Career Speaker
Bridget Hogg – Career Speaker. Inspirational Female Adelaide Speaker
Bridget Hogg, GM, Development at Work Australia is a professional speaker with a special interest in helping people see things differently so they feel inspired, find a way to make things happen and create change. Bridget is a very experienced Career Speaker and has spoken at many international, professional, industry association conferences and Expos over the past 35 years.
Find a Way or Make One to Work You Want.
Bridget has spoken at many conferences and public events on winning work you want, career transition and job search, including:
- Adelaide Careers and Employment Expos 2025 and 2026
- Disability Employment Australia Leaders Forum
- Association of Graduate Recruiters (UK)
- DFEEST Training Sector Forum
- Employment 40+ Forum
- Employment Consultants Conference
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants India (Adelaide chapter)
- Marion Learning Festival
- 10th Annual Conference – Occupational Therapists in Private Practice (UK)
Please contact 0477 016 966 or bridget@developmentatwork.com.au if you would like more information about how Bridget can help you to inform and inspire delegates at your next event.
The Client Experience – What do our clients say?
Great presentation at the Careers Expo Thursday. “I really appreciated your resume and job interview tips—they were very practical and well presented… very informative and valuable.”
Chad Staunton
“Thank you Bridget. the insights were excellent … and very critical for anyone – early (career) or growing stages. Your energy and engaging with audience was incredible.”
Srirama Srinivasan Jayaraman, Chairperson, ICAI Adelaide Chapter
“Bridget is one of the best speakers I have heard. She helped us learn so much. She captures her audience with ease.”
Danny Olsen, SA Retail Manager, Beaumont Tiles
“Thank you for your recent contribution as a presenter at the Training Sector Forum Making Connections – Developing our Workforce. We were extremely pleased … The professionalism, cooperation and support that you showed from your initial expression of interest to your organisation and presentation on the day of the Forum ensured the smooth running of a highly successful event.”
Chris Hastwell, Director and Tom Quigley Conference Coordinator
Call us to discover how we can assist your next event or conference. Ask us how we can tailor a keynote or presentation for your audience. We can help you inspire and challenge your delegates.
Bridget speaks on specialist topics centred around career transition, human resources, good working practices and personal motivation, such as:
- Find a Way or Make One to Win Work You Want – for job seekers and retrenched workers
For corporate audiences she also speaks on:
- Find a Way or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent
- Find a Way or Make One to Workplace Wellbeing
- Find a Way or Make One to Manage the People Aspects of Change Effectively
“…I would like to thank you for your participation in the 2004 Women in Leadership Program. The time and resources contributed by you provide an invaluable component of the Graduate Skills Development Programs…the feedback from the students who attended the two-day program has been extremely positive.”
Verity Kingsmill, Graduate Skill Development Coordinator, Flinders University.
“Bridget was an excellent presenter and provided great insight into how to market yourself to prospective employers. I was not only impressed with her presentation, but also with the background work she did talking to business owners and other expo presenters to get their personal opinions to add value to her own presentation. Thus adding great value to the information given to everyone in attendance.”
Annette Annandale-James, Project Officer, Community Engagement, Science and Information Economy Directorate
Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology
Is Bridget right for your audience?
Bridget is author of the 2022 book “Find a Way or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent” and the 2025 book “Find a Way or Make One to Work You Want”. She can help your corporate audiences find new ideas to help them attract and retain talent and be productive, competitive and sustainable, she will reignite your audience by sharing ideas, case-studies and the most up to date data. She helps managers to see the managers’ role in retention. She helps inspire good leaders to create GREAT employment experiences.
Bridget is perfect for in-house conferences, leadership events and association conferences. Because she assists organsiations to select talent – she can help job seekers to understand how to win work they want.
Bridget speaks to audiences of job seekers and those in career transition to inspire their careers and help them win work they want. She supports delegates to see things from a different perspective to create huge improvements in their careers. She develops selection methods (interviews and assessment centres) for HR managers and organisations so Bridget knows what they are looking for and she understands how HR Managers think. She trains interviewers so she knows how to help you ace an interview.
Bridget has spoken to many audiences on Find a Way or Make One to Work You Want including: Australian job seekers; migrant job seekers in Australia; retrenched workers; mature job seekers; young people and professional groups, such as Occupational Therapists and Accountants.
We will be happy to discuss your requirements with you to tailor a keynote presentation for your group or conference. Please call 0477 016 966 to discuss your event and what you’d like to achieve.
