ANDREW MELVILLE (Auckland)
Andrew loves the spoken word and he coaches, facilitates and speaks on how to articulate your essence with Stories That Speak.
He works with individuals and organisations to use stories to powerfully communicate potent combinations of facts and experiences.
Well harnessed stories get to the crux of the matter and effectively build profile and underpin high performing teams in creating powerful synergies.
A former award winning broadcaster and documentary maker, Andrew is recognised as a leader in the field of verbal communication. “Stories are an effective and engaging communication in a time of information overload. A great story can be recalled, retold, remembered in an instant”.
Andrew is also an expert in the field of creatively communicating sustainability and turning this ‘buzz word’ of our times into something meaningful and engaging.
He runs workshops and programmes on sustainability and storytelling for corporate and government clients, and the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand. He has spoken at conferences in New Zealand, Australia and the United States on a variety of topics, including sustainability and corporate storytelling.
Feedback consistently describes Andrew’s style as charismatic, enthusiastic, inspiring and fun.
CRAIG BULMER (Sydney)
Craig has based his entire career on the certainty that if you really connect with people, and you understand people you can train people. And if you train people masterly, you can deliver massive change.
Craig has been a professional trainer / facilitator for over 15 years. His reputation as a first class trainer has taken him from Australia to the UK, China to Thailand, Singapore to Japan, Brisbane to Melbourne, training literally thousands of people from different cultures and industries. He has a Post Graduate Degree in Adult Education from UTS Sydney and is a Master Coach.
Craig combines his gregarious, genuine nature and 15 years of experience in training with proven tools and techniques to help clients develop tailored training programs that are relevant and engaging - no matter what the topic.
“Very energetic, positive.... The overall experience was great
CRAIG RISPIN (Sydney)
Craig Rispin is a Business Futurist and Innovation Expert. His expertise is in emerging business, people and technology trends - and how companies can profit from them.
Craig has over 20 years experience working where the future has been created - with some of the most innovative companies in the world in the IT, consumer electronics, internet and broadcasting industries. In fact, Craig got his start much earlier than that - teaching adults about technology and trends from the age of 10!
Craig has addressed audiences from 15 to 3,000 on 5 continents and has consulted with CEOs of leading companies worldwide. Some of his clients include: Apple, Philips, IBM, GE, Canon, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, Symantec, and Disney.
Now a keynote speaker, mentor and innovation consultant Craig shows his clients how to: Know First, Be First, and Profit First.
CREEL PRICE (Sydney)
Creel Price is one our countries most esteemed entrepreneurs.
Having started and grown ten businesses in ten years, Creel has achieved a level of business success and knowledge beyond his 36 years.
Creel recently retired from Blueprint Management group, the $60 million marketing business he co-founded with $5,000. Employing over 700 staff, Blueprint has achieved a host of industry awards as one of the fastest growing and most dynamic businesses in Australia.
Creel now spends his time writing, teaching and mentoring aspiring and existing entrepreneurs to realise their business dreams. He incorporates into his session, a mission to create a new era of unprecedented social endeavour and expression by changing the way business is conducted.
DALE BEAUMONT (Sydney)
Dale Beaumont is widely recognised as the go-to-guy for helping people "build profile" fast and make more money. With an track-record of personal success, Dale is now a sort-after speaker and teaches the same strategies that have made him a micro-celebrity in his field.
Dale is also the author of 16 best-selling books, which have collectively sold over 250,000 copies. Incredibly, 11 of those books were published a single year, a feat that earned him the title 'Australia's Most Prolific Author'.
As a result, Dale has been interviewed on Sunrise, Today Show, Mornings with Kerri-Anne, Cheez TV, Ten News, ABC Radio, Radio 2UE as well as being featured in over one hundred newspapers and magazines, including Wealth Creator, My Business Magazine, AFR Boss and Virgin's In-flight magazine.
So if you are looking to build profile and fast-track your personal and business success, then pay close attention to exactly what Dale Beaumont has to say.
DARREN HILL (Darwin)
Darren unleashes the phenomenal power of Humanity in individuals, teams and organisations.
Fascinated by the Human race, Darren is a Behavioural Scientist who inspires and instructs leaders to foster Human skills into their places of work for outstanding results.
Darren is something of a conundrum. A former abattoir worker and bouncer, he finds himself getting teary at ads on television! It is this mix however, that enables him to speak in real terms about Humanity and why it is so important to any business strategy.
With a career that has never followed a linear path, Darren is truly a Thought Leader who can convey messages to both blue-collar and white collar audiences. Described by clients as being truly authentic, passionate and wonderfully humble, his presence leaves people motivated, inspired and (most importantly) the tools to be better Human beings in their home and work lives.
ELISABETTA FAENZA (South Coast NSW)
Elisabetta is passionate about helping clever people be creatively wise and commercially savvy.
