The Seminars
Workplace Safety Seminar
Leadership Seminar
Resilience Seminar
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Workplace Safety Seminar
The Seminar on Workplace Safety – Through the Eyes of a Spy
This unique seminar brings a spy’s perspective to the world of Workplace Health and Safety (WHS).
A good spy must be creative, unconventional, and highly observant - traits that can dramatically enhance how we approach workplace safety. Patrick will show how adopting this mindset can reframe the way you think about protecting your people.
With a long-standing career in both safety and strategy, Patrick was recognised in 2023 with nominations for Excellence in Safety by the National Safety Council of Australia and the Australian Institute of Health and Safety.
In this engaging and thought-provoking session, Patrick will challenge your team to adopt a 'spy mindset'—and maybe even uncover a few budding James or Jane Bonds in the process.
Expect to walk away with new tools to reinvigorate your WHS program and better connect with your workforce. What do covert informants, disguises, and false flag operations have to do with safety? Come prepared to think differently.
In this one-hour seminar, your team will learn:
Core elements of spy tradecraft that can be adapted to enhance safety practices
Creative methods to re-energise safety engagement across the workforce
How to inspire leadership to build and sustain a strong safety culture
Duration - 1hr
Cost - $1000
Participants - no limit
Admin
Patrick is happy to adapt his presentation for your workplace needs.
And, he can deliver this presentation in person to your leadership team or online - reach out and we can work out what works best for you.
Leadership Seminar
The Seminar on Leadership
This isn’t your typical leadership seminar.
What can espionage teach us about effective leadership? More than you might think - and possibly more than you’d expect.
In this dynamic and interactive session, your team will be immersed in the real-time leadership challenges faced by modern spies. The world of espionage demands high-performing teams, decisive leadership under pressure, and the ability to adapt quickly in unpredictable environments.
Patrick draws on 30 years of experience to deliver this compelling session:
Leadership Skills in the Modern Environment – How the Spies Do It.
In this one-hour seminar, participants will explore:
The core skills required to be an effective spy - and why they matter for leadership
How to lead covertly: balancing secrecy, trust, and influence
Ways to inspire your team to excel, even in high-stakes environments
But don’t expect to sit still—this is not a lecture. This seminar is highly interactive, with participants facing some of the same tests spies use to hone their skills.
This session challenges your team to rethink the question:
“What leadership skills do I really need to be effective?”
By applying the core principles of espionage, Patrick offers your current and future leaders a fresh, practical, and inspiring outlook on leadership - a unique approach that will prove to be memorable and inspiring.
Duration - 1hr
Cost - $1000
Participants - no limit
Admin
Patrick will provide some time for Q&A and will be only to happy to stay around and answer any questions at the completion of the seminar (did we mention his weakness for good coffee?).
And, he can deliver this presentation in person to your leadership team or online - reach out and we can work out what works best for you.
Resilience Seminar
The Seminar on Resilience offers a practical opportunity for participants to review and consider the techniques used by agents to remain composed and focused during challenging situations and events.
In this unique presentation, Patrick will openly and honestly present on some of the incredibly demanding and shocking incidents that he has faced in his 30+ operational years of experience.
The seminar on Resilience - Agent of Resilience: Navigating Life's Challenges Like a Spy - will introduce the audience to the practical measures taken by spies to make themselves more resilient before, during and after potentially overwhelming or difficult situations.
This one hour seminar will introduce the audience to how agents:
prepare and be resiliently strong
manage stress and adapt during the event
grow and learn from every event
build strong relationships.
This seminar provides your team with a unique opportunity and a completely new perspective when considering “How can I be more resilient?”
Spies are always challenging existing paradigms and have an unconventional approach. This same approach to dealing with challenging situations will assist the development of a resilience framework that allows your team to thrive.
Duration - 1hr
Cost - $1000
Participants - no limit
Admin
The Spy Time team are more than happy with to develop a bespoke presentation if there is something you particularly need. Just reach out via the “Contact the Team” below and we will help you out.
“From infancy on we are all spies; the shame is not in this but that the secrets to be discovered from the art of spycraft are so many…and so poorly understood.”
— Ian Fleming
