Future opportunities belong to the adaptable and the innovative.
Brett Wiskar is an innovation and adaptability specialist who helps businesses and industries embrace transformation. He shows leaders and teams how to turn uncertainty into confidence, and change into opportunity.
Brett's perspective comes from more than 25 years leading innovation, digital transformation and organisational change across Australia and the United Kingdom. He has overseen ecommerce operations generating billions of dollars in revenue, built and led AI and data teams, and delivered digital and technology solutions for organisations including Adobe, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Domino's and the Reserve Bank of Australia. He knows what happens after the strategy offsite ends, when the human work of making new technology deliver begins.
His keynotes focus on people rather than tools. As technology advances, judgement, curiosity, creativity and trust become more valuable, not less. Brett helps audiences move past fear and hype towards practical action.
Brett has presented at more than 200 conferences, forums and leadership events to over 50,000 delegates across seven countries on four continents. Organisations he has worked with as a speaker include Suncorp, Australian Retirement Trust, GHD, Meat & Livestock Australia, Bank of China, Flywire, DKSH Smollan, SSKB and the Refrigerated Warehouse and Transport Association. He also delivers short courses for the University of Sydney's Centre for Continuing Education.
Every session is researched and tailored to the client's organisation, audience and industry. Delegates leave with sharper questions and practical next steps they can apply straight away.
Based in Brisbane, Brett speaks at events across Australia and internationally.
Talking Points
The Adaptability Advantage: Leadership, Culture and the Future of Work in the Age of AI
Leaders walk away knowing how to move their organisation from scattered AI experiments to real capability, and how to reduce workforce anxiety by framing AI around opportunity and value. Brett explains AI as a general-purpose technology that will reach every role, process and service, and what that means for staff and graduates. He shows why value is shifting from routine process work to judgement, creativity, curiosity and problem-solving. Drawing on 25 years leading innovation and building AI and data teams, he sets out the leadership behaviours, culture and executive alignment that help organisations adapt, and where leaders should focus over the next three years.The Adaptability Advantage: Leadership, Culture and the Future of Work in the Age of AI
Audiences will:
- Understand what AI as a general-purpose technology means for roles, skills and graduates
- See why value is shifting from process work to judgement and problem-solving
- Learn the leadership behaviours that speed up adaptation and innovation
- Know where to focus their attention over the next three years
Ideal for:
Leadership summits, executive forums, advisory boards, and conferences shaping AI strategy.
Turning Disruption into Opportunity: Building Future Proof Adaptable Teams
Audiences leave able to tell lasting shifts from short-lived hype, spot opportunity early, and ask practical questions to future-proof their strategy and operations. Brett maps the technological, economic, demographic and consumer forces likely to reshape their sector over the next five to ten years, and explains why the pace of change is accelerating. He shows where disruption creates opportunity as well as risk, and how to make better decisions when conditions keep moving. The session leaves people ready to shape their own future rather than wait for it.Turning Disruption into Opportunity: Building Future Proof Adaptable Teams
Audiences will:
- Understand the key forces driving change in their industry
- Learn a simple way to tell lasting shifts from short-lived hype
- Identify where disruption creates opportunity, not just risk
- Leave with practical questions to future-proof strategy and operations
Ideal for: Conference openers, industry associations, strategy days and board forums.
Leading Through Technology Transformation: Growing Adaptable People, Teams and Organisations
Leaders and teams leave with practical techniques to build personal and team adaptability, and ideas for creating a culture that experiments, learns and recovers quickly. Brett explores the psychology of change and human decision-making, explaining why people resist change and what helps them move through it. He shares tools for navigating uncertainty with clarity, communicating during rapid change, and making decisions when information keeps shifting. Participants also explore how to grow their own value as roles are reinvented.Leading Through Technology Transformation: Growing Adaptable People, Teams and Organisations
Audiences will:
- Understand why people resist change, and what helps them move through it
- Learn practical techniques for building personal and team adaptability
- Explore how to grow their value as roles are reinvented
- Take away ideas for building a culture that embraces experimentation
Ideal for: Team days, leadership offsites, transformation programs and all-staff town halls.
The Future of Your Industry: Custom Conference Keynotes
Brett works closely with each client to research the specifics of their industry, so the keynote charts the future of the sector: the trends at play, how things are changing now, and how they are likely to change. Delegates leave with a clear view of the risks and opportunities specific to their industry, connected to their organisation's own strategy and the conference objectives. Each session is built around the client's context, strategy and audience, from briefing through to delivery. Recent tailored keynotes have covered logistics and cold chain, agribusiness, engineering, financial services, retail and higher education.The Future of Your Industry: Custom Conference Keynotes
Audiences will:
- Explore the trends, risks and opportunities specific to their industry
- See insights connected to their organisation's own strategy and priorities
- Leave with next steps relevant to the people in the room
Ideal for: Industry conferences, association events, and organisations wanting a session built around their own strategy.
Brett was the highlight of our conference. He delivered an engaging, high‑energy session that opened our team's minds to the power of technology & AI. He nailed the brief, wove our strategy ... keep reading DKSH Smollan Group
Brett was an outstanding speaker at our Australian Flywire event. He has a great ability to take a topic as complex - & sometimes intimidating- as AI & make it accessible, relevant, & optimistic. He was engaging, thought-provoking, & very effective at making a complicated subject easy to understand. I would highly recommend Brett to any organisation looking to help its leaders think differently about AI, innovation, & the future of work.
Brett's presentation was world class. The amount of content he delivered in 45 minutes, the erudite & insightful way he presented without notes, backed by excellent slides - absolutely 10 out of 10.
Brett was a standout presenter at our townhall. He was professional & engaged throughout the process, working to understand our organisation & our specific needs. His presentation was not only engaging but also perfectly tailored to our audience. His authentic style & ability to connect with everyone & deliver on-point content was impressive.
He always hits the points we ask him to deliver - automation, construction, global & national views. And I watch the audience - people were totally focused for the entire 45 minutes. The research he brings really shows what's happening in the real world.
