Jacob Allan brings together professional acting, two decades of senior commercial leadership and academic rigour at the University of Sydney Business School — a speaker equally at home with a CEO, a lecture theatre and a live audience. These keynotes don’t just inform a room, they move it. Choose a talk below.
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The Thinking Advantage
“When everyone can generate, the edge belongs to those who can still think.”
- Why AI has collapsed differentiation
- The hidden liability of “cognitive debt”
- Building cognitive capital across a team
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Inviting Creativity In
“You don’t have a creativity problem. You have a conditions problem.”
- Why creativity declines across careers
- How leaders open or close creative space
- Framing the right problem before solving it
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The Leader’s Presence
“Presence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you rehearse.”
- Presence as a trainable capability
- Actor techniques applied to leadership
- Staying grounded and authentic under pressure