Redesign your mind, redesign your life.
Tansel Ali is a 4-time Australian Memory Champion, international bestselling author, keynote speaker, and one of the world’s leading experts on memory, learning, and cognitive performance.
Best known for memorising two entire Yellow Pages phone books containing more than 20,000 names and numbers in just 24 days, Tansel has spent more than two decades helping individuals, leaders, and organisations improve focus, accelerate learning, strengthen memory, and unlock higher levels of performance.
His work has been featured on television programs, documentaries, and in bestselling books, including Deep Work by Cal Newport and Tony Buzan’s official biography. Drawing on a unique combination of memory championships, real-world experience, and years of coaching, Tansel helps audiences develop the mental clarity, learning agility, and cognitive edge needed to thrive in an increasingly complex and distracted world.
Talking Points
Mental Mastery for High Performers
What separates top performers from everyone else is rarely intelligence. It's their ability to manage attention, think clearly under pressure, make better decisions, and perform consistently in demanding environments. This keynote explores the mental skills behind sustained high performance in business and life.
Mental Mastery for High Performers
Redesign your brain, Redesign your life
Most people never learn how their own mind works. This keynote reveals how habits, beliefs, thinking patterns, and mental conditioning shape performance, behaviour, and results. Participants will discover practical strategies for creating lasting personal and professional change.
Redesign your brain, Redesign your life
The Power of Immersion
The fastest learners and highest achievers understand that mastery is rarely accidental. Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, this keynote shows how immersion accelerates learning, shortens the path to expertise, and creates breakthroughs in performance, skill development, and growth.
The Power of Immersion
Inside the mind of a Memory Champion
Drawing on world-class memory feats and more than 20 years of experience, Tansel takes audiences behind the scenes of elite memory performance. Participants discover how memory influences communication, relationships, learning, confidence, and decision-making, while learning practical techniques they can apply immediately.
Inside the mind of a Memory Champion
Memory in the Age of Distraction
In a world of constant notifications and digital overload, memory is your superpower. Tansel breaks down how to train your brain to cut through the noise, retain what matters, and boost focus — using tools you can apply immediately.
Memory in the Age of Distraction
Breaking Through the Pain Barrier: Brain training mental toughness
In 2002 Tansel was hospitalised, cut up from the chest all the way down the stomach and was told he would have been dead if he wasn't operated on.Breaking Through the Pain Barrier: Brain training mental toughness
Since then he has been hospitalised several more times, lived with an ileostomy bag and suffered various mental difficulties dealing with Crohn's Disease. Tansel shares his story of triumph and self-discipline on how he dealt with physical and mental pain and workplace bullying to become a successful mental athlete, bestselling author, entrepreneur, father of three and an Ambassador for Crohn's and Colitis Australia.
Time Management Hacks: Get More Productive Using Your Brain
Too busy? Got too much on your plate? Got disrupted? Can't manage? Aghhh! Time wastage costs organisations around the world millions of dollars. It is a serious concern. Learn the ways of the mind and get more productive with tips and tricks that will keep your staff on top of their game and assist your organisations overall efficiency.
