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Key Points for Dominic Thurbon

  • When it comes to real-world business growth, Dominic Thurbon walks the talk. At just 23, he founded Karrikins Group, growing it into a 150-person behaviour change agency across three countries—later acquired by EY.
  • His insights aren’t just theoretical, they’re global bestsellers. Dominic has authored and researched multiple books published in over 15 countries, covering leadership, innovation, generational change, and the future of work.
  • Dominic doesn’t just study behaviour change, he engineers it. He has designed award-winning programs that reach over 500,000 people annually, helping organisations shift culture and adapt to disruption.
  • A world-class communicator with substance, Dominic has spoken to audiences across North America, Europe and Australasia, delivering high-impact sessions for clients in finance, tech, healthcare, education, and government.

Topics for Dominic Thurbon

  • The closer
    A great conference deserves a great ending, one that leaves attendees inspired, energised, and ready to take action. Too often, the closing session is overlooked, yet research shows that the final moments of an event have a lasting impact. Dominic Thurbon’s closing presentation is a unique, dynamic, and deeply personalised closing keynote that does more than recap content. With nearly two decades of experience as a world top-10 debater, speaker, and facilitator, Dominic masterfully distils key themes in real time, ensuring the conference ends on a high note with actionable insights.
    Audience Takeaways:
    • Clear, connected insights that tie together the conference’s biggest lessons.
    • Practical strategies for applying new knowledge in work and life.
    • An inspiring close that ensures attendees leave feeling uplifted and ready to take action.
      Unlike a generic closing speech, Dominic fully immerses himself in the event, integrating real-time insights to create a seamless, engaging finale. His closing presentation ensures your conference doesn’t just end, it leaves a lasting impact.
  • The truthful leader
    How businesses unlock value and drive growth through the simple act of telling the truth So much value in business lies, untapped, behind an inability or unwillingness to tell the truth. Increased innovation, improved agility and change responsiveness, deeper engagement of teams and better financial outcomes are all fuelled by telling the truth. And yet we live in a world where telling the truth increasingly seems like an optional luxury - a world dominated by 'fake news' and 'alternative facts'. In fact, despite its importance and its power, evidence suggests we are getting worse at it, not better! For example, in a fact-check of the winning 2024 campaign for US President, only 3% of statements scored ‘true’. False stories are 70% more likely to be shared on social media than true ones, and spread up to 20 times faster. An ACCC review found 37% of businesses studied were engaging in ‘concerning conduct’ when it came to telling the truth.
    The fact is that telling the truth is a behaviour, you're either doing it or you're not! And it's a behaviour that can improve and transform your business.
    In this dynamic, provocative, and deeply practical presentation, we will:
    • Look at why and how telling the truth is so important to your business in driving performance, innovation, engagement and agility.
    • Explore why it's hard, why it often doesn't happen, and the effect that is having on us as leaders and business owners, and on our teams.
    • Look at the three levels of truth-telling (self, sector, system) that are most important to improving your performance.
    • Unlock a toolkit for 'making truth happen' inside your business in a way that drives change, improves outcomes and unlocks value.
  • The human element of AI adoption
    How to get beyond the hype and start extracting breakthrough value from AI Every company is talking about AI, but they’re not all getting value from AI. Having built and sold an AI-enabled tech company, I know first hand the ones that are view AI as a people challenge first, and a technology challenge second. That’s because with technology like AI, companies don’t change, people do. For example, according to recent research from 2024, the companies getting the most value from AI are spending twice as much on people as they are on algos and tech. Gen AI “high performers’ do a much better job of helping everyone understand value and risks of AI in their daily job (52%) compared to those not getting value (only 21%)… this is what I mean by people first, tech second.
    In this dynamic, provocative and practically useful session we will:
    • Unpack the ‘why’, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of leading edge Gen AI technologies and share compelling, industry- and role-relevant case studies of how companies are getting value.
    • Look at the human element of AI integration, and how ensure that our teams are set up and structured to adopt and get value from these new tools.
    • Unpack the practical risk management and governance mindsets and frameworks required to avoid pitfalls and perils while still making progress.
    • Draw on Dom’s first-hand experiences building and selling an AI-enabled technology company to bring a real on-the-ground perspective the conversation.
  • Making behaviour change happen
    Using the science of human behaviour to unlock innovation, navigate change and improve results You have a behaviour change challenge… you just don’t know it yet!! Ever heard someone in your business say “we need to be more innovative”, “we need to respond to disruption” or “we need to do things differently”? I’m sure you have - after all, we are doing business amidst profound disruption. About 40% of CEOs say their business will cease to exist within 10 years without radical reinvention! But the truth is, it doesn’t matter how much you know about innovation, how many books you’ve read on AI and disruption, how many podcasts you’ve listened to on sales effectiveness… if you can’t do behaviour change, you can’t do, any of them. Conversely, if you can master the art and science of behaviour change, you can take you and your team’s performance to a whole new level.
    In this provocative and interactive session, we will:
    • Unpack the core drivers of human behaviour, and the 5 universal responses to change you will encounter in your team.
    • Examine how organisations don’t change, people do - and how learning the art and science of behaviour change can drive your agenda.
    • Share inspiring, industry-relevant case studies and stories that are packed with usable insights and apply them to leadership, marketing, sales, change and staff engagement.
  • Purpose, on purpose
    Making the most of ESG, sustainability and the purpose movement The market has never been so hot for conversations about purpose, sustainability and ESG. On one level, that’s brilliant: it could herald in a new age of sustainable business and accelerate our transition to a cleaner, more just, more equitable world (and help companies innovate and transform, along the way). On another level, it runs the very real risk of going the way that many similar conversations have gone before: more marketing and PR hype than action. The truth is, you cannot PR your way out of a problem you behaved yourself into. If we want to get real value both as a business and as a society out of sustainability, ESG and corporate purpose, we have to turn words into action and intent into impact. 
    In this dynamic and engaging session, we will:
    • Look at the value and the drivers of ‘purpose’ in business, and how you bring it to life for both customers and staff.
    • Demystify what ESG and sustainability mean for you and your team.
    • Examine mega-trends that drive both the risks and opportunities of ESG.
    • Unpack the oft-misunderstood link between ESG, sustainability and corporate ‘purpose’.
    • Develop practical, usable strategies that can help you leverage the ESG agenda to drive greater sustainability and improved performance.

