Nathan Baws is a serial entrepreneur, business growth fanatic, author and keynote speaker with over four decades of lived experience in building, scaling, and rebuilding businesses across multiple industries. He has launched and grown more than 19 ventures, many achieving seven-figure turnovers (with his fair share of disasters thrown in there as well), driven by an unconventional, results-focused approach to growth, mindset, and performance.

He is also an international best selling co-author of Cracking the Rich Code with Tony Robbins and Brian Tracy where he talks about business growth and dopamine creation for optimising mindset for business.

Nathan is best known for blending business strategy with health, mindset optimisation, and dopamine strategies to help individuals and organisations perform at their best, without burnout. His work challenges traditional thinking, focusing on problem-solving, adaptability, and execution over theory.

A passionate public keynote speaker, Nathan has captivated audiences globally, from schools and universities to corporate conferences and training, inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs while advising startups and established businesses alike. 

He appeared on Australian Shark Tank in 2015 and is a Guinness World Record 2024 participant for ice baths, all part of his focus on optimising Dopamine for business success.

In the health and retail sectors, Nathan achieved the highest turnover for Australia’s two largest supplement brands for eight consecutive years, while also recording the highest sales per square metre nationally. His ventures and marketing initiatives have generated over $100,000 in free media exposure across TV, print, and international publications through creative, zero-cost growth strategies.

Nathan is the founder of multiple businesses spanning health, food, education, property, and marketing, including Tommy Sugo (as seen on Shark Tank), Emersion Wellness, Numberfied and Flare School. 

Above all, Nathan is driven by one question: “How do we make this happen?”

SPEAKING TOPICS include:

Practical, Real-World Performance for Business Leaders and Teams

Nathan Baws is not a theorist or a motivational speaker who speaks from slides and slogans.

He is a hands-on real world business builder who speaks from real-world experience gained from building, scaling, and operating multiple businesses under real pressure.

Everything Nathan teaches has been tested in his own businesses first, in sales, leadership, health optimisation, mindset, team performance, and growth. If it works, it stays. If it doesn’t, it’s discarded.

If your organisation wants practical tools that improve energy, performance, leadership, and results, Nathan delivers.

 If you’re looking for small talk about weather, sport, theory or generic motivation, you’ll need to find someone else.

Nathan’s keynotes sit at the intersection of business performance, mindset, physiology, and execution, helping leaders and teams perform at a high level without burnout.

CATEGORY: PERFORMANCE, ENERGY & BRAIN OPTIMISATION

Dopamine: The Unfair Advantage for Business Success

Why High Performers Stay Consistent When Others Burn Out

Success in business isn’t just strategy. It’s brain chemistry.

Dopamine controls your drive, focus, confidence, resilience, and your ability to stay consistent when pressure hits. In this fast-paced and highly practical keynote, Nathan breaks down how to deliberately create dopamine to unlock higher performance, sharper decision-making, and sustainable momentum without relying on motivation or willpower.

Nathan also shares how he personally applies these principles daily to stay switched on in business, using proven habits such as cold exposure, ocean swims, and stacking simple dopamine trigger points throughout the day.

Business outcomes:

• Build consistent motivation and execution, even when you don’t feel like it
• Increase focus, energy, and productivity without burnout
• Improve confidence, sales performance, and decision-making under pressure
• Create habits that drive momentum, discipline, and follow-through
• Lead yourself and your team with a high-performance mindset that scales

Become a Business Athlete

High Performance Without Burnout

Most people treat business like a grind. High performers treat it like a sport.

In this flagship keynote, Nathan teaches audiences how to become a Business Athlete, combining mental toughness, energy optimisation, discipline, and recovery to perform at a high level consistently without burning out.

This is not motivational fluff. It’s a practical framework Nathan uses personally while building and scaling multiple businesses.

Business outcomes:

• Increase performance and focus without sacrificing health
• Build discipline and consistency under pressure
• Avoid burnout through smarter energy management
• Lead with confidence, emotional control, and clarity
• Create routines that scale results long-term

How to Improve Energy, Balance Weight, and Enhance Mental Clarity

Simple Systems That Actually Work

Most people are not lacking motivation, they are lacking energy.

When energy is low, everything suffers. Focus drops, cravings rise, weight creeps up, mood becomes unstable, and mental clarity disappears.

In this practical and high-impact keynote, Nathan breaks down the key habits and simple strategies that improve daily energy, support healthy weight balance, and sharpen mental clarity without extreme dieting or complicated routines.

Audience outcomes:

• Increase daily energy and reduce fatigue
• Balance weight using sustainable habits that actually stick
• Improve mental clarity, focus, and decision-making     
• Reduce cravings, brain fog, and emotional eating triggers
• Build simple routines that support long-term health and performance

CATEGORY: HEALTH, NUTRITION & BIOCHEMISTRY

The Business Growth Diet

Why Business Performance Starts With Energy, Not Just Strategy

Business growth is not just marketing, sales, and strategy. It starts with your energy, and your energy starts with what you fuel your body with.

