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Key Points for Ian Stephens

  • Ian Stephens is a globally recognised Certified Speaking Professional who has delivered keynotes in over 29 countries, transforming team and leadership performance.
  • He blends neuroscience, practical frameworks, and behavioural science to equip audiences with immediately actionable strategies for sales, productivity, and mindset.
  • Honoured among Australia’s top 20 business speakers and named Keynote Speaker of the Year in 2025, Ian is celebrated for his dynamic, tailored, and high-impact presentations.
  • He is the author of six books including shiFt yourself and shiFt MINDSET, offering powerful frameworks for creating lasting behavioural change in business and life.

Topics for Ian Stephens

  • Mindset in the age of AI
    This is a transformative, high-impact keynote for today’s shifting world of work. While technology like AI, automation, and virtual tools are changing how we sell, lead, and collaborate — it’s our mindset that determines whether we resist, survive, or thrive. This keynote is tailored for two core audiences:
    • Sales teams: Future-ready sellers. Results now.
    • Wider workforces: Think smarter. Adapt faster. Thrive in change.
      Whether you’re driving AI adoption, leading a transformation initiative, or just preparing your people for what’s next — Ian delivers mindset strategies that stick, stories that inspire, and out-comes that matter. Key takeaways:
    • Build adaptive, resilient, forward-focused thinkers.
    • Shift from fear of AI to curiosity and ownership.
    • Break free from limiting beliefs and outdated habits.
    • Learn a proven mindset formula to stay high-performing in change.
    • Instil a culture of agility, innovation, and personal leadership.
  • Activate: The rhythm of sales success
    Profit = Revenue – Costs. Every senior executive and sales director knows this formula....and they lose sleep over whether the revenue targets will happen. Based on his book, “shiFt your SALES ACTIVITY: The 7 Universal Laws of Sales Success”, Ian tailors a keynote that will inspire and equip the sales team and sales leaders alike to increase the chances that your sales targets actually happen. Key takeaways:
    • Understanding the critical Laws of Sales Success.
    • Inspired to implement their sales plans.
    • Better equipped to land the sales targets.
    • Masters of their own high-performance sales mindset.
  • shiFt MINDSET
    Why you're not getting what you want and how to create your desired results ... faster!
    Ever felt frustrated that the results you want either don’t turn up, or take their time? Have you experienced moments when you were ‘in the zone’ but then it slipped away? What if you just needed to know the formula of what’s happening behind the curtain? What if you could consciously repeat that ‘state of being in the zone’ time and time again, and watch your desired outcomes flow with ease? And what if you could take control of changing limiting beliefs and kicking them to the curb once and for all? In this powerful and life-changing keynote, Ian draws on the skills and tools from his award-winning book, “shiFt MINDSET” and reveals the way to work with natural laws in order to create the results you want…faster. Key takeaways:
    • Learn the REAL secret behind the science of achievement.
    • Understand how to replace limiting beliefs and kick them to the curb once and for all.
    • Explore the role consistency (or the lack of it) plays in achieving what you want
    • Discover the Fast-Track Results Achievement Formula, enabling them to get in the ‘slipstream’.
    • Learn the underpinning principles and laws of outcome achievement in business and in life
  • Amped: The rhythm of momentum
    Getting your team to create momentum, and maximise it, may just be the most important area of focus for leaders these days. Based on his book, “shiFt HABITS: The 7 Step Pathway to Mastery”, this powerful and entertaining presentation includes a highly moving display of mastery and momentum in action. It leaves delegates motivated to take action and resourced with tools to make any required change happen. Participants are engaged before Ian even speaks. His portable Speedball framework (erected on the stage) immediately creates a state of curiosity. His powerful talk weaves in his journey to master the Rhythm Speedball (‘speedbag’ in the USA) and totally engages and inspires conference participants. Culminating in a live demonstration of his National Speedball Championship routine, your team will be dazzled at ‘what’s possible’ when the power of focus and discipline are merged. Key takeaways:
    • The 7 Step pathway to mastery or outcome achievement.
    • Staying creative and innovative in times of change.
    • Creating and maintaining momentum.
    • How to create the right mindset to overcome obstacles and bring home results.
    • Taking ownership and accountability to make desired results happen.
    • Managing your ‘state of mind’ during times of uncertainty

       

       

Testimonials for Ian Stephens

On time, prepared, engaged with participants, got off stage and moved around the tables and guests, kept to time, and had some good takeaway notes that everyone could understand. Feedback was very good from everyone.
Hydraulink Australia Pty. Ltd. 

