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Key Points for James O'Loghlin

  • James O’Loghlin is an engaging media personality, keynote speaker, and MC.
  • He’s best known for hosting 300+ episodes of The New Inventors and over a decade of radio.
  • James delivers high-impact presentations on innovation, mental health, and persuasion, blending humor with actionable insights.
  • An author and podcast co-host, James reaches audiences worldwide with his innovative ideas and relatable approach.

Topics for James O'Loghlin

  • Innovation is a state of mind
    Everyone knows innovation is important. The pace of change has never been faster. Today’s cutting edge best practice quickly becomes tomorrow’s fax machine. No matter how well your business is doing today, to stay relevant and successful, you have to keep innovating. Former host of ABC-TV’s ‘The New Inventors’, author of ‘Innovation is a State of Mind’ and innovation expert James O’Loghlin will discuss:
    • How to identify opportunities for innovation and generate new ideas.
    • 3 things everyone can do to be more innovative.
    • A process everyone can use to create innovation.
    • How to build a workplace culture that encourages innovation.
    • A practical workshop can follow the keynote, where participants apply the innovation process to their own business, identify opportunities for innovation, and come up with new ideas.
  • Overcoming the barriers to innovation
    Many of us want to focus more on innovation and improving our business but find it just doesn’t happen. What goes wrong? What stops us from being innovative? How can we overcome those barriers? In this informative and entertaining keynote, former host of ABC-TV’s ‘The New Inventors’, author of Innovation is a State of Mind’ and innovation expert James O’Loghlin will outline the 6 big barriers to innovation, and share practical strategies to overcome each one, to enable people to ensure that making their business better becomes a part of their work every day.
    Session takeaways
    • An understanding of the factors that prevent us from being more innovative.
    • Easy to implement strategies to become more innovative every day.
    • Strategies to identify opportunities for innovation and take advantage of them.
    • How to create an innovative workplace culture.
    • A practical workshop can follow the keynote, where participants apply the innovation process to their own business, identify opportunities for innovation, and come up with new ideas.
  • Minding your mind
    There are things we can all do to maintain and improve our mental health. In this engaging and informative keynote James O’Loghlin, co-host of the mental health podcast, ‘Minding Your Mind’, downloaded over a quarter of a million times, and co-author of the book ‘Minding Your Mind’ will share practical, usable strategies that empower people to maintain and improve their mental health.
    Session takeaways
    • How to notice, and deal with, the early signs of burnout.
    • 7 evidence-based strategies to improve mental health and live happier, more productive lives.
    • The importance of being socially connected for good mental health.
    • How do deal with large, unsettling changes.
    • A practical workshop can follow the keynote.
  • Persuasion and influence
    How do you persuade people? When you have an idea, how do you get others on board to help you turn it into something real? Lots of good ideas never get anywhere. How can you make sure that yours do? Being able to persuade is an essential skill. You might have an idea at work, something you want to pitch in a meeting, or a proposal you want to excite clients and customers about. You might want to get your team fired up, persuade your boss, or even harder, one of your kids. To do it, you need to know how to persuade, and how to influence. In this compelling and informative keynote, James O’Loghlin will share practical strategies to enable people to be more persuasive and influential.
    Session takeaways
    • How to boil a complex argument down to its essence and present a short, sharp and compelling pitch.
    • How to identify and get to decision-makers.
    • How to work out what a decision maker wants, what they need and how your proposal can solve a problem for them.
    • How to focus on solutions.
    • How to find and enlist influential supporters.
  • Master of ceremonies and facilitator
    James is an accomplished and highly experienced MC, able to draw laughs from whatever is happening whilst running events efficiently. You get the professionalism of an experienced radio and television host who is utterly at home on stage, combined with the humour of one of Australia’s best corporate comedians. James is an experienced and able panel facilitator who always ensures that the discussion is informative and entertaining.

Testimonials for James O'Loghlin

Thank you for working your magic as MC last Monday at the NSW Premier's Awards. We've received an overwhelmingly positive response regarding the awards ceremony with many mentioning just how much they appreciated your work!
NSW Department of Health

We were thrilled with James and the way in which he facilitated the panel discussion. He understood the brief, the aims and the target audience. He made the panellists feel incredibly comfortable and kept the discussion on track and on time. And he injected his wonderful sense of humour!
Communications and Marketing Manager
The Law Society of New South Wales

Thank you for a great presentation - absorbing, thought-provoking and energetic. You were singled out as one of the conference favourites.
Meetings and Events Australia

Thank you for your great keynote – we got great feedback and you really helped the event focus on how 'the individual' in an organisation can make a difference.
Kraft Foods

