James O’Loghlin

James O’Loghlin is an accomplished and highly experienced MC who is able to draw laughs from whatever is happening whilst running an event in an efficient and appropriate manner. You get the professionalism of an experienced radio and television host who is utterly at home on stage combined with the wit and humour of one of Australia’s best corporate comedians.

James is an experienced panel facilitator who ensures the discussion is both informative and entertaining. He draws on his experience as a radio host and lawyer to ask the right questions at the right time, his television experience as host of ‘The New Inventors’ to elicit all the relevant information in the time available, and his terrific sense of humour to keep it entertaining and engaging for the audience. He invariably puts both panellists and the audience at ease, asks the right questions and makes sure that the discussion stays lively, on topic and on time.

We have been living in an era of disruption and rapid change for some time, but never before have we faced changes as rapid and drastic as those caused by the Coronavirus. Suddenly, everything is different. Over the next few months organisations and businesses will face big challenges. To meet them, they will have to find new and better ways of doing things. More than ever before, your people need to be equipped with the skills they need to be innovative, so they can be constantly coming up with better ways of doing things. In eight years hosting ABC-TV’s ‘The New Inventors’ James O’Loghlin worked with over a thousand innovators, and in his entertaining and thought-provoking keynote and/or workshop he will share practical strategies to equip your people with the skills they need to be innovative every day. In this session you will learn: - An understanding of how innovation happens; the 3 things innovators do better than others - Easy-to-implement strategies to identify opportunities for innovation in your business and take advantage of them - How to create an organisational culture that encourages everyone to be innovative - How to quickly and cheaply identify the best new ideas and implement them”

No matter how well we are doing things today, if we keep doing them the same in way, in a few years’ time we will have been left behind. The increasingly rapid pace of change can quickly turn today’s cutting edge best practice into tomorrow’s fax machine. To stay relevant and successful, businesses need to innovate. But how do you do it? In eight years hosting ABC TV’s The New Inventors, James O’Loghlin worked with over a thousand innovators who thought outside the box and came up with new and better ways of doing things. In his keynote presentation James will discuss: Why every business needs to be continually innovating. The three things innovators do better than everyone else. How innovation happens… James will share a process that enables everyone to come up with more innovative ideas. The six things every business can do to build an innovative corporate culture. TAKE-OUTS Simple strategies to use to be more innovative A process to go through to come up with new ideas An understanding of how to grow ideas to the point they can be implemented

Many of us want to focus more on innovation and improving our business, but find that at the end of the year, for some reason, it just hasn’t happened. What went wrong? What factors stop us from being innovative, and how can we overcome them? In this informative and entertaining keynote, illustrated with relevant case studies, former host of “The New Inventors” and innovation expert James O’Loghlin will share: The 6 most common barriers to innovation (Yes, not having time is one). How to overcome each of those barriers. How to ensure that making your business better becomes a part of your work every day. 3 steps to help anyone become more innovative. TAKE-OUTS An understanding of the factors that prevent us from being more innovative. Easy to implement strategies to overcome those barriers. Strategies to identify opportunities for innovation and take advantage of them.

The greatest resource any organisation has is the space between the ears of its people, but many organisations don’t get anywhere near full value from it. What sort of corporate culture does your organisation have? One where everyone just does their job? Or one where everyone keeps trying to do their job better? It’s more important than ever for organisations to be innovative, but how do you create a corporate culture where everyone knows that part of their job is to think of better ways of doing things, and where new ideas are shared, assessed, trialled and the best ones implemented? In this enlightening and entertaining keynote, former host of “The New Inventors” and innovation expert, James O’Loghlin, will share: How to create a corporate culture where everyone from the CEO to the receptionist is encouraged and expected to be innovative. 6 steps to create an innovative corporate culture. The role of leaders and managers in fostering innovation. How to create a simple, efficient system to harvest, grow, and assess new ideas. How to embed innovation as an essential part of corporate culture, rather than an ‘extra’ that is always shunted to the bottom of the list. TAKE-OUTS Understanding the advantages of creating an innovative culture. Understanding how to create an innovative corporate culture. Knowing how to implement an efficient and useable pipeline to capture and assess ideas from staff.

James O’Loghlin is an enormously entertaining after dinner speaker. Being both a comedian and a keynote speaker means he can provide the perfect mix of laughter, entertainment and substance. Whether your audience need 30 or 40 minutes of laughter to unwind after a long day, anecdotes and practical tips about how to become more innovative, or a mixture of both, James can create a tailor made speech that hits exactly the right note.

The cost of poor mental health, in both human suffering and economically, is enormous, but there are things we can all do to maintain and improve our mental health. James O’Loghlin is the co-host of the mental health podcast, Minding Your Mind, with Prof Ian Hickie, Inaugural CEO of Beyond Blue, Head of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney and one of Australia’s leading mental health experts. The podcast has been listened to over 200,000 times, and their book about mental health, Minding Your Mind, is a bestseller.

The most important question about any comedian is ‘are they funny?’ James O’Loghlin is funny. He has been a successful comedian since the 1990’s and has performed hundreds and hundreds of times around Australia and overseas and many times on radio and on television, from channel 7’s ‘Sunrise’ to ABC’s ‘Lateline’. James has written and hosted his own television shows, and written and performed several popular live comedy shows, including “Lawyer Lawyer”, about his 8 years as a corporate and criminal lawyer. James is a very experienced and funny corporate performer