The Organisational Culture Summit attracts a fantastic mix of inspirational speakers and successful case study speakers.
You can find details of the confirmed 2027 speakers below:
Dan Haesler is a performance and leadership coach who specialises in Mindset, Mental Skills & Leadership.
He has worked with athletes from a wide variety of sports including members of the Australian Olympic and Commonwealth Games Teams. He is the Performance & Leadership Coach at the 4xNRL Premiers, the Penrith Panthers and the NSW Swifts in Super Netball. Dan also works with members of the Wallabies and the Socceroos and many other athletes across a range of sports.
As a Director of Cut Through Coaching, Dan also works with corporate organisations across the Asia Pacific, including the likes of Boston Consulting Group, Roche Diagnostics Australia, CHEP, People’s Choice and Boston Scientific as well as schools and educational institutions.
Since its release in 2021, Dan’s book, The Act of Leadership has been the best-selling Australian-authored business title (perhaps because it’s about people not business) and has been described by James Kerr, the best-selling author of Legacy as a book that will, “Change your life”.
He is the host of one of Australia’s most popular management podcasts, The Habits of Leadership, which sees him engage with the world’s most respected experts, researchers and thinkers on leadership theory.
As a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, Dan Haesler marries the rigour of the research with his experience of working with high performers, some of whom are – literally -amongst the best in the world at what they do. He prides himself on his ability to ensure your audience is not only provided with an entertaining, motivating experience, but it’s also empowering with immediately actionable insights.
Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of the award-winning behaviour change consultancy Inventium. She has worked with companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft to help boost productivity, innovation and wellbeing.
In 2021, Amantha was the first Australian to win the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the ‘Oscars for Management Thinking’).
In 2025, Amantha was recognised at the Australian AI Awards, where she won AI Consultant of the Year and the AI Excellence Award – the latter chosen from the highest-scoring individual winners across all categories to recognise the top performer of the year.
Amantha is also the host of the number one ranking business podcast How I Work, which has had over 6 million downloads, where she interviews some of the world’s most successful people about their habits, strategies, and rituals.
Amantha’s thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company and she is the author of four bestselling books, including international bestseller Time Wise and her most recent book, The Health Habit.
Dr Ben Hamer is an accredited and globally awarded futurist, ranked in the Top 20 Global Futurists and the #1 thought leader for the Future of Work in the Asia-Pacific.
Formerly the Head of Future of Work at PwC Australia, Ben has undertaken work and research around the world, including time spent leading critical projects at the World Economic Forum as well as being a Visiting Scholar at Yale University. He is an Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University, a Board Member for the Australian HR Institute and Netball NSW, and a LEGO Serious Play certified trainer.
As the Founder and Chief Futurist of leading trend intelligence agency, ThinkerTank, Ben works with organisations to help them think big, see around corners and stay ahead of the game.
Fiona Hewitt is the Founder and Managing Partner of Unboxable, a New Zealand future of work consultancy helping organisations strengthen the leadership, culture and ways of working they need to evolve.
A strategy and workforce transformation advisor with more than 25 years’ experience, Fiona works with boards, executive teams and leadership groups across Australia and New Zealand to navigate growth, transformation and organisational change.
Her work spans strategy, leadership, workforce capability, organisational design, future of work and AI workforce strategy. Combining practical executive experience with ongoing study in the future of work and organisational revitalisation through executive programmes at Harvard and Sydney universities, Fiona helps leaders ask the questions that matter most and build the capability to perform today while preparing for tomorrow.
Known for her clear thinking, practical insight and human-centred approach, Fiona brings a valuable perspective to one of the defining leadership challenges of our time: how to build adaptive, trusted and future-ready cultures in an AI-enabled world.
Dr Adrian Medhurst is a workplace psychologist, author, educator, and global consultant specialising in organisational culture, wellbeing, performance psychology, and innovation.
With extensive experience across industries experiencing rapid change and pressure, Adrian helps organisations navigate the increasingly common challenge of driving performance while safeguarding wellbeing. As co-founder of Benny Button, he has pioneered science-based strategies that help leaders support resilience, engagement, and sustainable performance in fast-paced, high-demand environments.
His work draws on positive psychology, behavioural science, and wellbeing research, offering leaders practical frameworks for preventing burnout, enhancing psychological safety, and shifting from reactive problem-solving to intentional culture design.
Adrian is recognised for transforming complex psychological concepts into accessible, applicable tools that help leaders cultivate environments where people feel valued, capable, and motivated — even in the face of uncertainty, restructures, and the pressures of the modern workplace. His mission is to shape cultures where wellbeing and performance are not competing priorities but mutually reinforcing strengths.
Alicia Curtis is the Founder of Alyceum, a values-driven leadership education platform that inspires people to lead positive change in business and the community.
Alicia established Alyceum in 2001 and has spent more than two decades designing and delivering transformational leadership programs, working with thousands of leaders to challenge traditional ideas of who can lead and the difference they can make.
With a Master’s in Business Leadership and a long history of professional and community impact, Alicia is known for her ability to create powerful learning experiences that combine purpose, values, reflection and action. Her work has been recognised through awards including Business News 40under40, EY Social Entrepreneur of the Year in the western region, Westpac 200 Businesses of Tomorrow and the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence list.
Alicia is also the co-founder and inaugural Chair of 100 Women, a giving circle supporting women and girls locally and globally. Passionately driven by her purpose to ignite leaders to transform the world for the better, Alicia brings a deeply practical, values-led and human perspective to the work of cultural transformation.