Popular columnist, author, blogger and media personality, Mia Freedman has been called the voice of her generation.
Writer and broadcaster David Dale is Australia's most respected and most entertaining commentator on popular culture. He knows how Australians shop, read, socialise, eat, travel, and amuse themselves, and he explains the national character with wit and insight.
Areas of speciality include Health & Wellbeing Speakers. David Dale graduated from Sydney University with honours in psychology, but decided he would do less harm to the cause of mental health if he went into journalism. He has been a political reporter for The Australian, a sub-editor for General Practitioner, features editor of The Sun-Herald, Editor of The Bulletin, New York correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, and broadcaster for ABC Radio 702 and Radio 2GB.
John Ahern had it all: a high-flying job, big house, loving wife and two great kids. But if this was success why did he sense he was failing as a husband and father?
Areas of speciality include Health & Wellbeing Speakers. So John does something completely insane. He blows his career apart, quits the working world, and with wife Mandy, buys a busted-up old campervan online with one grand goal in mind: a year on the road…with kids.
- Flight Centre
- Australian Society of Authors
award winner author event host and MC
Lisa Curry is best known for her long and successful swimming career.
Areas of speciality include Health & Wellbeing Speakers. She has competed in three Olympic Games (Moscow in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984 and Barcelona in 1992); two World Championships (Berlin in 1978 and Ecuador in 1982); and three Commonwealth Games (Edmonton in 1978, Brisbane in 1982 and Auckland in 1990). Her competitive swimming career spans an awe-inspiring 23 years during which she collected 24 gold medals, 21 silver medals and 8 bronze medals at international competitions.
- Member of the Order of the British Empire 1982
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame 1985
- Medal of the Order of Australia 1994
- Australian Sports Medal 2000
- Centenary Medal 2001
- Officer of the Order of Australia 2008
- National Australia Day Council
Highly in demand as a
public speaker Nigel Marsh travels the globe regularly giving speeches to major corporations on both his business and personal views. His TED speech on work/life balance remains the most viewed ever given outside America with well over two million hits.
Areas of speciality include Health & Wellbeing Speakers. Nigel is best known for his creative pursuits. As well as the author of three books – Fat, Forty and Fired, Overworked and Underlaid and Fit, Fifty and Fired-Up – he is also the co-founder of Earth Hour and the founder of the Sydney Skinny. His first book is currently being developed into a major TV series in America.
- Earth Hour Initiative
- The Sydney Skinny
