Invited Speakers
Ashley Fell
Ashley Fell is a social researcher, TEDx speaker and the Director of Advisory at McCrindle. She is the author of two books on leadership and generational insights, titled Work Wellbeing and Generation Alpha. She is also the host of McCrindle’s podcast, The Future Report. In addition to delivering keynote presentations at conferences, Ashley is booked to conduct training days, facilitate panels and deliver workshops across an array of industries. From generational change to the impact of technology, from key demographic transformations to social trends, Ashley delivers research based presentations analysing global megatrends. With academic qualifications in communications, an ongoing role in deploying and analysing national research studies, and with her position leading the advisory team at McCrindle, Ashley brings robust, research-based content to her engaging presentations and consulting.
Adam Spencer
Adam Spencer has hosted award-winning breakfast radio shows in Australia’s toughest markets and live current affairs TV. He has won improvised theatre competitions and once interviewed John Travolta in front of 75,000 people. Whether it’s a technically demanding event with dozens of moving parts, or ying by the seat of your pants, Adam prides himself on the high level of energy, engagement and entertainment he provides whenever on stage. With 25 years’ experience in television, radio and events, Adam loves curating challenging and thought provoking conversations. He has interviewed prime ministers, Hollywood stars, Fortune 500 CEOs, Nobel Prize-winning scientists and Australians of the Year… and was the rst person in the world to ever interview our legendary Thai cave rescuers. Adam loves doing the research and crafting the narrative that helps people tell their story. He’s informative, fun and guaranteed to impart take-aways you’ve never heard before. If there’s only time to ask one quick question of a speaker before moving on, you know it will be an awesome question and watch what he can get out of them. All done with an obsessive focus on keeping to time that only 15 years of breakfast radio can give you.
Dr Adam Fraser
Dr Adam Fraser is a Certied Speaking Professional (CSP) with over 20 years of experience as an event and keynote speaker. In the last 8 years he has delivered more than 1200 presentations to over 300,000 people in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. He has worked in many industries and his clients include, CBA, Westpac, Optus, IBM, PWC, Asteron, AON, Tower, Local Government Managers Association, Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Queensland Law Society, and the Department of Education. His topics included the psychology of performance, improvement of productivity, transformational leadership, and engagement of teams, work life balance and development of high performing cultures.
Chelsea Pottenger
Chelsea Pottenger is an international speaker and a leading authority on productivity, mindfulness and well-being. For 12-years Chelsea was known for her extraordinary work ethic and as a high performer she delivered results for a variety of big name organisations. Then a life-challenge happened. In 2015, Chelsea experienced debilitating Post-Natal Depression, which sent her spiralling to the lower depths of mental health. With determination, help and resilience Chelsea bounced back with a new purpose, passion and education. Current Work Chelsea is the dynamic, brilliant and inspirational Director of EQ Minds who is on a mission to empower high performance through greater mindfulness. She is regularly featured in Marie Claire, Sunrise, UK Daily Mail, Channel 9, ABC News and 2DayFM to name a few. Anyone that attends her events will laugh, learn, grow and walk away with some life changing tools to help them become more successful, more energised and most importantly more able to tackle any challenge life throws at you! She has worked with many global brands such as eBay, Uber, Telstra and Mercedes- Benz, helping professionals recalibrate their brains and create more success in their work and lives. Known for great audience connection, warm energy and passion, Chelsea has built a tribe of followers including more than 100,000 on Instagram. Using her platform for good, she is a proud ambassador for mental health charities including RUOK? and the Gidget Foundation.
