AI is the future of digital. Activate now and you can lead your competitors, not follow.
Lisa Teh is a digital marketing entrepreneur, author, and thought leader who helps businesses navigate the fast-moving worlds of AI, Web3, and authentic brand storytelling.
She is the founder of CODI Agency, a digital marketing firm launched in 2015, and Mooning, a specialist agency focused on Web3 and AI marketing. Through both businesses, Lisa works with brands to adopt emerging technologies, build genuine audience connections, and cut through the noise with strategies that actually deliver results.
Before stepping into entrepreneurship, Lisa spent seven years as a tax lawyer across Big 4 accounting firms, law firms, and the Australian Tax Office. That analytical foundation now underpins her practical, no-nonsense approach to marketing and business strategy.
Lisa is the author of GET REAL: Honest Lessons for Business and Life from 30 Female Entrepreneurs (Hardie Grant, 2025), which draws on in-depth interviews with founders across industries to expose the gap between how entrepreneurship is portrayed and what it actually looks like. The book tackles fundraising challenges, gender bias, and the reality that building a business is hard 99% of the time and amazing 1% of the time. It is her third published book, following Australian Style (2017) and Australian Beauty (2018).
She is also the co-host of Byte Size, an AI podcast that helps small and medium businesses understand and adopt AI tools in practical, accessible ways.
Lisa has been recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice and one of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians. She is a regular contributor to Forbes, SmartCompany, and Women's Agenda, and speaks on topics including AI adoption for business, LinkedIn personal branding, female entrepreneurship, and why authenticity is the most underrated competitive advantage.
Talking Points
Beyond the Buzz: How Real Businesses Are Actually Using AI (And How You Can Too)
AI is everywhere right now. It's in the headlines, it's in the boardroom, and it's in the group chat. But for most business owners and marketers, the gap between the hype and the practical reality is enormous. What tools should you actually be using? Where does AI genuinely save time and money? And where is it still falling short?Beyond the Buzz: How Real Businesses Are Actually Using AI (And How You Can Too)
In this keynote, Lisa Teh draws on her hands-on experience running two agencies, working with clients across Web3 and AI, and co-hosting Byte Size, an AI podcast built specifically to help businesses make sense of this rapidly shifting landscape. She cuts through the jargon and the fear to deliver a grounded, honest look at what AI adoption really looks like for small and medium businesses today.
Lisa shares real examples of how businesses are using AI tools to streamline operations, reduce costs, and create better customer experiences, along with the mistakes she's seen companies make when they jump in without a plan. She also addresses the questions no one wants to ask out loud: what AI can't do, where human skills still matter most, and how to future-proof your team without burning everything down and starting again.
This talk is for business leaders, marketers, and founders who are tired of the noise and want a practical, no-fluff roadmap for integrating AI into their work, starting now.
Key Takeaways:
* A clear framework for identifying where AI fits into your business today
* Real-world examples of AI tools delivering measurable results
Common pitfalls to avoid when adopting AI
* How to balance automation with the human skills your customers still value
The Unspoken Challenges Women Still Face in Business
The narrative around women in business has come a long way. But the reality on the ground? Not nearly far enough. Female-led startups still receive just 2-3% of venture capital funding globally, despite consistently delivering stronger returns. Women founders are still fielding questions about childcare in pitch meetings. And some have gone as far as creating fake male personas just to be taken seriously.The Unspoken Challenges Women Still Face in Business
In this keynote, Lisa Teh pulls back the curtain on the challenges that rarely make it into the success stories. Drawing on her book GET REAL: Honest Lessons for Business and Life from 30 Female Entrepreneurs, Lisa shares what she learned through in-depth interviews with women who've built, scaled, and sometimes lost businesses across industries. These aren't polished case studies. They're honest, raw accounts of what it actually takes to build something as a woman in a system that wasn't designed for you.
Lisa explores the funding gap, the confidence tax, the invisible labour, and the cultural pressure to make it all look effortless. She unpacks the patterns she saw across 30 founder stories, from the systemic barriers that keep showing up to the quiet sacrifices no one talks about. And she makes a compelling case for why the business world needs to stop glamourising the grind and start getting honest about what needs to change.
This talk is for leaders, founders, investors, and anyone who wants to go beyond surface-level conversations about gender in business and understand what meaningful progress actually looks like.
Key Takeaways:
* The systemic barriers women still face in funding, leadership, and growth
* Patterns from 30 founder interviews on the hidden costs of entrepreneurship
* Why the culture of glamourising hustle is doing more harm than good
* What organisations, investors, and individuals can do to drive real change
How to harness the power of LinkedIn to grow your business and personal brand
LinkedIn is the most underutilised social media platform in the world today.How to harness the power of LinkedIn to grow your business and personal brand
In this 60 minute session, Lisa will cover topics including how to:
* optimise your profile
* build your network
* reach out to people
* leverage the latest LinkedIn features, and
* develop a content strategy.
From Tax Lawyer to Digital Entrepreneur
In this 60 minute keynote Lisa talks about how she transitioned from a career as a tax lawyer, working for some of the biggest companies in the world, to starting 3 digital companies, writing two best-selling books, hosting 3 podcasts and starting the world's sexiest toothpaste company!From Tax Lawyer to Digital Entrepreneur
She'll share her tips on:
- how to overcome self-doubt
- how to become mentally stronger
- how investing in your personal brand can help you succeed in the business world
- how to build global networks, and
- how to start and scale companies.
Aquent Australia engaged Lisa Teh to speak at our #Digitalks webinar to 630 people all about Web3, the metaverse & NFTs. She quite frankly was unbelievable! Not only was she a fantastic, aut ... keep reading Aquent Australia
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