Our world is changing faster and more profoundly than any of us realise.
Brad is not just a leadership speaker; he is known as being the leader of leaders. His focus is at the intersection where humanity meets technology.
For the past thirty years he has built and advised executives on ground breaking products that have disrupted the world's largest corporations in the enterprise technology space, AI and the Metaverse. Guided C-level executives in some of the biggest corporations around the world including Visa, UBS and CBA through business transformation initiatives and collaborated with CEOs and Boards to cultivate adaptable cultures that nurture resilient and innovative people.
Brad's keynote presentations and leadership workshops are transformational and highly interactive. He has developed and speaks on “Radical Leadership,” "Radical Innovation" and "Radical Intelligence" terms he has coined that are recognised globally and now used by Harvard Business School to describe the mission-critical mandate of today’s modern business leaders.
As a keynote speaker, Brad’s special gift lies in his powerful lived experiences, which capture the audience's attention and catalyses change. These stories are drawn from his extensive journey as an award-winning Enterprise Technology Entrepreneur, Corporate Innovator, and proud “First Nations” man.
His recent clients include CEO Institute, Singularity U, Minter Ellison, Rio Tinto, Port Waratah Coal Services, Endeavour Group, ARTC, Pitcher Partners, Mazars, EO Org, and Western Sydney University.
His high-energy and authentic presence delivers a fast-paced and immersive keynote presentation and a journey that creates a contagious energy that motivates audiences and leaves a lasting impression.
Brad pushes individuals and organisations to rethink what leadership is in today's uncertain and volatile business environment, encouraging them to step out of their comfort zones and embrace the benefits of becoming Radical.
Talking Points
Radical Leadership: 5 Essential Capabilities for Leading in the Age of Reinvention
Target Audience: Executive Leadership Teams, Emerging Leaders, All Staff Gatherings and Retreats, Sales Teams, Boards & Conferences Radical Leadership: 5 Essential Capabilities for Leading in the Age of Reinvention
In today’s volatile business landscape traditional leadership approaches fall short. Adaptability is the ultimate currency. Organisations and leaders face unprecedented disruption from technological advancements to climate change and social upheaval. The solution “Radical Leadership” a new foundation for leading in an age of rising complexity.
In this keynote inspired by the book “Radical Thinking” your people will be equipped with five essential capabilities that create a foundation of stability in an age where none exists: Radical Open mindedness, Radical Creativity, Radical Empathy, Radical Acceptance and Radical Candor.
Attendees will discover how to cultivate these capabilities to foster adaptability, drive innovation, break down outdated beliefs and embrace change with optimism, courage and clarity.
Key takeaways:
• Understand the root causes of leadership challenges in this decade and beyond.
• Learn practical techniques to develop the five core capabilities of the Radical Leader.
• Gain strategies to foster a culture of adaptability and innovation within teams and organisations.
• Leave inspired to lead through change with confidence and achieve sustainable success.
The Augmented Leader: Weaving AI Insight with Ancestral Intelligence
This transformative keynote decodes the leadership paradigm of the future: the Augmented Leader. As the age of AI rapidly unfolds, leaders face the challenge of integrating unprecedented technological capabilities with enduring human strengths. Drawing from Brad’s rich cultural Aboriginal heritage that has long valued interconnectedness and holistic thinking and over 25 years of innovation in Enterprise Technology and AI, this keynote offers a unique perspective on navigating this complex terrain that is reshaping leadership at an unprecedented rate. The Augmented Leader: Weaving AI Insight with Ancestral Intelligence
How do we move beyond a binary choice between AI-driven analysis and human skills, and towards a powerful synthesis. Participants will discover how to cultivate essential competencies like AI literacy, ethical reasoning, and contextual awareness, while amplifying intuition, emotional intelligence, and the wisdom embedded in ancestral knowledge systems.
Key takeaways include:
• Understanding the paradoxes of AI in leadership: balancing its potential with the risks of bias, over-reliance, and ethical pitfalls.
• Reclaiming uniquely human capacities: intuition, emotional intelligence, and contextual wisdom as essential leadership tools.
• Drawing on Indigenous wisdom: exploring how principles of interconnectedness, ethical responsibility, and long-term thinking can inform augmented leadership.
• Implementing augmented leadership: strategies for cultivating essential competencies, fostering a culture of integrated intelligence, and establishing ethical AI governance.
• Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to lead with wisdom, integrity, and future-focused vision in an age of unprecedented technological change.
