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Key Points for Matt Formston AM

  • Matt Formston AM is a five time world champion athlete and Guinness World Record holder across para surfing and cycling.
  • He has built a successful corporate career in ICT leadership, sustainability and business development.
  • Matt helps organisations strengthen trust, standards and performance through practical leadership frameworks.
  • Matt delivers keynote presentations and workshops focused on culture, accountability and performing under pressure.

Topics for Matt Formston AM

  • Business trust
    Trust is in crisis. Customer loyalty has fallen to 29% - down 5% in a single year. 55% of consumers say they trust brands less than they did previously. Gallup estimates the cost of disengagement alone at $438 billion in lost productivity every year. High-trust organisations grow revenue 2.5 times faster than their competitors. 87% of customers will pay a premium for brands they trust. Loyal customers buy 90% more often and spend 67% more per transaction. Trust is not a culture initiative. It is a revenue strategy. This session introduces Matt’s Business Trust framework, developed through two decades of operating simultaneously at the highest levels of elite sport and corporate leadership, and pressure-tested in environments where broken trust has consequences far beyond a lost contract.
  • The can mindset
    Every organisation hits a wall. A restructure. A market shift. A target that feels impossible. A team that has heard too many change programmes and stopped believing in the next one. Change fatigue is real and the organisations that push through it are not the ones with the best strategy. They are the ones whose people have been taught to believe the next goal is achievable before they are asked to chase it. The Can Mindset is not optimism. It is a framework built from a lifetime of solving problems that most people never have to face. This keynote follows Matt’s life arc, from diagnosis at five, through the loss of sport and identity as a teenager, through the death of one of his closest friends, through the rebuilding that led to five world titles and a Guinness World Record.
  • Hard standards
    Most organisations have values on the wall. Behaviours in the handbook. Strategies in the deck. And then they have what actually happens, which is often something different. The gap between stated standards and lived standards is where performance leaks, trust erodes, and teams stop believing in the people leading them. High-performing teams are not those with the most impressive values. They are the ones where the gap between what is written down and what is lived is smallest. What consistent standards produce is the story this keynote tells. In 2014, Matt set the World Record for the 4km Tandem Pursuit in cycling and hit 145% of his annual sales target. Over his sales career, he worked on deals that brought over $250 million to his organisation. Then came Nazaré. Then five world titles. Then a freediving pursuit that is redefining what is possible on a single breath. None of it achieved alone.

Testimonials for Matt Formston AM

Matt is one of those extraordinary people who has so much to teach all of us in how we might best live our lives. His courage, curiosity and determination to never be defined by what others think is possible have allowed him to achieve the unimaginable. But it is his values of kindness and care for others; his joy for life and great sense of humour that make him a very person to know and collaborate with.
Chief Executive Officer
Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce

Matt inspired our team and clients with his story of setting audacious goals and how he achieves them. He is vulnerable in the way he shares stories around the diversity he has faced in life, and left us with real take aways and processes we could all use in our business and personal lives.
EVP and GM EMEA
Kaseya

Matt inspired our employees with his incredible storytelling and lessons about leadership, perseverance, and resilience. His lessons around inclusion, diversity, and the power of building strong teams resonated with everyone. He is personable, funny and was very captivating on stage!
Content Producer, Tradeshows and Events
Adobe

Matt takes you on a literal ride where you can feel the highs and lows, and shares how he has been able to take himself to the next level repeatedly, inspiring audiences that nothing is beyond reach if you believe.
General Manager
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles

Matt is one of those extraordinary people who has so much to teach all of us in how we might best live our lives. His courage, curiosity and determination to never be defined by what others think is possible have allowed him to achieve the unimaginable. But it is his values of kindness and care for others; his joy for life and great sense of humour that make him a very person to know and collaborate with.
Chief Executive Officer
Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce