Talks that make the room uncomfortable — then useful.

The Finance Industry Emergency

The finance industry is a quarter of the global economy, used by three-quarters of the world's adults — and it's the only industry that sells the very thing its shareholders want back. Why that conflict endangers everything we care about, and what a post-extractive alternative looks like, from the co-founder building it.

Investing in Systems, Not Symptoms

Fresh findings from a 48-day global research tour through the systemic-investing community — London, North America and beyond. Why impact investing entrenches the status quo, and how capital can actually fund change. For boards, funds and founders.

Building What Shouldn't Exist

The unfiltered founder story: army, ambulance, autism, and ten years building for underserved people. On resilience, ethics under pressure, and why the person who says what nobody else will is the one you want in the room.

The 8-Second Story

How Maslow earned 6.1 million organic impressions in a year without spending a cent on marketing. Narrative, honesty and the craft of communicating complex change so a layperson gets it in eight seconds.

The host who does the homework.

Kane hosts panels, moderates conversations and MCs events the way he runs his podcast: prepared like an investigation, run like good theatre. Guests are researched deeply, questions go somewhere new, and audiences leave with something they didn't arrive with.

He has moderated panels for Senator David Pocock, Dr Katherine Trebeck and Prosper Australia's Rayna Fahey, and MC'd events — including premiere film screenings — for Madman Entertainment, Garage Films and Darkwood Entertainment, presenting to audiences that have included Magda Szubanski, MP Nicolette Boele, MP and former senator David Smith, and comedian Dave Hughes.

There's a reason the rooms are warm: Kane did stand-up comedy when he was younger, and came close to pursuing it as a career. Bringing a room alive with humour is a big part of his MC'ing — he uses laughter to cut tension the way comedians do. "Nothing unites a room full of strangers like laughter," says Hannah Gadsby — one of his comedy idols, alongside Magda Szubanski.

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Never the main character.

Kane has no interest in platforming himself. His work is extracting the stories behind other people's journeys — he has, more than once, been so focused on his guests that he forgot to introduce himself to the audience at all. He'll tell the parts of his own story that give someone else in the room cover to reach an opportunity or a learning, and he's proud to stand as an ally for people who experience life the way he does without the privilege of presenting the way he does. The spotlight, in his hands, points outward.

People tell Kane the truth.

It's the thing audiences and bookers notice first: people often tell Kane things on stage they've said they won't talk about on stage. Not technique — investment. Nobody in the room cares more about the person in front of him than he does, and people can feel it. It's how a two-term parliamentarian came to speak openly about surviving cancer three times, why a commissioner unpacked the systems she polices, and why guests keep describing the hardest conversation of their week as "a joy". Kane gets truth and stories out of people that almost nobody else can — because he's not waiting for his turn to talk.