Speakers

Tony Buzan

Jennifer Goddard – Buzan Master Trainer

Bill Jarrard

Tony Buzan

Tony Buzan is widely credited with the creating geniuses - in business, in sports and in life. Organisational development, transformation, success through innovation, and continuous improvement all begin with the way your people think. When in Australia Tony works with business leaders, educationalists and the Buzan Centre:Aust/NZ, and he can work with your people to inspire innovation and help them embrace change!

Buzan’s mental technology is five years ahead of the game. Any company using it will inevitably gain the competitive edge. …IBM Executive, New York

Tony has advised world leaders and consulted to organisations, including Hewlett Packard, Arthur Anderson, Fluor Daniel, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Barclays International, EDS, British Petroleum, Walt Disney, Management Centre Europe and British Airways. He is a regular lecturer at leading international universities and business schools. In Australia Tony has worked with VicUrban, Dept of Education (Vic), Dept of Treasury & Finance, Australian Bureau of Statistics, AMP and several others.

We teach and use – Tony Buzan’s techniques at EDS, The Mind Map Book is a valuable addition to our toolkit. …Les Alberthal, Chairman, President & C.E.O., Electronic Data Systems

Tony is an adviser to the British Olympic Rowing Squad as well as to the members of the British Olympic Chess Team. He has received the Young Presidents Organisation Leadership Award and been awarded membership of the ‘Distinguished Faculty’ of the Institute of Management Studies. He is a recipient of the Eagle Catcher Award from EDS – given to those who attempt the impossible and achieve it!The originator of Mind Maps® and the concept of Mental Literacy, Tony is co-founder of the Mind Sports Olympiad and Chairman of the Brain Foundation. He is the author of more than 45 books and co-authored almost 50 others. The Mind Map Book, Use Your Head, Use your Memory and Speed Reading have become classics translated into more than thirty languages.

Tony Buzan’s Mind Map Book will do for the brain what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time did for the universe. …Raymond Keene, O.B.E., Chess Grandmaster, The Times of London

Other landmark books include Buzan’s Book of Genius (with Raymond Keene), Creating a Thinking Organisation (with Rikki Hunt), and The Brain Smart Leader and in 2007 Grass Roots Leaders - The BrainSmart Revolution in Business (with Tony Dottino and Richard Israel). Head First: 10 ways to tap into your natural genius, introduces readers to the multiple and often overlooked aspects of human intelligence and provides a blueprint for utilising and developing the full range of their potential.

Head First remains at the top of the business best-seller list since its release in October 2000. His children's book series, Mind Maps® for Kids, shows that Mind Mapping is the shortcut to success that puts kids one step (and sometimes miles!) ahead. In even more recent days, his Embracing Change and Age Proof Your Brain are helping organisations and individuals deal with the challenges of transformation.

If there wasn’t a Tony Buzan, we would have to invent him. …Jean Huston,The Possible Human

What Others say about Mind Mapping

The use of Mind Mapping is an integral part of my Quality improvement program here at Boeing. This program has provided savings of over $10 million this year for my organisation (10 times my goal). …Dr. Mike Stanley, Director of Special Projects, Boeing Corporation, USA

If I am concerned about having too much or what to cover in a speech, I organise it by Mind Mapping the material. …Dr. Ken Blanchard, Author, The One Minute Manager

The most important testimonial I can provide to the concept of Mind Mapping is that I use it myself. It now mirrors my thinking, impresses the hell out of the businessmen I teach, and is a fun and easy way to develop a plan of action. …Gerald Schwartz, PhD, Vancouver, Canada

Tony Buzan’s achievements to date:

• The world’s leading author on the brain and learning (95 authored and co-authored books to date with sales totalling five million (and accelerating!)
• World’s top lecturer on the brain and learning. The Mind Magician has lectured in 67 countries over the past 30 years, logging over two million miles (four times to the moon and back!) and six months of time spent in the air! He has lectured to audiences ranging from 5-year old kindergarten children through disadvantaged students to first class graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, to the world’s top business directors, and to leading organisations and governments.
• Tony Buzan is rated as the top international lecturer in 15 national and international management associations - his average rating from all audiences over 30 years and totalling hundreds of thousands of live participants: 94%!
• Consultant and advisor to governments and government organisations including: England, Singapore, Mexico, the Gulf States and Liechtenstein.
• Inventor of Mind Maps® the thinking tool described as “The Swiss Army Knife of the Brain”, now used by over 250 million people world-wide.
• Author, Use Your Head, selected by the Express Newspaper Group/Dillons as one of the thousand greatest books of the last millennium, which should be read and in all libraries for current millennium.
• Prize-winning athlete and Olympic Coach.
• Co-founder of the Mind Sports Olympiad, which has attracted over 25,000 entrants from 74 countries world-wide and Founder of the World Memory Championships.
• A global media personality, having appeared on over 100 hours of national and global television, and over 1,000 hours of national and international radio. Has been seen and heard by an estimated three billion plus people!

