Keynote Speaker
Matt Church
Next: Thriving in the decade of disruption
The simple fact is that the world is changing at an ever increasing rate. Technological advances are creating shifting paradigms in every industry across the globe, and it’s a trend we need to stand up and take notice of.
This session sets the groundwork for leadership in a time of great volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Matt’s sessions are high energy, interactive and top-rated at each and every event.
About Matt: Matt Church, leadership expert, founder of Thought Leaders and author of ten leadership books so far, draws on material from his latest book – Next: ideas for tomorrow you can talk about today to help us thrive in the decade of disruption.
While many are painting a scary view of the future Matt sees one full of potential. Whether it’s what he writes, his direct advice to thought leaders or his conference presentations delivered to audiences around the world, Matt communicates with deep focus, commercial clarity and a razor sharp wit on three things: removing fear and replacing it with confidence, removing confusion and replacing with certainty and mobilising people in pursuit of a better future.
Matt blends inspiration, education and entertainment to create world class conference presentations. He will bring insight, challenge and hope to almost any conference agenda. His ability to take a brief, and craft a compelling message that serves a meeting agenda is second to none. Smart, funny and thought provoking.
A prolific author, his publishing history is a demonstration of his polymathic nature, and his ability to draw from this incredibly diverse sphere of knowledge means he can often shed new light on a topic which an industry has “done to death”. From this space, Matt inspires people to think, expertly delivering key messages and weaving them together with narratives from a diverse range of sources. Many say his presentations are watershed moments in industry and business culture.
30 years ago Matt studied sports science at NSW university, in 1993 was voted Australian Fitness Leader of the year and was the Asia pacific master trainer for Step Reebok™. His first book written 25 years ago focused on the business of fitness, he has been helping clever people be commercially smart ever since.
In 2014 he was inducted into the professional speaker Hall of Fame having received the service, education and excellence awards from the professional speakers association. Globally the International Federation of Professional Speakers recognised him as one the top 21 most influential people in the industry on the planet. E-Speakers, the largest industry marketplace puts him as one of the Top10 motivational speakers globally.
In 2001 Matt founded Thought Leaders™ once again giving back and building on the idea that great leaders create great leaders. Realising he could only make a difference to the people he met he started to focus on developing Thought Leaders who themselves would go on to capture, package and deliver what they know so that they could go on and make a difference. The Thought Leaders tribe is an exceptional group of people, last year alone 17 of the 19 non-fiction business books published by Wiley in Australia were thought leaders.
A dedicated family man Matt lives on Sydney’s northern beaches, is restoring a 1962 trawler called Sweet Potato and is always planning what’s next.
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