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Key Points for Dan Haesler

Dan Haesler's clientele spans elite athletes like the Penrith Panthers and corporate leaders, showcasing his versatility in performance and leadership coaching.
His book The Act of Leadership achieved best-seller status in 2021, praised by industry experts like James Kerr for its transformative insights.
With a cross-disciplinary impact, Dan has successfully applied leadership principles across sports, education, and organizational development.
As a dynamic speaker, Dan blends research rigor with real-world experience, delivering engaging presentations packed with actionable insights.

Topics for Dan Haesler

Own the moments that matter
Whether it’s orchestrating a comeback in a Grand Final or closing a large client, taking the game-winning shot or managing difficult people, we all experience moments that matter. Dan Haesler will share with your audience key insights, frameworks and techniques that have helped the athletes, teams and organisations he works with to develop their capacity to perform at their best when the pressure is on.
Leading high performing teams - The secret sauce
Dan Haesler will explore the #1 essential element required for teams to create and sustain a high performance environment. By digging into some research as well as their own lived experience, the audience will be encouraged to consider how they could immediately start influencing their environment and conditions in order to bring the best out in their people. (Hint - it's not about talent, resourcing, money or free muffins in the kitchen.)
Mindset matters - How mindset impacts our capacity to navigate change and challenge
Change is hard. So commonly held is this belief, that it's rarely scrutinised. And whilst, objectively speaking, most behavioural psychologists agree that it is hard, it's worth noting the extent to which our own behaviours and beliefs are contributing to the difficulty we experience. Performance Coach Dan Haesler will share some frameworks and techniques that can help individuals, teams, organisations and families reframe the changes and challenges they face at work and at home. It's this reframing that allows us to find a sense of agency and control, so that not only can we respond to what we're faced with, but we can become more proactive and chart our own course in life. This keynote will resonate on a professional and personal level, and will impact how you relate to those you work with and lead, and those you live with and love.
Why don't they just do their job?
Often we see motivation or mindset as an individuals' responsibility. Dan Haesler will set out to challenge that notion and explore the importance of understanding and creating an environment and a culture in which people can authentically engage. Together with the audience, Dan Haesler will explore Self Determination Theory - the foremost theory on human motivation and use it as a lens to consider how you can reach more of your people, more of the time.
How to coach - and why (Even if you’re not a coach)
Being more coach-like extends beyond techniques, frameworks, or acronyms; it is a unique 'way of being' that fosters an environment of growth, learning, and connection. It’s as useful in personal relationships as it is in professional ones. Together the audience will explore the 'coach-like' mindset and how it can profoundly impact interpersonal relationships, team dynamics, and organisational culture. By embodying this approach, leaders can unlock immense potential within their teams, fostering resilience, innovation, and enhanced performance.

Testimonials for Dan Haesler

Dan was entertaining and engaging and was able to deliver his talk in the context of our school. The feedback from staff was extremely positive. Dan set up our conference perfectly.
Cecil Hills High School

Dan is a passionate, heartfelt presenter who combines his frontline experiences of young people with a polished storytelling style that connects effectively with his audiences. The topics and issues that he presents on are both thought provoking and inspiring and this allows him to engage his audiences at both a professional and more personal, emotional level. His unique style urges the audience to re-assess their relationship with and responsibility towards the young people that they care for which can only lead to them becoming more empathic, understanding and committed to their role.
Chair of Generation Next Seminars & Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry
Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

I highly recommend Dan as an inspirational speaker for people from any background with an interest in the future of education.
Managing Director
MojoLife, United Kingdom

One of the most powerful and genuinely engaging presentations I’ve ever experienced! Thank you!
Author, Speaker and Chief Projects Officer
Thought Leaders

Dan Haesler is doing wonderful work in incorporating some of the concepts of positive psychology with his vision of a 21st century education. His articles are both engaging and thought provoking.
Author & Lecturer
Harvard University, USA

Dan Haesler’s presentation on “Engaging Kids Today” was one of the highlights of the Young Minds 2012 conference. Dan is a captivating storyteller and his passion for teaching and for engaging young people in a meaningful way made for an inspiring and informative session.
Conference Director
Young Minds 2012

I cannot recommend Dan highly enough – he joined a very high calibre of speaker (including Sir Ken Robinson, Stephen Heppell and Alan November) at the Tech in K-12 Congress in 2012 and was on-par with the ideas, presentation style and engagement levels of the big names in education. He was the closing speaker and he held the audience engaged like no other closing keynote I’ve seen. His insights were tailored and relevent, his presentation style was dynamic. Best of all, he posed thought-provoking questions that stimulated discussion, pushed the boundaries and encouraged schools to act. Don’t think twice about working with Dan.
Conference Director
EduTECH (formerly known as the Tech in K-12 Congress)

Dan Haesler is an inspirational teacher who speaks with skill and passion about the most important issue in education today; the mental health of our children! It is a real privilege working with him! He brings a fresh, moving and often amusing perspective to an issue that is all too often, left on the periphery of education thinking.
Richard Gerver – Renowned speaker and author of “Creating Tomorrow’s Schools Today”

Undoubtedly, Dan Haesler is a rising star in Australian educational circles! As an inspirational guest lecturer to my trainee PDHPE teachers, he mesmerised with his content and delivery methods. Dan’s engaging personality and deep knowledge base are wonderful assets.
Associate Professor School of Education
University of Western Sydney

I was delighted to welcome Dan Haesler to speak at the WA and QLD Positive Schools conferences in 2011. Dan was one of our keynote speakers along-side Michael Carr Gregg and Steve Biddulph. He spoke confidently and passionately to 750 fellow teachers. He was humorous, energetic and moving as he carried the audience with his words from start to finish. Everyone could relate to his concern over the enormous pressure we put young Australians under in our attempt to get them to ‘do well’ academically. Moreover, many were inspired by his suggestions for a greater emphasis to be placed on making learning a lifelong passion, not a race to a certain outcome. Dan obviously cares enormously about his work, about the roles schools can play in providing holistic education and most of all, about the wellbeing of young people. I recommend him highly and look forward to seeing him talk again.
Associate Professor
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, M521, Honorary Research Fellow, Graduate School of Education, M428, University of Western Australia