Speaking & Facilitation

I don't speak to impress rooms. I speak to shift them.

Keynote, facilitation and MC across Australia. Held with Be BRAVE Feel SAFE, the First Nations-led methodology built from Aboriginal safety practice. The rooms range from 1,500-person conference stages to twelve-person executive offsites and on-Country circles. Same practice across all of them: brave spaces where honest conversations can land, held by curious leaders.

Check availability →

Signature Topics

What I talk about. And why rooms remember it.

Each talk is shaped to the room. The themes below are the conversations I keep being asked to bring. The ones leaders, boards and communities need to have but rarely know how to start.

Cultural safety beyond the poster

Why awareness is not safety. What real cultural safety requires from leadership, structure and daily practice. Rooms leave knowing what to do on Monday, not just what to think about.

Keynote · Workshop · Executive offsite

Truth-telling as leadership practice

How leaders move from performance to honesty. The language, the structure, and what it costs to hold the room when truth lands. Leaders leave with the language to hold the next honest conversation themselves.

Keynote · Executive coaching

Be BRAVE Feel SAFE in practice

A working introduction to Be BRAVE Feel SAFE. The only First Nations-led methodology in Australia that builds the brave spaces where cultural and psychological safety actually emerge, held by curious leaders. How to read where your organisation actually is, and what to build next.

Keynote · Half-day workshop

First Nations enterprise & sovereignty

DHUWA Coffee in 900-plus Woolworths stores. 120 tonnes of hand sanitiser into Australia's national COVID response. APEC and Harvard. Stories and strategy on First Nations-led enterprise, supply, and what economic self-determination actually looks like.

Keynote · Panel · Conference

Identity, healing & the work behind the work

Personal scenes. The Mountain, Caux, the $20, the long road back to myself. Paired with practical frames on accountability, forgiveness, and breaking the patterns that get passed down.

Keynote · Fireside · Closing address

Boards & governance

Facilitating boards through honest conversations about cultural safety, governance redesign, and the strategic decisions that decide who feels safe to lead inside the organisation. Boards leave with the structure to hold the conversations they've been avoiding.

Board offsite · Strategic facilitation

Stages & Audiences

Twenty years of rooms.

A small slice of the rooms that shaped this work.

2017

Closing address

Developing Sustainable Communities Conference, Vancouver. Standing ovation for a talk on culture, responsibility and legacy.

2019

Vic NAIDOC MC

MC alongside Sue-Anne Hunter. A celebration of cultural pride, joy and community strength.

2022

Harvard Business School

Indigenous global leadership cohort. Investing in Sustainable Communities executive program.

2023

Trade Routes podcast

Co-host with Jaynaya Winmar at RMIT on Indigenous business, global trade and sovereignty.

2024

Self-Determination in Education Conference

Be BRAVE Feel SAFE workshop with 70+ Koorie Education Support Officers.

Ongoing

Boards, executives, communities

Cultural safety audits, executive offsites and governance facilitation across enterprise, government and community.

I don't speak to impress rooms. I speak to shift them.

What I talk about. And why rooms remember it.

Twenty years of rooms.

Bringing me into your event?