Speakers who have lived what they talk about
Virtus doesn’t book speakers who studied leadership. We book people who have led organisations, commanded critical incidents, built movements from nothing and rebuilt themselves from less. The kind of speaker your audience remembers five years later.
We believe the most powerful speakers don’t just tell stories — they’ve lived them.
And they turn those experiences into lessons that create real change.
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Different speakers. Completely different stories. All capable of holding a room at the highest level. Our Speakers Bureau will also be adding more world class speakers to their books in the weeks to come.
Woon Ooi
Keynote Speaker
From Hostage Negotiations to Leadership Keynotes — Woon is the Master of Turning Pressure into Progress
Nasir Sobhani
Keynote Speaker
The Streets Barber: Transforming lives through service and connection
Kyle Gemmill
Keynote Speaker
From grief to 441km — Kyle Gemmill teaches what it really takes to keep going when everything in you wants to stop.
Ben Williamson
Keynote Speaker
Human Performance Speaker, Mindset Coach and Broadcaster on a mission to raise the next generation of resilient families.
Full Profile for bookings coming soon.
Nasir Sobhani
Known globally as The Streets Barber — Nasir is one of the most genuinely moving speakers on the Australian circuit. After years of drug addiction that cost him everything, Nasir rebuilt his life from the ground up — drug-free, purposeful and committed to serving others. He now travels the world offering free haircuts, conversation and human connection to the homeless, turning a simple act of service into a global movement.
Beyond haircuts, Nasir uses social media to share the stories of those he meets — amplifying marginalised voices and building empathy in the broader community. At the heart of everything he does is a simple but powerful ability: to create spaces where every person feels seen, and to inspire others to look for the humanity in everyone they meet.
Raised across three continents — Japan, Canada and now Australia — Nasir’s diverse upbringing and deep faith have shaped a worldview built on one simple truth: service has no borders. He believes that when we show up for each other, our differences become our greatest strength.
Nasir’s story is not about motivation. It is about what happens when a person finds their purpose and gives everything to it. For audiences navigating culture, wellbeing, belonging and what it means to build a team that actually cares about each other — Nasir delivers something no keynote framework can replicate.
Nasir’s Talking Points
- Being of Service
- Addiction
- Joy
- Connection and Community
- Purpose
- Joy
Woon Ooi
Woon is a former Police Hostage Negotiator and Senior Tactical Commander with Victoria Police, Woon spent over two decades operating in high-stakes environments where communication was often the only tool left. Across more than 500 critical incidents, he led teams through moments of uncertainty, risk, and consequence — where language shaped outcomes in real time.
Today, Woon brings those same principles into boardrooms, frontline teams, and executive environments — helping leaders communicate with clarity, influence, and calm under pressure.
Woon doesn’t fill time — he changes perspective. Every room he walks into leaves thinking differently than when he arrived.
Woon is known for his ability to translate high-pressure experience into simple, actionable tools — enabling individuals and teams to shift from reaction to intention, and from pressure to progress.
Woon’s Talking Points
- Resilience
- Communication
- Compelling Storytelling
- Purpose
- Belief
- Leadership under pressure — what it actually takes to lead when the stakes are real
- Building systems and structures that scale without the leader being everywhere at once
- Strategic decision-making — how the best executives think, not just what they decide
Kyle Gemmill
Kyle is a Victoria Police officer, endurance athlete, and the founder of Run4KB – a movement born from loss, driven by purpose, and defined by relentless commitment.
Kyle helps individuals and teams build the discipline, purpose, and mental endurance to keep going — long after motivation runs out.
Best known for running 441km in 7 days in honour of his late friend, raising over $140,000 for cancer research.
As the founder of Run4KB, Kyle now works with teams and organisations to build resilience, discipline, and purpose — helping people keep going long after motivation runs out.
Kyle has spent over 15 years in the Special Operations Group and understand the reality of walking in the fire.
He is also the Co-Founder and CEO of 441 Coffee, in which her donate 50% of profits to Sarcoma cancer research.
Kyle’s Talking Points
- Stay committed when motivation drops
- Build mental endurance under pressure
- Reconnect with purpose in the face of adversity
- Move from intention to action — consistently
Ben Williamson
Ben is a human performance speaker, mindset coach, former AFL broadcaster, and high-
risk frontline operations leader — a rare combination that gives him both lived authority and scientific grounding in how people perform, collapse, and recover under pressure.
His professional journey spans the commentary box, the border operations command room, and the boardroom. At the Australian Border Force, Ben served as a Maritime Operations Manager and High-Risk Enforcement Specialist — leading complex, time-critical operations across language barriers, cultural divides, and extreme resource constraints. He is qualified at the Group Command Level and has coordinated real-time tactical interventions that required not just strategy, but deep emotional regulation and human intelligence.
That background is not incidental to his speaking work. It is the foundation of it.
Ben works in a space most speakers won’t go — the chronic, cumulative pressure building quietly inside high-performing parents and professionals long before anyone notices.
His work helps people name what they are actually carrying and interrupt the patterns determining every result at work, on the field and at home
Ben’s Talking Points
- How AI is reshaping leadership and identity
- What chronic pressure steals from leaders and parents
- Why presence — not expertise — is now the greatest competitive edge
- How to reclaim your capacity to be genuinely human with the people who need it most
- The stories high performers tell themselves under pressure — and why they’re costing results
- How chronic pressure and secondary trauma follow high performers home
- How to stop accumulated stress from determining who shows up at home
