Keynotes that shift perspectives - and performance.
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Lessons from Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition on leading through fear, complexity and the unknown.
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Insights from the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on teamwork, trust and decision making under pressure.
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In an AI customer world, is the art of selling finally dead or more important than ever?
Never before has the sales world seen such a shift, and Mike explores what it means for you.
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Co-presented with Paralympian Mark Inglis, this session explores resilience, choice and performance when the path ahead is not straightforward.
This interactive team-building presentation uses mountaineering scenarios to explore the essence of critical decision-making.
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How do you go to market effectively in today’s consumer-driven world?
Mike tackles this challenge through the lenses of sales and marketing.
Real stories. Practical insight. Human connection.
When the market moves faster than your playbooks, teams don’t need another pep talk.
They need clarity, confidence, and a shared way forward. Mike Boyle can demonstrate that.
Mike delivers keynotes that do more than entertain, they help leaders and teams:
Lead through uncertainty without losing momentum
Build trust and alignment under pressure
Lift commercial performance without burning people out
Turn strategy into action, fast
Mike’s presentations are perfect for
Sales Conferences • Leadership Offsites • Strategy Retreats • Partner Summits • High-stakes Team Gatherings
“Totally inspirational. ”
“Always fun. Always informative. Always looking over the horizon.”
What makes Mike’s keynotes land…
They are built for audiences who need more than inspiration.
Speaking agencies and event owners in 2026 are prioritising speakers who are clear on outcomes, highly engaging, and able to tailor to the room—with success that extends beyond the applause. Mike’s sessions are designed to deliver exactly that:
Story-led learning that sticks
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Immersive, high-stakes narratives that anchor memorable lessons about sales, leadership, trust, decision-making and performance under pressure.
Practical tools your people can use tomorrow
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Frameworks and language that improve conversations, conversions, decisions, and execution—especially when the stakes are high and time is short.
Tailored to your event outcomes
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Every keynote is shaped around your audience, context, and objectives—so it feels relevant, specific, and immediately applicable.
Licenced, Exclusive, High-Impact Keynote Experiences
Leadership At The Edge®
Shackleton’s 1914 expedition was a masterclass in leadership under extreme adversity. When his ship, the Endurance, was trapped and crushed by Antarctic ice, Shackleton’s ability to adapt, maintain morale, and unite his team made the difference between life and death.
Mike Boyle’s keynote distils the learnings into ten lessons providing actionable insights for modern leaders, empowering you and your team to navigate today’s leadership challenges with courage, creativity, and resilience.
The Keynote features original moving and still images by Frank Hurley, mostly taken on glass plates; they are arguably the greatest pictures ever taken in Antarctica.
This ‘Golden Age’ adventure story offers the opportunity to shift perspective — and potential.
Teamwork At The Edge®
This rollicking ride is based on the true story of the AFR Midnight Rambler and the challenges its crew encountered in winning the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race.
While many tried to manoeuvre around the storm, the diminutive AFR Midnight Rambler crew chose to head directly into its path through the notorious Bass Strait.
The decision to head into the storm, along with their extraordinary tenacity, optimism, and courage, teamwork and leadership, enabled this group of “amateurs” to outperform the professionals on bigger boats.
Beyond themes of teamwork, trust, and decision-making under pressure, Mike delivers this enthralling story in a way that makes the insights relevant and relatable to today’s VUCA world.
The Accidental Traveller
*Co-presented with Mark Inglis
Imagine you are 23 years old, trapped in an ice cave for 14 days by a sub-zero blizzard on the summit of New Zealand’s highest peak.
You are starving and freezing to death. You are rescued and taken to the hospital, and discover both legs are to be removed below the knees due to frostbite. What do you do next?
If you are Mark Inglis ONZM, you climb Mount Everest, of course. ‘Do not let a disability define your life’
Between losing his legs and then going on to be the first double amputee to have stood on the roof of the world, the summit of Mount Everest, Mark has carved out careers as a scientist, a world recognised winemaker, business creator and innovator, paralympic athlete (NZ’s 1st paralympic cycling medal, a silver at Sydney 2000), Himalayan mountain and trekking guide, philanthropist and a leading International Motivator. Who else can truly define the often used saying, “Attitude determines your Altitude”
Licensed, high impact content
Mike is one of the few licensed presenters of Leadership At The Edge and Teamwork At The Edge. These immersive experiences bring to life Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
Why book Mike?
Mike is a speaker who connects story, mindset and real-world leadership. His sessions are designed for teams who need more than inspiration. They need clarity, tools and the confidence to act.
Real stories that stay with people
Adventure narratives and lived experience anchor powerful lessons about leadership, trust and teamwork under pressure, beautifully supported by raw and original photos and video from the expeditions.
