Glenn Capelli
Speaker, Author, Educator & Learning Specialist
Glenn Capelli is renowned for inspiring audiences to think smarter, lead better, and perform at their best. He blends humour, real-world experience, and practical strategies to deliver unforgettable keynotes and workshops on leadership, communication, creativity, and high performance.
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Glenn Capelli delivers powerful and provocative ideas that help individuals and organisations thrive in today’s fast-changing world. With a unique blend of methodology, practical content, humour, and interactive delivery, Glenn creates presentations that are engaging, memorable, and immediately applicable. Audiences leave thinking, laughing, discussing, and equipped with strategies they can use straight away to improve performance, communication, leadership, and creativity.
Glenn has delivered keynotes, workshops, and leadership programs to audiences around the world, inspiring people to think dynamically, act innovatively, and achieve sustainable high performance. His presentations are multi-stimulating, incorporating visuals, music, activity, wit, and practical exercises to ensure learning is engaging, interactive, and deeply impactful.
A highly recognised expert in the field of thinking and learning, Glenn is also an accomplished author, songwriter, and radio and television presenter. He is one of the very few professional speakers in Australia to have won all three of the highest professional speaking industry awards: Educator of the Year (2006), the Nevin Award (2007), and Keynote Speaker of the Year (2013). He has also been awarded a prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship to further his research into advanced ways of thinking and learning methodology.
Glenn’s work spans education, corporate leadership, and personal development.
A lifelong learner and adventurer, Glenn has travelled extensively, working in a wide variety of roles—from a fish farmer on a kibbutz in Israel, to a comedian in Los Angeles, a travel writer in Kenya, and a summer camp counsellor in North Carolina—before returning to Australia in 1987 to focus on education, leadership, and communication.
His radio program, Thinking Caps, broadcast weekly on Melbourne’s 3AW and his book of the same name has sold over 7,000 copies. Glenn is passionate about helping people embrace change, improve thinking, and unlock creativity, empowering audiences from school students in remote regions to CEOs of multinational organisations.
A member of MENSA, Glenn continues to inspire audiences worldwide, blending insight, humour, and practical wisdom to ensure learning is not only fun, but transformative.
