Better questions. Extraordinary results.

Scott McLaughlin (Scotty M) is a Melbourne keynote speaker on human capability: curiosity, decision-making, and what AI can and can't know. He helps leaders turn curiosity into a capability their whole organisation can build on.

Scott has led accelerated commercial growth in startups, ASX Top 50 and multinational companies. During the COVID-19 pandemic he invented the Hunger Map for food relief in Australia, a global first for the social sector. He's built a reputation for finding a way: applying curiosity in the face of adversity and significant competition.

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Human capability, from two directions

Human capability is the focus. Curiosity is how people and organisations grow it; AI is the technology of the moment that tests it. Two keynote tracks, presented together, and every keynote rebuilt for the room.

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Curiosity, energy, decision and enquiry

How people and organisations think, decide and perform

Kill the CatCuriosity as a competitive advantage in business.
The Curiosity CeilingWhy your best questions stopped reaching the room.
The Symbiosis ParadoxAn answer is now free. A question is the only thing that creates value.
The Number You Don't MeasureThe keynote on where organisational energy stalls.
Decision Velocity is the Last MoatThe businesses that win the next decade decide fastest, with the highest certainty.
The Art of AskingCuriosity as an executive discipline.

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The Five Tensions of Augmented Understanding

A keynote series on AI, and what only humans can do

The Experience GapWhat AI cannot claim to know.
The Body ProblemWhere affect arises, and why it changes.
The Measurement TrapWhen AI senses feelings.
The Decision DilemmaGenerative alternatives without false certainty.
The Permission BoundarySafety, privacy and cultural context.
The Future of Human–AI DeliberationIntegration and recursive learning.

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Meet Scotty

Scotty never set out to make a career from curiosity. He set out to build things: teams, brands and businesses. Along the way he realised that what separates average results from extraordinary ones isn't strategy. It's the quality of the questions being asked.

Today he leads The Art of More, is completing a doctorate at Warwick Business School on why curiosity gets suppressed as organisations scale, and is writing his first book.

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28 October 2026 · Tribute

What is Love?

A tribute to my mentor of nearly thirty years, Dr Colin Benjamin OAM: on odds and worth, partial truths, and why love is what refuses to let the numbers have the final word.

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