| 2010 | Workshops and consultancy in Australia and New Zealand |
| 2009 | Invited speaker, 14th International Conference on Thinking, Kuala Lumpur |
| 2008 | Advisor to New Zealand Ministry of Education Inaugural keynote, New Zealand National Centre for Teaching and Learning, Hamilton, NZ Keynote to Australian College of Educators, Hobart |
| 2007 | Advisor to South Australian, Tasmanian and Victorian Ministries of Education Learning to Learn projects Keynote, 13th International Conference on Thinking, Norkopping, Sweden |
| 2006 | Keynote, Education Expo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2005 | Keynote speaker at the 12th International Conference on Thinking, Melbourne (with Edward de Bono, Peter Senge, David Perkins, Art Costa and others) |
| 2004 | Opening presentation on 'Coaching Creativity' to International Conference on Excellence in Education and Training, Singapore Invited member of invitational conference on Mind, Brain and Education, Harvard University (with Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio and others) |
| 2003 | Invited presentations on 'building learning power' to several national teacher and headteacher conferences in New Zealand Invited presentation to the Victoria Department of Education, Australia |
| 2002 | Invited presenter to OECD High Level conference on Education and the Brain, Granada, Spain |