Bridget is a professional career motivator, coach and HR expert. I have time and again seen firsthand Bridget’s ability to connect with clients and galvanize them into strategic action resulting in positive activity and work outcomes. Client reviews are consistently outstanding based on personal results achieved as a result of Bridget’s motivational coaching. Bridget’s approach to work shows a depth of understanding and commitment which reveals itself in the exceptional results achieved. Bridget’s accomplishments are many, however her approach is always focussed, fun and respectful. I have no hesitation in recommending Bridget as inspirational and complete HR professional.
Service Category: Career Coach
Year first hired: 2013 (hired more than once); Top Qualities: Great Results, On Time, Creative Christopher Karvountzis, formerly Regional Manager at Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology (DFEEST), currently Deputy Director, Southern Connections
(The Next Steps for Retrenched Workers workshop series is a) great motivator for building optimism and confidence. This is a great workshop for all participants at all levels with their careers, there is something for everyone, worth the time. Daniel Oetjen, formerly Site Manager, Accolade Wines
“Sam Ricci & I attended part of Bridget Hogg’s session yesterday on Resumes and Interview techniques etc. It was outstanding! Student engagement was all happening. Looks like the program was kicking some big goals. Well done. Great Work.” Russell Atwell, Apprenticeship Broker, Trade Schools for the Future
Participant Testimonials from Workshop/Conference delegates
I found Bridget’s course (Next Steps Job Seeker workshop) extremely useful. It was interesting to see and hear the perspective of the interviewer and what they want to hear and see, and that gave me more confidence to be the interviewee. I found the SOAR acronym particularly helpful as it gave me a structure to answer all questions from the interviewer, both easy and difficult, and this made it much easier. The use of the words as a sentence starter was particularly helpful. I also found my resume writing improved beyond measure. I also saw this from the employer’s perspective and understood more fully exactly what they would like to see in a resume. Bridget was an enthusiastic, patient and knowledgeable tutor.
Brigeen Gilroy
“Having completed the course with Bridget from Development at Work Australia, I now am armed with the latest tools how best to present myself on paper, by phone and in person at an interview, my resume looks great and my confidence is high! I would highly recommend this training to all who need it”. Tim Schulz
“I find these workshops particularly encouraging and engaging. What I liked best was the chance to meet others who are going through the same journey as me. And in particular it is the way the workshops are conducted. You are part of the discussions, and not talked down to. It has built a lot of confidence in me and I am able to go out there and promote myself. I have generally been shy of meeting people, especially when it’s to talk about myself. But now, with these workshops I feel more confident about my skills and talents…Thanks Bridget for these wonderful sessions.”
Pragathi Sridhar
I found the “Your Next Steps Jobseeker Program” highly useful for me. It helped me to improve my resume writing, interview and networking skills. I received useful advice with specific examples. The program gave me a better understanding on how to seek work in Australia. I recommend this program, especially for those who have recently arrived from overseas.
Chris Nunez
I found the course really useful, and I did not realise that I needed as much help with my CV, and interview technique as I did. I found the workshops a great help in presenting my CV in a style that encouraged employers to invite me for an interview. The work on answering interview questions, and the mock interviews were very helpful in improving my confidence, and my ability to answer interview questions. I would recommend the course to everyone as it contains great advice.
Michael Hughes
Being new in Australia I was not sure of what was expected of me or if my resume was in the right format. Thanks to your workshop on resume writing I found out that my resume was way too long and too detailed. I have adjusted my resume and will start applying for jobs soon. Your assistance with the interview skills will also help me a lot when I will be called for an interview and I will be better prepared for the interview questions. The Christmas Gift program really came at the right time and I’ve learned a lot from you participating in it.”
Malinda Grove
“Bridget delivers inspiring, relevant, interesting and informative workshops. I attended the Next Steps Jobseekers Programme and having recently arrived from overseas, gained a valuable insight into working in Australia. My resume has been updated, I know where to look for job vacancies and I am feeling very optimistic about my future. Bridget, your energy and enthusiasm is contagious, thank you for your support.”
Andrea Clare
“I have been to Bridget’s workshops … and I have gained great confidence in moving forward”
Job seeker on the Connecting Our People Christmas Gift program.
“I think the project was a very successful one, with a number of extremely informative and relevant free workshops offered to participants, and ably and enthusiastically led by Bridget Hogg… I am very appreciative of the opportunity to participate in this project, and am feeling more confident about re-entering the workforce as a result of my participation.”
Job Seeker on the Connecting Our People Christmas Gift program.
To see additional testimonials for Bridget Hogg click here: https://www.developmentatwork.com.au/testimonials/