Commercial & human insight
With more than 25 years in sales strategy, leadership coaching and team development, Mike understands both performance and people.
Designed around your event
Every keynote is tailored to your audience, your industry and your outcomes. Mike works with you to make sure the session lands where it matters most.
About Mike
Mike Boyle is a sales strategist, facilitator and leadership coach with more than 25 years of experience helping businesses improve how they lead and sell.
As the founder of Strategy Shift, Mike has worked across fast moving start ups, growing teams and well established corporates. His focus is on helping people lift performance in ways that are practical, sustainable and people led.
Mike’s passion is rooted in one core belief: when leaders thrive, people thrive. He sees every team he works with as a group of capable, resilient individuals who simply need the right mindset, tools and support to unlock their full potential.
What sets Mike apart is the way he draws on real life adventure stories to bring leadership and teamwork lessons to life. He is one of the few speakers licensed to deliver Leadership At The Edge and Teamwork At The Edge, immersive presentations based on Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
Mike’s sessions are thoughtful and engaging, combining story, insight and practical tools people can apply straight away. He meets people where they are and helps them move forward with clarity, connection and purpose.
Mike’s Sweet Spot: Sales and Selling
Mike Boyle’s career in sales and sales leadership began in 1990. Since then, he has witnessed, and adapted to, significant change across every aspect of selling.
As a sales strategist, trainer, and proud sales professional, Mike brings a rare depth of real-world experience to the conversation. His ability to connect past, present, and emerging trends makes him a trusted authority on the evolution of sales and the future of selling.
Selling Is Dead
Selling Is Dead is a bold exploration of how the sales profession has been fundamentally disrupted—and why that disruption creates its greatest opportunity yet. Today’s buyer is no longer entering the market uninformed or undecided. Armed with the internet, peer reviews, comparison sites, social proof, and now AI, customers are often 60–80% through their decision process before they ever speak to a salesperson—if they speak to one at all. In many cases, particularly online, the entire buying journey happens with zero human interaction.
Mike Boyle reframes the answer. Selling isn’t dead—it’s being reset. The opportunity for modern sales professionals is not to compete with information, but to add value beyond it. In an age of educated customers, trust, insight, interpretation, and relevance become the new currency. The best salespeople now act as sense-makers, problem-framers, and decision partners—helping buyers navigate complexity, challenge assumptions, reduce risk, and connect solutions to real outcomes. Selling Is Dead is ultimately a call to evolve: from transactional selling to professional, consultative influence that earns its place in a buyer-driven world.
Go To Market
Go To Market in 2026: Aligning Teams and Messaging for Commercial Success
The way organisations go to market has been fundamentally reshaped over the past decade. In this keynote, Mike Boyle explores how changes in buyer behaviour, the explosion of digital channels, and the rapid adoption of technology have transformed strategic planning—and what that means for businesses heading into 2026.
Customers now engage across multiple platforms, often interacting with marketing, sales, digital, and service teams long before a purchase decision is made. Yet while technology has accelerated reach and scale, it has also exposed a critical challenge: misaligned teams and fragmented messaging. When strategy, marketing, and sales operate in isolation, the customer experience suffers—and so does commercial performance.
COMING SOON!
Sales Robot
*OK, it’s a bad working title.
AI and the Future of Selling: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Sales Excellence
In today’s fast-moving market, Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s already reshaping how sales teams operate, strategise, and engage with customers. In this keynote, Mike Boyle explores the real impact of AI on sales, selling, and the role of the sales professional, separating hype from practical application.
Far from replacing sales professionals, AI augments them—helping them work smarter, act faster, and serve customers in richer, more personalised ways. Mike reframes the conversation, showing that the most successful salespeople will combine human creativity, empathy, and judgment with intelligent technology to deliver differentiated impact.
This keynote equips audiences with a clear view of where AI is going, how it’s being used right now in cutting-edge sales teams, and what leaders must do today to stay ahead of disruption. Whether you’re a frontline seller or a sales manager, this talk will help you act with confidence and clarity in an AI-infused world.
Speaking Style
Mike’s speaking style is authentic, relatable and story-driven.
He connects with audiences through real experience and adventure narratives, then translates those lessons into tools and frameworks they can use straight away.
His love and enthusiasm for these incredible stories are infectious. Through his presentation, a unique blend of story, video and imagery, Mike creates a bubble within which a captivated audience leans in for more.
Mike’s ‘unpacking’ of each story helps people see their challenges from a new perspective, understand what is getting in the way, and take confident steps forward.
Ready to shift your audience?
If you are planning a sales conference, leadership offsite, strategy retreat, or industry event, and want your audience to walk away with clarity, tools, and renewed confidence, Mike would be happy to talk about how he can support your agenda.