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Key Points for Andrew May
- Andrew May doesn’t do cookie-cutter. Every keynote is customised using his LiveLife Score diagnostic, ensuring insights land with precision, relevance, and immediate impact.
- From the Manly Sea Eagles and Wallabies to World Champion Boxer Tim Tszyu, Andrew coaches the best of the best, and brings that same performance edge to corporate leaders and teams.
- Andrew’s podcast is a go-to resource for anyone serious about performance, featuring unfiltered conversations with elite thinkers, athletes, and business minds across the globe.
- His proprietary frameworks, including the LiveLife Score, go beyond inspiration, offering measurable results and long-term behaviour change for individuals and organisations alike.
Topics for Andrew May
- MatchFit
Boost energy, wellbeing and performance, physically and mentally.
In today’s fast-paced environment, sustainable performance starts with being MatchFit. This keynote provides a practical roadmap to optimise physical and psychological wellbeing, increase resilience, and extend peak performance across your workforce. Andrew shares six transformative levers—Move, Fuel, Recharge, Think, Connect, and Play—to help you thrive both personally and professionally. This keynote is perfect for organisations looking to boost performance, productivity, and sustainable energy across all levels.
Audience takeaways:- Strategies to increase energy, lower stress, and improve mental clarity.
- How to stay biologically younger and thrive at work and in life.
- Build daily habits that enhance productivity and prevent burnout.
- Apply neuroscience to manage change and improve decision-making.
- High performance reset
Sustain high performance without the collateral damage.
Unlock the secrets of world-class performers in sport and business. Learn the rituals, routines, and recovery strategies required to build resilience and sustain peak output in high-pressure environments. This keynote is perfect for leadership teams and high performers at risk of burnout, cultivating high-trust, psychologically safe environments or seeking to reset focus and recharge for sustained output.
Audience takeaways:- Define what high performance truly means in modern workplaces.
- Embed micro-recoveries to reduce burnout and sharpen focus.
- Cultivate a high-trust, psychologically safe culture.
- Equip your team with essential mental skills and energy strategies.
- Inside job
Build mental skills to thrive under pressure.
Achieve meaningful, sustainable high performance with an inside-out approach. Inside Job reveals how to train your brain like a muscle. Drawing from neuroscience and performance psychology, Andrew teaches practical tools to help individuals stay calm, focused, and confident in high-stress situations. This keynote is perfect for individuals and teams operating in fast-paced, high-stakes environments who need tools to stay mentally sharp and emotionally balanced.
Audience takeaways:- Train focus, emotional regulation, and decision-making under pressure.
- Reduce negative self-talk and improve inner dialogue.
- Master simple mental transitions between key performance moments.
- Understand the brain’s bias for fear and how to overcome FOPO (Fear of Other People’s Opinions).
- SHIFT: The neuroscience of embracing change
Transform disruption into growth.
Change is no longer a phase, it’s a constant. In this keynote, Andrew demystifies the neuroscience behind behaviour change and empowers teams to adopt a growth mindset that sees change as an opportunity, not a threat. This keynote is perfect for organisations undergoing transformation, leadership changes, or navigating uncertainty and disruption.
Audience takeaways:- Rewire thinking patterns to improve adaptability and focus.
- Build simple, repeatable habits for navigating uncertainty.
- Understand how setbacks are part of sustainable change.
- Create a team culture that embraces innovation and progress.
Testimonials for Andrew May
Whether it’s storytelling in an outback shed; delivering keynotes for global events; captivating an executive audience in a boardroom; or presenting high-energy digital keynotes that change people’s lives – Andrew May has the ability to connect with multiple cultures and generations. He moves audiences like very few can.
NSW Chairman
KPMG Australia
Andrew May tailored a Conference Experience at our 2-day event in Bali with pre-event diagnostics; two half-day workshops on MatchFit and New Ways of Working; and learning resources after the conference. During the session we had a power outage and he just keep powering through, engaging the audience, which was fabulous. He also managed to convene a large group of us to test our ‘MatchFitness’ in real life on the beach @ 6am day 2! Thanks Andrew.
Director of Network
Relationships, ProLoan (Aust) Pty Ltd.
Andrew May has a special talent blending human performance and neuroscience with practical experience in sport and business. His ability to tell authentic stories and engage has left a lasting impact on BOQ leaders. The word I use to describe him is ‘bold’.
Group Executive
Retail Banking at Bank of Queensland
Andrew May’s Leadership Offsite was so well received, we asked him to come back and run our next two day offsite. This program has significantly impacted the way we work, improved camaraderie and some of the LT have reported it literally changed their life.
