Joel McKerrow

From the Sydney Opera House, to Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Centre, to The Metropolis in Montreal, Joel McKerrow has spent the last fifteen years, on global stages, captivating hundreds of thousands of people with his passionate performative style, strategic training, highly inspiring keynotes and dynamic hosting of events. From NFP's to startups to billion dollar multi-nationals, Joel is the go-to speaker for Creativity Driven Transformation (with over 250 presentations in 2024 alone), and Australia’s only Certified Applied Narrative-intelligence specialist. Joel champions the belief that both CREATIVITY and STORY are far too important to be confined to only those we deem as being creative. Rather, no matter the person or the industry, Joel is passionate about unleashing people’s creativity and equipping them for innovation. From vision to brand, culture to leadership, all human behaviour, and therefore all organisations, are driven by STORY. Learning how to leverage its power is, therefore, paramount for anyone wanting to communicate in todays world. Joel is the VIC/TAS President for Professional Speakers Australia (PSA), is one of Australia’s most successful performance poets (including representing Australia at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships), is an author with Penguin Random House, the Artist Ambassador for Tearfund Australia and is the host of The Deep Place podcast. Joel’s extensive portfolio includes clients from Village Roadshow to Hager Electric, to the Global Health Summit, to the International Transforming Education Conference. No matter the industry he will bring creative breakthrough for your people. Joel has also shared the stage with leaders such as Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King), Krista Monson (Cirque du Soleil Creative Director), Seth Godin, Ken Black (Nike Creative Director), Annabel Crabb, Lisa Wilkinson, and Kate Ceberano. Joel is the person you want, when you want your event to have that unique creative-edge and distinct point of inspiration. He will have people laughing one moment, in tears the next and fist-pumping on their way out of the room.   Whether speaking, performing or as Master of Ceremonies, Joel's unique blend of humorous-warmth, creative-expertise and soul-stirring performance will not only WOW your people, he will bring next-level inspiration, breakthrough creative momentum and intentional innovation, all to help them realise their own creative potential.