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Authentic Leadership: Leading with Integrity
Drawing on his AFL career and personal journey, Mitch shows how authenticity builds trust, drives performance, and creates lasting impact. This session is ideal for teams seeking deeper connection and purpose.
Key Takeaways:
- How authenticity strengthens leadership and team culture
- Practical ways to lead with empathy and courage
- Lessons from elite sport on resilience and integrity
Inclusion & LGBTQIA+ Visibility: Creating Safer Cultures
Mitch shares his experience as a bisexual man in elite sport and the power of visibility in driving cultural change. This keynote supports organisations committed to inclusion, allyship, and psychological safety.
Key Takeaways:
- The role of visibility and storytelling in inclusion
- How to be an effective ally in the workplace
- Building environments where everyone feels seen and valued
Positive Masculinity: Redefining Strength
This keynote challenges outdated stereotypes and explores what it truly means to be strong as a man. Mitch shares how vulnerability, empathy, and authenticity can reshape male culture in sport, work, and life.
Key Takeaways:
- Tools for fostering safe spaces for men to express themselves
- Strategies to promote respectful, inclusive male leadership
- Insights into shifting cultural norms around masculinityAuthentic Leadership: Leading with IntegrityDrawing on his AFL career and personal journey, Mitch shows how authenticity builds trust, drives performance, and creates lasting impact. This session is ideal for teams seeking deeper connection and purpose.
Resilience & Wellbeing: Thriving Through Change
From injury setbacks to personal transformation, Mitch offers practical insights into navigating adversity and prioritising mental health. This session supports individuals and teams facing transition or pressure.
Key Takeaways:
- Strategies for building personal and professional resilience
- Tools for managing change and uncertainty
- Mental wellbeing practices from elite sport
Sport & Social Change: Driving Impact Beyond the Field
Sport is a powerful platform for cultural influence. Mitch explores how athletes and organisations can use their voice to spark conversations and lead change in inclusion, respect, and community engagement.
Key Takeaways:
- How sport can influence broader social outcomes
- Lessons from advocacy and First Nations partnerships
- Building purpose-driven teams and cultures
Mitch Brown
In 2025, he became the first openly bisexual past or present male AFL player in the game’s history - a moment that helped drive important conversations around healthier masculinities and safer cultures.
Drawing on his experience as an elite athlete and social impact leader, Mitch works across sport, workplaces and communities to challenge harmful norms and support environments where people can show up fully as themselves.
Mitch Brown is an advocate, speaker and leader working at the intersection of safety, inclusion, men’s wellbeing and social change.
In August 2025, Mitch became the first openly bisexual past or present male AFL player in the game’s 130-year history. That moment wasn’t about visibility alone - it was a line in the sand for safer cultures, healthier masculinities, and environments where people can show up fully as themselves.
Mitch now focuses his work on advocacy in inclusion, mental health, and men’s behavioural change, particularly within high-performance, hyper-masculine and community settings. His work centres on courage, accountability and care - challenging harmful norms while offering practical pathways for men to grow, reflect and lead differently.
Alongside this advocacy, Mitch brings deep experience from the social impact space, including leadership roles as a Board Director, social enterprise CEO, startup founder and commercial leader. He has worked closely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, Traditional Owners and governments, guided by principles of trust, cultural safety and self-determination.
A former elite athlete, Mitch draws on lived experience, humility and resilience to build genuine connection. Whether speaking, advising or collaborating, his focus is the same: creating safer systems, stronger communities, and a version of manhood that makes room for honesty, softness and strength - all at once.