Keynote Speakers

Lisa O'Neill

Keynote Speaker

Lisa O'Neill is a force of nature who has spent over twenty years helping people and organisations transform through her unique combination of straight-talking wisdom and infectious humour. Raised in small-town New Zealand, Lisa brings a rare authenticity that allows her to connect with everyone from CEOs to frontline staff, delivering hard-hitting messages in ways that crack people open to possibility. 

After working across multiple industries and raising four children (three with Type 1 diabetes), Lisa intimately understands the challenges of modern life and leadership. She's authored seven books including "Everything You Want" and "The Lickable Third", reaching tens of thousands through her writing, speaking and coaching. Major organisations like Ray White, BDO, Foodstuffs, and L'Oreal trust Lisa to energise their teams and transform their cultures. Whether speaking to

audiences of 50 or 5000, she consistently ranks as the highest-rated speaker at conferences

across Australia and New Zealand. 

Lisa specialises in helping organisations tackle their biggest challenges around energy, leadership, sales and customer experience. Her approach combines hilarious storytelling with profound insights, delivering practical strategies that create immediate results. Clients report significant improvements in team engagement, customer satisfaction and leadership capability after working with Lisa. Her expertise spans industries including real estate, education,healthcare, retail and financial services. 

What sets Lisa apart is her ability to make transformation feel both possible and fun. She's been called a "human Berocca" for her energising presence, and "emotionally nutritious" for her ability to nourish both hearts and minds. Through her speaking, books, and programs, Lisa empowers people to stop making excuses and start living magnificent lives. Her message is simple but profound: with the right energy, belief and action, you can have, be and do everything you want

Charity Moisenyane

Keynote Speaker

Charity Mosienyane is a leader in civil/water infrastructure with over 20 years of

experience across the water, resources and transport sectors. She is a Civil and environmental engineering by training and over the span of her career she has designed and managed the delivery of major infrastructure across Australia that has contributed to the transformation of local place. She has also delivered catchment scale programs, strategic plans to address water supply, water security and drought resilience in the UK.

She currently leads the Swimmable Birrarung Earthshot, a wildly ambitious project with a vision to work collectively across the Yarra River catchment to

transform the river (and catchment) so that it is clean, healthy, thriving and swimmable again (where appropriate). Her role involves convening across

government, business, industry, academia and community in service to this vision. She plays an integral role in field building, connecting unusual

actors/stakeholders , developing strategy and interventions that are based on a systemic approach to progress the ambitious goal of a healthy, thriving and

swimmable again Yarra River | Birrarung.

Key Dates

Call for Abstracts Closes

Friday, 9 January 2026

Early Bird Registration Closes

Friday, 20 March 2026

Standard Registration Closes

Monday, 25 May 2026

Workshops

Monday 1 June 2026

Conference Dates

Tuesday 2 - Wednesday 3 June 2026

Technical Tour

Thursday 4 June 2026

Conference Convenor

Stormwater Victoria

www.stormwatervictoria.com.au

Conference Secretariat

GEMS Event Management Australia

ABN 30 615 654 629

Contact us

For all registration and accommodation inquiries call 02 9744 5252 or email registration@gemsevents.com.au