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LAURIE LAWRENCE
"Laurie Lawrence is one of the most sought after Speakers in Australia. Powerful, evocative, emotional and motivational. Laurie Lawrence is a unique communicator".
Powerful words indeed; but representative of the type of reaction Lawrence generates from audiences who have attended his corporate addresses.
Lawrence's impact on the business community has been quite spectacular. He has proven to be uniquely capable of clearly drawing the parallels between business success and high sporting achievements.
As a motivator and entertainer he supports the "knuckles down the wall" approach in pursuing his personal credo of "Striving for Excellence".
His track record clearly reveals that he practices what he preaches and yet Olympic success have tended to obscure his other achievements.
An educated person, Laurie Lawrence studied for and completed a BA degree at James Cook University; a Diploma in Physical Education from the University of Queensland and a Teaching Diploma from the Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education.
His love for Rugby saw him overcome the twin handicaps of having one lung, and being an asthmatic to fight for and gain selection in the Australian Rugby Union side which toured N.Z as the "Wallabies" in 1964.
Today, Laurie is a highly successful small businessman and close family man. He operates the now famous Lawrence Learn To Swim School which also specialises in teaching physically disabled as well speech and hearing impaired children.
One of Australia’s most successful coaches, Laurie has represented Australia as a Coach in Brisbane's 1982, Edinburgh's 1986 and Auckland's 1990 Commonwealth Games, and also at the 1984 Los Angeles, 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. During those international contests Laurie's pupils succeeded in breaking many National, Commonwealth and World Records in a number of Gold Medal winning performances.
Laurie was the appointed Team Motivator for the Australian Olympic Team at Atlanta and at the Sydney Olympics.
In 1996 Laurie was also inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an honour coach.
As a motivational and corporate speaker, Laurie Lawrence is in his element; his personality and good humour guarantee 100% audience involvement.
CHRISTINE NIXON
Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police
MPA (Harvard) Dip.Lab.Law (Sydney University)
BA (Macquarie University)
Honorary Doctorate of Letters (Wollongong University)
Honorary Doctorate of Laws (Monash University)
Ms Nixon commenced duty as Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police on 23rd April 2001, after service with the New South Wales Police Force from 1972.
Ms Nixon is the CEO of Victoria Police, an organisation of 14,000 staff and an annual budget of $1.3 billion operating out of 550 work locations, including 330 police stations, throughout the State.
Ms Nixon is the Chair of the Australian Police Professional Standards Council, Co-Chair of the Australian Institute of Police Management and Sponsor of the Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau.
MICHAEL PARMENTER
Michael Parmenter is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated dancers and choreographers, an inspiring teacher, and an eloquent writer and speaker in the areas of art and education.
After spending much of the 80’s in New York dancing with leading American companies such as the Erick Hawkins Dance Company and Stephen Petronio and Dancers, Parmenter returned to New Zealand to establish his own group Michael Parmenter’s Commotion Company. Throughout the 90’s this group created some of the most exciting and critically acclaimed dance in New Zealand, culminating in 1999 with the sensationally successful dance-opera Jerusalem . In 2005 COMMOTION a major retrospective of Parmenter’s work toured New Zealand, and in 2006 Parmenter was awarded the prestigious Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship.
In addition to the work for his own company, Parmenter has pursued a career as a solo performer and also created numerous works for other New Zealand companies including the highly acclaimed 1999 ballet Seven Deadly Sins for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. In 2006 the Royal New Zealand Ballet toured his new Les Noces throughout New Zealand and Australia.
Concurrent with his work as dancer and choreographer, Parmenter has developed a wide following for his spoken-text works such the autobiographical A Long Undressing, and Nightingale Fever a humorous and poetically crafted unfolding of the creative process.
It is Parmenter’s ability to draw on his own experiences of creative survival and the often tacit and chaotic processes that are behind all voyages of discovery and invention that has made him such a popular and engaging speaker.
Parmenter has won numerous Creative New Zealand Awards, a Churchill Fellowship and in 1998 he was named M.N.Z.M (Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit)
WENDY McCARTHY
Wendy McCarthy began her career as a secondary school teacher and remains passionate about the power of education. For four decades she has been a teacher, educator and change agent in Australian public life. In 2005 she was nominated by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals.
