Travels From New South Wales

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Innovation is a State of Mind

How often do you have days when you are so busy you don't have time to think? Days when there isn't one spare moment to think about how you can improve the way that you do things? No matter how well your business is doing today, if you keep doing things the same way, in 10 years' time - maybe less - you will have been left behind. To stay relevant and successful, businesses need to keep coming up with better ways of doing things. In eight years hosting 'The New Inventors' ex-Australian lawyer James O'Loghlin met hundreds of people who thought outside the box and came up with new and better ways of doing things. Read less

Master of Ceremonies and Facilitator

James is an accomplished and highly experienced MC, able to draw laughs from whatever is happening whilst running events efficiently. You get the professionalism of an experienced radio and television host who is utterly at home on stage, combined with the humour of one of Australia’s best corporate comedians. James is an experienced and able panel facilitator who always ensures that the discussion is informative and entertaining.

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Minding Your Mind

There are things we can all do to maintain and improve our mental health. In this engaging and informative keynote James O’Loghlin, co-host of the mental health podcast, ‘Minding Your Mind’, downloaded over a quarter of a million times, and co-author of the book ‘Minding Your Mind’ will share practical, usable strategies that empower people to maintain and improve their mental health.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Innovation

Many of us want to focus more on innovation and improving our business, but find that it just doesn’t happen. What goes wrong? What factors stop us from being innovative, and how can we overcome them? In this informative and entertaining keynote former host of “The New Inventors” and innovation expert James O’Loghlin will explain what the 6 most common barriers to innovation are, and how to overcome each one and ensure that making your business better becomes a part of your work every day. Read less

Persuasion and Influence

How do you persuade people? When you have an idea, how do you get others on board to help you turn it into something real? Lots of good ideas never get anywhere. How can you make sure that yours do?

Being able to persuade is an essential skill. You might have an idea at work, something you want to pitch in a meeting, or a proposal you want to excite clients and customers about. You might want to get your team fired up, persuade your boss, or even harder, one of your kids. To do it, you need to know how to persuade, and how to influence. In this compelling and informative keynote, James O’Loghlin will share practical strategies to enable people to be more persuasive and influential.

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James O'Loghlin

An experienced and polished MC/Host and expert in innovation

As one of Australia’s most beloved, respected and recognised speakers and media personalities, James O’Loghlin is an experienced presenter who connects with every audience he speaks to.

Hosting ABC TV’s ‘The New Inventors’ for over 300 episodes, O’Loghlin developed a love for innovation, which is now the basis of many of his keynote presentations. He explores how practical everyday things can be changed and adapted to the newer market. He examines how companies need to change and create a culture which nurtures and encourages innovation.

He has experience in many different speaking roles including keynote speeches, a Master of Ceremonies and a panel discusser, making him perfect for any event he is desired for.

James’ witty and engaging personality has made him a favourite with audiences and event planners alike.

Testimonial

"Thank you so much for being such a fabulous MC yesterday! Your linkage to the themes, use of humour, time keeping and understanding of know how we work and what we needed made the event run so smoothly. You were the perfect anchor to our day."

Qantas

"Thank you for striking the right mix of humour, intellect, and wit. You not only inspired everyone with your keynote but you connected with the audience as an MC and took all our events to the next level."

Countrywide Food Service Distributors

"James’ ability to make running adjustments, comedic commentary, and timekeeping as emcee, really made the event a success. James was one of the highlights of the conference program."

Leading Edge Group

"Such a positive, successful morning of thinking about innovative thinking!"

Emanuel School

"James was fantastic. He tailored his speech perfectly to our particular event demographic and stuck to our brief. All participants at our event commented on how James was funny, relatable and very practical. I was extremely pleased with the result and will highly recommend James in the future."

Stockland

"We just wanted to thank you for your time and energy yesterday. It was a fabulous presentation. Very inspiring!"

RDA Hunter

"James was wonderful at our Awards Night. He put a lot of preparation into his role as MC – he made sure he understood our needs prior and on the night he was instrumental in setting a fantastic atmosphere for the event."

Employers Mutuals Awards

"Everyone loved James and continued to speak about and refer to his keynote all day. He was also a very polite and approachable person, it was a pleasure having him at the event."

Adloyalty

"Every single attendee rated your presentation a 5 out of 5 – except one, who rated you a 10 (out of 5) – fantastic result!"

MYP Corporation Pty Ltd

"It was a delight working with James. He listened, he was flexible and he very quickly grasped our objectives for our conference. As an MC, James kept the whole day running perfectly and as a keynote received the most highly regarded feedback out of any of our speakers. It was a pleasure working with James and I’d be delighted to do so again."

BT Financial Group

"You were fabulous and the audience absolutely loved you. The feedback has been superb."

Australian Security Industry Association

"Thank you for such an engaging and thought-provoking presentation; you really bring together your media personality, comedic background and extensive knowledge to the stage in what was one of the best key-notes I have seen."

NewsCorp Australia

"James really resonated with our sales teams and the challenges they face every day and made them think differently about ‘thinking’ – I could not recommend him highly enough."

Dell Australia and New Zealand

It was one of the most insightful and humorous presentations I have seen. From the first line he immediately engaged over 200 staff and for over an hour took them on a journey mixed with fantastic quotes, life experience and real intelligence on what it means to be an innovator and how to apply this to everyday life.

Dell Australia and New Zealand

Great ideas on thinking and innovation. Really warm and engaging style.

Oracle

Thank you for your great keynote – we got great feedback and you really helped the event focus on how ‘the individual’ in an organisation can make a difference.

Kraft Foods