Radical Innovation: Welcome to the Age of Smart Intelligence
Embark on a transformative journey into the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence with this captivating keynote, "Radical Innovation: Welcome to the Age of Smart Intelligence."Radical Innovation: Welcome to the Age of Smart Intelligence
This presentation takes you beyond the hype of Generative AI, delivering a foundational understanding of AI's profound impact on every industry. Starting with a nod to AI's origins in the pivotal summer of 1956, the keynote unfolds the five key categories of AI that are reshaping our world: Reactive AI, Limited Memory AI, Theory of Mind AI, Narrow AI, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Through compelling, industry-specific examples, you'll witness how these AI types are redefining your specific industry segment, sparking a conversation in session that engages participants in a process of radical creativity.
The session further explores the convergence of AI with other cutting-edge technologies, including Web3/Metaverse, Robotics, and Quantum Computing, painting a vivid picture of the radically creative future that awaits.
This isn't just a presentation; it's an interactive experience. Participants will be challenged to actively engage with the concepts, prompting a dynamic exploration of how to radically recreate their organizations in response to the wave of technological transformation.
Key Takeaways:
• A clear understanding of the five key categories of AI and their real-world applications.
• Specific insights into how AI is currently disrupting and redefining your industry.
• An overview of the synergistic potential of AI with Web3/Metaverse, Robotics, and Quantum Computing.
• Actionable inspiration and frameworks for participants to begin radically recreating their own organizations.
Radical Leadership for Sales Teams: Selling into a Zero-Trust World
The ground has shifted. Customers are operating in a "zero-trust" world, where scepticism is the default and trust is harder to earn than ever before. This keynote, equips sales professionals to navigate this challenging landscape and forge authentic connections that drive resultsRadical Leadership for Sales Teams: Selling into a Zero-Trust World
We'll explore the factors fuelling this growing "trust gap," from the rapid pace of technological change to the erosion of trust in traditional institutions. You'll discover how these forces are reshaping customer expectations and demanding a radical new approach to sales.
Drawing on insights from psychology, behavioural economics, and the latest research on trust, this keynote provides actionable strategies for building unshakeable trust in a world where seeing is no longer believing. You'll learn to move beyond outdated sales tactics and embrace a customer-centric approach that prioritizes transparency, empathy, and genuine relationship-building.
Key Takeaways:
• Understand the root causes of the growing "trust gap" and its impact on the sales process.
• Identify the essential elements of trust in a "zero-trust" world.
• Learn practical techniques for building rapport, establishing credibility, and fostering long-term customer loyalty.
• Develop a framework for leading with integrity and authenticity in every sales interaction.
Radical Open-Mindedness
Available as a full day, half day workshop, or 60-90 min Conference Boost SessionRadical Open-Mindedness
Target Audience: Boards, Senior Leadership Teams, Innovation Teams, Business Change and Transformation Teams, Emerging leaders, Sales Teams, Entrepreneurs
Being able to absorb and digest ideas without our automatic bias is critical to being an effective leader in today’s fast paced business environment. The Radical Open mindedness workshop explores our automatic reaction to receiving ideas that don’t agree with our preconceived view of how the world should look and an easy to implement technique that assists us in evaluating those ideas.
• Understand your automatic response to ideas you don’t agree with.
• Learn the PNI technique, a technique used for actively enquiring into difficult to hear ideas.
• Develop new opportunities for your organisation or team to explore where previously there were only negative or biased responses.
• Take the technique back to your team or organisation.
Past Clients: Rio Tinto, Endeavor Group, Minter Ellison, Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services (QLD Health), Solomon Island Submarine Cable Company, Port Waratah Coal Services, Western Sydney University, Tesla, Western Sydney International Airport, Powerhouse Museum, Mazzers, Zadro Agency, DXC Technology, DuluxGroup, Entrepreneurs Org.
Radical Creativity
Available as a half day workshop, or 60-90 min Conference Boost SessionRadical Creativity
Target Audience: Senior Leadership Teams, Innovation Teams, Business Change and Transformation Teams, Emerging leaders, Sales Teams, Entrepreneurs
This workshop is often coupled with the Radical Open mindedness workshop and delivered as a full day workshop.
There are two types of creativity we find in organisations. Incremental creativity takes something that already exists and improves upon it. Most organisations call this their innovation program.
Research has concluded that organisations who engage in the process of Radical Creativity, a process of creating without the constraints of the past, thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment. Their teams are more engaged and less prone to burn out.
In today’s world we need Leaders to be able to lead teams that can be radically creative. Create without limitations and can be the catalyst to inspire new business ideas, business models and strategies not previously envisioned.