She has worked with government, corporations and community based organisations in education, women’s issues, public health, heritage, media and waste management and she has held national leadership roles in all of these areas. It is this eclectic combination that gives her a unique profile and network nationally and internationally. She has represented Australia at conferences on women’s health and leadership, education, broadcasting, conservation and heritage and for four years was Chair of the Advisory Committee of WHO Kobe Centre, Japan. In 2005 Wendy completed a decade as Chancellor of the University of Canberra and she was a founding member of the Australian Chancellors’ Conference.
Currently she is Chair of McGrath Estate Agents; Chair of NSW Sustainable Access Priority Taskforce; Chair of Sydney Community Foundation, Director and Immediate Past Chair of Plan Australia, Member of the Executive Committee of Plan International; Member of the NSW Health Care Advisory Council and the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance and Chair of the Accreditation Advisory Board of the Advertising Federation of Australia.
Her corporate advisory practice, McCarthy Management, specialises in providing mentors to major corporations and the public sector. For over ten years she has assisted these organisations with issues around diversity, leadership and work life balance. Her clients have included Citigroup, UBS, Lehman Brothers (Tokyo), National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Allens Arthur Robinson, the Department of Lands and the Australia Council.
Wendy McCarthy has published many articles and is the author of five books including A Fair Go - Portraits of the Australian Dream published by Focus Publishing in 1999, and her memoirs Don't Fence Me In published by Random House in 2000. She enjoys public speaking and is an experienced speaker and facilitator.
PETER KENYON
“Good Enough Never Is” delivers the stories of ordinary rural people who dared to be different and have become out-of-the-ordinary rural entrepreneurs. Rather than being endowed with unique and mysterious qualities, these people have discovered and developed attitudes, behaviours and skills that set them apart from most business operators.
Peter Kenyon’s book ‘Good Enough Never Is’, a follow up to his very popular “A Kit for Small Town Renewal”, covers the ‘Ten Common Themes’ or ‘Success Factors’ which are shared by 20 top rural businesses from all over Australia.
Peter is a sought after motivating and inspiring story teller – in “Good Enough Never Is” Peter tells the inspirational stories of success, their lessons and the action for your delegates
“The Ingredients to running a successful small to medium sized business”
Peter Kenyon is recognised in Australia and around the world as a leading authority on Business, Town & Regional Development. He is a keynote speaker and facilitator at events and programs around the world, including at key global events with the United Nations.
Peter Kenyon is a social entrepreneur and community enthusiast. Over the last decade he has worked with over 600 communities throughout Australia, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East seeking to facilitate fresh and creative ways that stimulate community and economic renewal. He is motivated by the desire to create healthy, inclusive, sustainable and enterprising communities.
Peter has had a background as a youth worker, teacher, youth education officer and tertiary lecturer. His employment experiences have also included Director of Employment in Western Australia, Manager of the Community Employment Development Unit in New Zealand and Coordinator of the Natal Kwazulu Job Creation and Enterprise Strategy in South Africa.
Peter became convinced that one cannot develop communities from the top down or from the outside in. It required communities to build from the inside out, and for their residents to invest themselves, ideas, assets and resources in the process. Subsequently, he created the Bank of I.D.E.A.S. (Initiatives for the Development of Enterprising Action and Strategies), in 1990, to promote such a paradigm shift and assist with the necessary facilitation, ideas and skills. He is also Founding Director of 'The Centre for Small Town Development'
He has completed assignments related to employment and economic development in every Australian State, including workshops in over 500 Australian towns and cities, and project work in 30 countries.
LAUREN BURNS
Lauren Burns was one of only three Australian women individual Olympic Gold Medallists at the Sydney 2000 Olympics with Cathy Freeman and Susie O’Neill being the other two. Her amazing performance at the Sydney Games was achieved against the odds and with an enormous amount of hard work, perseverance and teamwork.
For Lauren to win the Gold she had to shed weight, almost starving herself, overcome numerous injuries and operations, and make many personal sacrifices. “But in the long run it was all worth it!”
Lauren is a 12 Times Australian National Taekwondo Champion and has competed Internationally for over 7 years. She won medals at the World Championships in 1996 and 1997 and won Gold at the US Open in 1999. But the crowning glory was undoubtedly her Olympic victory in the Under 49 Kilogram Class.
In her presentation Lauren talks about what it takes to be successful. She transforms her stories and experiences into life skills that are relevant to her listeners. She interacts with her audience in a fun manner and even gets someone to break a board!
“Lauren’s presentations are always inspirational, captivating and entertaining. She is unquestionably one of the best speakers in this country.”
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