Paul Spinks
- Health
- Men's Health
- Mental Health
- Motivational
- Resilience
- Stress Management
Paul Spinks is Australia’s leading frontline mental health speaker, a paramedic with over 20 years’ experience walking into people’s worst moments and helping them rebuild their lives. His signature keynote, The Wake Up Call, is a raw, transformative experience that helps workplaces rethink stress, resilience, leadership, family and the way they live.
In today’s workplaces and communities, pressure, fatigue, and mental load are pushing people closer to the edge than most leaders realise. Burnout, breakdown, and crisis rarely arrive without warning, but those warnings are often missed.
As a rural and remote paramedic and trauma counsellor responding to thousands of callouts across Australia homes, mine sites, schools, communities at the exact moment life fell apart he has seen it all. He’s been inside thousands of homes, mine sites, schools, and communities at the exact moment life collapsed.
Those experiences taught him one thing: crisis isn’t random: It follows patterns and it’s predictable.
As The Outback Ambo™, Paul helps organisations, leaders, and communities recognise those patterns early, and step back from the cliff before the ambulance is needed. His sessions are raw, grounded, and unforgettable. They don’t end with applause. They end with action.
Alongside his active frontline work as The Outback Ambo™, Paul gives audiences the chance to learn those lessons without the sirens.
His sessions are raw, grounded, and unforgettable. They don’t end with applause; they end with action.
He’s not another wellness speaker. He’s the man who shows you what happens when wellness fails.
- The Wakeup Call - The crisis you can still walk away from
- The Leadership Briefing - Frontline Leadership: Change The Game
- The Wake Up Call: One Step Further (Workshop)
Wow — inspiring, emotional, informative… this was a big wake-up call to myself and a lot of other people in the room.
He is an impressive presenter. I could see the majority of the audience and they were riveted. A number of people came up to me to say they were going home to download his key messages with their kids.
Attending Paul Spinks presentation was a game changer for me. His stories are confronting but valuable. It made me reassess not just how I approach my work, but also how I live outside of my job. This wasn't just another boring workshop; it was a life lesson that will stick with me. I feel like I needed a wake up call to be a better employee, a better person, and a better Dad.
The first time (ever) I have been to a workplace seminar where every attendee was riveted and listened to every word spoken!