Steve designs learning experiences and then gets up and delivers them. He helps experts commercialise what they know, companies solve problems with learning, and places and businesses build something people actually remember. Nearly two decades, an agency, five books and a TEDx.
In practice
In practice, that looks like this:
You've got the expertise and no idea how to package or sell it. Steve's built that into books, programs and a business, and he'll help you do the same.
See how → 02Something isn't landing. People aren't doing the thing. That's a learning problem, and it's what Learn Awesome has been fixing for sixteen years for Boeing, NAB, CSIRO and Service NSW.
See how → 03Tours, venues, whole towns. Using learning so a visitor understands what they're looking at, because understanding is what people actually remember.
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Three doors. Pick the one that sounds like you and skip the rest.
A keynote that leaves people with one thing to actually do, a host who holds the whole day together, or a workshop that actually shifts something.
Fifty minutes, you and Steve, on whatever's jammed. Part coach, part problem-solver, no homework and no twelve-week programme. Bigger than fifty minutes? That's Learn Awesome's world.
No gate, no funnel, no email wall. Steve puts what he works out on the internet for anyone standing where he used to stand.
The method
Two questions sort your entire to-do list. Does it matter? And are you any good at it? Where you land tells you what to protect, what to scrape by on, and what to let go with a grin.
For years Steve only had two settings. Things he rocked and things he sucked at, and exactly one move: grind the sucks into rocks. It nearly cooked him. Then he found the third option that had been sitting in the middle the whole time.
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Where it all comes from
His dad died at 41, leaving one cassette tape recorded from a hospital bed. No map, no manual, nobody to ring and ask. So he said yes to things he wasn't ready for and figured them out as he went, and that habit turned into everything on this page.
This is legacy. Not a service, the reason he does any of it. What's here is the short version. The whole history is one click away.
Real advice. Real love. Then nothing else.
No door owns me.
Steve made that promise behind an ice cream counter in 2015, in the weeks after his mum died, when the shop wouldn't let him stop to grieve. Learn Awesome has had no office and no fixed anything ever since.
This is what passing it on looks like
No gate, no funnel. Short clips, full builds, and the write-ups. Steve puts what he works out on the internet, for anyone standing where he used to stand.
The channel. Marketing, money, AI, speaking, the lot. One honest filter, on camera, no hype.
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Some company charges two hundred bucks for a tool. Watch Steve build one for $3.50 in ten minutes. Then nick it.
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Everything that doesn't fit on camera. The problem, the thinking, how it actually got built.
Read on Substack →Work with Steve
Speaking, hosting, facilitation, coach-sulting. All him, same gift underneath all of it: getting what matters out of people and out of rooms.
Keynotes that leave a room with one thing to actually do, not a buzz that fades by lunch.
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The glue that holds your whole day together. No diva nonsense. The event is the hero.
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Workshops that open a room up and leave it with something it'll still be using weeks later.
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Fifty minutes, you and Steve, on whatever you're stuck on. Part coach, part problem-solver.
Learn more →"Steve is one ofthe best I have seen."
Kyla Campbell · CSIRO
Tell Steve what you need your people to walk away with. He reads every enquiry himself and gets back within 48 hours.
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