Global Speakers

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Lizzie Wagner

Managing Director

Lizzie Wagner Group

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Lizzie Wagner has over 30 years experience as a trainer, events manager and promotions manager/presenter in the fashion and television industries and is a highly sought after international speaker. She has trained thousands of individuals and corporations in image, presentation and customer service. During the course of her career, she has worked with not only models, actors, politicians, TV and sporting celebrities and CEOs as well as individuals seeking mentoring, esteem and business coaching.

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Sarah Laurie

Best-Selling Author

Sarah Laurie Lifestyles

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Sarah a best-selling author and a highly sought-after international presenter in the corporate sector. She has shared her inspiration across several media channels in both New Zealand and Australia. Not only does she work with clients in her coaching practice, she also runs public seminars annually throughout New Zealand and delivers Lifestyle & Wellbeing programs to teenagers within high schools.

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Heather Yelland

Founder and Director

The Elevation Company

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Heather is a renowned international speaker who has connected with audiences from four continents and was head hunted by one of the world’s leading speaker trainers to deliver Speaker Training for small to medium businesses in Australia and the UK. She has also been interviewed by and featured in some of Australia and New Zealand’s leading media outlets, including Channel 7’s Sunrise programme, TVNZ 7 Breakfast show, Radio New Zealand National, Cleo, Melbourne Talk Radio, The Age’s GoodWeekend, Body and Soul and Insight Magazine.

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Elise Sullivan

Director

Australian Academy of Clinical Leadership

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Elise has successfully transitioned from clinician (Registered Nurse), through to senior management levels in the health and aged care sector, and policy advisor in the Commonwealth and State government. She is a director of the Australian Academy of Clinical Leadership, which delivers professional development programs to advance the clinical skills of health professionals and leadership skills of managers. She also works in local government and the corporate sector.

Elise’s research has uncovered the Autonomy Collaboration Paradox – the key to surviving in volatile and uncertain times such as these. She specializes in creating leaders and cultures that empower staff to take initiative and responsibility at the point of care and service – empowering them to make the right decisions at the right time.

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Jon Michail

Image Consultant | Personal Branding Coach | Business Coach | Group CEO

Image Group International

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Controversial, charismatic and honest, Jon-Michail is Founder and CEO of Image Group International and the Institute for Image Management; an Australian based multi-million dollar corporate image advisory and coaching organization.

As a past designer with Christian Dior he further studied International Business Management at Monash University, Australia and has extensive experience in corporate communication, marketing, styling and branding. He pioneered the concept of holistic image management and is regarded as the image advisor’s advisor.

He is also a past winner of the International Image-Maker of the Year Award (USA), a recipient of the 1999 Australian Achievers Award and Winner of the 2001-2002 Hong Kong Bank International Business Award, along with many other business and marketing achievements.

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Fabian Dattner

Owner - Founding Partner - Facilitator

Dattner Grant Pty Ltd

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Fabian Dattner is well known to many Australians as one of the country’s leading female entrepreneurs. She is widely recognized as a highly effective cultural/change strategist, facilitator, teacher, ethicist and social entrepreneur. Fabian Dattner has been cited by Australia’s premier business magazine, The Bulletin, as one of
Australia’s top 100 contributors and has twice been a runner up in the state Telstra business women’s awards.

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Jon Burgess

CEO

Kwan Pty Ltd

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Jon is an international leader in the field of people networks and advocacy. His passion to help organizations gain and maintain their competitive advantage through developing and leveraging their people networks led to the launch of Kwan in 2002. He is recognized as one of the most innovative minds, renowned for his development of The Three Minds™ philosophy.

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Patrick Hollingworth

Keynote Speaker, Leadership and Change Management Consultant

 www.patrickhollingworth.com

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Patrick Hollingworth is a speaker, author, workshop facilitator and consultant. He helps people, teams and organizations deal with an increasingly volatile, uncertain complex and ambiguous business world. Based in Australia but travelling internationally to deliver keynote presentations, workshops and consulting to a range of large and small organizations, Patrick is an expert in the field of organizational agility and adaptability, and helps businesses become ‘light and fast’ in response to rapid change.

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Luke Hawkins

Owner

Luke Hawkins Coaching

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions

Luke Hawkins is a World Class Trainer of NLP and Hypnosis who specializes in creating permanent and lasting results in the areas of health, wealth creation, profitability and business growth. His life purpose is to awaken the force within each person to know and experience their true greatness.

Luke is the owner of Luke Hawkins Coaching, a company that empowers people to make powerful lasting changes in their life and business.

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Anneli Blundell

Director

Motivation Matters Pty Ltd

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions

Anneli is an author, speaker and professional People Whisperer obsessed with decoding people dynamics for improved performance. She specializes in interpersonal intelligence – the ability to understand and navigate the people dynamics in a given situation. She’s recently published her latest book, Developing Direct Reports: Taking the guesswork out of leading leaders, a reference guide for developing leadership performance on the job.