As a successful entrepreneur in the Direct Sales and the Health and Fitness Industries, Elisabetta is able to distill her knowledge into key steps that take you from ideas to market.
With experience as a leading corporate Sales-Trainer for ten years, Elisabetta is also adept at mentoring small groups and individuals. Increasing the commercial potential of innovators and doing more profitable and synergistic deals is second nature for Elisabetta, and she loves nothing better than to mentor others through this process.
She can help you or your team to go from great idea to profit; from Positioning Matrix to Market.
As a business visionary Elisabetta believes in the power of social entrepreneurship to take great ideas even further; to create revolutions in our thinking and evolutions in the way we do business in the 21st century.
GEOFF MCDONALD (Melbourne)
Geoff is a former architect. Today, instead of designing buildings he designs ideas.
He has presented at international design conferences, exhibited his paintings and sculptures, authored four books and lead a web design studio.
As the 'Idea Architect' his mentoring sparks novel ideas, enhances stickiness and helps you package your ideas for profit.
Through 'Book Rapper' and 'Twit Rapper', Geoff shows how to package ideas so your audience gets it quickly. 'Book Rapper' issues are visual summaries of leading business books. They can be read in 30 minutes, and the 'Twit Rapper' series can be read in 5 minutes.
Geoff's design speciality is creating customized board games that can be used to franchise your training.
HELEN MACDONALD (Melbourne)
Helen Mac believes that “Life is too short to be miserable at work!” She is passionate about showing her customers how to increase the energy and alignment of their businesses and their teams to maximise results.
She specialises in improving performance, creating a positive, productive, profitable workplace to increase employee & customer satisfaction and business success.
A Certified Speaking Professional and Past President of the National Speakers Association of Australia, Helen has worked with corporations around the Asia Pacific region including General Motors, NCR, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard and Tupperware.
Her “Juiced Up!” Principles can create an environment where customers smile, employees thrive, and productivity and effectiveness reach new heights.
JEREMY SAMUEL (Melbourne)
Jeremy Samuel is passionate about helping individuals and business master change to accelerate success and ease in life. He is a mentor, speaker and author on change.
Within the Thought Leaders community Jeremy focuses on helping experts become sales leaders by developing deep expertise in their own content, conviction of the value they bring and experience in the Thought Leaders 5-step sales model.
Jeremy comes from a technology, consulting and sales & marketing background, has a Masters in Cognitive Science and an MBA specialising in Change Management.
LIBBY SANDER (Gold Coast)
What does the future of work hold and how can you create a better business? Libby Sander is a respected thought leader on corporate agility, performance and workplace design.
Rapid shifts in global demographics, the importance of design, technology & the co-ordination of work are driving a revolution in business. Libby is an expert in assisting business understand and interpret these forces and create a workplace where exceptional performance and an ideology of innovation are an everyday reality.
Libby works with organisations to create environments that increase agility, productivity and competitiveness on a global stage. She designs workplaces that will attract, retain and inspire talent, whilst simultaneously reducing fixed operating costs & delivering long-term prosperity and sustainability.
With nearly 20 years experience working in a wide variety of corporate settings, Libby’s clients win national recognition. Her expertise has seen clients achieve double digit productivity increases and have added seven figure sums to capital.
Libby is a sought after adviser, presenter, designer, coach and mentor to companies looking to create a culture of performance excellence, innovation and thought leadership. Libby’s bespoke approach will show you how to turn trends, theories and ideas into pragmatic solutions that actually work.
She works closely at Chairman and Board level and provides advice and coaching to CEO’s and business leaders in more than a dozen different industries. Libby’s professional studies include a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese, a Bachelor of Business and a Masters degree in Human Resource Management. Libby is a mentor in Thought Leaders, a Chartered Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute and a member of the Ideas Institute, TED, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Management.
LORNA PATTEN (Sydney)
Lorna Patten is an expert at bridging the mystical and the mundane, the practical and the profound, the commercial and the cosmic.
She rigorously questions the way things are and challenges you to think differently about what s really going on. Lorna’s thought provoking and insightful style – whether coaching, facilitating, mentoring or speaking - is based on a very simple philosophy: each of us is always creating the whole of our own reality and who we really are is powerful beyond measure.
In 1999, after 15 years running her own counselling, corporate coaching and training business, Lorna decided to take her exciting personal development work to a wider audience. She created Open Up Communication, a business that offers a powerful, effective, personal development process for the small business market helping leaders, management teams, teams and individuals be all they can be.
But be warned: when you attend Lorna’s sessions, she will confront you with breathtaking truths and take you to places in your mind, heart and soul that are truly life changing.
MARK JONES (Sydney)
Mark is an expert facilitator and relishes the challenge of conducting Open Space Facilitation.
