Real Conversations That Change Lives
Barry brings honesty, hope, and practical tools to the rooms that need them most — from corporate teams to worksites, conferences, community events, and leadership groups.
Why Barry Speaks
Speaking isn’t something I do for the spotlight — it’s something I do because I’ve seen what happens when people finally feel safe enough to talk about what’s really going on.
Across workplaces, families, and communities, people are carrying enormous pressure — often in silence. My job is to open the door to honest conversations, share the lessons I’ve learned the hard way, and give people simple tools to untangle the stress, grief, and challenges they’re facing.
Every talk is grounded in lived experience, delivered with warmth and candour, and shaped around the needs of the audience in front of me.
Signature Speaking Topics
Barry’s talks are grounded in lived experience and centred around four core pillars that help people navigate life’s hardest moments with honesty, courage, and hope. Each topic can be delivered as a keynote, workshop, or tailored session for workplaces, conferences, or community groups.
REBUILDING RESILIENCE
Resilience isn’t about pretending you’re fine or pushing through no matter the cost. It’s about learning how to move through life’s hardest moments with honesty, courage, and steadiness — especially when things feel overwhelming.
Barry’s resilience work is rooted in lived experience: cancer, grief, uncertainty, fear, and the long, deliberate process of rebuilding himself from the inside out. His stories and tools help audiences understand that resilience isn’t a personality trait — it’s a skill we can all grow, no matter where we’re starting from.
In this session, Barry breaks resilience down into simple, human practices: how to manage stress before it becomes crisis, how to reconnect with yourself during difficult seasons, how to recognise when you need support, and how to build small daily habits that create long-term steadiness.
Resilience isn’t about being unbreakable.
It’s about learning how to bend, breathe, and rise again — with compassion, clarity, and a renewed sense of what truly matters.
SAILING - A METAPHOR FOR LIFE
Life has a way of throwing us weather we never asked for — sudden storms, unpredictable winds, and long stretches of calm when we’re desperate for momentum. Drawing on his experiences on the open sea, Baz shares how sailing mirrors the emotional tides we all face. He reminds us that while we can’t control the wind, we can adjust our sails.
Through powerful storytelling and gentle guidance, he shows audiences how to navigate uncertainty, set a steady course, and stay centred when everything around them is shifting. He explores how challenges can be embraced as opportunities for growth, how perseverance develops when we trust the process even in low visibility, and how staying anchored in our values helps us move forward with clarity and purpose.
This session offers a fresh perspective on resilience — encouraging people to move with life instead of fighting against it, and to see rough waters not as obstacles, but as essential parts of the journey that shape who we become.
Storms don’t define us.
How we navigate them does.
THRIVING AFTER CANCER
When Barry was told he had three months to live, everything he thought he knew about strength, fear, hope, and time changed in an instant. What followed wasn’t just a fight for survival — it was a complete reshaping of how he lived, loved, healed, and found purpose again.
Thriving After Cancer isn’t a medical talk. It’s a human one.
Barry shares the emotional, mental, and spiritual journey of facing a life-ending diagnosis and choosing, every single day, to keep moving toward life instead of away from it.
This talk gives audiences a new understanding of resilience, gratitude, connection, and the power of choosing life — even on the days when it feels impossible.
It’s not a story about miracles. It’s a story about humanity, perspective, and the strength we can find when we decide to keep living with intention, purpose, and love.
CLOSING DOORS, OPENING DOORS
Every life is marked by closed doors — moments of loss, disappointment, endings, and unexpected change. In this talk, Baz explores how those moments, while painful, often become the turning points that lead us somewhere new. Drawing from personal stories, lived experience, and gentle, practical guidance, he invites audiences to shift their focus from what’s gone to what’s possible.
Baz shows how the end of one chapter can create the space for another to begin — one we may never have seen without the disruption. He helps people recognise fresh opportunities after loss, notice the paths that appear when others disappear, and rebuild a sense of optimism even when the future feels uncertain.
This session encourages audiences to embrace change with curiosity rather than fear, trust themselves through transition, and see closed doors not as failures, but as invitations to grow in a new direction. It’s a heartfelt, hopeful reminder that life is always offering us another way forward — if we’re willing to look for it.
Ready to bring Barry to your event or workplace?
Let’s create a conversation your audience will remember long after they leave the room.
Words From Audiences Across Australia
Let’s create a conversation your audience will remember long after they leave the room
I just wanted to shoot you a quick email to say how absolutely stoked we were to have Baz at Council this morning! He was brilliant, very generous with his time and his stories and from all accounts so far, has absolutely knocked it out of the park! I have actually had the team from the Visitor Information Centre (who watched virtually) get in touch and ask for contact details as they are keen to explore the possibility of having Baz for an event in the new year.
Speak with Barry about your event?
Every event is different — and Barry takes the time to understand the room, the people, and the outcome you’re hoping for. If you’d like to talk through your event, theme, audience, or the kind of impact you want to create, Barry would love to connect.
Whether you’re planning a conference, workplace session, leadership meeting, or community event, he’ll help you shape a conversation that truly lands.
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