Dan (Daniel) Gregory

Dan Gregory is an expert in Identity-Driven Strategy. He delivers keynote speeches, workshops and consulting on how identity shapes leadership, culture, change, performance and your personal brand.

A five-time author on the future of skills, social change, market trends, and decision-making, Dan is also a regular media commentator, founding panellist on The Gruen Transfer, and host of LinkedIn’s A Show Called BrandIn.

Voted by Meetings & Conventions USA as one of the "top 25 C-Suite Speakers to watch," Dan works at the intersection of psychology, business strategy, and stand up comedy. An internationally award-winning business strategist and acclaimed comedian, Dan is known for his “edu-tainment” style: blending sharp insight, humour, and practical tools to drive commercial and social impact.

Dan authored and delivered the post-graduate program in Business & Behavioural Performance at Western Sydney University, and with his business partner Kieran Flanagan, created the course text for the innovation program at William & Mary College a research University in Williamsburg, Virginia. 

He has delivered strategic facilitation for leaders and boards and developed leadership, change and performance programs for organisations as diverse as the UN (Singapore), Coca-Cola, TikTok, Aldi, AstraZeneca, the Australian Navy, and Federal and State Governments as well as helping professional services, real estate agents and consultants to punch above their weight with powerful personal brands.

His next book, The Younique Advantage, will be hitting shelves by early 2027.

Dan helps you transform

from CULTURES OF CONTROL to CULTURES OF THE WILLING

from MICRO-MANAGED to SELF MOTIVATED

from AT THE MERCY OF CHANGE to LEADING IT

from CONSCIOUS COMPETENCE to AUTONOMOUS PERFORMANCE

from CATEGORY GENERIC to INDUSTRY INFLUENCER

from YOUR FIELD’S BEST KEPT SECRET to THE GO TO

from DOING to BEING

Keynote Topics

Cultural Identity

LEADERSHIP & CULTURE

Discover how leaders shape behaviour, performance and culture by influencing not just what people do, but who they believe themselves to be. 

This keynote is often delivered under the following titles or matched to your event theme:

  • Identity-Driven Leadership 

  • Cultures of the Willing

  • Beyond WHY

  • Start with WHO

The Identity Shift

CHANGE & PERFORMANCE

Find out how to drive meaningful and by intentionally shaping the psychological, social & structural environments of performance to create a “bias towards success.” 

This keynote is often delivered under the following titles or matched to your event theme:

  • The Age of Reinvention

  • Change Leadership

  • Performance by Design 

  • The 3 Environments of Performance

Brand Identity

BRAND & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Learn to amplify your unique identity and build a powerful personal brand and a thought leadership platform that creates visibility, influence and opportunity. 

This keynote is often delivered under the following titles or matched to your event theme:

  • The Younique Advantage

  • The Stand Out

  • Lead the Field

  • Your Personal Blue Ocean

Personal Brand Workshops

Dan works with executive leaders, professional services, business development, medical professionals, entrepreneurs and experts helping them to become The Stand Out in their industry!

You’ll discover how to build a personal brand and thought leadership platform - amplifying your visibility, credibility and influence - while positioning you as the go-to in the field.

This practical and inspiring workshop helps you to identify your Younique Advantage™ so you can create your own personal Blue Ocean and:

  1. Stand out in your field

  2. Attract the right people

  3. Lead your industry into the future

  4. Raise your “price” (figuratively & literally)

Discover how Dan’s Workshops & Mentoring can help you to become The Stand Out…

Team Collaboration & Conference Facilitation  

Delivered with Kieran Flanagan

Dan Gregory & business partner, Kieran Flanagan, deliver Strategic Team Facilitation as well as Conference & Event Hosting for Leadership Groups, Boards & “All-Hands” Events on two key themes: Team Dynamics AND Collaborative Innovation.

This is delivered as ½ or Full Day Workshops, Leadership Retreats & Off-sites and as Conference Facilitation - including Conference Design, Event Hosting and Leadership Presentation Coaching.

Kieran and Dan deliver against the following capabilities and themes using proprietary tools:

  1. Team Dynamics - Unlock the genius in your entire team and transform your innate cognitive diversity into an asset whilst improving communication and collaboration.

  2. Collaborative Innovation - develop “value driven” solutions with commercial, social and organisational impact, and cultivate internal thought leadership inside your team!

Dan & Kieran also co-host The Round Table™

It's got all of the best bits of a Great Debate, a Podcast and a Panel... with all of the boring bits removed.

