Are you looking for a high profile international speaker to add to your next event? Use this list as a resource to keep up to date on the thought leaders and story tellers visiting Australia throughout the year and take advantage of reduced travel rates.
If you'd like the opportunity to have any of these heavyweights present at your next event contact our expert team for more information and someone will get back to you within 24 hours to discuss your event.
Brooke Boney - Gamilaroi Gomeroi Woman & Respected Media Personality
Brooke Boney is a respected journalist, presenter, and proud Gamilaroi Gomeroi woman, known for her sharp insights and engaging storytelling across entertainment, politics, and culture. As the first Indigenous person on commercial breakfast television, she has played a pivotal role in shaping conversations about Australia’s evolving identity. With a background spanning TODAY, triple j, ABC News, NITV, and SBS, Brooke brings credibility, warmth, and a fresh perspective to any event. A UNICEF Australia ambassador and member of the Indigenous Advisory Panel for the Museum of Contemporary Art, she blends advocacy with entertainment, making her a compelling and influential speaker.
Brooke will be available for live Speaking engagements over NAIDOC week in July 2025.
Whitney Johnson - World Authority on Smart Growth Leadership & Personal Disruption
Whitney Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors, is a world-class coach, globally recognised thought leader, author, keynote speaker, and consultant helping organisations operationalise a growth mindset in their leaders and teams. Whitney is a leading expert in smart growth leadership, known for helping individuals and organisations achieve transformative success with clients such as Kraft Heinz, Intermountain Healthcare, Bank of America, and more.Whitney will be available for just two live Speaking engagements in Australia in August 2025.
Rohit Bhargava - Non-Obvious Futurist Keynote Speaker on Trends, Marketing & Innovation
For more than a decade, Rohit Bhargava has been inspiring audiences at NASA, Disney, Schwab, Microsoft, SXSW, Coca-Cola and hundreds of other clients with his signature non-obvious keynote presentations. Event planners and audiences have described Rohit as “a rare mix of scary-smart and super engaging,” and “a master at weaving stories together.” Once he was even described on Twitter by an attendee as “hilarious, like a tech-savvy Robin Williams.” He is the perfect choice when you want to bring a diverse outside perspective from an engaging speaker who has real practical experience with relevance to your industry, a unique point of view, and a delivery style that blends inspiration with action.
Rohit will be available for live Speaking engagements in Australia in August 2025.
Margie Warrell - Live & Lead with Courage
Margie Warrell is a globally sought-after authority on courage, leadership, and resilience. With a proven track record of working with leading organisations such as NASA, Google, and Salesforce, Margie delivers compelling keynotes that inspire individuals and teams to step up to challenges, embrace change, and lead with confidence. Her engaging style combines powerful storytelling with actionable insights, equipping audiences with practical tools to navigate uncertainty and thrive in a fast-changing world.
Margie will be available for live Speaking engagements in Australia in July & August 2025.
John Peters - Gulf War POW, Performance Coach & Best-Selling Author
John Peters came to the world’s attention in January 1991, when his bruised and battered face flashed onto television screens around the world and his disfigured image became a potent symbol of Saddam Hussein’s ruthless aggression.
His dramatic and sometimes harrowing experiences reach deep into our innermost minds, showing us how we can overcome even our worst fears and nightmares. His war was not all as he expected – it became a seven-week ordeal of torture and interrogation testing John Peters to the absolute limit and bringing him close to death.
John Peters will be available for live Speaking engagements in Australia from June to August 2025.
Joe Garner - Experienced & Accomplished Former CEO, Advisor to Public & Private Sector CEOs
Joe is an expert CEO, having been CEO of HSBC UK, Openreach - British Telecom’s £5bn infrastructure provider and latterly Nationwide Building Society – a member owned mutual with a balance sheet of over £280bn. He also authored the 2024 Future of Payments Review for the UK Government.
Joe's "Leading with Humanity" keynote explores how he applied empathy to his decision-making in the incredibly high-pressure environments in which he was working. Joe is relatable, earnest, full of compassion, and slick whilst staying authentic - a key attribute on the speaking circuit. He is a rockstar in the world of banking and payments, and has a reputation that reaches across the globe.
Joe will be available for live Speaking engagements in Australia in October 2025.
Troy Hazard- Entrepreneur, Business & Franchise Expert
Troy Hazard has been a franchisee twice, a franchisor once, and a leading franchise consultant for 25 years dealing with some of the greatest brands on the planet.
In addition, he’s owned 11 different companies, and has been a ‘leader of leaders’, having served as International President of the elite Entrepreneurs’ Organization, on their Global Board. Troy now shares his experiences through his speaking engagements, his television talk show, and his books. His most recent book, Future-Proofing Your Business is an Amazon Business Bestseller.
Troy will be in Australia and available for local events in November 2025.
Dr Pippa Malmgren - Expert in Economics, Geopolitics & Strategic Security
Dr. Pippa Malmgren is an economist who makes sense of the world economy and geopolitics. Dr Malmgren's speciality is understanding the nexus between geopolitics, tech innovation, strategic security and markets. She is a Strategic Advisor to C10 Labs, the MIT Media Lab based AI Venture Builder Studio. She is also on the Board of Premios Verdes which holds the annual “Green Oscars” to support the best cleantech start-ups in emerging markets.Dr Malmgren will be in Australia & New Zealand and available for local events in early December 2025.
Chanel Contos - Founder of Teach Us Consent, Activist & Changemaker
Chanel is an activist and Founder of Teach Us Consent, a movement lobbying for and providing holistic consent and sexuality education. She is also the inaugural Director of the Centre for Sex and Gender equality at the Australia Institute where she aims to eradicate normalised violence and discrimination against women.
Chanel is also featured extensively in media worldwide, including a Saturday Profile being dedicated to her activism in the New York Times. In the last year almost every major news outlet in Australia has written about Chanel and her work.
Chanel will be in Australia & New Zealand and available for local events from December 2025 to January 2026.
