02 / CORPORATE
SECTOR · TEAMS
5–120 MIN
2026
01
Audience
Corporate
A science-into-art experience that moves a room: movement for social cohesion, story, and a lift the team remembers. The experience and how, not a slide deck.
PhD ecologist · Dance Your PhD winner · 
WildWooHoo studio
Who it's for
- Conference producers & festival programmers
- HR, People & Culture, L&D
- Leadership offsites & team retreats
- Internal comms & town halls
What the room takes away
- An agenda moment people talk about afterwards
- A different way of looking at the team
- Practical models drawn from peer-reviewed research
Formats
- 5 to 15 min reset activation
- 20 to 45 min keynote (Kangaroo Time live)
- 60 to 120 min workshop or program
Quick request
Share your event date, audience size, and what you want the room to leave with. I'll come back with a scoped recommendation.
Delivery
Formats
F.01
Conference reset activation
- 5 to 15 minutes between agenda blocks
- Energy lift without forced fun
- For transitions and MC handovers
F.02
Interactive keynote moment
- 20 to 45 minute story-led experience
- Story, sound, and movement, with reflection
- For leadership days, offsites, town halls
F.03
People & culture workshop
- 60 to 120 minute team sessions
- Communication, trust, motivation, creativity
- Designed around your internal goals
Main
offer
K.01 / Featured
Kangaroo Time live, the story-led keynote
The same piece that won the AAAS Dance Your PhD, the contest's global top prize, adapted for a corporate room. Spoken word, music, and movement weave research on kangaroo behaviour into a story about individuality, hierarchy, and how groups actually work. The room laughs, listens, and walks out with a frame they can use on Monday.
Works best as
A conference opener or closer. A leadership offsite anchor. A team retreat centrepiece. Pairs naturally with a 60 to 120 minute follow-up workshop the next morning.
Workshop
Themes
T.01
Mindset for engagement
Practical reframing of barriers, drawn from nature systems. Teams move from passive attendance to active contribution.
T.02
Teamwork and peer influence
Synchrony, cooperation, and conflict-repair principles from the science of social behaviour, applied to real groups.
T.03
Organising your brain
Lessons from neuroscience and the evolutionary biology of social behaviour. Workable models for stress, focus, and sustainable motivation.
T.04
Nature-inspired thinking
Collective animal behaviour as a guide to reducing hesitation and building group confidence under uncertainty.
T.05
Diversity, individuality, and coexistence
What ecology teaches about real difference at work, drawn from Kangaroo Time and behavioural research on personality, role, and group life.
T.06
Transdisciplinary thinking for innovation teams
Borrowed from the university catalogue and adapted for R&D, strategy, and product teams. Working across disciplines without losing edge.
What
clients
report
- An agenda moment the room is still quoting weeks later
- Stronger participation across the rest of the program
- Cross-team openness and warmer conversation
- A practical frame for diversity, motivation, or change that the team actually keeps using
- A different kind of speaker on the bill, with real research credibility behind the show
Proof
in action
Transmissions, corporate & conference
// Promo overview, conference & corporate use
// Large-audience facilitation example
// Flagship story-led engagement
Keynote
FAQ
What does Dr WELI speak about?
Individuality, hierarchy and how groups actually work, drawn from peer-reviewed research on kangaroo behaviour, neuroscience and team systems. The signature piece, Kangaroo Time live, weaves spoken word, music and movement into a story a room remembers.
What keynote formats and runtimes are available?
A 5 to 15 minute conference reset activation, a 20 to 45 minute story-led keynote (Kangaroo Time live), or a 60 to 120 minute workshop or program. They pair, sequence or run as a single moment.
Is Dr WELI based in Sydney, and does he travel?
He is based in Sydney and available across Australia and internationally for conferences, leadership offsites and team days.
What makes it different from a standard keynote?
The difference is the experience and how it is done, not the information. It is science turned into story and movement, an opening, room reset or close a team feels and remembers. Delivered by a performer who is also a PhD behavioural ecologist and AAAS Dance Your PhD Global Winner 2024.
How do I check availability and fees?
Send your event date, audience size and the format you have in mind through the enquiry form, and you will get a scoped recommendation back.
Are you a science keynote speaker for conferences in Sydney and Australia?
Yes. WELI delivers science keynotes and conference energisers across Sydney and Australia, an academic and performer who opens, resets or closes a conference with story and movement.
Can you open or energise a conference?
Yes. The signature format is a conference opener, energiser or closer, a high-energy moment that lifts the room and sets the tone for the program.
Do you offer an academic speaker with live music for research-impact and public-engagement events?
Yes. WELI is a PhD researcher and performer whose keynote weaves live spoken word, music and movement, useful for research impact, public engagement and science communication.
Lock the slot
Ready to lock this into your agenda?
Send your date, audience profile, and preferred format for a scoped recommendation.