Clare Bowditch is one of Australia’s most experienced and celebrated communicators; an Award-winning story-teller with a rare gift for helping audiences feel excited, valued, and highly capable.
Both in person and online, her style is warm, professional, and highly entertaining. Her reputation as a master-speaker lies in her well-honed ability to use ‘conversational story-telling’ (and sometimes, live songs) as vehicles through which to deliver practical, strength-based trainings (in ‘Modern Mental Health’, ‘Creativity and Innovation’, and ‘Self-Leadership’). Whether in groups of five or to a crowd of 10,000, the feedback from her audiences is that she leaves them feeling strong, connected, and full of hope.
Clare’s diverse career and lived experience is another popular talking point - an ARIA Award winning musician, ABIA Award winning memoirist, Logie Award nominated actor (‘Offspring’), beloved ABC broadcaster, business-innovator, and mother of three teenagers. Her reputation as a keynote speaker began in 2012 when she founded educational enterprise, Big Hearted Business, which ‘teaches creative people about business, and business people about creativity, in ways that make sense’. She has conducted interviews and delivered keynotes at all levels of education, government, and business. In 2020 she became one of very few Australians invited to address the ‘National Press Club’ in Canberra. Her keynote was broadcast live to the nation on ABC TV.
Clare’s best-selling memoir Your Own Kind of Girl - the powerful story of her early recovery from an acute episode of mental ill-health - remains one of Audible’s ‘Top 50 Audiobooks of all-time’. Her educational podcast Tame Your Inner Critic (four steps to overcoming self-doubt), continues to be one of the most downloaded and highly rated podcasts in Audible history.
