Why Book Emily as Your Keynote Speaker
Emily began her career in radio and regional news, producing and presenting broadcast content before moving into business, education, and national speaking engagements.
She has spoken on stages across Australia, hosted large-scale events as an MC, and worked with leading organisations including the Australian Gift & Homewares Association and Metricon Homes.
As a business owner who built a membership supporting close to 1,000 female founders — and host of the Apple “New & Noteworthy” podcast The Emily Osmond Show — she understands both the strategic and human side of content that connects and moves people into action.
Season Strategy: How to uncover your one move for business success in the season you're actually living
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Your audience is consuming more business advice than ever. Podcasts on the treadmill. Emails over breakfast. Courses on the weekend. And a significant number of them are quietly, privately convinced that the problem is them — that everyone else is applying the advice and making it work, while something in them is broken.
It isn't them. It's a season mismatch.
Emily knows this because she lived it. At the peak of her business — a membership of 400 active members, an evergreen funnel converting daily, a podcast building toward half a million downloads — she started looking sideways: comparing and experimenting with what was working instead of protecting it. And in doing so, she broke the very engine that had been running without her. And then, convinced the problem was her marketing rather than her decision-making, she spent two years trying to fix it.
Season Strategy is the framework that came from that — built in the margins of early motherhood, with two children under two, as proof that the right strategy for your season is always more powerful than the best strategy for someone else's. It argues that every entrepreneur moves through four distinct seasons — periods of growth, constraint, harvest, and renewal — and that the most costly mistake in business isn't a bad strategy. It's applying a good strategy in the wrong season.
This talk doesn't add to the advice pile. It gives your audience the filter they need to evaluate everything they've already heard — and the permission to act only on what genuinely fits.
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Here's what your audience will walk away with:
✔ The name for what they've been privately experiencing
Most people in the room have felt the season mismatch — the exhaustion of following advice that should work and concluding the problem is them. They leave with a word for it. Season mismatch. That word alone changes how they process every piece of business advice they consume from this day forward.
✔ A framework they can apply immediately
The Season Audit takes five minutes. Most audience members can identify their season before the talk ends — and leave knowing exactly what it means for their next 90 days.
✔ Their one move to thrive, based on their season
Not a to-do list. One thing. Spring: experiment without guilt. Summer: cut the noise and go all in. Autumn: stop building and start leveraging. Winter: rest without apology. The clarity of one move — season-specific and immediately actionable — is what separates this framework from every other business talk they've heard.
✔ A filter for every piece of advice they'll ever receive again
Before Season Strategy, they consumed advice and asked: should I do this? After, they ask: is this for my season? That single question — run before acting on any strategy, any course, any coach's recommendation — is the most practically valuable habit this talk instils. It doesn't wear off.
✔ Permission to do less with more confidence and intention
Some business talks add pressure and a long to-do list! This one removes it. Audiences leave lighter — not because they've been told to relax, but because they finally understand why the pressure was misdirected.
✔ Marketing and entrepreneurship events
✔ Business growth summits
✔ Accelerator programs
✔ Founder communities
✔ Women in business conferences and events
Emily is an excellent fit for:
Kasey Lawrence - Economic Development and Tourism Officer, Nillumbik Shire Council
“Working with Emily on our Women in Business event was an absolute pleasure."
"In the lead up to the event, Emily requested information on what was important to our businesses and what they were seeking assistance with. This approached created a rapport with our attendees and created a bespoke key note presentation.
Emily has a contagious energy that captures the audience and leaves them energised to take on their dreams.”
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