Choose your direction powerfully and go after it with two-feet.
Rebekah Campbell is a recently returned Kiwi who has built technology businesses in Australia and the US. She is co-founder of Hey You, a mobile app used by more than one million Australians to order and pay at cafes, and author of best-selling memoir ‘138 Dates’, a book about searching for love at the same time as launching a global technology business, published by Allen and Unwin in July 2021.
Prior to publishing her book, Rebekah kept a blog about her experiences as an entrepreneur which was named 'Best Business Blog' by Smart Company and became a New York Times column in 2012. Rebekah is a high-profile public speaker who has spoken at TEDx Sydney and numerous events for Business Chicks. Rebekah was named a Westpac Woman of Influence and APEC Young Woman Innovator. She hosted the Commonwealth Bank ‘Women In Focus’ Podcast in 2022 and is currently writing her second book.
Rebekah speaks and writes about goal setting, failure and reliance and is known for her humour, authenticity, and direct style.
Talking Points
Cross functional leadership: You don't know what you already know
Relationship lessons for work, work lessons for relationships. How to win at your career and at home by repurposing what you already know.Cross functional leadership: You don't know what you already know
#Leadership #Relationships #Wellbeing
After losing her first love in a car accident, Rebekah Campbell spent a decade focused entirely on work. She built three businesses, raised more than $17 million in Silicon Valley venture capital and landed a column in the New York Times.
But at age 34, she hit a wall. She struggled to manage and motivate her expanding team of fifty staff. She consulted management books and mentors and still couldn't understand why the people who worked at the business didn't care as much about its success as she did. Feuds erupted between colleagues, and at a time when her board expected her tech start-up to explode in customer growth, productivity hit an all-time low.
When Rebekah arrived home at night, exhausted by days spent pleading team members not to quit, she found herself alone. She cooked alone, ate alone, watched TV alone and fell asleep clinging to a pillow.
Until one Christmas when she decided to change. She examined her successes and failures; she could win by aiming big, setting specific targets and sticking to them; she wasn't good at personal relationships. But she was willing to learn. She set herself a goal: to find a life-partner. And specific targets: one date every week for an entire year.
In this unique uplifting keynote, Rebekah will share the insights she discovered through dating 138 different men in three cities and how she applied these insights to building a loyal, motivated team who cared about each other and the business's success. She'll share what she learnt raising capital and scaling her business and how she applied these skills to finding a partner, building strong personal relationships and a personal life filled with love and happiness.
There'll be laughter, inspiration and possibly some tears. This is a talk you won't forget.
Learning take-outs:
- Every relationship matters: How to build deep personal connections that flex whilst always remaining solid. Learn to foster a culture of creativity, collaboration and trust. Apply these relationship principles to both your work and personal life.
- Agility is a state of mind: Learn how agile principles can be used to plan and achieve in every aspect of life and why we must always be hungry to learn, adapt and grow.
- Make every moment count: Never be half-in again. This talk will transform how you think about productivity and its relationship to mental health and life satisfaction.
Growth marketing
What every business can learn from high growth start-ups - perfect for a marketing or small business audience!
Growth marketing
Women in tech and finance
As an entrepreneur who has raised capital from 143 different investors, all men, Rebekah has some insightful and fun stories to share as well as ideas for how we can change the ratio.
Women in tech and finance
How to achieve anything you want in life
- A formula for setting and achieving unrealistic goalsHow to achieve anything you want in life
- Delivered using stories from Rebekah’s career, personal life, and childhood
- Inspiring, informative, heart-warming, funny and impactful.
At age 34, Rebekah had an enviable career. She’d built two major businesses in entertainment and technology and had a column in the New York Times. But she wanted love, she wanted a family, and she hadn’t been on a single date in ten years. She decided to act.
In this inspiring and heart-warming keynote, Rebekah will share a simple formula that she developed to help her achieve big stretch goals in business. Participants will be challenged to think about and share something they’ve wanted to do but have either put off or thought it was too big to accomplish. They will learn the power of jumping into the unknown, how to make mistakes, learn and keep going.
By the end of this talk, participants will be inspired to dream big and will be equipped to take steps, make mistakes, and remain resilient. They will leave this talk having laughed, cried and will be ready to take on the world.
Over the years we've been fortunate to have Rebekah share her entrepreneurial wisdom and knowledge with the Business Chicks audience. I've always found her to be level-headed and relatable a ... keep reading Business Chicks
Rebekah gave a keynote talk at our 2019 Speakers Tribe Conference on the Gold Coast. Not only did she fit the exact brief we gave her, but she was the highlight speaker for the day at our international audience. Her message was one of inspiration, empowerment, with tangible takeaways for everyone who heard. We are looking forward to booking her again
Rebekah is a great storyteller. Her talks are always vulnerable, uplifting and packed with insights.
We were lucky enough to have Rebekah come and speak at our annual Businesswomen’s’ Network Speaker Series. Rebekah was excellent at reading the brief – so she spoke to the theme – and the room, she had the right amount of humour, authenticity, and messaging. Anyone of those three elements is wonderful, but luckily for us Rebekah delivered on all three. I would have her as a keynote at the drop of a hat.
