With me, you’ll discover a speaker who emotionally connects with your audience, provokes deep reflection, and inspires actionable change long after your event has ended.
As a keynote speaker with over 20 years of real-world experience in the business arena, I make my content both relatable and relevant. My obsession with the science of what makes us humans tick ensures that my keynotes capture the hearts and minds of any audience.
I’m available for your next conference, retreat, panel, or event, bringing one of my expertly crafted keynotes to energise your audience. If you’ve already got a topic in mind, I can create a bespoke talk tailored to your specific needs.
If you want to inject a fresh perspective and inspire your audience at your next event, get in touch.
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Keynote 1:
Get Your Personal Edge and Lead Your Organisation to High Performance
Best Audience: CEOs and Executives
In today’s fast-paced and complex business environment, steering a company can often feel like navigating through a dense fog at an accelerated pace.
The demands on CEOs and Executives are escalating, especially as companies become more involved in human rights, racial justice, and climate change initiatives. With operating pressures mounting, Executives are spending an average of 72% of their time in meetings, leaving little room to strategise, lead effectively, or focus on their own performance.
This keynote explores how Executives can regain their personal edge and guide their organisations to sustained high performance.
Key Takeaways
Discover an evidence-based approach that makes Executives 5X more productive.
Learn how to thrive in uncertainty, lead with clarity, and build a legacy to be proud of.
Understand how to build progressive, future-fit organisations that are high-performing and places where people love to work.
Keynote 2:
Expanding Beyond Your Limits – Find Your Flow
Best Audience: High-achieving professionals who want to make hitting their goals a habit
This keynote takes participants on a journey into the transformative power of Flow. We’ve all experienced moments when we were wholly absorbed in what we were doing. When thoughts of the future or past fade away, leaving only the present moment.
In these instances, we act and perform effortlessly, guided by intuition. It’s as if everything is meant to be. The ego dissolves, and we become one with the task at hand, finding deep satisfaction in the activity itself.
But what if we could tap into these moments more often, enabling us to perform and feel at our best? Grounded in the latest psychological and neuroscience research, this talk reveals how prioritising Flow and creating the right conditions can help us access this heightened state more frequently.
By putting ‘Flow First,’ we can amplify our experiences in both significant and everyday moments of our lives.
Key Takeaways
Discover the transformative power of Flow and how it unlocks the conditions that have propelled high-achieving professionals to new heights.
Learn to embrace Flow not as a random occurrence but as a prioritised state, reshaping how you live, lead, and succeed.
Gain practical tools and tactics to bring more Flow into your life.
Keynote 3:
Cracking the Code of Confidence
Best Audience: Professionals in business, entertainment or creative domains.
It seems like the world is full of people who believe that their lack of confidence is an unchangeable part of their identity, something that holds them back from reaching their full potential.
This keynote is designed to challenge that notion and inspire your audience to see confidence as a skill that can be cultivated and strengthened.
I will guide participants through the anatomy of confidence, demonstrating how embracing pressure is not a barrier but a crucial part of personal growth. With insights drawn from the latest neuroscience and psychology research, this talk will empower your audience to unlock their innate potential and build unshakable confidence.
By showing your audience how confidence is forged through intentional action and welcoming challenges as opportunities, this keynote will help your audience consistently show up as their best selves and turn their ambitions into realities.
Key Takeaways
Discover how to reframe pressure as a natural and essential part of growth, transforming it from a source of self-doubt into a powerful catalyst for confidence.
Learn how to develop confidence as a skill, utilising the brain’s capacity for change through neuroplasticity and by stepping outside their comfort zones.
Gain practical, actionable strategies for building confidence and achieving your biggest goals.
Keynote 4:
Work as a Vehicle for Human Flourishing
Best Audience: Organisational Leaders and HR Professionals
In an era where technological advancements and material wealth have not translated into greater happiness, humankind faces a paradox of prosperity.
This keynote explores the overlooked path to fulfilment through the lens of work, challenging the notion that work is merely a means to an end. Drawing on over fifty years of scientific research, this talk reveals how thoughtfully designed workplaces can become epicentres of human flourishing.
By embracing the theory of Flow (our optimal state of consciousness), organisations can transform work into a vehicle for profound societal and personal fulfilment, addressing existential issues like climate change and loneliness.
Key Takeaways
Understand the paradox of modern prosperity and why material wealth alone does not lead to happiness.
Learn how the theory of Flow can be applied to create workplaces that foster creativity, innovation, and human potential.
Discover actionable strategies for redesigning workplaces to become vehicles for human flourishing and societal progress.
Meet your Speaker
Alex Bakowski
Hi, I'm Alex, a HUMAN Performance Expert and Acclaimed Speaker who has spent over two decades helping high-achieving professionals find their optimal state, elevate their performance, and continually reach new heights.
I have a passion for deeply understanding the science behind what makes us humans tick. I pride myself on turning theory into practical advice in the real world.
My backstory is one of personal reinvention. Growing up, I was told I wasn’t good enough, leading everyone around me to underestimate my potential.
In my 20s, a series of serendipitous moments made me realise that my inner game was everything. I set ambitious goals, immersed myself in learning and self-experimentation, and embraced the uncomfortable to achieve my dreams.
Now, I’m privileged to have the opportunity to speak with audiences and deliver keynotes that inspire others to perform and feel at their best.
Client Success Stories
"I am still basking in the warm glow of a truly phenomenal opening keynote with you! We know you kicked off the conference well for us as we continue to hear folks talking about their better understanding of Flow, practising the breathing exercises you discussed, and how to create the conditions that lead to optimal performance. So much good stuff!!
Thank you for helping our partners think more deeply about Flow, what their role may be in creating conditions for optimal performance and for challenging us to be more intentional in developing flow drivers, flow values, and leadership principles that will enable flow. I am so deeply grateful! I just can’t thank you enough!"
Karin Klinger - Catalyst Labs @ Starbucks Technology
“Alex is professional, prepared and able to meet you where you are at in your organisation's journey. She is a pleasure to work with.”
Louise M Tarrier - CEO @ Carbon Positive Australia.
“We engaged Alex as a leadership expert for our panel discussion on "Leadership for Scaling.” Alex provided valuable insights into the importance of leaders focusing on their own development and designing a work environment that increases flow. I would recommend Alex to people who need deeper insight into leadership from both a practical and interpersonal perspective.”
Amy Hewitt - Operations Leader @ Goldrick Ellis
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Alex Bakowski acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, work and flow. I pay my respects to the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, Elders and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
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