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Keynote presentations that shift thinking,
spark conviction, and reconnect people with purpose.
David Fish, or Fishy as he is known, is one of Australia's leading voices on strategic storytelling, leadership presence, and the art of connection in a distracted world.
With a career spanning global advertising, leadership strategy, and record-breaking aviation exploits, Fishy brings a rare mix of neuroscience, commercial clarity, and lived experience to the stage. His work today spans guiding technology companies, executive teams, and the men and women who have served in the Australian Defence Force.
These keynotes go beyond motivation. They reframe how people think about connection, trust, belonging, and visibility at work and in life.
Each session cuts through noise and performance culture to bring meaning back to how we connect. They explore how modern leaders show up, communicate, and build trust in a world competing for attention yet craving authenticity.
Audiences leave not just inspired but equipped with practical tools to show up with clarity, conviction, and connection that lasts.
Keynote Topics:
Visibility and
Presence:
Practical frameworks for showing up with authority and authenticity, building influence that's seen, felt, and trusted.
Connection and Belonging:
How to rebuild trust, presence, and purpose in teams and organisations coming to grips with the new world of work.
Clarity and
Conviction:
Tools to communicate with confidence, make decisions that move momentum, and lead with belief through uncertainty.
Why David's keynotes deliver
Substance with story: Every keynote blends science, strategy, and storytelling to shift thinking and spark genuine change.
Tailored impact: Each presentation is shaped around your audience's reality, whether driving performance, rebuilding connection, or reigniting belief.
Actionable takeaways: Practical frameworks your teams can apply immediately.
Proven resonance: Trusted by leading organisations and conferences.
Elevate Strategic Presence at your next event
Whether you’re aligning a leadership team, motivating a sales force, or reigniting culture, Fishy’s keynotes cut through noise and reconnect people with what matters most: presence, purpose, and conviction.
Every session — live, virtual, or hybrid — is designed to be practical, high-energy, and insight-rich. Audiences leave thinking more clearly, connecting more deeply, and acting with greater conviction.
Future of Work, Culture
& Connection Keynotes
The Illusion of Connection
Reclaiming the human edge in a distracted World
We’ve never been more connected, yet many of us feel more isolated and unseen than ever. This keynote reveals how performance culture and digital multitasking have quietly eroded trust, belonging and identity. It invites audiences to break the attention-validation cycle and instead rebuild what technology cannot replace: genuine human presence, clear meaning, and authentic connection.
Perfect for:
Company-wide annual offsites, all-hands events, association or industry conferences with broad mixed audiences, leadership summits, hybrid or digital-transformation forums focused on culture and connection.
Why organisers book this keynote:
This keynote delivers a universal message that resonates across levels, industries and roles. A high-empathy keynote that unites diverse audiences around a shared challenge: how to stay human in a hyper-connected world.
Audience takeaways:
Recognise the illusion:
How digital habits, performance pressure and perfection culture create disconnection at work and in life.
Rebuild trust and belonging:
Understand the science of human connection and how small moments of presence reshape teams and relationships.
Show up with conviction:
learn how to be seen, heard and remembered for who you are, not just what you do.
How trust, presence, and belonging drive the future of work
As automation accelerates and AI reshapes how we communicate and collaborate, the question isn’t what technology can do; it’s what remains human. The Human Workplace explores how trust, presence, and belonging have become the real differentiators in a world led by change. It challenges leaders and teams to build cultures fuelled by curiosity, courage, and genuine connection, reminding us that the future of work isn’t about smarter machines, but stronger relationships.
The Human Workplace
Perfect for:
HR and culture conferences, company offsites, and leadership summits focused on engagement, trust and human connection.
Audience takeaways:
Lead the change: build trust and connection inside increasingly digital working environments.
Stay human at scale: strengthen communication, confidence and empathy in technology-driven environments.
Signal conviction: show up with clarity and presence that cuts through noise, fear and uncertainty.
Why organisers book this keynote:
A keynote that gives HR, people and leadership audiences both the language and tools to rebuild belonging where it matters most: inside the business.