CEO
Transdev
Andrew May presented a series of keynotes for MDRT around Australia. Member feedback has been overwhelming – funny, articulate, evidence-based, entertaining, passionate. Andrew’s sessions resonated so much, MDRT booked him to speak at global conferences in Singapore and New Orleans. World-class.
Million Dollar Round Table, Australia
Andrew May came highly recommended by a number of CEW colleagues. His methodology and inspiring keynote presentations have changed the way I work and lead, balancing my personal life to access a new level of health and executive performance.
Managing Director
Compass Group
From the initial MatchFit keynote to the ongoing Coaching Academy for sales leaders, Andrew May’s energy and enthusiasm is contagious and I’ve lost count of the times employees have said what a difference his teachings have had on their lives.
Learning and Development Manager
Eli Lilli Australia
Andrew May’s coaching has made a difference to the way I manage stress and recovery; and his coaching, keynotes and leadership programs have had a very positive impact on the many people and teams he has worked with across CBA.
CEO
CBA
Andrew May is one of the most engaging conference speakers I’ve seen, blending science and rigour with personal experience and fun. Truly a class act.
CEO
IAG
The Executive Performance program jolted our leadership team into a smarter and more productive way of working. The science-based principles combined with Andrew’s leadership experience and tough love approach, created an immediate connection.
CEO
icare
I have seen Andrew deliver multiple world-class presentations. From lighting up the stage
for 1,500 Rabo staff at Cockatoo Island for the Dare Down Under conference; to intimate leadership and strategy retreats for our executive; to recent virtual online offerings as part of our Wellbeing Series.
Head of People Development & Strategic Workforce Management
Rabobank
Andrew May’s ability to provide specific examples for a range of industries fully engaged the audience. The way he adapted his content on the spot to answer questions and weave in examples of coaching people throughout the presentation was very impressive.
National Product Manager
Family Business Australia
Andrew May had a line queuing up for him after his session. Amazing session on time management and a highlight session of our conference.
Delegate comments:
“Very interactive and informing. Andrew was good. Great to see more speakers talking about our fitness and mind is paramount.”
“Good content and easy to understand.”
“Very fundamentally sound advice.”
REIQ
Thanks for your great ‘Switched On’ keynote at our annual conference. It was our pleasure having you as part of our 'people' day and I thought your speech was fantastic! One of our international guests from London was so impressed with your presentation that he said he's going back this week to let them know what an innovative company we are down here and to speak to International HR about running something similar in UK – all very positive!
Human Resources Manager
EMI Music Australia
Hi Andrew, I wanted to take a minute to thank you for all of the time and effort you have put into the AXA manager conference program over the last year. Combining the morning wake up activities, masseurs, and the online learning and intranet with your keynote presentations is a perfect way to blend content and practice. The Switched On reviews where you summarise all of our activities and provide us with downloads and photos of the entire experience is always very well received. We are looking forward to running this program with you again next year!
Capability Manager
AXA
Feedback from delegates clearly shows your talk was not only well received, but a highlight of the event. Your experience and understanding of sustained performance and its impact on our businesses certainly gives us all plenty to think about in planning ahead.
Managing Director
Fitpro. UK
Andrew May's energetic style always leaves the audience buzzing. We can always count on Andrew to partner with us and deliver a humorous, thought provoking and very practical presentation. He is a master speaker and the perfect choice to stimulate the audience with a fact filled health message. One of the best I've seen!
Marketing Manager
Australian Unity
From the very start your message was powerful and to the point. I was particularly impressed the way you researched the audience and continually linked the key messages back to our specific business and day to day pressures.
Victorian Human Resources Manager
Accor Hotels
Andrew May recently partnered with Human Resources to develop a specific presentation that outlined the theory behind designing and managing Work Life Balance programs; as well as providing employees with powerful and realistic strategies they could immediately use. This provided a very strong platform for HR to then explain what we are doing on both a global and local initiative. I strongly recommend Andrew May as one of the best in the business I've come across.
HR Director
Hewlett Packard
Andrew May has now presented to Ernst & Young employees throughout Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth. His high energy, enthusiasm, subject knowledge and capacity to relate to large numbers of people both professional and non–professional are the reason we contract him again and again. Andrew has an engaging and sense of humour, which allows him to draw in and interest his audience. We also believe Andrew is now very aware of our culture and our objectives and he is able to deliver addresses to large or small audiences within an appropriate contextual framework. We have been very satisfied with Andrew's contribution to our health and well–being program and look forward to a long and successful working relationship with him.
Senior Partner
Ernst & Young