Toni Powell

Wellbeing Wonderworker

A fabulous storyteller and a highly sought-after speaker on happiness, gratitude and relationships. Toni Powell delivers simple, fun and science-backed ways to increase happiness, engagement, energy, wellbeing and resilience.

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As one of Australia’s most enjoyed wellbeing and relationship speakers, Toni Powell, delivers simple, fun and science-backed ways to increase happiness, engagement, energy, wellbeing and resilience.

Renowned for her hilarious story-based talks, Toni is one of the most recognised and enjoyed positive culture and wellbeing speakers in Australia.

Failure, trauma and disaster can be a fantastic springboard. Toni’s great gift is using stories and comedy to teach simple ways all of us can use to turn our pain, stress, failure and trauma into a fantastic springboard to better things.

It’s amazing to find that you can overcome almost anything with a few simple tools and Toni’s work is chock-a-block full of useful, easy, simple tools that actually work in real life.

She has won two international business awards for thought leadership, is the author of two books and her Goalcast talk has over 15 million views.

In a former life Toni was the founder and director of the uplifting Heart of Gold International Film Festival – an event that had a huge impact on a community, toured Australia through Hoyts, and was so successful that Toni was the subject of a heartwarming episode of ABC’s Australian Story called ‘Let There be Light’.

Her powerful strategies have lasting impact on both home life and workplace culture.

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Keynotes

The Yellow Car
Drive Away Stress Instantly

Late one night in a quiet suburban street, Toni Powell had a major life epiphany. She observed a young couple engaging in a comical altercation with a little yellow car, leading her to a revelation about her own relationship with stress. In this delightful presentation, Toni shares a fresh perspective on approaching stress. Her simple, down-to-earth approach helps audiences transform stress, fear and anxiety from problems to a source of humour and resilience.

  • Instant tool to dramatically reduce daily stress
  • Change perspective on challenging situations quickly
  • Learn to identify solutions with less effort
  • More optimistic outlook
A Ferret and the Secret to Happiness
Happiness is Your Resilience Superpower

Happiness equals resilience. Book this talk if you want everyone to feel and do better in all areas of life. Also huge business outcomes for bottom line.

Two Polar Bears: The Art of Great Relationships
Transform culture with better relationships

This keynote gives the audience insight into why people behave the way they do resulting in increased understanding and compassion for ourselves and others. Bonus: audiences leave with a very big reason to stop all the excuses, self-justification and blame.

The Giraffe Effect
The Power Words to Transform Everything

This keynote presents compelling research showing how words shape our brain’s cognitive capacities and impacts our ability to handle the tough stuff of life.

Workshops

In-house or virtual

Toni offers completely customised workshops ranging from 90 min to two days. These can be delivered in the workplace, paired with a keynote at an event or virtually. Toni’s workshops are enjoyable, funny and highly interactive with all recommended tools being simple and practical.

  • How To Be Happier Right Now
  • Building Better Relationships
  • The Stress-Less Masterclass
  • How Failure Serves Us
A brilliant, funny, and engaging presenter, Toni shares the latest research about the power of gratitude and will have you enthralled from beginning to end. Quest for Life Foundation
Completely infectious, inspiring and motivating. I loved every moment. Thank you. BHP
It’s easy to come to work each day with a clock in, clock out mentality. The focus on being grateful I believe has resulted in a deeper level of care and passion for what we do, for our customers and for our products. I guess its best summed up for me when I look at the enthusiasm levels since the seminar and there has been a noticeable increase. Heritage HM International Film Distribution
I want everyone I know to attend. SPSA QLD
This 30 day challenge has been inspiring for our team that attended. To see the changes in our conversation and written communications has been truly encouraging and something that I am personally very grateful for. Network Communications