Brad Twynham

Brad Twynham's Biography

Brad Twynham is not just a leadership speaker; he is known as being the leader of leaders. His focus is at the intersection where humanity meets technology.

For the past thirty years he has built and advised executives on ground breaking products that have disrupted the world's largest corporations in the enterprise technology space, AI and the Metaverse. Guided C-level executives in some of the biggest corporations around the world including Visa, UBS and CBA through business transformation initiatives and collaborated with CEOs and Boards to cultivate adaptable cultures that nurture resilient and innovative people.

Brad's keynote presentations and leadership workshops are transformational and highly interactive. He has developed and speaks on “Radical Leadership,” "Radical Innovation" and "Radical Intelligence" terms he has coined that are recognised globally and now used by Harvard Business School to describe the mission-critical mandate of today’s modern business leaders.

As a keynote speaker, Brad’s special gift lies in his powerful lived experiences, which capture the audience's attention and catalyses change. These stories are drawn from his extensive journey as an award-winning Enterprise Technology Entrepreneur, Corporate Innovator, and proud “First Nations” man.

His recent clients include CEO Institute, Singularity U, Minter Ellison, Rio Tinto, Port Waratah Coal Services, Endeavour Group, ARTC, Pitcher Partners, Mazars, EO Org, and Western Sydney University.

His high-energy and authentic presence delivers a fast-paced and immersive keynote presentation and a journey that creates a contagious energy that motivates audiences and leaves a lasting impression.

Brad pushes individuals and organisations to rethink what leadership is in today's uncertain and volatile business environment, encouraging them to step out of their comfort zones and embrace the benefits of becoming Radical.

Brad’s formal training and qualifications were as a scientist graduating from the University of Technology Sydney. Through a twist of fate he ended up co-founding his first technology startup Computer Market Research.

In 1995 he became the youngest VP for BEA Systems, the most successful enterprise technology startup to come out of Silicon Valley in the 1990’s which was sold to Oracle Corporation for $8.5 billion. Learning the skills to scale a business at speed and leading teams of people twenty years his senior, he honed the skills of being a motivator and change catalyst.

This led Brad to the founding team in two more start-ups in the Enterprise Computing space; ANATAS and Servicemesh. Over the next 15 years he spent much of his time speaking on stages at international technology conferences for businesses such as SAP, Vmware, Microsoft, TMForum, The Data Centre Alliance, EMC, Dell, HP and IBM.

During this time, Brad drove major business model transformations as an advisor at corporations such as Swisscom, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Visa, Optus and Union Bank of Switzerland. His curiosity about the barriers to change and disruption he observed in large corporations started forming during these engagements.

Selling the business for $USD280M was the pinnacle of a twenty five year journey of continuous innovation.

2015 saw him encounter his biggest life challenge when he was thrust into a four year legal battle against the F.B.I and US Government. Cut off from the life he once loved, Brad had to take all of the lessons he had learned as an innovator and change catalyst and apply them to his own life which had been disrupted in ways that are unimaginable.

In a coffee shop in 2018, a decision was made to take all of the learnings of the last 25 years and use the adversity of the situation as a metaphor for the tsunami of change and disruption that Brad saw every leader on the planet having to face over the next decade. A realisation that all leaders faced during the COVID 19 pandemic.

This is where “Radical leadership” was created. On realising that in a destabilised business environment most leaders have never been taught the capabilities to create value and foster a culture of resilience, Brad set out to ensure this leadership capability gap was closed.

First as a series of workshops and then as a keynote speaker Brad gained significant traction with organiations such as Singularity U, Minter Ellison, Queensland Health, ANSTO, Endeavor Group, EO Organisation, Rio Tinto and Port Waratah Coal Services. His methods and teachings were also embedded into programs at Western Sydney Universities, Venture Makers Program.

Brad’s first book “Radical Thinking: Five Essential Capabilities for Leading in an Age of Reinvention.” is a comprehensive guide for all leaders in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment, challenging leaders to develop a new set of capabilities through this tremendous age of reinvention.

Brad’s keynotes “Radical Leadership”, “Radical Intelligence”, “Radical Innovation”, and “Collision Course” have received accolades from around the world for their humour, authenticity, and transformational qualities.

Contact Helene Greenham directly at for Brad’s corporate enquiries: helene@platinumspeakers.com.au

Speaking Topics Include

Radical Leadership:

5 Essential Capabilities for Leading in the Age of Reinvention

Target Audience: Executive Leadership Teams, Emerging Leaders, All Staff Gatherings and Retreats, Sales Teams, Boards & Conferences

In today’s volatile business landscape, adaptability is the ultimate currency. Leaders must evolve beyond roles as practitioners to become highly resilient, motivators, advisors, innovators, and change agents. Now more than ever, we need to create value for internal stakeholders and customers by developing 5 Core Radical Leadership Capabilities to not only create longevity but leapfrog the competition.

Key takeaways:

• Why the change coming towards us today is so much more dangerous than in the past
• Our natural responses to disruptive ideas and how to overcome them
• The new ways of thinking required by leaders
• 5 Core Capabilities that equip leaders in becoming highly resilient and exceptional value creators

Radical Intelligence:

The Changing Nature of Work in the Age of Smart Intelligence

Target Audience: Executive Leadership Teams, Emerging Leaders, All Staff Gatherings and Retreats, Sales Teams, Boards & Conferences

The way we work will change more profoundly between now and the end of the decade since it has since the Great Depression. We have entered the age of smart intelligence. Our ability to become adaptable learners will be our greatest asset and competitive advantage. Amplifying our humanity is what will separate us from machines. We need to become adaptable learners if we want to ensure we have longevity in this fast-paced evolution of work.

Key takeaways:

• How the age of Smart Intelligence is changing the way we work
• The intelligence required to succeed in the age of AI
• A 3-step framework to becoming an adaptable learner
• A First Nations perspective of listen, learn and connect that is more relevant today than ever before

Radical Innovation:

5 Technologies that will alter Humanity

Target Audience: Executive Leadership Teams, Emerging Leaders, All Staff Gatherings and Retreats, Sales Teams, Boards & Conferences

In the past ten years, technology has become pervasive to the point where the average adult is looking at their smartphone every 12 minutes. What if I told you this was just the beginning? The next ten years will see five technologies change everything we know about the world, how we live, work, and play.

Key takeaways:

• Demystify AI, the Metaverse, Robotics, Healthspan and Disruptive Business Models
• Shift the conversation around disruptive technology from fear to opportunity
• Expand awareness of the opportunity disruptive technology can bring to your organisation

Collision Course:

The Power of Radical Thinking

Target Audience: Executive Leadership Teams, Emerging Leaders, All Staff Gatherings and Retreats, Sales Teams, Boards & Conferences

Senior Executives and leaders across the industry today need to not only be excellent practitioners but amazing innovators, Producers, Managers and Motivators. Collision course is a powerful, inspirational keynote with an unprecedented legal story that Brad shares to highlight important lessons on how to become flexible, adaptable, agile and innovative.

Key takeaways:

• Inspire Executives and Leaders to embrace innovative and adaptable mindsets.
• Foster a culture of engagement and optimism.
• Gain a clear set of actions that make them more adaptable, agile and innovative in the face of unexpected change or disruption

Welcome to Country:

Or Acknowledgement to Country

Target Audience: Conferences, Awards Ceremonies, Government Events and Symposiums and Association Gatherings

An authentic Welcome or Acknowledgement to Country from a direct descendent of ‘Bungaree’ (the First Australian) incorporating a didgeridoo performance and compelling storytelling tailored to your event theme.