Thirty years on site. Now on the stage.
I speak from thirty years of building, breaking, fixing and rebuilding, not from theory. Every talk I give is drawn from something I have personally navigated: a construction project in crisis, a business in administration, a team that had stopped functioning, or a stage I was not sure I was ready for. If your room needs a voice that has actually lived the problem it is talking about, this is that voice.
International speaker across Australia, Thailand and the United Kingdom
Two consecutive years on stage at David Cavanagh's Thailand Internet Summit, Pattaya (2023 and 2024)
Keynote to 200+ business leaders at international masterminds
Amazon bestselling author, Stop Screwing Your Business (2020)
Trainer/Mentor within the Aaron Sansoni group
Coach, David Cavanagh Best Coaching Program
Regular podcast guest on pressure, chaos, leadership and business turnaround
Built from lived experience, not slides
Every talk is adapted to the room. The themes below are the ones I return to because they are the ones I have actually lived, tested on real stages with real audiences, and refined over thirty years of doing the work they describe.
Leading Through Chaos
Holding composure and making sound decisions when a project, a team or a business has already gone wrong. Drawn from real crisis turnarounds, including a government-mandated bridge delivered three weeks early, and the near-collapse of my own business.
Chaos to Control
Why most business owners don't have a motivation problem, they have a structure problem, and the four PAVE pillars, Purpose, Accountability, Visibility and Efficiency, that decide whether a business runs the owner or the owner runs it.
Building an Empire From Nothing
From a market garden in Spearwood to $6B+ in infrastructure projects and an eight-figure business: an honest account of what it actually costs to build something of your own.
The Cost of Standing Back Up
Voluntary administration and seven-figure losses from clients who went under: what resilience actually looks like in the moments when quitting would be the rational choice.
How I show up in your room
Keynote
A 30 to 60 minute stage session built around one of the signature talks, or shaped specifically to your event's theme and audience. Every keynote is grounded in real experience, not recycled frameworks. I do not read from slides. I speak from thirty years of doing the work.
Workshop
A half or full day working session for leadership teams, mastermind groups or business owner cohorts. We apply the PAVE Framework directly to the businesses in the room, diagnosing real constraints, building real accountability structures, and leaving with a plan the team can execute the following week. Not theory. Work.
Podcast & media
Long-form conversations on leadership, resilience, construction, entrepreneurship and business structure. A regular guest on podcasts and media covering how leaders handle pressure, chaos and critical decision-making. Comfortable on camera and behind a microphone, always direct, and always grounded in real experience rather than theory. I bring stories most guests simply do not have.
Panel & Q&A
A calm, direct and occasionally blunt voice for panels on leadership, investment, construction industry insight or business turnaround. I do not hedge. I give the room the honest answer, even when the honest answer is uncomfortable.
Mentoring & Coaching
One-to-one and small group mentoring for business owners, leaders and coaches. As a Trainer/Mentor within the Aaron Sansoni group and a coach within David Cavanagh's Best Coaching Program, I bring both the frameworks and the real-world experience to sessions that move people forward, not just inspire them temporarily.
Rooms I've stood in front of
From project briefings on a combined $6B+ in work, including $1.1B+ under my own direct accountability, to international mastermind stages, I have spent thirty years learning to hold a room: first with a guitar in Perth pubs and clubs, then with a hard hat on construction sites across Australia and the world, now with a microphone in front of business leaders, entrepreneurs and industry audiences. The ability to read a room and give it exactly what it needs is not something I practised in a communications course. It was built over three decades of real situations where the stakes were genuinely high.
- David Cavanagh Thailand Internet Summit, Pattaya — 2023 and 2024
- Aaron Sansoni group events — Melbourne and Sydney, 2026
- International mastermind keynote — 200+ business leaders
- Australian construction and infrastructure industry events
- Business awards and industry leadership events
- Perth pub and club circuit — 10 years performing original music
Jason doesn't perform authority. He simply has it, because he has spent thirty years earning it on the ground rather than reading about it.
— DAVID CAVANAGH, INTERNATIONAL INTERNET MARKETING & AI BUSINESS STRATEGIST
We don't want to be using yesterday's methods in today's world. Jason has taken some of the old and some of the new and merged it into a dynamic program that's full of practical skills to develop your leadership.
— PAT MESITI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR & SPEAKER
Bring thirty years of the real thing to your stage
Tell me about your event, your audience, and what you want the room to walk away with. I will come back to you with whether I am the right fit, which talk or format makes the most sense, and what availability looks like. I do not take every booking. The ones I take, I deliver properly.