Description
Dan Aubin is a leadership speaker, acclaimed storyteller and acrobat. He turns keynotes into full physical experiences. In fact, he often balances on stacked chairs mid session while he challenges audiences to rethink how they communicate. As a result, rooms leave with more than notes; they leave with a shift in how people show up for each other. Learn more about his background on circus performance and physical theatre.
Dan Aubin Leadership Speaker: Career and Background
Dan grew up in a small lake town in Northern Ontario, Canada. After losing his mother at 14, he found strength through movement and performance. This path carried him from elite gymnastics through to international circus stages. For more than 20 years, he has lived and worked in Australia. During that time, he has directed and performed with world class acrobatic companies including Cirkidz and Gravity and Other Myths. He also spent seven years lecturing at Charles Sturt University.
Today, Dan is the founder of Daring Humans, a leadership and communication consultancy. The consultancy helps teams think strategically, connect authentically and lead with impact. Because of his background in both performance and academia, Dan bridges art and leadership. In turn, this helps organisations navigate change with more confidence.
Keynote Topics
Balancing the Shifts: The Acrobatics of Being Change-Ready
The best leaders aren’t those who seek stability – they are those who balance. In an era where life and work shift faster than ever, we often hear we need to “find balance.” But balance isn’t something we achieve, it’s something we engage with.
Shifts in industries, communities, and personal lives are constant – our ability to adapt determines our success. This talk introduces a transformative shift: what if, instead of fearing change, we trained ourselves to engage with shifts like an acrobat adjusting in real time?
The Mindset of Innovation: Embracing Creativity & Risk
Innovation starts with courage – the courage to experiment, fail, and think differently. Innovation isn’t a lightning bolt, it’s a mindset. The greatest breakthroughs, whether in business, leadership, or the arts, come from embracing risk, reframing failure, and fostering a culture of creativity.
This keynote covers reframing failure as fuel for innovation, unlocking creative confidence, shifting from perfection to play, and building environments where creativity thrives.
The Art of Daring Communication: How to Engage, Inspire & Influence
In a world full of noise, how you communicate determines your impact. Whether leading a team, pitching an idea, or speaking on stage, the ability to engage, inspire, and connect is essential.
Using insights from performance, leadership, and psychology, Dan reveals how elite communicators capture attention, inspire action, and make messages stick – covering the science of attention and influence, performance-based techniques, the power of clarity and authenticity, and real-world applications for leaders and teams.
What Clients Say
Prue Jenkins, CEO of WUNAN Foundation, said Dan connected brilliantly with her staff. She added that his stories left a lasting impact on the organisation’s core messaging. Similarly, Mark Hoffman-Davis, CEO of SYC, said the keynote resonated strongly with his leaders. He noted that it helped them navigate the day to day challenges they and their teams were facing.
Dan Aubin leadership speaker is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He is available for keynotes, workshops and leadership coaching. See his full profile on the Corporate Speakers Australia leadership speakers page.
