Conference Speakers

Dr Tanya Finnie

Dr Tanya Finnie is a global cultural strategist with expertise in building meaningful relationships and inclusive spaces. As a multi award winner, who worked on every continent, Tanya brings global experience pertaining to culture and diversity. As the Director if Redhead Communications, she assists organisations to increase their cultural intelligence and grow their human capital, to be more collaborative and leverage their diversity.

She is a TEDx speaker, certified Global Goodwill Ambassador and voted as one of Perth's Top 100 Small Business Influencers. She is a long-standing mentor for UWA postgraduate student and a mentor to CALD communities on boards via the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI). She is also the founder of the two-day Diversity and Inclusion Summit.

Tanya creates custom executive development program, specifically focused on high-performance culture, to provide individuals and organisations with creative solutions and a competitive advantage. Whether a workplace is experiencing a diversity of cultures, gender difference, generational challenges or merely language barriers between departments, Tanya is the right person to call.

Extensive facilitation experience, conducting corporate level professional development, leadership program implementation, measuring cultural intelligence (CQ), executive coaching, and vibrant keynote delivery are just a few of Tanya's superpowers. Her goal is to help you create immediate results that embody organisational and cultural values, with a clear focus on practice and sustainability.

With extensive local and state government experience, Tanya is passionate about bringing people together through rapport building and culturally appropriate communication. Her work has a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, body language, and motivation, all of which ultimately increase confidence and grow stronger, more innovative, and collaborative teams and leaders.

Glenn Capelli

Professional Speaker and Trainer, Glenn Capelli delivers powerful and provocative ideas for today's world. Glenn's contemporary methodology, real life examples and relatable stories will help you create sustainable high-performance workplaces and relationships. Delivered in a clear, precise and engaging presentation style, you'll think, laugh, discuss, extend and walk away with immediately applicable and practical strategies.

Glenn Capelli has delivered a message pf creativity, dynamic thinking, innovation and high-performance leadership to audiences around the world.

An author, songwriter and radio and television presenter, Glenn has emerged as one of Australia's most awarded and sought after professional speakers.

A member of MENSA, Glenn is also a former 'hobo' who as a young man backpacked his way around the world for seven years, working in a variety of roles including a fish farmer on Kibbutz in Israel, a comedian in Los Angeles, a travel writer in Kenya and a summer-camp counsellor in North Carolina.

In 1987 he returned to Australia and was awarded the prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship, which he used to further his research into advanced ways of thinking and learning methodology.

Throughout the 1990's his award-winning cable television series Born to Lead aired weekly to an audience of over 26 million households across the USA.

Glenn is one of the very few professional speakers in Australia to have won all three highest professional speaking industry awards. Educator of the Year in 2006, the Nevin Award in 2007 and Keynote Speaker of the Year 2013.

For five years his live radio program Thinking Caps broadcast weekly on Radio 3AW in Melbourne and Thinking Caps the book has sold more than 7,000 copies.

Glenn's audiences range from primary school students and teachers in the most remote outback regions of Australia, to the CEO's of some of the largest corporate organisations the world.

His unique presentation style and ability to apply a diversity of teaching methodologies have made him an internationally renowned speaker across a diverse range of industries and in constant demand worldwide.

Glenn's presentation portfolio includes conference keynotes and theme-weaving, workshops, program design and facilitation, training and one-to-one coaching and mentoring.

Glenn uses his participatory, humorous and entertaining presentation techniques to show audiences how to become more flexible thinkers, leaders and life-long learners in today's fast paced world.