Inspiring audiences to take action
Real Experience
Decades or leadership, resilience and community impact.
Real Connection
Engaging, relatable and authentic storytelling that moves people.
Real Leadership
Building stronger communities through purpose and action.
Real Results
Empowering audiences to create meaningful change.
A life built around doing something.
Christine Robertson OAM is a speaker, award-winning leader and community changemaker with more than four decades of experience bringing people together and turning difficult situations into practical action.
Named South Australia’s Local Hero in the 2023 Australian of the Year Awards, Christine’s leadership spans business, major events, community service, animal welfare, food and agriculture. She is CEO of the Adelaide Showground Farmers’ Market and Founder and Director of The Pawthority Group, the organisation behind Lost Pets of South Australia and Chipblitz, which has microchipped more than 100,000 animals across Australia.
Christine speaks with the authority of someone who has led through real challenges, built successful organisations and lived through breast cancer, heart failure and profound personal loss. Direct, warm and often very funny,
she shares honest stories about resilience, courage, kindness, leadership and what becomes possible
when ordinary people decide to act.
OAM
For service to
the commuity
SA LOCAL HERO
Australian of the Year
Award
100,000
Animals microchipped
through Chipblitz
CEO
Adelaide Showground
Farmers' Market
From challenge comes clarity.
From clarity comes change.
Chrissy's speaking leaves audiences inspired,
motivated and ready to make a difference.
Christine Robertson OAM
Adelaide, South Australia
Testimonials
'I quietly admired Christine’s style watching her speak at the Royal Adelaide Show. She seamlessly incorporated the conversation we had prior to her presentation in an effortless way (with no notes!). She really is a terrific public speaker.'
Josephine Lamshed
Regional Director South Australia
Immigration Operations, Immigration Group
Department of Home Affairs
Christine Robertson is the kind of keynote speaker who doesn’t simply stand at the front of a room and tell you about resilience, she shows you what it looks like when resilience has been lived, tested, broken open and rebuilt.
There is something extraordinarily powerful about Christine’s authenticity; there is no polished veneer, no pretending that courage means never struggling, and no attempt to make the difficult chapters of her life more palatable. She is gritty, vulnerable, wickedly funny and deeply human.
One of the most moving messages from her keynote was also one of the simplest; ‘We get up, we show up, and we bring someone else with us’. Yep, that is Christine.
Christine is warm, irreverent, intelligent, compassionate and profoundly kind. She can have a room laughing one moment and sitting in absolute silence the next, because underneath the humour is enormous depth and hard-earned wisdom.
There are keynote speakers whose words you remember, and then there are people like Christine, whose humanity you remember.
Most importantly, she leaves you wanting to get up, show up, and make damn sure you bring someone else through the door with you.
Rachel Titley
Business Coach & Speaker
SheFarmer
'Look for the woman in the Yellow Boots'
A slightly irreverent line that has followed me around for years. At the Farmers' Market, when someone asks where I am which is often, staff and volunteers often tell them exactly that. It turns out some personal brands deverlop themselves.