• Explore the body of research that concludes all organisations need to be engaged in a process of Radical Creativity on an on-going basis.
• Learn a process for accessing the Radically Creative Brain.
• Develop Radically Creative Solutions.
• Create a Massive Transformational Purpose for your team or organisation.
Past Clients: Rio Tinto, Endeavor Group, Minter Ellison, Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services (QLD Health), Solomon Island Submarine Cable Company, Port Waratah Coal Services, Western Sydney University, Tesla, Western Sydney International Airport, Powerhouse Museum, Mazzers, Zadro Agency, DXC Technology DuluxGroup, Entrepreneurs Org.
Radical Empathy in Action
Available as a half day, full day workshop, or 60-90 min Conference Boost SessionRadical Empathy in Action
Target Audience: Board, Senior Leadership Teams, Innovation Teams, Sales Teams, Business Change and Transformation Teams, Emerging leaders
Being a leader shouldn’t just be about getting stuff done, it should be about becoming a better person.
Most workshops focused on empathic leadership focus on Cognitive Empathy. Psychological Research now concludes that Narcissists and Psychopaths can use cognitive empathy as a tool to manipulate their environments, creating toxic workplace environments as a consequence.
Radical Empathy focuses on compassionate empathy. Not just as a tool for listening but as a tool for creating exceptional value for both internal and external stakeholders and customers. Learn how to build high performing teams and use empathy as a tool for leapfrogging the competition.
• Explore the difference between cognitive empathy, active listening and Radical Empathy.
• Through unique case studies learn how to use Radical Empathy to create exceptional business value.
• Practice Radical Empathy with your colleagues within the session.
• Develop a sense of Radical Empathy for yourself and your colleagues.
Past Clients: Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services (QLD Health), Central Coast Local Health District (NSW Health), Western Sydney University.
Radical Acceptance
Available as a half day workshop, or 60-90 min Conference Boost SessionRadical Acceptance
Target Audience: Board, Senior Leadership Teams, Innovation Teams, Sales Teams, Business Change and Transformation Teams, Emerging leaders
This workshop is often coupled with the Radical Empathy workshop and delivered as a full day workshop.
Leaders need to build the capacity to turn on a dime in today’s fast paced and disruptive business environment.
Radical Acceptance is a tool for creating psychological safety and the resilience required to operate effectively in a volatile and ambiguous business environment.
Regular disruption is a certainty in today’s business environment and our ability to keep moving forward in the midst of significant disruption is a key skill that is essential to learn.
This workshop explores a method called the G.A.P method (Gratitude, Acceptance and Perception) and is perfect for teams going through digital transformations, corporate reorganisations, corporate investigations and other disruptive periods in an organisation's life cycle.
• Understand and develop a simple practice of gratitude for navigating difficult situations.
• Learn a five-step process for overcoming disappointment at pace.
• Develop a simple technique for reframing any situation to keep moving forward amid disruptive and competing forces.
Past Clients: Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services (Qld Health), Bega Valley Innovation Hub, AusIndustry, University of New England, Western Sydney University, SingularityU, Maroondah City Council.
Candid Communication
Available as a half day, full day workshop, or 60-90 min Conference Boost SessionCandid Communication
Target Audience: Board, Senior Leadership Teams, Innovation Teams, Sales Teams, Business Change and Transformation Teams, Emerging leaders
Most organisations today communicate with legislated optimism. Only good news or positive feedback is communicated across the organisation.
High performing teams and organisations constantly seek out negative or constructive feedback because the leaders know it’s the negative feedback that leads to change and growth of the people and the organisation.
The success of leaders in today’s business environment is determined by their ability to receive and give negative feedback with gratitude, care and dignity.
This workshop develops the capability and skills required to effectively create and manage productive negative feedback loops that can lead to exceptional learning and results for people within your organisation.
• The key reasons we shy away from giving negative feedback.
• A Simple technique for being able to receive negative feedback in any situation.
• Framework for delivering negative and constructive feedback with care and precision.
• Strategy for implementing negative feedback loops in your daily workflow within your team.
Past Clients: Rio Tinto, Port Waratah Coal Services, Mazzers, Pitcher Partners, Western Sydney University,
Radical Reframing
Available as a half day, full day, or 60-90 min Boost SessionRadical Reframing
Target Audience: Board, Senior Leadership Teams, Innovation Teams, Sales Teams, Business Change and Transformation Teams, Emerging leaders
Communication is leadership and leadership is the transfer of emotion.