Feedback from everyone I talked to afterwards was fantastic and you were entertaining without taking away from the significance of the awards, so thank you.
Safe Work Australia

What a great day and there has been such great feedback about you. Thanks for your flexibility, energy and humour. Look forward to working with you again.
The Benevolent Society

James demonstrated a unique passion for innovation and invention. His passion is infectious and lifted the energy of the room after a full day conference.
Fuji Xerox

James has the ability to capture you through his witty humour and "think outside the box" approach. One specific thing I have taken away from James is to "always value your ideas", he would be wonderful for your next think tank forum or any event that requires an MC with a twist.
EA to Chief Risk Officer
ING DIRECT Australia

Many thanks again for making it work and for engaging so closely with us and with the speakers. The feedback we received from audience members was overwhelmingly positive, which is especially remarkable I think for such a difficult topic. It was an absolute pleasure to work with you, and to see you work!
Senior Policy Lawyer
The Law Society of NSW

It was wonderful to work with you, thank you for making my job easy!
Events Manager
Australian Food and Grocery Council

We had very good feedback from the Chairman down about the dinner and your presentation, so thanks for the usual high standard.
CEO
Australian Food and Grocery Council

James was a dynamic MC who thought on his feet and was able to work well with the crowd. The audience loved him and we have received lots of positive feedback on the evening.
Diversified Exhibitions Australia

It was a pleasure having you at our Dinner! We have also had some fantastic feedback from our members and it is great to hear you were well received!
Australian Institute of Company Directors

Well done. I had several people tell me how they were going to put some of your suggestions into action at work today, so you are officially an inspiration!
Executive Officer
Local Government Information and Communications Technology Group

Your keynote address was very insightful and entertaining and we have received much positive feedback from those present on the value they got out of the morning...we are now thinking about new ways we can be innovative not only in our day to day work but in all that we do.
Human Resources & Strategic Planning
Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

It was a pleasure to work with you. It's my first experience of working with a 'professional MC' and I have to say - it was great! We all agreed it was the best extra spend we could have done so I was thrilled.
IBM Australia & New Zealand

Thank you so much for yesterday! It truly was a pleasure working with you and thank you for making the day run so smoothly.
Project Coordinator
George P Johnson Australia

It was an absolute pleasure to have you MC and guest speak at our IBM SmartCamp event yesterday. It was the best decision we all made – a professional MC took our event to a new level. We all enjoyed the friendly but firm approach and the jokes to lightened up a long day!
IBM Australia & New Zealand

A million thank you's for Saturday night. I was told many times that James as our MC really set the scene. He was highly professional, well organised and fun. I couldn't have asked for anything more.
Get the Message Pty Ltd

Many thanks for your work on the 2013 Awards for Excellence – your material was witty, clever and the right tone for the awards.
Chief Executive
Exhibition & Event Association of Australasia

James really resonated with our sales teams and the challenges they face every day and made them think differently about ‘thinking’ - I could not recommend him highly enough.
Commercial Marketing Director
Dell Australia and New Zealand

Thank you for such an engaging and thought-provoking presentation; you really bring together your media personality, comedic background and extensive knowledge to the stage in what was one of the best key-notes I have seen.
National Seminar Manager
NewsCorp Australia

You were fabulous and the audience absolutely loved you. The feedback has been superb.
Marketing and Communications Officer
Australian Security Industry Association

It was a delight working with James. He listened, he was flexible and he very quickly grasped our objectives for our conference. As an MC, James kept the whole day running perfectlyand as a keynote received the most highly regarded feedback out of any of our speakers. It was a pleasure working with James and I'd be delighted to do so again.
Event Manager
BT Financial Group

Every single attendee rated your presentation a 5 out of 5 – except one, who rated you a 10 (out of 5) – fantastic result!
Marketing Manager
MYP Corporation Pty Ltd

Everyone loved James and continued to speak about and refer to his keynote all day. He was also a very polite and approachable person, it was a pleasure having him at the event.
Marketing Assistant
Adloyalty

James was wonderful at our Awards Night. He put a lot of preparation into his role as MC – he made sure he understood our needs prior and on the night he was instrumental in setting a fantastic atmosphere for the event.
Employers Mutuals Awards

We just wanted to thank you for your time and energy yesterday. It was a fabulous presentation. Very inspiring!
RDA Hunter

James was fantastic. He tailored his speech perfectly to our particular event demographic and stuck to our brief. All participants at our event commented on how James was funny, relatable and very practical. I was extremely pleased with the result and will highly recommend James in the future.
Legal Counsel
Stockland

Such a positive, successful morning of thinking about innovative thinking!
Principal
Emanuel School