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Faye Hampton

Success Coach and Keynote Speaker

Live Your Fulfillment

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Founder of Live Your Fulfilment, Faye Hampton, is a leading Success Coach and Trainer. Working in businesses and one on one Faye is well known for enabling results for her clients. She works with groups and offers one on one coaching globally where she has helped many people breakthrough barriers in their lives and achieve their goals. Her series of workshops “The Woman inside the suit” received acclaim for life development for Corporate women regaining their passion outside of the workplace. She dedicates her life to working with others to achieve their goals in all aspects of life from business, relationships, career and finances. Faye has worked as part of the Anthony Robbins team, Authentic Education team and her book “101 ways to positive living” is due to be launched in May 2016.

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Kaye Hodge

Executive Assistant, Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education and Learning

University of Auckland

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Over the last 7 years Kaye has achieved a significant national and international reputation in raising an awareness of the importance of investing in the continuous professional development for EAs and PAs. She is extensively involved in facilitating EA & PA motivational workshops, providing plenary presentations and taking on Conference Chair roles. She is highly experienced in working for senior managers in complex organizations and she places the utmost value on being able to support the professional development of her fellow EAs and PAs.

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Marie-Anne Rustichelli

Executive Assistant to CEO (Tim Costello)

World Vision Australia

Both Sydney and Melbourne Sessions:

Marie-Anne’s principle objective is to ensure her manager and the team around her can achieve their objectives smoothly. She believes that their victories are her victories and their wins are her wins. With a mix of legal, corporate and not-for-profit experience, she is able to foster a holistic approach in her work as well as utilizing her expertise to support her manager and team. It’s not just about administration but stakeholder management, strategic intent and delivering on established goals.

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Maureen Bell

Owner

Speak With Presence

Sydney Session Only

Maureen is a Certified World Class Speaking Coach with more than 18 years of experience in facilitating, training and mentoring leaders. She helps high-performing individuals overcome their fears and stresses in the public arena. Her passion is to enable clients to master their voice, heart and communication skills so they can influence and inspire others to make a difference.

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Patricia McMillan

Speaker, Author, Mentor

Patricia McMillan & Associates

Sydney Session Only:

Patricia McMillan lives at the edge where two worlds meet: the world of innovation, technology and digital transformation; and the ancient world of storytelling, which speaks to our human need to connect with each other and create sense and meaning in our lives. She’s on a quest to transform soul-sapping work into work that fires the imagination. Both an experienced information technology leader and an accredited performance storyteller, Patricia helps business leaders use the power of stories to grow their influence, build trust, and transform their organizations. Her background in mathematics and 20 years experience in information technology make her ideally placed to bring these insights and skills to digital leaders. She is the author of Make It Matter: The Surprising Secret for Leading Digital Transformation.

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Neryl East

International conference speaker; reputation, communication and media strategist and trainer

Neryl East Communications

Sydney Session Only:

Dr Neryl East is a speaker, trainer and strategist who works with leaders and teams who want to stand out, accelerate success and avoid reputation disasters.

Neryl has been a professional communicator for more than three decades, including a career in television and radio and a stint as an Olympic announcer. She’s also spent many years managing high-profile issues and crises in the public and private sectors.

Neryl has a PhD in Journalism and is an Amazon best-selling author on media and reputation.

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Corrinne Armour

Fearless Leadership-Speaker-Mentor

Co-Author ‘Developing Direct Reports

Melbourne Session Only:

Corrinne is a thought leader, passionate about supporting leaders, teams and organizations to reduce wasted human potential. Corrinne’s mission is to empower leaders and teams through Fearless Leadership. Recognized as a provoker of change and growth, Corrinne shows leaders how to release the human potential in their careers, teams and organizations.

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Phillip Fernandez

Speaker, Trainer & Business Coach

Wizard

Melbourne Session Only:

Phillip Fernandez, a passionate human being and widely known as the Human Strategist is Director & Founder of WIZARD Business Consulting, a national Business Coaching and Training Company. He has also become a sought after speaker and trainer with forward thinking companies, franchise operations and retailers who really place value in their people. He also writes articles for industry related magazines and publishes on LinkedIn on Excellence in People Performance.
Phillip has been recently featured in the international Motivational Speakers Australia and Motivational Speakers America books & online Magazine publication amongst 80 of the most well renowned speakers and trainers in the country and overseas.

Prior to this he acquired more than 25 successful years in senior management roles as National Sales Manager, General Manager and Human Resource Director and made his mark with major international companies in the industry across Australia and New Zealand with exposure to Europe, Asia and USA.
AS an NLP Practitioner with a Business/HR/Psychology professional background Phillip has channeled his research & philosophy in the understanding of human behavior to drive personal performance. 4P`s of Success – People, Passion, Performance, Profit.

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Col Fink

Head of Engagement

Thought Leaders

Melbourne Session Only:

Col is an irrepressibly enthusiastic speaker who cares a great deal about making people’s lives more awesome. He presents keynote speeches designed to make the world a better place, and teaches others how to do the same. He works with organizations to transform their cultures into supportive and fulfilling environments where people love to work.