Ian was engaging, funny, and a great storyteller. He took the audience on a journey and looped around through the process to bring prior points into the current stage of the presentation.  
Mutual Marketplace Pty Ltd

Hit the brief and more! Ian Stephens was motivating and inspiring in a very human way.
Bunzl Australia and New Zealand

Your keynote resonated with our 130 Leaders, reinforcing our mantra that great customer-care behaviours are critical for Catholic Healthcare. The feedback has been outstanding and your delivery and content is still being talked about, 2 months after the event. Your afternoon workshop on ethical and values-based relationship building was delivered right on brief. We also appreciated the wonderful humour, audience engagement and tailored aspect of your sessions that really go to the core of what we wanted to achieve. I am sure you will be doing more for us in the future – stay tuned.
Catholic Healthcare

The feedback from our off-site yesterday has been extremely positive and you hit a great balance between new and experienced staff. The way you personalized your speech to us was very impressive and appreciated. Thanks for spreading a bit of the Ian Stephens magic through Pepper Money.
Learning and Development Manager
Pepper Money

I was very impressed with Ian’s message; he provided some great insight into the need to stay focused. I was more impressed, however, with the method he employs to have his message stick. I have had the privilege of experiencing many speakers and trainers over the years and can honestly say Ian was among the best. His lessons are long lasting unlike some where you struggle to remember a week later. I have been training sales people for 30 years now and have been speaking to groups as part of my community service commitments – we were all treated to something special with Ian Stephens and I look forward to future opportunities to have him involved with the training of our people.
Pure Water Systems

Ian is a polished well rounded presenter/facilitator, with real world content and offered real life solutions to our sales managers. The internal feedback was excellent.
Isuzu Australia Limited

A true professional. Engaging and dynamic. His use of stories and humour made a real impact on the team. The tools and processes he introduced and implemented played a major role in our turn around from 20% down, to now being 40% ahead of budget YTD.
National Sales Director
Sensis SME Online

Ian was great and we received nothing but positive praises from our delegates. Ian, thank you once again for the wonderful presentation, our delegates had been using some of your key words to drive their activity up. Definitely one of the highlights for this year’s conference!
Frontline Recruitment Group

It is rare to find quality inspiring and relevant keynote speakers that can also successfully fulfil an MC role, as well as facilitate and train a customised workshop. You delivered on all three elements! Your pre-event research and preparation in order to understand and deliver on our client’s key objectives was exemplary. Your ability to interject corporate humour where appropriate energised the audience. As the event organisers, we greatly appreciated your focus on ensuring that the events ran to their tight time-frames as well as your flexibility during the events. The feedback from our client and the delegates has been fantastic.
Solterbeck

Ian was the ideal MC for our audience. He had clearly done a lot of background work and was fully prepared for each session and event. He engaged the delegates extremely well and his delivery style was both professional and entertaining. I would definitely recommend Ian and use him again for future events.
Australian Glass & Glazing Association Inc.

Excellent.
Network Marketing Pty. Ltd.

Ian was a great addition to the conference. Direct comments from the client were that he related to the audience, did his research and everyone left with a new idea.
Verve Creative

Ian delivered an energy packed workshop, keeping interest level high amongst the small and medium business audience during the session. Delegate feedback was that the material was relevant to their workplaces.
Australasian Wire Industry Association Inc.

The feedback from our off-site yesterday has been extremely positive and you hit a great balance between new and experienced staff. The way you personalised your speech to us was very impressive and appreciated. Thanks for spreading a bit of the Ian Stephens magic through Pepper Money.
Pepper Money