Julia Banks Book as a speaker/entertainer for your next event
Key Points for Julia Banks
- Julia Banks is an expert in workplace culture. Themes in bestselling book PowerPlay – another book in the pipeline. Currently studying PhD at Deakin University in workplace culture.
- Her expertise and speech content focuses on workplace culture, inclusion, diversity, power dynamics at work, psychological safety at work, governance, reputational and issues management.
- Julia has across sector and extensive senior executive leadership experience such as senior leadership, executive director, as a Federal MP and as the Principal Consultant of her own business working across the private and public sectors in manufacturing, consumer, retail, professional services, legal finance, mining and construction, academia, health sport education and all levels of government, and specifically as a Federal Government and Independent MP in the Australian Federal Parliament.
- Her keynote speeches are predominantly through storytelling, based on her expertise and extensive and diverse career experience.
- The content of Julia's speeches are also based on current research and information tailored to the specific audience and the sector.
Topics for Julia Banks
- Leadership and personal power
- Workplace culture - The importance of psychological safety at work.
- Working and leading in a safe healthy and happy workplace culture.
- Aligned to themes in bestselling book PowerPlay; Breaking through bias barriers and boys clubs - to excellent reviews and nominated in 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards.
- In any workplace culture setting – we all have positional power, and personal power.
- Tapping into your personal power no matter your position in leadership.
- Personal power is defined by our values, our integrity, our truth and our intuition or gut instinct.
- Inspiration, focus, resilience. strength and empathy and authenticity in leadership.
- Power dynamics in the workplace.
- Being yourself and your own kind of leader.
Testimonials for Julia Banks
Julia’s presentation was thoughtful and insightful, focused on our event themes of safety, culture and leadership. Her openness and honesty in talking about her professional and personal experiences resonated particularly well with the executive-level audience.
Chief Executive Officer
Vic Water
… an outstanding presentation… some important lessons for our industry.
International Women's Day Event
CEO
Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Exceptional speech. Inspiring words. Exciting, entertaining and insightful – helped make our event a resounding success.
Attendees
NAWIC – National Institute of Women In Construction event
Powerful message…” “inspiring” “Julia’s insights and experiences are incredibly powerful.
Attendees
Melbourne Storm event
… an outstanding presentation… some important lessons for our industry.
CEO
AusIMM
Julia’s session was great, she had really interesting insights and a depth of knowledge across issues from both her corporate and public career – we had great feedback.
CEO
Grain Trade Australia
Inspiring speech about resilience and courage.
Attendee
Women in Law Forum
Julia was incredible! Engaging, entertaining and impactful. She made the event a success.
Senior Executive
Payton Capital
Julia Banks was the best rated speaker of the day.
Governance Institute of Australia
Great session. Very insightful into integrity and leadership.
Attendee
Australian institute of Health and Safety conference
Julia was inspiring and authentic and made our event so successful.
Executive
Deloitte
Thank you for openly sharing your story and experiences and for inspiring us to continue to strive to achieve a more equitable environment.
Commercial Manager
ADCO Constructions