Bridget Hogg
Female Motivational Speaker
4 x Award Winner
Speaker on Find a Way or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent
Right now we are living in difficult times.
We need leaders in times of change – but more than that – we need people who can Find a Way – or Make One.
Recently Bridget spoke to People and Culture Managers in Adelaide on
“Find a Way – or Make One – to Attract and Retain Talent in Adelaide, Interstate & Overseas”
Bridget’s Keynotes
Do you want your event to:
Speak directly to the hearts and minds of your delegates?
Inform your delegates?
Challenge your delegates?
Inspire your delegates to action?
Then we have the speaker for you…
Book Bridget to energise, inform, inspire and challenge your audience.
I want Bridget to speak to my audience on “Find a Way or Make One”
Bridget shows your audience how to be one of those people – People who “Find a Way or Make One”. Bridget speaks on: “Find a Way or Make One”.
We need people who can perceive things in new ways. Bridget helps audiences see new ways. Bridget inspires your audience through personal stories of having made things happen – from finding a way to help hundreds of organisations attract and retain talent – to walking across a bed of burning hot coals. Its not about “mind over matter” and “ra ra” talk – its not about having special powers – this is about sharing personal experience how to Find a Way – or Make One, so your audience sees how they can “Make One” too.
Is Bridget right for your audience?
Bridget is author of the 2022 book “Find a Way or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent”. She can help your audiences find new ideas to help them attract and retain talent and be productive, competitive and sustainable, she will reignite your audience by sharing ideas, case-studies and the most up to date data. She helps managers to see the managers’ role in retention. She helps inspire good leaders to create GREAT employment experiences.
Bridget is perfect for in-house conferences, leadership events and association conferences. She speaks about “Find a Way or Make One” to do what you want to achieve (from strengthening Workplace Wellbeing and Attracting and Retaining Talent to Finding Work You Want). Bridget also speaks to audiences of women, job seekers and employees to inspire them, seeing things from a different perspective to create huge improvements. She has spoken to many audiences across many industries including Human Resources Managers, Lawyers, the Aged Care Industry, Local Government, the Garden Industry, and Psychologists.
We will be happy to discuss your requirements with you to tailor a key note presentation for your group or conference.
Please call us on (08) 8322 8455 to discuss your event and what you’d like to achieve.
Bridget Hogg is a professional speaker with a special interest in helping people see things differently so they find a way to create change and miracles. Bridget is a very experienced event speaker and has spoken at many international professional and industry association conferences over the past 25 years.
Book Bridget now to speak on “Make One” at your event.
“I really enjoyed your “Make One” presentation… it was exactly what we wanted/needed. We needed to do this – make our own path – thank you.” Rianne Wright – Laboratory Managers Work Health and Safety Day
Listen to Bridget
Watch this 3 minute clip to see Bridget inspire the audience with her ‘Make One’ presentation in March.
Showreel
Watch this two and a half minute showreel to see Bridget inspiring different audiences.
More about Bridget’s story of Finding a Way – or Making One.
“I have Found a Way – or Made One to do all sorts of things, in my personal life and with organisations. Let me inspire you and your leaders to ‘Find a Way – or Make One’ to overcome the challenges you are facing.”
Bridget has:
- Travelled interstate and met with over hundred organisations helping them to ‘Find a Way – or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent’.
- Spoken at many prestigious conferences in Australia, the UK and Europe helping to inform and inspire leaders.
- Assisted organisations to strengthen workplace wellbeing, focusing on psychological wellbeing. Bridget has a background in organisational psychology (MSc), positive psychology and NLP.
- Led a team that helped hundreds of job seekers to ‘Find a Way or Make One to Work They Wanted’. On all measures of mental wellbeing, connections, job search skills and job success, the team saw a statistically highly significant improvement in the job seekers’ outcomes. As a result, the team were awarded won two awards (including “Learning Provider of the Year” in 2020).
- Extracted over $1 million (legally!) from Federal Government
- Lived life on the edge, setting up and running successful, award winning businesses in Adelaide.
Bridget says “In my personal life I also demonstrate the “Find a Way or Make One” philosophy. I have:
- Moved myself from the grey skies and deep snow of England to the blue sunny skies of South Australia
- Bent the laws of physics (see the photo of the plastic straw sticking out of a raw potato – give it a go and ask me how)
- Walked across a bed of burning hot coals (see the photo of the lanes of burning hot coals above, that was truly a very scary experience)
- Healed sick animals
- Found novel ways to find home and office accommodation when the world has gone crazy and prices jumped 25%
- Turned down a $1 million contract (this may have been the hardest in some ways!)”
Please call us on (08) 8322 8455 to discuss your event and what you’d like to achieve.
Bridget Hogg – International Speaker
Bridget Hogg, Director, Development at Work Australia is a professional speaker with a special interest in helping people see things differently so they find a way to make things happen, create change and miracles. Bridget is a very experienced event speaker and has spoken at many international professional and industry association conferences over the past 25 years.
Book Bridget now to speak on “Find a Way or Make One” at your event
Bridget has spoken at professional and industry association conferences and public events in Australia and overseas, including:
Disability Employment Australia Leaders Forum
Aged and Community Services Finance Forum
British Psychological Society (UK)
Association of Graduate Recruiters (UK)
The International Congress of Psychology (France)
The Australian Human Resources Institute – HR Week
Local Government Association HR Conference
Workplace Happiness and Wellbeing Conference
DFEEST Training Sector Forum
Laboratory Managers Association Conference
Small Business Week
CPA Congress
The Nursery and Garden Industry
International Public Works Conference
Marion Learning Festival
Employment 40+ Forum
Careers and Employment Expo
Employment Consultants Conference
Please contact us on (08) 8322 8455 or bridget@developmentatwork.com.au if you would like more information about how Bridget can help you to inform and inspire delegates at your next event.
The Client Experience – What do our clients say?
“Bridget is one of the best speakers I have heard. She helped us learn so much. She captures her audience with ease” Danny Olsen, SA Retail Manager, Beaumont Tiles
“Thank you for your recent contribution as a presenter at the Training Sector Forum Making Connections – Developing our Workforce. We were extremely pleased … The professionalism, cooperation and support that you showed from your initial expression of interest to your organisation and presentation on the day of the Forum ensured the smooth running of a highly successful event.”
Chris Hastwell, Director and Tom Quigley Conference Coordinator
“Witty, entertaining and certainly appropriate in today’s climate – your example touches the heart.” Rianne Wright, Laboratory Managers Association Conference
“Thank you for presenting at our seminar, Staff Retention – How to Stop the Great Escape. The Law Society was delighted.
David Howard, President, Law Society of South Australia
Call us to discover how we can assist your next event or conference. Ask us how we can tailor a keynote or presentation for your audience. We can help you inspire and challenge your delegates.
Bridget speaks on specialist topics centred around human resources, good working practices and personal motivation, such as:
Find a Way or Make One to Workplace Wellbeing
Find a Way or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent
Find a Way or Make One to Manage the People Part of Change Effectively
Find a Way or Make One to Win Work You Want
Radio Interview
Click here to listen to Bridget Hogg being interviewed for 20 minutes on psychological wellbeing on the Ways to Wellbeing blogtalk radio.
Development at Work Australia is there for you
Development at Work Australia can help you.
Contact us on +61 8 8322 8455 or bridget@developmentatwork.com.au for help and advice about attraction, retention, managing the people aspects of change and creating workplace wellbeing.
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Click here for radio interview with Bridget Hogg on psychological wellbeing (20 minutes).
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