland, three of them being Super League. During his time in rugby un ...

Will Elrick

Will has climbed, trekked and travelled to some of the highest and isolated rugged places in the world, with only the use of one leg and his crutches. He is also the first person to receive the status of black belt in Wing Chun completely with one leg, and performing as if he had two. Will has just returned from completing the Kokoda track, with his team raising over $25,000 for the White Ribbon F ...

Willie Jolley

Willie Jolley has been described simultaneously as a world-class, award-winning speaker, best-selling author and media personality. No matter the venue, from television or radio, to corporate audiences like Wal-mart, Ford, GM, Comcast, Verizon or Marriott, to television and radio audiences around the world, Willie Jolley keeps it moving with high energy and enthusiasm, as he delivers nuggets on ho ...

Winston Marsh

Tens of thousands of people and businesses all around Australia and New Zealand have heard this internationally acclaimed speaker and their cash registers really ring his praise. If you want your business and your people to succeed you can't afford to miss him. Winston has over thirty years of richly rewarding business experience in the management, marketing and motivation of people in business. ...

Yalda Hakim

Dateline presenter and video journalist Yalda Hakim came to Australia after her father smuggled his young family out of Afghanistan on horseback to escape the Soviet invasion. Yalda was just six-months-old. The emotional return to Yalda's Kabul was the subject of her first report for Dateline. Since then, she's reported from across the world for Dateline and SBS's World News Australia, winning t ...

Yossi Ghinsberg

Author of Jungle and Laws of the Jungle, Yossi Ghinsberg is one of the most compelling speakers of his generation. His messages are inspirational and unique. In the midst of the uncharted Amazon, after losing his three companions, a young Israeli traveller is tested to the extreme through 20 harrowing days of sheer survival. A riveting storyteller, Yossi Ghinsberg relives his ordeal while sweeping audiences into the depths of the primordial jungle. Yossi now speaks to his audiences about survival and the ability to take vision and turn it into reality.

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