Catherine Palin-Brinkworth

With an outstanding corporate history in marketing financial products and services, and a strong track record in organisational leadership, Catherine Palin-Brinkworth is a powerful change agent and professional speaker.
She knows that everyone wants more of everything now - faster sooner better! How do you do it? Catherine has some powerful answers and solutions, based on her own tough times and intensive life lessons as well as her successes and her academic research.

"All leaders know there's nothing quite so amazing and rewarding as creating and witnessing people's growth. I love the line that says 'Life's a rich banquet, yet some poor suckers are starving to death'. I'm about ensuring that people are generously fed. Whether they pick at it or devour it, I'll give them the nourishment they need for growth, with openness, trust, confidence and positive expectation. It's a big experience, with awesome outcomes."

Catherine holds a Masters Degree in Social Ecology and is one of the few internationally accredited Certified Speaking Professionals in this country. She is the author of the best-selling book "What Is Success, Anyway?" and speaks on this and other business issues throughout the world at conferences and seminars.

Catherine has an amazing ability to inspire people to believe in themselves, to turn around performance and to stimulate powerful change. On the platform her audiences describe her as 'terrific........major impact......enthusiasm and wit........professional and intelligent.'

Catherine's presentation topics and content are themed and customised for your conference, designed around your requests from her current topics, which include

• Survivor! Business Lessons from the Australian Outback
  
• Claiming Leadership- Leading Change
  
• Navigating Chaos
  
• Everything's a Gift

Client Ovations: Having spoken to many delegates I know that your words were well listened to, and the scoring system resulted in 8's and 10's for your presentation.

Communications ' Training Manager Harvey World Travel

Your presentations fitted the bill perfectly and I had some excellent feedback... You are a delight to work with.

Director - Focus Marketing for Telstra

Thank you for your brilliant presentation at our Franchise Conference. The material was terrific, well structured to suit the specific needs of our company, and your delivery really was outstanding.

Managing Director - Solar Pergola

Your absolute professionalism is unquestioned, your presentation outstanding programs... the response from our members and guests has been really enthusiastic

Chairman - Bac to Business

Outstanding contribution to our conference. Your messages were sincere, your delivery impactful, and the pacing superb.

General Manager - Mead Johnson Australia/NZ

It was a privilege to have you inspire our people around Australia... and the fact that 1000 purchased your book says plenty about your effectiveness...

National Field Adviser - Advanced Life Foods

Catherine would be the most refreshing woman speaker I have ever heard. Catherine shot from the hip, played it straight and delivered a lot.

Operations Manager - AMP Society