Jennifer Goddard – Buzan Master Trainer                                                              

Jennifer Goddard is the inspirational Director of the Buzan Centre in Australia and New Zealand and co-founder of Mindwerx International. She is one of only four Master Trainers globally in Buzan’s Advanced Learning Techniques including, Mind Mapping®, Range and Rapid Reading and Enhanced Memory. Jennifer mentors a global network of instructors and works with Tony Buzan around the world.

Jennifer’s story of how Mind Mapping and other advanced learning and thinking skills changed her life is one that has inspired thousands of people. Having left school at 15 she only discovered she was dyslexic in her 20s, prior to which she was constantly assured she was not intelligent enough to succeed. Left a widow and single parent at 21, she embarked on creating a better life for her daughter, determined that education was the way out. In 1996 she was struggling to study for a Business Degree and was ready to quit when she was shown Mind Mapping. In one semester her grades went from bare passes to high distinctions, and she finished her degree in record time.

Now with a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Jennifer has spoken to over thousands of people in ten countries, and has engaged individuals from many organisations and schools in Australia, NZ, UK, USA, Middle East, China and S.E. Asia. Her expertise has been recognised by the National Speakers Association of Australia where she has been awarded ‘Professional Member’ status.

With a passion for mental literacy, brain-friendly learning and holanthropy (the study of interrelated functions of brain and body), Jennifer infects others with the enthusiasm and energy she displays in her interactive and creative presentations, seminars and workshops.

Dubbed the Memory Maven by Anthill Magazine, in the Media Jennifer is a recognised thought leader in mental literacy and is often invited to contribute to media stories and programs. Examples of where she has been seen, include:

• Channel 7 Sunrise Today Tonight
• Mornings With Kerri-Anne ‘Insight’ SBS
• 9am with David and Kim A Current Affair
• ABC and Nova Radio The Age
• Australian Financial Review Growth Business
• Wealth Creator Australian Anthill
• Courier Mail Herald Sun (Body & Soul)
• The West Australian

She works with business, government and education clients throughout Australia and overseas, and just a few include:

• AMP ANZ Bank
• Boral Australia Boehringer Ingelheim
• City of Boroondara Burooj Properties (Abu Dhabi)
• CEO Circle College of Surgeons
• City Link Daimler Chrysler
• Defence – Canberra Numerous State Government Departments
• Dept of Education And too many schools to list
• ExxonMobil (Asia) Ericsson (Australia & UK)
• Linfox National Australia Bank
• Pitcher Partners Shepparton News
• Simplot Australia Singapore Institute of Management
• TMP AsiaPacific Victoria Police

Jennifer is also a professional speaker who has also spoken at conferences throughout the world, including:

• International Thinking Conference (twice)
• University of Beijing
• CPA Congresses through Australia
• ICAA Business Forums
• World Mind Mapping Conference
• Young Entrepreneurs - Philippines

Bill Jarrard

Bill is the founder of Mindwerx International and Co-Founder of the Buzan Centre:Aust/NZ. Known as the Chief Imagineer, mainly because of his unique ability to help companies imagine what they might become and to then assist them in achieving their vision, Bill consults to all types of organisations in Strategic Thinking, Creativity and Innovation.




Holding a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Bill is convenor/lecturer of the Creativity & Innovation module of the Master of Entrepreneur-ship and Innovation (MEI) program run by Swinburne University-AGSE and is a guest lecturer on two MBA programs. Bill regularly facilitates future focus workshops and presents Mindwerx programs throughout Asia.

He is also a graduate of the Australian Graduate School of Management, a member of the Committee for Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Williamson Community Leadership Program. Bill says he his most important claim to fame is first showing Jennifer how to Mind Map, and introducing her to the concept of Deliberate Creative Thinking. From that start, it was also Bill’s idea to create the Buzan Centre:Aust/NZ which Jennifer now directs. For the record Bill’s daughter Kylie was at 17 the youngest licensed Mind Mapping in the world, so as you can see he is passionate about the benefits of Tony Buzan’s Mind Maps and other advanced learning techniques.

• "As an educator, speaker and facilitator, Bill Jarrard does not lecture or teach - he shares, by creating and maintaining a challenging and stimulating environment for learning."..... Johan Kruithof, author of 'Quality Thinking, Thinking Quality' and 'The Quality Standards Handbook'.
• “Very good. In just 30 minutes Bill kindled an interest in learning to be more creative – deliberately.” ….. Antoine Le Bon, Supply Chain Specialist"
• I absolutely loved it. It's wonderful to see someone who loves their area of work - it's very inspiring!"….. Kylie Sykes, Economist