Testimonials for Dominic Thurbon

Dom’s keynote was a real highlight, so we booked him again immediately after. He brought so much experience, insight and energy to the room.
CEO
SCA

Dom opened the conference with a spectacular start that wowed everyone in attendance. From understanding our brief to your incredible presentation, he was fantastic to work with and we were thrilled.
CEO
Jobs Australia

I’ve spoken in over 40 countries at over 1000 conferences and I’ve just seen Dom. He did the most outstanding summary I’ve ever seen. Phenomenal. I’ve never come across anyone who’s done it as well.
Global bestselling author
"S.U.M.O"

What Dom does in his closing keynote is like magic. He delivered the perfect closing session. He left people energized and inspired.
Managing Editor
Elite Agent

Dom is outstanding and really hut the mark. Very inspiring for our business’s leaders.
Gary Peer and Associates

Hands down the highlight of the event.  Dominic delivers riveting content on CX and the future of customer needs with energy, humour and packed with business changing take-home value.
Real Estate Results

Dominic was the star of our recent event for real estate leaders.  He did a 90 minute session on change, what’s coming, how to prepare and how to turn disruption into opportunity.  He managed to be confronting, highly relevant, high energy and funny.  Ground breaking and packed with take-home value.
LJ Hooker

Dominic gave a series of dynamic and engaging presentations to our staff in Darwin and Alice Springs. His impressive knowledge, sense of humour and style inspired our staff around the potential to unleash collaboration and innovation in our organisation. He crafted a presentation that was right on brief and extremely relevant given the present climate of rapid change in the education and training industry. I would highly recommend Dominic for your next event; his passion is contagious and he speaks the right language to affect real behaviour change.
Charles Darwin University 

WOW! What a truly terrific, inspiring and informative session you ran yesterday for the International HRD Forum. The room was just buzzing after you finished and so many of our members told me how much they had enjoyed your session. It was a highly entertaining, thoughtful, informative, fun and very relevant session to our group of HR Directors, few of whom would be immune to the challenges you described around building a collaborative technology culture, regardless of the size of their organisation or the industry in which they operate.
CEO Forum Group

Dominic is a fantastic, dynamic presenter who really demystified the whole ‘technology’ thing for us. His presentation was engaging, entertaining and – best of all – really valuable to us in the way we work.
Glaxo SmithKilne

Dom Thurbon made us think very differently and we were all buzzing with new ideas at the end of the session. I would highly recommend Dom to work with your team – you will certainly be engaged, challenged and very creative with your approach.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dominic delivered a series of presentations for our senior client audience. His presentations were right on brief and really inspired people about the potential to unleash collaboration and innovation in their organisations. He speaks the language of business, understands business models and tailors his message to suit the audience. His dynamic and engaging style affects real behavioural and attitudinal change and his entertaining and energetic style made him a real hit with the audience.
IBM

Dominic is an engaging and enthusiastic presenter whose infectious energy really got the audience involved. His message was perfectly tailored to our audience and through his style and content he is able to make a real impact. He entertains and informs in equal measure and is a dynamic presenter who I would not hesitate to recommend for your next event.
Commonwealth Bank Foundation

Dominic is a fantastic, dynamic presenter who really demystified the whole thing for us. His presentation was engaging, entertaining and – best of all – really valuable to us in the way we work. I know a lot of people came away from his session with many ideas about how their teams could embrace these tools and improve how they work!
Learning & Development Manager, GlaxoSmithKline

We had the pleasure of Dom Thurbon presenting to the team. It made us think very differently and we were all buzzing with new ideas at the end of the session. We would highly recommend Dom to work with your team – you will be certainly be engaged, challenged and very creative with your approach.
Head of Corporate Marketing, Australian Broadcasting Corporation