Mark has worked as a trusted advisor to leaders all of his professional life. As a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mark led the Transform practice based in Amsterdam. Transform's innovation was to provide leadership and people development services to clients undergoing significant change in their organisation. This was the first time that PwC had stepped away from its traditional premium business of being a 'content expert' into professional services centred around supporting people and change processes.
Mark has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He has completed various post-graduate business courses at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and is certified to use a variety of psychological testing tools.
MATT CHURCH (Sydney)
Creator of Thought Leaders, Matt Church is mentor to some of Australia’s most dynamic and up and coming experts.
Having almost 20 years experience selling his thoughts, Matt has achieved the highest commercial success of almost any speaker, coach, mentor, trainer or author in Australia.
The meeting industry repeatedly votes Matt as being on of Australia’s top 10 professional speakers. His three lifestyle books achieved bestseller status the year they were published and continue to be sold today.
Matt has an academic background in science, and as one of the country’s most creative educators he is obsessed with the idea of how the best get better.
It is this focus that he brings to everything he does. Whether it’s helping high performance teams or coaching CEOs on strategic communications, this thread of excellence lies in all his work.
MICHAEL HENDERSON (Auckland)
Corporate anthropologist, Michael Henderson, has, as a profession, the mandate to unearth ideas and trends that affect the very fabric of our society. His groundbreaking work on values has helped countless people to explore what makes people tick and what we value most.
His mentoring work addresses themes of culture, engagement and dynamic growth, and will help you identify, understand and work with your clients in meaningful and measurable ways.
With his wife Shar, Michael co-founded Values AT Work, an organisation that specialises in providing clients with pioneering values methodology for developing their ability to align their business strategies with various cultures.
He is continually researching and developing insights into the influence and application of values alignment and has over 30 years collective experience and knowledge in values, the development of values alignment methodology and the design of values aligned learning programmes.
NIGEL COLLIN (Sydney)
Nigel works with business leaders helping them lead their creative people and direct their genius towards practical business outcomes.
He believes the challenge for businesses with creativity is not in finding creative people, or teaching your people to be more creative, it's in knowing how to lead your creative people and innovative thinkers.
A highly sought speaker, author and facilitator, Nigel has 15 years experience working in the creative sector, and is able to blend this with his extensive business experience.
For 9 years Nigel owned Absurd Entertainment, before passing the baton on in 2004. He has worked on a myriad of corporate and public events including the 2000 Olympic and Paralympics, The Sydney Royal Easter Show 1997-2003 and was also the Show Director for Australia's largest ever corporate event in 2005. Many organisations have benefited from his insight and knowledge.
Dynamic, interactive and practical, it is his genuine knowledge and experience that sets him apart from others.
NILS VESK (Sydney)
Brought up in a family of PhD scientists and master engineers, Nils was encouraged to blend the logic of science and engineering with his passion for design and creativity.
He began his career as an urban designer, creating amusement parks and towns in Asia, but in the process became concerned with the wellbeing of his colleagues as they struggled to cope with highly stressful situations that were robbing them of their happiness and ability to perform.
Nils became a personal trainer and yoga teacher, and gained such intense satisfaction from helping people, that he went on to write his internationally-published book, Life's Little Toolbox, co-host Channel Ten's Yoga TV and release his own men's fitness DVDs.
It wasn't long before the corporate world discovered Nils' ability to combine mind and body vitality with the innovative design principles needed to create valuable new products.
Today, he is a regular on the keynote circuit - speaking to organisations that want dynamic and effective workshops on banishing stress and nurturing health and lifestyle.
PENNY BURKE (Melbourne)
Penny Burke is the Director of Essence Communications and has worked in the field of marketing and advertising for over 20 years.
Her experience crosses a range of sectors from traditional packaged goods to services, retail and social marketing, and has led her to be a true thought leader on the topic of Commitment.
Penny has learnt that building greater commitment is the most critical success aspect for any marketer, whether it is commitment to buy a certain product or service, commitment to behave in a socially responsible way, or commitment from employees to a workplace.
Penny knows that true marketing success lies in the ability to deliver functional benefits, but more importantly, an inspiring emotional promise.
Penny is always keen to explore new boundaries and horizons and find better ways to do things. She bring fresh eyes, intuition and grounded thought to a scenario.
PETER COOK (Melbourne)
Peter Cook specialises in the Million Dollar Expert Ladder, and the journey from white belt to black belt. He is the "go to man" for any thought leaders looking to climb the MDE Ladder. Peter has set himself the ambitious challenge of going from white belt to black belt in 365 days.
He has recently transitioned from running a business coaching business with 10 people, a beautiful office and a world of headaches to a practice where he now works one day a week as a coach (well mentor really) and is making more money than he did running the business six days a week!
Peter also runs The Money Workshop, teaching Generation X’ers how to have a healthy relationship with their money and reach financial independence sooner.
