Three jobs · one skill underneath

Experts. Companies. Places.

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. Eighteen years, an agency, five books and a TEDx.

Steve Corney standing with his arms open, in a plaid shirt, cap and sneakers.

What Steve does

Three jobs, one skill underneath.

He designs learning experiences and then gets up and delivers them. Eighteen years of it, an agency behind him, five books and a TEDx.

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Experts, commercialising what they know

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.

02

Companies, solving problems with learning

Something 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.

03

Places and businesses, making experiences worth remembering

Tours, venues, whole towns. Using learning so a visitor understands what they're looking at, because understanding is what people actually remember.

Legacy runs underneath all three. Getting what somebody knows out of their head and into someone else's hands, before it's lost.

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What do you actually need?

Three doors. Pick the one that sounds like you and skip the rest.

01

I've got a stage or a room to fill

A keynote that leaves people with one thing to do on Monday, a host who holds the whole day together, or a workshop that actually shifts something.

02

I'm building something and I'm stuck

Fifty minutes, you and Steve, on whatever's jammed. Part coach, part problem-solver, no homework and no twelve-week programme.

03

I just want to learn good stuff

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

The whole idea fits on a 2x2.

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

Nobody passed anything on to Steve. So passing it on became the whole job.

His dad died at 41 and left him thirteen minutes and twenty seconds on a cassette tape. 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.

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Thirteen minutes and twenty seconds. That's everything his dad got to leave him. Time doesn't roll over. That's the whole reason this exists.

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.
[ Portrait ]Steve, candid, sneakers on, mid-laugh. Warm, real, not corporate.

This is what passing it on looks like

The good stuff, on the house.

No gate, no funnel. Steve puts what he works out on the internet, for anyone standing where he used to stand.

Work with Steve

It looks like a lot of different things. It's one thing.

Speaking, hosting, facilitation, coach-sulting. Same bloke, same gift underneath all of it: getting what matters out of people and out of rooms.

"Steve is one ofthe best I have seen."

Kyla Campbell · CSIRO

Got a room that needs to leave different?

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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