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Toni Powell
Print2022 WINNER – THOUGHT LEADER OF THE YEAR
Storyteller, Speaker and Author
Renowned for her hilarious story-based talks, Toni Powell is one of the most recognised & enjoyed positive culture and wellbeing speakers in Australia.
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Testimonials for Toni Powell
“We had the pleasure of Toni delivering her Yellow Car keynote to a room of 150 Service Managers from across Australia at the inaugural in-person Busy Bees Conference and Excellence Awards in Brisbane. Toni held the room from start to finish, had us in stitches, had us in tears and most importantly had us thinking about ourselves, each other and what’s truly important in life under the theme of, don’t sweat the small stuff. Toni is down to earth, real and relatable and we’re thrilled that our Hive was able to experience Toni’s wisdom, storytelling, humour and kindness.”
Phillip Hay – Head of Marketing, Sales and Communications, Busy Bees Australia
“I hired Toni to speak to our leadership team and the effect was profound. About 50% of them made lasting changes to the way they relate that were still evident years later.”
Geoff Dick – Regional Manager Commercial, Westpac
“Toni is a superb storyteller, illustrating key concepts in an entertaining and memorable way that makes the learning stick.
She is one of those rare speakers who can convey complex ideas from science, neuroscience and psychology to a general audience and has done so to the delight of thousands of people at many Happiness & Its Causes conferences, over the years.”
Beth Phelan, Executive Director, Happiness & Its Causes
”Toni has the unique ability to connect with people of all levels and combines examples, humour and high energy to convey her message, while consistently receives outstanding feedback from delegates who attend her sessions.”
Nisha Iyer – CPA Conferences
“Toni had an incredible impact on me, I gained so much clarity on myself. She has an honest, intelligent and direct style that forces you to be immediately engaged. Toni is highly knowledgeable and changed my thinking in the most positive way.”
Shaun Coulton – HEAD of Talent, Winning Group
“We were thrilled with our decision to invite Toni Powell as our guest speaker. Our clients described Toni as excellent, brilliant, engaging and with messages both relevant and important. Our clients took away profound new perspectives.”
Kelly McCosker – ExecutiveLink Manager, RCS
Fee Range: $5001 to $10000
Toni Powell's Biography
2022 WINNER – THOUGHT LEADER OF THE YEAR
Toni has just won awards in both the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS (Gold) and the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS (Silver) for thought leadership with her business service products.
Storyteller, Speaker and Author
Renowned for her hilarious story-based talks, Toni Powell is one of the most recognised & enjoyed positive culture and wellbeing speakers in Australia.
She’s recently won two international business awards for thought leadership, is the author of two books and her Goalcast talk has over 15 million views.
In a former life Toni was founder and director of the uplifting Heart of Gold International Film Festival – an event that had a huge impact on a community, toured Australia through Hoyts, and was so successful that Toni was the subject of a heartwarming episode of ABC’s Australian Story called ‘Let there be Light’.
Toni’s great gift is using stories and comedy to teach simple ways all of us can use to turn our pain, stress, failure and trauma into a fantastic springboard to better things.
It’s amazing to find that you can overcome almost anything with a few simple tools and Toni’s work is chock-a-block full of useful, easy, simple tools that actually work in real life.
More than a great motivational keynote The Yellow Car talk is also an unforgettable stage experience that has everyone veering between laughter and tears while they learn a powerful way to reduce worry, fear and anxiety.
Your audience will leave with a simple way to drive away stress instantly.
Speaking Topics Include
The Yellow Car - Toni’s hilarious Yellow Car keynote not only entertains your audience – it pays big long-term dividends. Your people will take away simple skills that enable them to return to their more productive, enthusiastic and creative selves.
They’ll be motivated, inspired and equipped to:
Dramatically reduce worry & stress
Change perspective instantly
Easily find solutions
Have a more positive outlook
Get back to their productive selves
Gratitude, happiness & contentment – Gratitude is the astonishingly easy way to change most areas of your life. Audiences are entertained and surprised to find gratitude is not what they thought it was.
The power of words – How words affect what we think, see and feel. The impact they have on relationships and our own emotional wellbeing.
Relationships – Happily married for over 30 years Toni has interesting, hilarious and poignant insights into what it takes to make relationships work.
The art of communication – Connecting with others, getting your message across and how we mere mortals process information are among the areas covered.
Vision & crazy leaps – In 2006 ABC’s Australian Story crew came to spend eight days with Toni, documenting the story of one of her crazy leaps and how her vision bought a town together. Toni talks about over-coming fear, chasing a vision and working toward making the world a more wonderful place.