Speaker Testimonials
“Natasha recently presented to the Master Builders Association, Northern Beaches. Natasha is very watchable and has a great delivery style and impressed the audience composed primarily of builders with her insights, practical strategies and advice. I personally received tremendous benefit through Natasha’s fast paced and insightful presentation on ER legislation changes. She is a fantastic corporate speaker and highly recommended.”
Sue Napoli – Interior Designer
alkimi studio
“Natasha Hawker has spoken to audiences of over 500, at several of our events, about her entrepreneurial journey. The audience feedback received shows that that she is entertaining but also shares great lessons, with immediate practical application. She has a way of connecting with individuals, in a large room of people, enabling her to bring them on the journey with her. I would highly recommend her as a speaker to any business that wants to grow faster through their employees. We would highly recommend Natasha for speaking gigs where quality content and high performance delivery are key”
Glen Carson – Co Founder
Dent.Global
Honoured to have Natasha Hawker sharing her entrepreneurial journey and incredible achievements with us. Her presentation has added value, inspired and empowered our start-up students’ businesses and mindset significantly. Her lessons and insights around Internal Communication, Retention strategies and Risk assessments were incredible. Thank you so much for sharing such powerful strategies with us.”
Paula Mills, CEO,
Academy of Entrepreneurs
“Natasha spoke to an audience of around 850 people at the Finance Brokers Association of Australia’s National Conference in 2016 , the audience was asked to complete a survey at the end and Natasha rated as 1 of the most preferred speakers on the day with feedback like “We would love to see her again”, “What a breath of fresh air, someone that spoke fact not fiction”, “Finally someone that doesn’t scare monger you into believing Fair work will be on your door step tomorrow, she had the proof in the pudding”
On an everyday basis, Natasha helps to create a positive working environment for employees and employers. She makes understanding Human Resources something interesting and has proven that does not need to be time consuming , and makes sure that you have all the facts to keep yourself and your business in safe hands.”
Leah Renwick – National Business Development & Conference Manager
Finance Brokers Association of Australia Limited (FBAA)
“I had the pleasure of having Natasha involved in our 2nd annual Workforce Analytics Summit in Sydney in 2020. Natasha was very well-prepared, highly professional, and an engaging panel moderator. She knew her topics well and engaged with the speakers prior to the event to be fully prepared for an outstanding session. Looking forward to working with her again in future!”
Nick Kenny,Conference Producer – ANZ & Asia, Aventedge
“Honoured to have Natasha Hawker sharing her entrepreneurial journey and incredible achievements with us. Her presentation has added value, inspired and empowered our start-up students’ businesses and mindset significantly. Her lessons and insights arounds Internal Communication, Retention strategies and Risk assessments were incredible.
Thank you so much for sharing such powerful strategies with us.”
Paula Mills, CEO, Academy of Entrepreneurs
“I met Natasha in 2015 when she was delivering a presentation to a group of small business owners. With years of experience of my own in HR, within corporate organisations, it was obvious Natasha knew her subject matter inside-out. She was engaging, relevant and it was obvious that she cared.
Upon launching my group coaching program, Natasha was an obvious choice to deliver a workshop on recruitment and employee engagement. Natasha was – as usual – engaging, and the content of the presentation was very relevant to the audience. As was evident from our surveys, my clients were extremely satisfied with the workshop – they felt that Natasha was the “right balance between knowledgeable and approachable”, and that the workshop resulted in increased awareness relating to HR matters which are relevant to them, and the confidence to expand their business through more clarity on the hiring process and employee engagement strategies.
Since then, all the clients who attended the workshop have hired employees and they have found the strategies they learned to be extremely useful.”
Kathryn Kavanagh, Director, Momentum Lab
“Natasha was engaged to develop and facilitate a half day training session as part of our annual global conference. The brief was to educate our people leaders on hiring excellence and optimising team performance. As a fast growing small company, we were looking for someone to train our relatively new people leaders from both commercial and technical backgrounds (and multiple geographies). Natasha was willing to understand our organisation and particular needs, and tailor the content and workshop accordingly. She also set up an expectations model in advance so we could reflect on the desired outcomes and we debriefed against this model after the event. The training session itself was very well run, with a nice mix of theory, discussion and practice sessions for behavioural interviewing in small groups. Natasha’s experience as well as her passion and enthusiasm for effectively recruiting and managing people is impressive. The session was very highly rated by our people leaders and we frequently hear people talking about Natasha’s interviewing techniques. We would happily recommend Natasha to organisations seeking to invest in their recruiting and people-management capability.”
George Astudillo, Licensed Real Estate Agent
“Natasha was engaged to develop and facilitate a half day training session as part of our annual global conference. The brief was to educate our people leaders on hiring excellence and optimising team performance. As a fast growing small company, we were looking for someone to train our relatively new people leaders from both commercial and technical backgrounds (and multiple geographies). Natasha was willing to understand our organisation and particular needs, and tailor the content and workshop accordingly. She also set up an expectations model in advance so we could reflect on the desired outcomes and we debriefed against this model after the event. The training session itself was very well run, with a nice mix of theory, discussion and practice sessions for behavioural interviewing in small groups. Natasha’s experience as well as her passion and enthusiasm for effectively recruiting and managing people is impressive. The session was very highly rated by our people leaders and we frequently hear people talking about Natasha’s interviewing techniques. We would happily recommend Natasha to organisations seeking to invest in their recruiting and people-management capability.”
Stuart FitzRoy, Chief Product & Engineering Officer, Rokt
“Natasha did a fantastic job of both presenting key information in a pre-planned structure that was informative and easy to understand, and dealing with the many questions that came thick and fast from Q and A. It was really great to get the opportunity to speak to an expert who could help with any challenges a company is facing in the HR space no matter how big or small. I particularly liked that Natasha’s focus wasn’t just advice on how to stay on the right side of employment law, but also how to build a company with great culture and a happy, motivated and cohesive workforce. Great Job Natasha, looking forward to learning more from you in the future.”
Drew Alexander, Director,
XAM Consulting
“I had the pleasure of having Natasha involved in our 2nd annual Workforce Analytics Summit in Sydney in 2020. Natasha was very well-prepared, highly professional, and an engaging panel moderator. She knew her topics well and engaged with the speakers prior to the event to be fully prepared for an outstanding session. Looking forward to working with her again in future!”
“I was very fortunate to meet Natasha Hawker at a Conference and felt so inspired by her enthusiasm that I got hold of her book “From Hire to Fire”. I found it to be an excellent summation of events that occur every day in the workplace with ready tips in how to deal with these situations. Natasha’s goal in writing the book was for it to sit “doggy eared” on managers desk and being referred to as a guide when these situations arise unannounced. This objective has been achieved and I would recommend any small business owner who is unfamiliar with managing staff to get hold of the book as it is a great knowledge base to deal with these situations.”
SPEAKING TOPICS
- How to fire someone without getting sued
- How to hire the best you can afford
- What I have learnt from my mistakes as an entrepreneur
- How to hire, manage and, where necessary, fire better
- How to build high-performing teams
- How to win the war for talent
- How to grow your business faster, through your employees
- How to build talent pools