Corporate / Adult sessions

Business Unusual: How to Lead, Adapt and Win—Octopus Style

Audience: Corporate entertainment, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, conferences and business events, change management, organisational culture events.

What do octopuses and high-performing businesses have in common? More than you’d ever imagine. In this captivating keynote, marine biologist, board member, businesswoman and renowned raconteur Sheree Marris dives into the world of nature’s ultimate survivor—the octopus—to deliver a radically fresh framework for modern business.

Blending evolutionary brilliance with boardroom strategy, Sheree unpacks 8 arms of business success—drawing from 300 million years of adaptation, innovation and survival in one of the harshest environments on the planet. Think: decentralised leadership (yes, their arms literally think for themselves), mind-bending camouflage, resource efficiency and even bold risk-taking (spoiler: sometimes it involves losing private parts… and still winning).

If My Octopus Teacher had a witty, business-savvy cousin who binge-read 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this would be it.

Perfect for leadership retreats, innovation summits and any organisation navigating rapid change, this keynote offers unforgettable storytelling, powerful metaphors and future-ready lessons—so your business doesn’t end up dead in the (salt)water.

Topics covered:

• Leadership
• Adaptive Thinking & Agility
• Bold Risk-Taking
• Resource Efficiency
• Creative Problem Solving
• Resilience & Regeneration
• Strategy

KamaSEAtra - Sex in the Sea

Audience: corporate/after dinner

Think your love life is complicated? Imagine being chased across the ocean by a detachable penis with a mind of its own or going on a date where you become dinner? Welcome to the wild, wet and wonderfully weird world of sex in the sea. In this hilarious and eye-opening talk, award-winning author and marine biologist Sheree Marris dives deep into the raunchy reproductive strategies of sea creatures—from romantic oceanic opera’s, collecting private parts as a pastime and lovers that bite on and never let go.

Blending jaw-dropping underwater cinematography with cheeky storytelling and sharp scientific insight, KamaSEAtra isn’t just a talk—it’s a ride through evolution’s naughtiest ideas. Underneath the laughs lie powerful parallels to human behaviour and even business. Perfect for after-dinner entertainment or conference circuit curveballs, this talk guarantees big laughs, surprising takeaways and a very happy ending.

Topics covered:

• The parallels between humans relationships/sex and animals
• Attracting the opposite sex
• Complexities of finding love
• Mating strategies
• Science
• Persistance/resilience

The Business of Doing 'The Business'

Audience: Corporate entertainment, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, conferences and business events.

Explore the wild sex lives of animals to uncover surprisingly powerful lessons on innovation, risk, resilience, and success. From detachable private parts, parasitic partners to synchronised climaxes, marine biologist and award-winning science communicator Sheree Marris reveals how nature—Earth’s original R&D lab—has been testing what works (and ruthlessly discarding what doesn’t) for over 3 billion years.

Packed with shock, science, and side-splitting storytelling, this is evolutionary strategy at its boldest—and business inspiration at its most unforgettable. Because in the end, sex is business. And nature’s been doing the business better than we ever have and there’s so much to learn

Topics covered:

• Leadership Lessons from Nature
• Adaptive Thinking & Agility
• Risk-Taking
• Creative Problem Solving
• Resilience & Regeneration
• Efficiency & ROI Strategic Positioning
• Standing Out in Crowded Markets
• The Power of Differentiation
• Influence & Persuasion
• Sustainability & Long-Term Thinking
• Failure as a Feedback Loop
• Communication Without the BS