October 6, 2025 – No Try Carla Ondrasik and The Empathy Gap Daniel Murray

Carla Ondrasik – Former EMI Music Publishing VP, Now Motivational Speaker & Author

Stop building in the intention and the potential for failure before you even start. Change that word with ‘I’m going to do this,’ and you’re going to trigger a series of events that literally happen in your brain to more doing.

Carla Ondrasik is a former music publishing executive turned motivational speaker and author whose work is grounded in psychology, habit science, and clinical research. During her more than 20-year tenure in the music industry, she served as a vice president at EMI Music Publishing, where she worked with a number of artists and helped facilitate creative development. Drawing on that experience, Carla now speaks at colleges, high schools, retreats, and events, delivering her signature Stop Trying / Start Doing philosophy. Her upcoming book, Stop Trying!, presents a framework for creating lasting change by overcoming procrastination, silencing negative self-talk, reframing failure, and replacing passive attempts with decisive action. Carla’s approach is designed to help people stop feeling stuck and begin accomplishing goals in their personal, professional, and creative lives.





Daniel Murray – Keynote Speaker, Empathy Strategist, Founder of Empathic Consulting and Author of The Empathy Gap: The Bridge to Real Connection and Lasting Influence

If you’re too busy or you don’t care, then you’re not a leader. Stop leading that person, because we need leaders around us who are willing to actually care.

Daniel Murray (BSc, MBA Executive) is the founder and CEO of Empathic Consulting and is widely recognised as Australia’s leading expert in Strategic Empathy – the practice of embedding empathy into organisational culture to drive performance. With over 18 years of experience in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors, Daniel blends a strong analytical background in mathematics and strategy with deep insights from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural economics. Beginning his professional journey in roles such as internal management consultant for large financial services organisations, he transitioned to a purpose-driven mission: helping leaders and organisations develop empathy as a strategic capability. Daniel’s speaking, consulting, and training work focuses on guiding leaders to bridge the “empathy gap” – moving beyond purely measurable metrics to recognise how emotional intelligence, values, relationships, and culture impact performance.  He has delivered keynotes and workshops for organisations such as Commonwealth Bank, PwC, IAG, Macquarie Bank, Treasury departments, and more – focusing on themes such as “The Empathy Gap,” “Leading the Great Reconnection,” and embedding empathy into business models.  Daniel’s mission is to help people leaders unlock the full potential of their teams by combining curiosity, empathy, and strategy in a pragmatic, actionable way.