Martin Heppell
Martin has a unique background. He spent a considerable amount of time growing up in Borneo living with a Dayak headhunting tribe. He was also educated in different parts of South East Asia and has been heavily influenced by the morals and values that he and his family were immersed in whilst living with the Dayaks. After finishing high school in Melbourne, Martin spent 6 years in the AFL and SANFL systems playing for the St Kilda, Melbourne and Norwood Football Clubs. Following this, he travelled the world backpacking for nearly 3 years. Upon return to Australia, Martin studied primary teaching at Melbourne University. After completing his degree, he taught 1/2 and 5/6 year levels for 4 years before being promoted to Assistant Principal at Auburn Primary, where he focused on Student Wellbeing, Educational Leadership and Change Management. After 4 years as Assistant Principal, he joined The Resilience Project. Since 2016, he has conducted over 1,700 presentations across Australia to key stakeholders at schools and their communities, corporations and elite sporting organisations including the AFL, NRL and the A-League. He especially enjoys situations that present challenges and require an optimistic focus to address. He is passionate about children being raised in a supportive and encouraging environment that evokes self-confidence and a zest for life. His presentations are original and energetic.
Dr Paige Williams
DR. PAIGE WILLIAMS is a speaker, author, and PhD in Organizational Behaviour. Paige believes that leadership is the most potent leverage point in any system – team, family or workplace – to create positive change. And that we each have a capacity to lead, exceptionally, that we are yet to realise. Her ambition is bold: to teach, inspire and encourage you to have the confidence, clarity and commitment to be the exceptional leader the world needs you to be. Using a potent blend of neuroscience, psychology and her own extensive international business leadership experience, Paige helps leaders across business, government, NGOs, and education to lead themselves, their people and the systems they work in, exceptionally. The results are dramatic and measurable. An Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Wellbeing Science and an Associate of Melbourne Business School, Paige is known as a leadership and culture expert. The potent combination of real-life leadership experience and deep academic knowledge fuels her superpower of translating complex ideas and academic research to make them real, relevant, and relatable to the work that people do every day. Paige is the author of five books on leading well in modern times. She is obsessed with one question above all others: 'What does good look like?’ and suggests that answering this question requires a multifaceted, systems view of leadership in the 21st century. In her latest book, The Leaders Ecosystem, she provides nine critical essays and insights that enable a contemporary leader to meet the challenges and leverage the opportunities of our time.
Dr Ayesha Khanna
Dr. Ayesha Khanna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Addo, a global artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm headquartered in Singapore. Ayesha was named one of Southeast Asia's groundbreaking female entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine and is a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities, and the metaverse to leading corporations and governments worldwide. Ayesha is a highly regarded speaker on AI and disruptive technologies, provides high-level government and board briefings, and was a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils, a community of international experts who provide thought leadership on the impact and governance of emerging technologies. Ayesha has a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems (focused on digital innovation in smart cities) from the London School of Economics.
Rolf Moses
Rolf joined the Faculty of Law at Bond University as an sessional faculty member after serving six years as the Chief Executive Officer at Queensland Law Society, a not-for-profit, non-government, statutory body which co-regulates the legal profession and provides services to members as the peak body for the 15,000 solicitors in Queensland. Rolf is Semester Professor for the subject Strategy Risk and Compliance: A Legal Framework, in the Master of Laws in Enterprise Governance, offered by the Faculty of Law, Bond University. Rolf, as a senior executive in the legal sector for over 27 years, working throughout Australia and internationally with global law firms, has gained significant experience in leadership, change management, developing and executing strategy, organisation culture and performance, risk management and governance. He is a regular conference speaker and workshop facilitator in his areas of expertise. A specific area of Rolf’s work has centred on cultural change within the legal profession in Queensland and nationally, particularly in the areas of leadership, sexual harassment, workplace conduct, mental health and well-being, domestic and family violence and the job readiness of graduates. Rolf was a Director of Lexon Insurance Pte Ltd and was the founder and inaugural chair of the QLS Mental Health and Well-being Working Group. He is involved in charitable and advisory committees and boards whilst he continues his professional career as a nationally accredited mediator, workplace investigator and management consultant. Rolf holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Diploma Corporate Director, Graduate Diploma of Counselling and National Mediator Accreditation.