Time Management Hacks: Get More Productive Using Your Brain
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Tansel Ali | Mastering Your Memory | Saxton Speakers
Tansel Ali is a 4 x Australian Memory Champion most famously known for memorising two Yellow Pages phone books in only 24 days. An international bestselling author of the books, 'The Yellow Elephant', and 'How to Learn Almost Anything In 48 Hours', Tansel presents to thousands around the world instantly improving audience's memory!Tansel Ali | Memory Expert | Saxton Speakers
Tansel Ali is a 4 x Australian Memory Champion most famously known for memorising two Yellow Pages phone books in only 24 days. An international bestselling author of the books, 'The Yellow Elephant', and 'How to Learn Almost Anything In 48 Hours', Tansel presents to thousands around the world instantly improving audience's memory!Tansel Ali | How To Boost Your Memory | Saxton Speakers
Tansel Ali is the Australian Memory Champion. He has broken several memory records and competed in the World Memory Championships where he was crowned 'Grandmaster of Memory' for remembering a random shuffled deck of cards under 3 minutes. At the same event, he also broke 5 national memory records for a total of 6 out of 10. He has memorised the Sydney Yellow Pages phone directory in only 24 days and has been dubbed 'The Human Yellow Pages'. Tansel has spent the last 10 years training people how to maximise the use of their brain to be more efficient and effective workers. Tansel's interactive style and personal experience has attributed to many success stories.Tansel Ali | Redesign My Brain with Todd Sampson | Saxton Speakers
Tansel Ali is a 4 x Australian Memory Champion most famously known for memorising two Yellow Pages phone books in only 24 days. An international bestselling author of the books, 'The Yellow Elephant', and 'How to Learn Almost Anything In 48 Hours', Tansel presents to thousands around the world instantly improving audience's memory!Tansel Ali | Living with Crohn's Disease | Saxton Speakers
Tansel Ali is a 4 x Australian Memory Champion most famously known for memorising two Yellow Pages phone books in only 24 days. An international bestselling author of the books, 'The Yellow Elephant', and 'How to Learn Almost Anything In 48 Hours', Tansel presents to thousands around the world instantly improving audience's memory!Tansel was a delight for audiences- a natural speaker and excellent at captivating our audience with his knowledge and practical guidance on improving Memory. I don't know how many delegate ... keep reading Department of Education and Training - Far North Queensland Region
We have long recognised that a reliable memory system for remembering seemingly unrelated information is the critical learning tool that eludes many of our students. Your presentation not only demonstrated an awe-inspiring capacity for memory but the step by step method by which we might all attain it. You gave those of us who struggle with memory and whose method of storing and recalling information had been a chaotic, unworkable jumble; a sure fire way of creating order, of filing knowledge where we could find it when needed. It has been a significant gift toward building our students' confidence to navigate academia, and one that will have ongoing value.
Over the next ten years, education will be massively disrupted. Everyone will be able to learn anything they want five to ten times faster than they do now. Tansel Ali has already started this disruption, and in How to Learn (Almost) Anything in 48 Hours, he introduces us to concepts and techniques that give the reader tools to learn anything in record time. This enjoyable book also provides practical exercises, tools, tips and tricks to practise these skills not traditionally taught in schools. Congratulations to Tansel for leading the way to faster and better learning and setting the groundwork for the next decade of education. The future of learning is here.
I really enjoyed the session — we learned techniques that can genuinely change lives. I now feel confident remembering names, key information, and even numbers. It was a win-win. Thanks, Tansel — we all loved it!
Fantastic session! You had the crowd fully engaged — the number demonstration was impressive, and your explanation made it feel achievable. I loved how interactive it was, and I’m walking away with techniques to remember more names, facts, and even some unexpected goal-setting insights. Thoroughly entertaining and valuable.
I thought Tansel was amazing. As educators and facilitators, we work hard to keep our audience engaged, and his session really helped us reset mentally and creatively. The name memory technique sparked great discussions, and I think many will take it forward both personally and professionally.
Absolutely loved your session at the HR Summit! Really fun, engaging, and interactive. The memory tips were so practical - especially for remembering names, which is critical in HR. No excuses for forgetting now. Thank you!
Tansel Ali provided an enlightening experience which provided an incredible impact to our members to improve our mindsets in delivering results and connecting with people. His coaching services are now a fundamental aspect of our club commitment to growth and excellence. Our audience was amazed as to Tansel's ability to remember all our names in the room and the recalling of figures.
Tansel Ali is an amazing talent, entertainer and person. He engages an audience so well in having them hanging off every word he recalls from his amazing mind. Our audience was in awe of him being able to recall facts and figures when most of us struggle to remember our phone number or an anniversary.
Tansel Ali is a very inspirational speaker and a real down to earth, genuine character who proves that anyone can have a vast, quick and accurate memory if they harness his powerful techniques. The presentation he gave was loads of fun and full of easy to understand, practical techniques we could all use immediately to boost our memory and creativity. Tansel kept everyone engaged and interested throughout the talk by involving the audience in practical memory demonstrations as well as dedicating significant time afterwards to answer many audience questions.