In this high-impact keynote, Nathan shows how optimising health and biochemistry creates an unfair advantage in business performance. When the body is running on the wrong inputs, focus drops, mood crashes, patience disappears, and momentum dies. When it’s optimised, clarity improves, leadership strengthens, sales increase, and execution accelerates.

Nathan breaks down what destroys energy and consistency, and how to optimise the body’s biochemistry to drive better business outcomes.

Business outcomes:

• Increase daily energy, focus, and productivity without burnout
• Identify what destroys momentum, motivation, and mental sharpness
• Improve mood, mental health, and emotional control under pressure
• Build sustainable performance habits that translate into business growth
• Lead with more clarity, confidence, and consistency every day

Rewire Your Brain for Healthy Eating

Secrets to Food Self-Control and Discipline

Most people don’t struggle with food because they lack knowledge. They struggle because their brain has been trained to crave comfort, chase quick dopamine, and make decisions in the moment that sabotage long-term results.

In this practical and empowering keynote, Nathan breaks down how to rewire your brain for self-control, discipline, and healthier eating without feeling deprived or constantly battling willpower.

Audiences walk away with tools to build consistency, take back control, and create long-term change that improves energy, confidence, mental clarity, and overall performance.

Business outcomes:

• Understand the real reason cravings and impulsive eating happen
• Learn techniques to improve food discipline and self-control fast
• Replace emotional eating patterns with healthier routines
• Increase energy, mood, and mental clarity through better nutrition
• Build habits that create long-term results without burnout

CATEGORY: MINDSET, RESILIENCE & MENTAL TOUGHNESS

Mindset Mastery: Turning Drama Into Success

Transforming Problems Into Opportunities

Life doesn’t always go to plan. Pressure hits, setbacks happen, emotions rise, and drama can derail even the most talented people.

In this powerful keynote, Nathan shows how to transform trauma, adversity, and emotional chaos into strength, clarity, and forward momentum.

Nathan shares practical tools for rewriting the internal narrative, building emotional resilience, and shifting from survival mode into growth mode.

Business outcomes:

• Turn challenges and setbacks into fuel instead of failure
• Build emotional resilience and mental strength under pressure
• Break negative patterns that sabotage performance and confidence
• Improve clarity, self-control, and decision-making in high-stress moments
• Step into growth, leadership, and success with a stronger mindset

Mindset Manipulation

How to Modify Your Own Mindset to Stack All the Odds in Your Favour

Your results are not controlled by talent. They are controlled by mindset programming.

In this high-impact keynote, Nathan teaches how to deliberately modify mindset, rewire mental habits, and take control of the internal environment so performance improves on demand.

This is not about positive thinking. It is about becoming harder to distract, harder to stop, and more consistent under pressure.

Business outcomes:

• Reset mindset fast when pressure hits
• Replace self-sabotage with confidence, certainty, and execution
• Build mental discipline and resilience
• Improve focus, decision-making, and performance under stress
• Stack habits, routines, and thinking patterns for success

When Life Gives You Potatoes, Make Paper Airplanes

Winning With What You’ve Got, Not What You Wish You Had

Some people wait for perfect conditions. The best operators win with whatever they’ve got.

This inspiring and action-focused keynote shows how to turn limitations, setbacks, and chaos into momentum, creativity, and breakthrough results.

Nathan shares real-world stories from building businesses where budgets were tight, plans changed fast, and pressure was high.

Business outcomes:

• Turn obstacles into opportunities instead of excuses
• Build resilience and mental toughness under real pressure
• Increase creativity and problem-solving when resources are limited
• Stay consistent and motivated when things don’t go to plan
• Create momentum fast and move forward with confidence

CATEGORY: BUSINESS GROWTH, SALES & STRATEGY

Shark Tank Insider Secrets

How to Sell the Story, Sell the Value, and Win Under Pressure

In business, the winners aren’t always the smartest. They’re the ones who can sell the story, sell the value, and sell with confidence under pressure.

In this high-energy keynote, Nathan shares real, battle-tested lessons from his time on Shark Tank Australia, revealing what gets attention instantly, what makes decision-makers lean in, and what silently kills deals.

Business outcomes:

• Learn how to pitch so people get it immediately
• Use Shark Tank proven frameworks to increase conversions
• Handle objections with confidence and control
• Improve influence with customers, partners, and decision-makers
• Strengthen positioning to stand out and win more business

Creating Joint Ventures That Dominate

Scaling Faster Through Collaboration, Not Grind

Most businesses try to grow by doing more, spending more, and working harder. The smarter way is to collaborate.

In this action-driven keynote, Nathan shows how to create powerful joint ventures by partnering with people who already have trust, an audience, distribution, or resources you don’t.

Nathan has personally generated tens of thousands of dollars in sales across multiple businesses through strategic joint ventures.

Business outcomes:

• Learn how to find and approach the right JV partners fast
• Structure win-win-win deals that make people say yes
• Gain access to new audiences without ads
• Multiply sales using collaboration instead of working harder
• Build partnership systems that scale long-term