Speaking

Some stories change a room.

Davey speaks to workplaces, schools, sporting clubs and events about the stuff men don’t say out loud: grief, addiction, the pressure to perform, and what asking for help actually looks like. No slides full of statistics. Just a tradie telling the truth, and a room full of people realising they’re allowed to as well.

Sydney based · Travels Australia-wide

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See the formats

Keynote

30 to 45 min

Toolbox talk

15 to 20 min, on site

Workshop

The eight steps, live

No rider

No slides, no projector

Who books Davey

Built for rooms full of blokes who are “fine”.

Construction and trade events, toolbox talks, safety and wellbeing days

Men’s mental health events and fundraisers

Schools and sporting clubs

Corporate wellbeing programs, conferences and webinars

Davey runs his own construction company. He has stood on the same sites, worn the same high-vis and hidden the same struggle, which is exactly why trade audiences listen to him when they would not listen to anyone else.

Formats

Four ways to bring the story in.

Every format is built around the true story behind Tin Man, tuned to the room, the time slot and the outcome you need.

Keynote · 30 to 45 min

Tin Man: Getting a Heart Back

The full story: the party, the fame, the addiction nobody saw, the night his heart stopped, and the unglamorous work of coming back. Ends on what any listener can do next, for themselves or a mate.

Toolbox talk · 15 to 20 min

On-Site, No Slides

Short, direct and built for a work site: one tradie to a crew, before the day starts. The talk most likely to reach the bloke who would never attend a “wellbeing event”.

Workshop · 60 to 90 min

The Eight Steps, Live

An interactive session built on the book’s eight-step framework, with the same fill-in prompts the book uses.

Panel · Flexible

In Conversation

Moderated conversation or panel seat for conferences, fundraisers and media events. Honest answers, no rehearsed lines.

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What the room walks away with

Not inspired. Changed.

Permission to speak

The single biggest outcome: someone in the room asks for help who never would have, because a bloke like them went first.

The nine signs

Practical, memorable markers for spotting when a mate, a workmate or a son is struggling, drawn from the book’s bonus chapter.

A next step

Every talk closes with one concrete action for the room: a conversation to have, a number to save, a page to fill in.

Next time he asks, “How are you, mate?” try telling him the truth instead of automatically saying, “I’m good.”

Davey Lloyd

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