After facilitating change in organisations across Australia for more than two decades, from boardrooms to school staff rooms, from not-for-profits to corporates, Joel is widely regarded as one of Australia's most impactful voices on leadership development and psychological safety.
His ability to read each room and meet people exactly where they are enables him to deliver powerful messages that land, linger and inspire genuine transformation. Book Joel for your next conference or event and you'll experience insights that continue to reshape how your leaders think and act long after he's walked off stage.
Joel's specialty is creating the conditions where people and teams thrive. He's passionate about it, writes about it (his book Holding Space explores the art of facilitation and human connection), and speaks about it, including his 2023 TEDx talk "Our Stories Connect Us" which has resonated with leaders worldwide.
But his approach transcends feel-good platitudes; his content is based on powerful, proven and practical frameworks, including his SPACE model for psychological safety and THRIVE model for human development, that can be applied to any organisation navigating growth, change or cultural transformation.
Joel is able to customise his approach, tailor his stories and direct his message to meet each unique brief. He can weave in lessons on authentic leadership, facilitate deep workshop discussions, and integrate experiential exercises where appropriate. After all, building thriving cultures is more about action than theory.
With a 25-year career spanning healthcare, education, IT consulting and executive roles, Joel has worked with organisations including those in social impact, education, healthcare and corporate sectors. He's developed signature programs like The Resilient Leader Programme and Trusting Teams workshop, and delivers leadership development that helps mid-level managers and senior leaders navigate the messy, human reality of organisational life.
He's presented for audiences ranging in size from intimate leadership teams of eight to conference audiences of hundreds, at all levels of business and across the not-for-profit sector. With keynote topics spanning psychological safety, storytelling for leaders, facilitation mastery, and resilience, plus workshop options that can be combined to suit your conference theme and unique needs, Joel's able to open or close any event with a thought-provoking, human-centred keynote or he can facilitate a structured, experiential workshop for a leadership cohort … and anything in between.
