David Bartlett

David Bartlett's Biography

David Bartlett is the only person who was both ward of the state of Tasmania for the first 18 years of his life and the former Premier of Tasmania at the young age of 40.

His political experience has seen him lead companies and people across all sectors through transformative innovation and change.

David’s varied experiences have seen him co-found, build and sell two tech start-up companies, lead the Tasmanian bid to re-enter the National Basketball League, chair and lead a dementia research institute offering two online courses, boasting over half a million enrolments world-wide, and more recently co-found a sports-tech start-up company with two pro-basketball players.

This is an unprecedented time of user and device-driven behaviour and David Bartlett understands that traditional business models are increasingly becoming redundant, as we live in a highly connected world.

David shows his audience how the digital disruption we are new seeing will affect their business models and futures. This includes new ways to create wealth, disruptive ways to have customer conversations and new solutions for business problems.

Having held positions at the highest levels of both government and the private sector David deeply understands influence, change and the emerging challenges for Australian businesses dealing direct with the public sector.

Thanks to a world of experience, David Bartlett offers convincing and knowledgeable advice that every CEO and Director needs to know about delivering up-to-date digital services as well as revised business and people models for a time of ‘ubiquitous connectivity’.

David Bartlett has forged a career at the forefront of innovation, technology and science. And he will forge an even stronger relationship with your audience, leaving them with the invaluable lessons they’ll need to manage business transformation.

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Speaking Topics Include

The MONA effect

Ask any Australian what they knew about Tasmania just a decade ago and, in more polite company, you would have heard words like wilderness and beautiful scenery. In less polite company there would have been at least one passing reference to two-headedness and of course to the fact that digging stuff up and chopping stuff down were essentially than main industries that fuelled the place.

Then a random, enormous, lightening bolt of weirdness struck the island in the form the largest, most valuable private collection of art in the Southern Hemisphere that landed at MONA, a purpose built Wonka style edifice to, according to its owner, the art of sex and death.

Join David Bartlett as he tells some of the behind the scenes stories of the origins of MONA, and through those stories extracts wisdom and learning for other regional economies. How do other regional communities replicate the ‘MONA effect’ to grow and diversify their economies? How do regions that have a significant industrial legacy both build on this and honour it, while also transforming for a prosperous future?

Love your customers - In the new digital world
New digital channels are opening up extraordinary and disruptive new ways of having a conversation with your customer. Conversely, for the first time in history your customer can talk back. No matter what industry sector you are in your customers are looking to new digital channels to engage with your business.

Sack your lobbyist – Be more influential in Government
Whether you are trying to sell to Government or get policy changes out of Government – it can all be baffling and confusing just dealing with the public sector. That’s why many companies and peak bodies hire lobbyists. In this engaging and revealing talk David will truly help your audience what is on the Minister’s mind and how to wield influence from the corridors of power to the hidden bureaucracy. Your audience will walk away with all the tools they need to sack their lobbyist and gain real influence.

The expectation economy
Consumers, led by their smart phones and other connected devices are expecting the extraordinary. How can businesses respond to these rapid and growing expectations. David Bartlett tells stories and unpacks strategies from some of the most innovative companies around the world to help audiences understand the expectation economy and its components of two way transparency, motivational currencies, new channels and the immediacy principle.

The death of the job, the future of work
Technology is stealing our jobs right? Wrong. But technology and ubiquitous connectivity is irreversibly changing the nature of work and will in the future kill the very idea of a job. David Bartlett unpacks the ‘uberisation' of work, the technological changes to work and the new work markets that are emerging that millennials are engaging with in unprecedented numbers.

The next big thing
We’ve all heard of and to a large extent are living through the great digital disruption. Change is everywhere but more change is coming. In this engaging glimpse into the future David Bartlett unpacks the next big five technological disruptions that business and government need to planning for. From additive manufacturing, augmented reality and autonomous vehicles to collaborative production and the genome revolution - everything has changed and is only going to change more.

Think like a startup
The mega startups are riding a growth wave of technology and extraordinary business models. New and old businesses alike can learn from these startups to understand what these new business models look like, how to apply them in existing businesses and how to apply innovation and lean startup business principles.

The digital citizen
Led by their smart device as consumers, citizens are now expecting their civic life and interaction with Government to deliver the same experience. But Governments are ill equipped to deal with this rapid and irreversible change.

What I learnt about leadership from transforming a basketball club, that I wish I had known when I was Premier
David led the once mighty Hobart Chargers, playing in Australia’s second tier competition, from near bankruptcy and dwindling crowds to a national championship and money in the bank. Along the way he lead the charge to make Tasmania NBL ready again. A return to the National Basketball League, massive sell-out crowds, and the on court success of the mighty Jack Jumpers is the end result with basketball tipped to be the most played and watched sport in Tasmania by 2025. How did the NBL beat the AFL to claim Tasmania? Find out – along with the leadership lessons learned – in this high entertaining talk from David, with real lessons in leadership to be put in place in any changing organisation.