Captaining the Wallabies

Wallaby Captain, Stirling Mortlock, is a proven leader and proven match winner. Regarded by many as the hardest running centre in world rugby, his unique combination of strategic expertise, immense strength and sharp footwork has been evident since the very beginning of his football career.

Stirling Mortlock was plucked out of club rugby by the now famous Rod Macqueen at the age of 20 to tour Argentina with the Wallabies in 1997. In 1998, Stirling joined the ACT Brumbies and after a couple of solid seasons of Super 12 made his Test debut v Argentina in 2000.

The year 2000, was a landmark year for Stirling - he became the fastest Australian to reach 50 and 100 Test points, he scored the most points and highest number of penalties [16] by any Australian in his first five Tests and created history by becoming the first Australian to score 20 points or more in four consecutive Tests. With the Wallaby team, Stirling was instrumental in the very famous Bledisloe & Tri-Nation Series' Victories of 2000 - he will long be remembered for his sideline penalty goal in 2000 against South Africa in Durban to win Australia's first Tri Nations crown.

How society is losing the plot

Shelley Gare is a well-respected editor and writer who specialises in features, investigations and commentary on our modern life.

Shelley Gare’s bestselling book, The Triumph of Airheads – and the Retreat from Commonsense (Park Street Press), is an insightful, sharp and funny look at how our society is losing the plot (and what we can do to find it again). She has worked as an editor of both Good Weekend and and was the first woman deputy editor appointed to The Australian newspaper. She also won a Walkley as founding editor of The Australian’s Review of Books.,/i>

Shelly Gare’s presentations centre on the crisis in our culture, how we’re stuffing it up and how we can make our world a better place. Shelley communicates thought provoking, highly relevant information with humour and sharp examples that her audiences “get” and respond to with their own ideas. Her upbeat delivery is entertaining and her message motivating and inspiring.

Empowering change

Fabian Dattner is well known as one of Australia's leading female entrepreneurs. She is widely recognised as a highly effective cultural/change strategist, facilitator, teacher, ethicist and social entrepreneur.

Fabian has been cited by The Bulletin, as one of Australia’s top 100 contributors and has twice been a runner up in the state Telstra business women’s awards.

A regular commentator in the media on corporate ethics, organisational alignment and leadership issues, she is often called upon to facilitate and support a range of high profile organisations in cultural alignment, leadership development and strategic transformation.

A legendary mimic with an impassioned voice

Bernadette Robinson

Bernadette Robinson is an amazing talent with an incredible voice. Her renditions of legendary performers, Bassey, Streisand, Callas, Holday, Garland and Piaf, will transport you in time and place.

A superb entertainer, Bernadette Robinson's performances are infused with humour and emotion.

She's the perfect entertainer for a corporate launch, dinner or gala event.

Cricketing Heroes ...

Max Walker
Legendary cricketer, Max Walker is well educated, well travelled, a wonderful story teller and a successful businessman. One of Australia's favourite sons of sport, he is an Australian speaking phenomenon. He has spoken at around 4,000 different occasions and presented approximately 3,000 hours of television.

Doug Walters
Renowned for his humour and love of practical jokes, Doug Walters' popularity as one of Australia's cricketing legends has continued long after his retirement. Despite his modesty, Doug’s presentations are like some of the highlights from his extraordinary cricketing career – unforgettable. For light-hearted entertainment with a sporting flavour, Doug is hard to beat.


Mike Whitney
One of Australia’s most sought after motivation and after-dinner speakers, Mike Whitney has an innate talent for communicating and holding people’s attention. A consummate anecdotist and accomplished mimic, Mike is an entertaining raconteur whose stories are told with grace, humour and charm.


Geoff Lawson
An outstanding cricketer, Geoff "Henry" Lawson’s career and leadership style has been described as superb, controversial, brave and colourful. With a rare mix of success at the top level of international sport, academia and business, Geoff’s speaking extends from cricket and touring anecdotes to the comparisons with elite sport and business, teamwork, leadership and discipline.

So, you want to be a rock star?

Live Band Karaoke is one of the best corporate events bands operating in Australia …and they offer every guest the amazing opportunity to become a rock star…that’s right, any guest at your party is welcome on stage to be the lead vocalist and experience real rock stardom!

Live Band Karaoke plays with you and for you. They’ll even conduct an Idol Style night. And, if a particular guest can’t sing, Live Band Karaoke will drive the song and make them sound fantastic!

Live Band Karaoke’s line up includes electric guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and a vocalist to help you along. In fact, all the musicians sing vocals, ensuring that every member of the audience who gets up to sing, sounds like a star! Live Band Karaoke’s repertoire spans six decades and covers rock and pop from Elvis to Chili Peppers and more. Of course, lyrics to the songs appear on a screen in front of the singer. Their standard show is three hours (which is 3 x 40 minutes with 2 breaks).

Mad Cap Science

Robyn Williams

Robyn Williams is mad about science. He has presented The Science Show on ABC Radio National since it began in 1975 as well as television programs including Nature of Australia and Catalyst.

Robyn Williams has appeared on World Safari with David Attenborough and he recently hosted a link between leading scientists of Australia and the United Kingdom at the Grand Launch for the Royal Institution of Great Britain, which was attended by David Attenburough and the Queen.

Robyn Williams was elected a National Living Treasure by the National Trust and the Sydney Observatory named a star after him.

He has the enviable ability to make science interesting and fascinating for almost anyone.

"The Gun" behind the Beaconsfiled Mine Rescue

Darren Flanagan

Darren Flanagan was crucial to the rescue of Todd Russell and Brant Webb from the infamous Beaconsfield mine disaster.

Nicknamed “The Gun” by Todd and Brant, he was the man who charged and fired 65 shots of explosives that eventually released them from their tomb 925m underground.

Flanagan’s electrifying, emotional and detailed story about one of Australia’s most dramatic mine rescues inspires and impresses!

This humble, reluctant celebrity passionately communicates his story of planning, test blasting and finally exploding the rescue path to within 35 cm of Todd and Brant, an incredible 1km beneath the earth’s surface.

Australia's Freestyle Champion

Elka Graham

Elka Graham burst onto the International scene at the 2000 Olympics when she won Silver as part of the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. She claimed another Silver at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and in 2003, became the Australian freestyle champion in the 200m and 400m.

Despite being diagnosed in 2003 with a life threatening heart condition Elka Graham competed at the world championships in Barcelona. Following surgery on her hip in 2005, she competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games Swimming trials, narrowly missing a place on the team.

An inspirational presenter, Elka retired from the pool in 2006 to pursue a career in television, modelling and speaking.

Achieving Your Best - Don Talbot

Renowned internationally as the greatest swimming coach in the world, Don Talbot led Australian swimming to new heights.

A compelling speaker, Don’s philosophy of “doing the best you can, going to the bottom of the barrel and finding everything you’ve got” is the basis of his presentations. Tailored to client’s needs, Don addresses specific issues and problems in order to help companies and individuals achieve the results they want.

Speaking on leadership, personal best, competition, motivation and goal setting, Don’s down-to-earth style and no-nonsense approach, motivates and inspires audiences.