James O'Loghlin: Motivational Speaker
Innovation speaker and corporate comedian James O'Loghlin helps organizations build creative cultures, embrace innovation, and engage audiences through humor, insight, and practical strategy.
Quick Facts:
- Host of over 300 episodes of ABC-TV’s The New Inventors
- Acclaimed innovation keynote speaker and facilitator
- Respected corporate comedian and event emcee
- Former criminal lawyer turned media personality
- Formats:
Keynote Speaker | Innovation Expert | Corporate Facilitator
- Audiences:
Corporate leaders, innovation teams, entrepreneurs, conference organizers, executive groups, educational institutions, professional associations, and organizations focused on creativity and culture change.
- Outcomes:
- Learn practical strategies to foster innovation every day
- Build workplace cultures that encourage creativity and collaboration
- Inspire teams to think differently and embrace new ideas confidently
- Travels from: Sydney, NSW
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
Keynote Topics
Overcoming Crisis Through Innovation
We have been living in an era of disruption and rapid change for some time, but never before have we faced changes as rapid and drastic as those caused by the Coronavirus.
Suddenly, everything is different. Over the next few months organisations and businesses will face big challenges.
To meet them, they will have to find new and better ways of doing things. More than ever before, your people need to be equipped with the skills they need to be innovative, so they can be constantly coming up with better ways of doing things.
In eight years hosting ABC-TV’s ‘The New Inventors’ James O’Loghlin worked with over a thousand innovators, and in his entertaining and thought-provoking keynote and/or workshop he will share practical strategies to equip your people with the skills they need to be innovative every day.
In this session you will learn:
An understanding of how innovation happens; the 3 things innovators do better than others
Easy-to-implement strategies to identify opportunities for innovation in your business and take advantage of them
How to create an organisational culture that encourages everyone to be innovative
How to quickly and cheaply identify the best new ideas and implement them”
Innovation is a State of Mind
How often do you have days when you are so busy you don’t have time to think?
Days when there isn’t one spare moment to think about how you can improve the way that you do things?
No matter how well your business is doing today, if you keep doing things the same way, in 10 years’ time – maybe less – you will have been left behind.
To stay relevant and successful, businesses need to keep coming up with better ways of doing things. In eight years hosting ‘The New Inventors’ ex-Australian lawyer James O’Loghlin met hundreds of people who thought outside the box and came up with new and better ways of doing things.
During this corporate keynote James O’Loghlin will talk about:
Why every business needs to be continually innovating and how individuals can do it
The three things innovators do better than everyone else, and five things every business can do to build a workplace culture that encourages innovation
Other Topics
- Overcoming the barriers to innovation
- CREATING AN INNOVATIVE CULTURE
Talent Short Bio
James O’Loghlin is one of Australia’s most respected keynote speakers, corporate facilitators, comedians, and media personalities, known for combining humor, insight, and practical innovation strategies into highly engaging audience experiences. With a career spanning law, comedy, broadcasting, and corporate speaking, James brings a uniquely versatile perspective to leadership, creativity, and organizational culture.
James first gained national recognition as the host of more than 300 episodes of ABC-TV’s The New Inventors, where he explored groundbreaking ideas, entrepreneurial thinking, and the creative processes behind innovation. The experience sparked his deep interest in innovation as both a mindset and organizational capability, ultimately shaping the focus of his keynote work today.
Before his media career, James practiced as a criminal lawyer before transitioning into comedy and broadcasting, developing the communication skills, quick thinking, and audience connection that now define his stage presence. His work on ABC Local Radio and across Australian television established him as one of the country’s most recognizable and trusted media personalities.
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