Book us live

Book a keynote, workshop or performance

We run a live session at your event. Your audience takes part rather than watches, and leaves with one thing they remember. Led by an award-winning creative director and evolutionary ecologist.

Keynote, energiser, workshop, performance, school incursion or a short residency. Fees scale with the organisation and the audience.

Bring us to your event

The problem

Standard talks lose the room and are forgotten fast. Our sessions are participatory: the audience is active, and leaves with one clear message.

What you can book

  • Keynote. A conference opener or closer the audience joins.
  • Energiser. A short reset that gets a tired room up and moving.
  • Workshop. Research communication, STEAM, or creative thinking for teams.
  • Performance. A live sci pop set built around your theme.
  • School incursion. A science, music and movement session for a class, a year level or a whole school.
  • Science-art residency. A short embedded stay, making work with your researchers or your community.

Our two signature workshops, How To Lead a Diverse Team Into Belonging and How To Turn Your Knowledge Into Art That Connects, are set out in full on our programs page.

How it runs

  1. Open with a short group movement.
  2. Introduce the idea and its human angle.
  3. Translate it into song, story or movement.
  4. Run a group activity.
  5. Close on one clear message.

Why you need us

Delivered by Dr WELI, an evolutionary ecologist (PhD, ANU) and recording artist. The work mixes worlds that rarely meet: science, universities and the commercial creative industries. Your audience leaves with the creative potential in scientific thinking made obvious, and with a wider sense of what a career in science can look like. The method has run from school classrooms to conference plenaries. AAAS Dance Your PhD Overall Winner 2024; 238+ media features across five continents.

Who it is for

Conference producers and event organisers. People-and-culture and L&D teams. University researcher-development and engagement teams. Festival and science-week programmers. Schools. NGOs and community events.

Book us live

Indicative, and quoted to your brief. Fees scale with the organisation and the audience:

  • School sessions from about $549 a session.
  • One-off workshops up to about $2,490.
  • Keynotes from about $3,000.
  • Full-day and signature workshops, for universities and larger organisations, up to about $10,000.
  • Large corporate engagements up to about $20,000.
  • Performances quoted to brief.

Individuals and small groups sit at the lower end. Tell us your budget and audience, and we send a fixed quote within two working days.

Bring us to your event

Want to book WELI as an individual speaker? See drweli.com.