In today’s fast paced business environment, communicating effectively in a one to one or one to many situations is critical to success.
Most presentation skills programs focus on content but that is only 25% of our communication. To be effective in communicating ideas, delivering bad or good news or motivating and inspiring our teams we need to learn how to reframe ideas for people using both verbal and non-verbal communication skills and compelling story telling techniques
This workshop teaches comprehensive systems to structure compelling content as well as the key non-verbal communication skills required to communicate messages in a compelling fashion.
• Why connection is more important than content
• Value Communication Framework for structuring compelling content.
• 5 key non-verbal communication skills.
• Delivering a compelling TedTalk style presentation.
Hackathons
(Includes preparation) Hackathons
Radical Innovation in Action
Available as a half day, full day, or two day Hackathon
Target Audience: Company wide open to anyone to enter or for teams and business units within the organisation
Tapping into the collective knowledge, wisdom and creativity of your people is becoming more important in today’s business climate than it has ever been before.
The ability to define problems, conceptualise, communicate and test solutions at speed is a skillset all organisations need in a complex and disruptive business environment.
This half, one or two day innovation challenge takes participants through a process and approach for defining problems and ideating ideas into tangible solutions and then rapidly prototyping and testing those solutions.
Designed around a challenge question co-designed with the organisation, the hackathon participants are taken through a journey from defining a problem, ideating to solution, developing a prototype and pitching the idea to a panel of judges.
Organisations often take the best ideas and explore them further with some clients developing new lines of business and business models as a result.
Key Learnings:
• Developing an easily catchable and powerful problem statement in response to a problem domain.
• Using the process of Radical Creativity to conceptualise and communicate a solution.
• Developing non-verbal communication skills and storytelling capabilities to pitch complex ideas in a three-minute pitch format.
• Innovative solutions the organisation could implement as a result of the challenge.
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Brad Twynham invites us to rethink leadership in an era defined by smart intelligence—and the need to amplify our humanity. He argues, “If you’re wondering how to adopt AI, you’re asking the wrong question—AI will adopt you.” This isn’t a technology issue—it’s a profoundly human one. It’s not a leadership gap but a leadership capability gap. Brad’s gift lies in his ability to connect with audiences: to step into their minds and sustain their energy. His story is one of resilience: from thriving in Los Angeles to driving an Uber just to feed his family—navigating volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. He shares how exponential change sneaks up on us, backloaded and deceptive—and why we must learn, unlearn and relearn at the speed of technological change. Brad introduces the idea of dynamic stability—a new type of steadiness for our era—and reminds us that vulnerability can become vision, and that adaptability is the ultimate currency. With deep roots in Indigenous ancestral intelligence and global consulting experience, Brad calls us to embrace radical leadership for our rapidly evolving world. Learn more about Brad at https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/br...Radical Leadership | Brad Twynahm | Saxton Speakers
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If you need to recharge and reclaim lost momentum and create a positive outlook about change, your people need to meet Brad Twynham. He kept our audience captivated from the opening phrase t ... keep reading Singularity U Australia
An incredible story no one wants, combined with advice everyone needs.
Brad Twynham was entertaining, engaging, and his story surprising. His key lessons of creating Dynamic Stability hit a home run with our Cohort, Guests and Investors.
Brad‘s energy was very well received, and the content he provided was very thought-provoking, especially the three foundations for creating Dynamic Stability.
Brad delivered a thought-provoking keynote. His content was fascinating, and his style was enthusiastic, engaging and inspiring.
Absolutely fantastic. Our people have never given a standing ovation before.
Thought provoking, engaging and inspiring keynote with fascinating content.
I saw Brad speak at a retreat and just had to get him into speak to our firm. I got more the second time around from his keynote.
Captivating from the opening to the closing sentence of his talk.
Incredible energy, passion and amazing storytelling.
A home run! Met the brief and then some.
An exciting and engaging keynote, providing valuable implementable frameworks.
Hands down the best keynote we have had.
An entertaining, humorous and content rich keynote.
Fun, light-hearted and created space for the team to experience the benefits of being more open.
The best attended workshop the firm has ever had. I love the way Brad weaves in powerful storytelling with practical lessons.
The audience was kept on the edge of their seats wanting to hear more!
Brad's messages really resonated, and I noticed afterwards his Radical Leadership elements were being cited and are now part of our lexicon!
The best professional development I have ever done, and I have done a lot!
In one morning, Brad took me from being fearful of AI to wanting to dive in and use it.
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