Inspiring speaker for your next event.

PERFECT FOR LEADERS, TEAMS AND SMALL BUSINESS’S THAT WANT TO ENGAGE, ENERGISE AND CONNET WITH THEIR PEOPLE.

Paul Fairweather

Creativity | Connection | Quiet Charisma

Are you looking to energise your audience, spark fresh thinking, and reignite creative confidence? You've come to the right place.

Paul Fairweather blends decades of experience as an award-winning architect, celebrated artist, TEDx curator, and engaging storyteller to create unforgettable experiences that move hearts, inspire minds, and transform the way we connect and create.

Creative Confidence, Deep Connection & Lots of Laughter

Every audience craves something extraordinary—something that lingers long after the applause. Paul's keynotes and workshops don’t just meet these expectations—they transcend them.

With his unique mix of wisdom, warmth, and wit, Paul helps your people rediscover their creative voice, nurture authentic connections, and communicate ideas and stories that truly matter.

Whether it's a leadership summit, a creative workshop, or a team-building experience, Paul will ensure your event shines brighter and connects deeper.

Signature Topics

Creativity is Misunderstood

"Creativity isn't reserved for artists—it's the hidden superpower within us all."

Paul breaks down misconceptions around creativity, transforming your team's perspective and unleashing their innovative potential. Your audience will leave inspired, empowered, and buzzing with fresh ideas.

Expect:

  • Practical tools to ignite daily creativity

  • Insightful storytelling with a touch of humor

  • Immediate takeaways for creative problem-solving

Unleash Your Quiet Charisma

"Quiet voices hold incredible power—when they dare to speak."

Paul’s powerful yet gentle guidance helps your quieter team members and leaders step confidently into their authentic selves. This session provides a clear roadmap for harnessing quiet charisma—making every voice heard and valued.

Expect:

  • Powerful insights into quiet leadership

  • Confidence-boosting storytelling techniques

  • Strategies to communicate with clarity and impact

Ideas and Stories That Matter

"Great ideas open minds; great stories open hearts."

Explore the profound impact of storytelling to foster deeper human connections and influence real change. Paul reveals how stories resonate, connect, and inspire long-lasting action.

Expect:

  • Interactive, engaging storytelling workshops

  • Emotional depth and authentic connection

  • Practical frameworks your team can apply immediately

Why Paul?

Paul Fairweather isn't your typical speaker—he’s an architect of ideas, a master of meaningful connections, and a champion of quiet brilliance. With a unique background combining creative arts, business acumen, and engaging stage presence, Paul delivers a transformative experience that audiences rave about.

  • Proven Experience: Decades of real-world creative practice across art, architecture, and entrepreneurship.

  • Genuine Connection: Heartfelt, engaging interactions that leave lasting impressions.

  • Fun & Approachable: Expect laughs, surprises, and unforgettable moments.

Tailored Experiences For You

From high-energy keynotes (45-90 mins) to deep-dive workshops and custom masterclasses, every session with Paul is thoughtfully designed around your unique culture, objectives, and audience needs. Together, we craft an event that resonates deeply and aligns perfectly with your vision.

Additional offerings include:

  • Interactive Creativity Workshops

  • Storytelling Masterclasses

  • One-on-one Creative Coaching

  • Event MC & Facilitation

Ready to Create Something Remarkable?

Let’s start the conversation and explore how Paul Fairweather can energise your next event and ignite creativity, confidence, and connection in your people.

Dynamic event formats to suit the needs and scale of your organisation

Keynotes

Add some zest to workplace with a keynote that will inform, inspire and ignite your audience’s creative thinking

Masterclasses

Tailored masterclasses to re-engage and energise your team with a twist. The very best in team collaboration, guaranteed.

Events

A curated conference event built around unlocking the latent genius your own organisation.

Watch Paul in action

Paul has had a successful career as an architect and artist. He is now on a mission to re-ignite the creativity that people have with lost, buried or inadvertently misplaced with big ideas and a swift kick in the creativity pants.

Paul has had a successful career as an award-winning architect, business owner and CEO, founder of TEDxBrisbane, property developer, entrepreneur, furniture designer, potter, sculptor, illustrator, painter, coach, facilitator, mentor, and inventor.  

Paul’s keynotes weave his business stories with his creative adventures in singing, acting, standup, speaking and writing, along with his observations and insights from a lifelong study of the theory and application of the business of creativity and creativity of business. 

Paul now helps connect, energise, and engage teams through ideas, stories, and visual communications. His keynotes, masterclasses, and programs are all co-designed to help people connect and find meaning in their stories, clarify what really matters, and create ideas that can add value and make a difference.

Once described by a colleague as equal parts zen and espresso, Paul understands that to make ideas happen you need a combination of both the creative and practical. 

Paul has inspired teams in some of the world’s leading organisations