About
Growing leadership in edgy places is a business speaker for hire in Adelaide, SA.
Haydn spent more than 30 years in regulatory and enforcement work as a police officer and Border Force officer, covering intelligence analysis, emergency operations management, and learning and development, including a year in Papua New Guinea. He's a volunteer firefighter with the SA Country Fire Service and has deployed to Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales for major bushfire emergencies, including Kangaroo Island in January 2020. He's a PhD candidate at Griffith University and a 2020 Churchill Fellow, and he'll tell you he struggled to find any meaning in school. That's the point. His talks land particularly well with young men who can't yet see why formal learning matters. Presentations run from 20 to 90 minutes, any audience size. Every fee he's paid goes to the SA CFS Hermitage Brigade as a fundraiser.
The show
Haydn is a lively speaker who works the audience rather than reading at them, and the challenge he puts is a simple one: look past where you think your limits are. He's a PhD candidate and a Churchill Fellow who'll happily tell you school meant almost nothing to him at the time. That contrast is what makes it land. He talks about firefighting deployments to Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales, and about Kangaroo Island in January 2020 when things were at their worst. Young men who can't see the point of study tend to listen to him.
On the day
A digital projector and a screen is the whole requirement. In a bigger room a PA helps, so let him know the venue and audience size when you get in touch and he'll tell you whether it's needed.
Performance options
Talks run anywhere from 20 minutes up to 90, so it fits a short slot at a conference or a full session with room to move. Audience size isn't a limit, small groups and large halls both work. One thing worth knowing: every fee he's paid for speaking goes straight to the SA CFS Hermitage Brigade as a fundraiser.