It's essentially a TV Comedy Panel Show, but designed for conference stages that allows your leaders, top talent and conference guests, to become the stars of the show and shine on your stage. Think of it as the BBC’s “QI” with a business brain.

Debates, Panels & Facilitation

INTELLIGENCE and INTERACTIVITY

Dan’s 30-year commercial career as a business strategist & leadership facilitator, means he can wrangle big names, personalities and politics; connect the abstract to the specific; and even tie the most tenuous of connections up in a bow - ensuring your event holds together and delivers on your theme. 

If you have a high-stakes conference, with big egos on stage, it pays to have an equally large ego as host, steering your event into a safe harbour.

Dan on Stage & Screen

Dan on “Impact”

Dan on “Shifts & Trends”

Dan on “Innovation”

Dan on “Gruen”

Dan on “Sunrise on 7”

Dan on “The Project”

Let’s work together. Drop Dan a line (or two)

His address was as witty as it was challenging, weaving humour with hard truths, and practical frameworks with stories that linger long after the laughter has faded...

... he took us through six guiding principles of leadership, but rather than delivering them as abstract theory, he wrapped each one in stories that made the ideas tangible and memorable.
— WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PRIMARY PRINCIPALS' ASSOCIATION
The psychologsist and business person in me are in heaven.
— THE ENTOURAGE
The unlikely love child of Simon Sinek and Ricky Gervais.
— THOUGHT LEADERS GLOBAL
@DanGregoryCo takes #leadership to the next level. Scarily awesome!
— UNCONVENTION, NEW ZEALAND
Comedy relief from down under with a huge helping of #knowledge.
— iMEDIA, USA
I have the opportunity to work with many speakers and presenters throughout the year, and I can say without bias that (Dan’s) presentation was the best I have seen in a very long time.
— DG GLOBAL, THAILAND
We’ve had amazing feedback - Very grateful!
— XERO, AUSTRALIA
Dan scored OFF THE CHARTS with our audience.
— THE COLLECTIVE HUB, AUSTRALIA
Dan, as usual, you were the post man. You delivered.
— TOURISM AUSTRALIA
The feedback from your presentation has been bombarding! Which is bloody awesome!
— PHONAK, AUSTRALIA
Dan had the room engaged from the outset and took our team on a 90 minute journey, resulting in eyes and minds being opened to new opportunities. The feedback after the event was overwhelmingly positive - we wouldn’t hesitate in working with Dan again in the future.
— MSD, AUSTRALIA
It was a pleasure to deliver the genius of Dan Gregory to our members at the Real Estate IQ Conference. Dan’s infectious enthusiasm, coupled with his brilliance, was incredibly well received by our audience with many following up on his presentation in months to come. I would personally recommend Dan’s services to any event manager who is looking to effectively engage, educate and inspire their delegates.
— REIQ, AUSTRALIA
Signs of genius.
— SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, AUSTRALIA
Australia’s Don Draper!
— THE PROJECT, CHANNEL 10, AUSTRALIA
He more than lives up to his own advertising!
— ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE COUNSEL, AUSTRALIA
Our recent Business Partner Exchange event was a great success, largely due to Dan Gregory. Dan met our brief completely, with his presentation providing a strong and supportive storyline for our launch. We couldn’t have asked for more, and are looking forward to other opportunities to work with Dan in the future.
— TAL, AUSTRALIA
Over 100 leaders in the real estate industry left our convention buzzing with possibilities.
— PITTARD TRAINING, AUSTRALIA
Engaging, entertaining and informative and we were so impressed that we are preparing to work with them again this year for another area of our business.
— HUNTER DOUGLAS, AUSTRALIA
What a fantastic way to kick off the new year! (We’ve been) flooded with positive phone calls and emails!
— EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATION OF PHOENIX, USA
I learned a huge amount and the team feedback has been incredibly positive.
— CA TECHNOLOGIES, ASIA-PACIFIC
A unique ability of entertaining an audience with humour while giving them a wide range of strategies that can make a significant difference to their bottom line.
— AUSTRALIAN FITNESS NETWORK, AUSTRALIA
Rarely have I heard anybody articulate their thoughts with such clarity and vision. His intelligence and insight provides a much greater understanding of how to engage your customers, your team and the community. I would whole heartedly recommend Dan, you will never be disappointed.
— HORTICULTURE AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
Funny and fact-filled!
— B.I.G., AUSTRALIA
Just mind-altering.
— CARAVAN INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
Dan was bloody brilliant. I didn’t move a muscle his entire presentation and have definitely stolen a few ideas he presented.
— AUSTRALIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION, AUSTRALIA