Marty Wilson has spent his entire professional life studying resilience, partly because he was a full-time Stand Up Comic for 8 years in the UK (and nobody knows how to bounce back from adversity like an Aussie Comic performing to the Brits!), but also because he is a relentless entrepreneur who has leapt from one successful career to another – he’s a Pharmacist turned Award-Winning Advertising Copywriter turned Stand Up Comic turned Bestselling Author and Speaker. He has spoken to over 500,000 people since he first leapt up on stage in 1997. In his first 12 months Marty won Australian Comic of the Year, appeared on the Footy Show, and was invited to the UK to become a full time Stand Up. He returned home 2008 and now helps people and businesses use humour and levity to lead behaviour change in the areas of health and innovation.

Marty structures his programs on the results of over 1,000 interviews he has done with inspirational and successful people for his 11 and counting books in his bestselling What I Wish I Knew series. From footy coach Wayne Bennett to a Buddhist Nun who works with prisoners on death row in L.A., from Comic Anh Do to a mother of eleven children, from a 911 survivor to chef Maggie Beer. This makes his programs incredibly human and instantly relatable to a wide variety of audiences.

In his inspirational and hilarious keynotes, Marty teaches your people how to:

Accept constant change as a necessary, and even exciting, part of business and life – “When you refuse to change, you don’t hold onto the past you just lose the future.”

Understand all businesses and lives have difficult days, the key to success is embrace it and learn – If you can’t get out of it, you gotta get into it.

Stop pining for the good old days – “Because We’ve Always Done It That Way Is No Reason To Keep Doing Anything”

When you’re constantly trying new things, expect errors and embrace dumb mistakes – “Your first one will be your worst one, and that’s okay…”

Keep your peace of mind through the inevitable tough times – “Life can change over night when you get your head right.”

Inspire and bring teams together with humour and humanity, not fear and control – “Take Funny Seriously”