Leadership Impact &
Visibility Keynotes
The new rules of visible leadership
In an age where every voice competes for attention, the leaders who stand apart aren’t the loudest; they’re the most relevant. Loud Enough to Lead explores what real visibility looks like in a world where relevance now wins over volume. It challenges leaders to replace performance with purpose and shows how expertise, insight, and authenticity build credibility that no algorithm can fake.
Loud Enough to Lead
Perfect for:
Leadership conferences, marketing and communication events, executive offsites, and professional-services forums exploring thought leadership and visibility.
Audience takeaways:
Lead with clarity, not noise: Understand the difference between performance visibility and purposeful visibility, and why audiences crave meaning over marketing.
Build authority through substance: Learn how to share ideas that shape conversations and turn expertise into strategic presence.
Humanise your leadership identity: Find the confidence to show up online, on stage, and in conversation with the depth and conviction that builds both authority and trust.
Why organisers book this keynote:
It’s ideal for leaders and organisations seeking to amplify expertise, communicate with authority, and strengthen their reputation through how they show up publicly.
How emotion and belief beat data when doubt rises
When uncertainty grows and personal risk or reputation are on the line, people don’t follow data; they follow conviction. The Conviction Effect reveals how leaders who communicate with belief and emotion shape decisions far more than logic ever could. It’s about leading with conviction so clear and grounded that it builds confidence others buy into, turns hesitation into momentum, and belief into action.
The Conviction Effect
Perfect for:
Sales kick-offs, commercial conferences, business development events, and leadership gatherings where decisions, commitment and commercial momentum impact matter.
Audience takeaways:
Lead with belief: understand how conviction shapes confidence in yourself, your message and your audience.
Communicate with depth: replace noise and pressure with language that demonstrates expertise and cements value.
Connect through confidence: build presence that cuts through hesitation and helps buyers or stakeholders move forward with certainty.
Why organisers book this keynote:
It equips teams with a fresh lens on confidence, message and presence, helping them show up stronger when it matters most.
Brand, Influence &
Sales Keynotes
Building brands that don’t shout, they attract
We’ve never had more ways to be seen or more ways to be ignored. In today’s attention economy, attention is too often mistaken for impact, driving behaviours that distract rather than attract. The Attention Paradox challenges this obsession and reframes what it really takes to be remembered, recalled, and chosen.
Grounded in behavioural science and brand strategy, it reveals why attention without meaning is empty and why the brands that win are relatable, differentiated, and lead with a distinctive story that makes them not just consistent, but unforgettable.
The Attention Paradox
Perfect for:
Marketing leaders, business owners, founders, and companies focused on brand building for business growth.
Audience takeaways:
Stop chasing attention, start creating association. Understand how memory, emotion, and fluency decide which brands buyers recall first.
Show up where you can win. Learn how relatable context and simplicity cut through complexity to make you the easy choice.
Build commercial connection. Turn recognition into trust and attention into traction by mastering the strategy of showing up on purpose.
Why organisers book this keynote:
Smart, strategic, and grounded in simple steps every business can apply, it stands out in a sea of generic marketing keynotes that sell services rather than help solve a critical problem.
What it takes to win in the room
Great presentations don’t just share information; they move decisions forward. This keynote gives leaders, teams, and experts the tools to turn ideas into clear, confident, and compelling narratives that win the room.
Built from David’s acclaimed book and training programs, it shows how to simplify complex ideas, tell stories that stick, and communicate value in ways that cut through. It’s not about style or slides, it’s about substance, structure, and the science of how people think, remember, and decide. Because when you understand how the brain assigns meaning, you can shape how your content connects and inspire audiences to commit.
Where strategy meets story
Perfect for:
Sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, communication summits, and company off-sites focused on storytelling, influence, and sales impact.
Audience Take-aways:
Structure for impact: Learn how to build presentations that elevate expertise, lead with value and turn ideas into conversations that unlock action.
Tell stories that connect: Leverage the science of narratives and relevance to ensure audiences connect, care, recall and commit.
Present with conviction: Lead with the power of what’s possible to rise above performance and pitch with the kind of presence that eliminates doubt.
Why organisers book this keynote:
A proven, high-value keynote for sales, leadership, and communication events. It turns presentation skills into a strategic advantage, helping teams not just deliver messages, but win the decisions that matter.
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