Dr. Mark Van Rijmenam
The World’s #1 Futurist
Michael Rymer, Film Director
Battlestar Galactica, Hannibal, American Horror Story
Brendan Waights, CFO & CEO
ASX, M&A, $1B Fund Oversight
Paul Korber, Sales Executive
Microsoft
Vaughan Bowen
$6B Founder
Shane Edwards, Managing Director
Investment Bank
You’ve mastered success, and in the process, lost yourself to it. The same force that built your success now quietly empties it of meaning.
Max Stephens has spent his life inside this paradox; studying it, living it, and guiding others beyond it. Forged in chaos, he turned fracture into forgiveness and has the scars to prove it.
After more than 10,000 hours of contemplative inquiry, eight degrees, and a bestselling book, he found what achievement alone could never deliver: wholeness.
Now a developmental theorist and applied philosopher, Max delivers over 1,500 deep conversations each year with world-class leaders who realised that the feast of success can still leave you starving.
Trusted and endorsed by CEOs and high performers globally, his work reveals what comes after achievement: the discovery of your contribution to humanity, where success no longer needs to prove you’re enough.
There is no shortage of personal development content designed to help people become high performers.
There is also an abundance of leadership and executive thinking for those operating at the top.
But almost none of it is built for the high performer themselves.
What happens once you’ve already achieved it?
When the habits, discipline, and mindset that got you here stop answering the deeper question of why it still isn’t enough.
Most of the industry knows how to optimise behaviour.
Very little of it knows how to evolve the self behind it.
That’s where Max’s work begins.
Beyond achievement.
You will stop fighting with yourself.
Your nervous system will be clear.
You will stop comparing yourself to others.
You will feel complete.
You will feel deeply engaged with life.
For those ready to go beyond motivation.
Max’s keynotes awaken something deeper in leaders and teams—clarity, humility, and meaning.
He speaks to the unspoken cost of success and the return to purpose, leaving audiences quieter, lighter, and more honest.
For those ready to go all the way.
Begin with a private, no-pretense conversation that cuts through achievement and image.
Together you’ll uncover what your success has been protecting—and move beyond it into peace, forgiveness, and direction.
For conversations that matter.
Max brings a rare synthesis of intellect, depth, and compassion to podcasts, panels, and media features.
He offers a grounded, philosophical voice in a culture obsessed with performance and achievement.