Peter has a Bachelor of Law with Honours, a Bachelor of Science in Advance Physics, a Masters of Business in Organisational Change and Consulting and most of Diploma in Financial Services. He still doesn’t know what he wants to be when he grows up.
ROHAN DREDGE (Melbourne)
Rohan has a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology, a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma in Education, and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training. He is a practitioner in NLP and is an Executive, Business and Life Coach.
Rohan also has extensive professional and personal development experiences that enable him to bring 100% to his clients to see transformation, change, empowerment and growth take place.
In addition to working with a number of companies ranging from franchises to medium sized business Rohan is consistently regarded by his clients as a an outstanding coach, trainer, speaker and facilitator. Rohan also has several years work and experience in the Not For Profit sector and has travelled extensively in the Asia Pacific Region overseeing training programs and development projects, his most memorable to date is his involvement in 4 Orphanages being built in Banda Aceh after the 2004 Tsunami.
Rohan’s passions are based on his belief that a “healthy people and organisations grow” and loves to focus on helping people BE who they need to be in order to DO what they need to do in order to HAVE what they want to have.
RON (ROWDY) MCLEAN (Gold Coast)
Managing Director of Creating Synergy, Ron McLean holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a specialist stream in Human Resources.
Previously, he had run his own communications company for 10 years and spent 6 years as General Manager of a large registered club with over 200 staff.
He has implemented successful change management and cultural change strategies for his clients and is also an accredited values consultant.
Passionate about providing work and life balance strategies and development programs for all people, Rowdy is passionate about adding value by providing excellent strategies for the clear communication and implementation of efficient and effective business programs that allows for growth.
SCOTT STEIN (Sydney)
Scott Stein inspires individuals and teams to reconnect with their instinctive purpose in life and to unleash their full potential.
Drawing on his own Native American heritage, Scott applies ancient wisdom to help amplify and motivate people. As a speaker, trainer and coach, he has already inspired and challenged thousands of senior executives and business owners whose personal ambitions had been stifled by societal or work pressures, and helped them to reconnect with their true path.
Scott is renowned for his inspirational style. He uses his refreshingly 'authentic' approach to get participants to check whether or not they are 'on path' at work and at home.
Scott holds a masters degree in communication and is a certified trainer (TAA 04) and Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).
He is a published author and has coached over 1,200 managers, helping them to learn how to inspire the people around them to improve performance and achieve greater fulfilment.
SEAN RICHARDSON (Canada)
Performance psychologist to professional athletes, performing artists, and successful CEOs, Sean is passionate about coaching, training and mentoring people and teams to get the best out of themselves at the highest levels of performance!
Sean comes from a background of elite sport, having competed at national and international levels. Combining his lifetime of sports with a PhD and 8 years in practice, he has found that the principles of mental discipline required for performance at the highest level in competitive sport apply similarly to performance in business, music, dance and all other performance domains.
Whilst high performance is the goal, Sean is also aware that many people get stopped by personal ‘stuff’ and by what goes on inside their heads. He works tirelessly, coaching his clients to develop mindsets and behaviours that not only get them success, but also give them tools to be powerful in the face of anything that life throws at them.
As a human being, Sean has a vision for all people being content within, powerfully in action fulfilling their dreams, connecting and giving to others!
SHELLEY DUNSTONE (Adelaide)
Shelley helps clients to rise above the competition by accessing their innovative thinking and making the most of their unique capabilities. She establishes an environment in which people feel comfortable to share their thoughts, & asks thought-provoking questions to generate high-quality discussion.
With her unique experience, Shelley brings a wide-ranging mix of rigorous thinking and creativity to every mentoring session. Clients who like to work with Shelley are those who want to constantly improve, get the best from their people and expand the range of possibilities available.
A former lawyer who specialised in commercial litigation, Shelley also has tertiary qualifications in Applied Finance and Business and Market Strategy. Shelley has run her own strategic consulting business for the past ten years.
STEVE MAJOR (Brisbane)
Steve Major is one of those unique people whose brain loves numbers. If you catch him in an unguarded moment, he will share that he even dreams about numbers ... and finding the perfect number for each business.
You see, Steve teaches that every business has one number (or measure) that is the linchpin of that particular business's success. One number that, if you track it, will turn your business from great, to out-of-this-world, mind-numbingly profitable.
But the challenge is - each number is different. Each business has to discover their one number. You can't buy it, borrow it from someone else, or download it from the net. It only comes from careful thinking and review.
Steve has run (and sold) a wildly successful chartered accounting practice, traded options, and now spends his life helping businesses find their one number.
As a mentor, Steve is challenging, confronting in a whack-on-the-side-of-the-head way and extremely effective. And because Steve believes that the world needs more people willing to step up to share their knowledge and expertise, he is available to mentor you as part of Thought Leaders, to help you develop your own Thought Leadership.
