David Gillespie

David Gillespie is a lawyer and the best-selling author of Sweet Poison, a book published in 2008 about how we are all poisoning ourselves with sugar. That book is generally credited with starting the current wave of sugar awareness in Australia. He followed Sweet Poison up with 4 more books about nutrition and diet. Then, having upset the die-tetics industry by writing about stuff in which he has no qualifications, he turned his focus to something else he is unqualified to write about, education. In his 2014 work, Free Schools, David took a parent’s eye-view of the research and concluded that all the rolling green hockey fields and architect designed amphitheaters won’t make a jot of difference to the education your child is likely to receive if their school principal is no good at their job. Detouring briefly back to nutrition in his 7th and 8th books (Eat Real food, 2015 and the Eat Real Food Cookbook 2016), his next target was psychology with his much-anticipated books on surviving contact with psychopaths in the workplace and at home (Taming Toxic People, 2017 and Toxic at Work, 2023) and managing addiction, anxiety and depression (Teen Brain, 2019 and Brain Reset 2021). David is a superb inspirational speaker who, in sharing his personal stories, will change lives for the better. He is an incredibly powerful, positive and passionate speaker and audiences cannot fail to be affected. David is happy to speak to any size group.