Toni Fitzgerald is an engaging and passionate motivational speaker having worked in radio and with the four major television networks as well as gaining a real-world, bricks and mortar background in marketing strategy, advertising and promotion for B2B, retail and lifestyle companies. She was the marketing brains behind the most successful retail launch in Australia’s history, The Queen Victoria Building in Sydney.

Toni is a Golden Quilly Award Winner as a best selling author for her book “Dare To Succeed” co-authored with the legendary Jack Canfield, and has therefore been inducted into the National Academy of Best Selling authors, based in Hollywood, USA.

She is also author of the marketing manual ‘Shoptactics”, two years in a row has been a senior judge for the Australian Financial Review Internet Awards, and was named by the Australian National Newspaper as “One of the New Stars of the New Economy”. Toni has written for, or been featured in over 90 newspapers and magazines.

Toni speaks from the heart about lessons learned from the challenges in her career – from sidekick to Humphrey B.Bear on children’s television, national current affairs TV journalist, to high profile corporate marketing manager, and to the very ups and terrible downs as a business owner. As Ambassador for the charity The Rights of Girls Initiative the stories of her challenges across her time spent in Africa are funny, sad and inspiring all at the same time.

Toni is not just an international motivational speaker, she is a consultant, a recognised thought leader and troublemaker who has refined the area of personal branding, direct media, marketing and PR for business growth. She promotes the persuasive value and power of story in business and entrepreneurism, and knows the steps necessary to achieve success in marketing through storytelling and media.

Toni is also a passionate believer that when it comes to our working lives we should be doing what we love, and she helps CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals become the recognized Celebrity Experts in their field so they can grow their businesses faster, and love doing it! And that is why, Toni says, the number one question on people’s minds these days is ‘What drives you to do what you do?’

As Toni says: “It’s no longer ‘business as usual’”. You can read more about her at www.tonifitzgerald.com.