people don't need more information. They need… just two minutes.
Lizzie Williamson is a high-energy opening and closing motivational speaker — The Excuse Buster from Down Under — whose energising, interactive keynotes get audiences out of their own way and into action.
(Think Mel Robbins meets AUSSIE energy)
People ALREADY KNOW WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING.
The problem isn't information — it's the excuses. No time. No energy. No motivation. Not the right moment.
A PowerPoint presentation isn’t going to fix that.
Lizzie gives people the tools to bust those excuses for good — live, in the room, in just 2 minutes.
"Just two minutes"
The way to talk back to your excuse voice isn't a bigger plan. It's action so small it's impossible to argue with.
Just two minutes.
Two minutes to change your state. Change your energy. Change your direction. Two minutes to get unstuck and moving toward how you actually want to feel — at work, at home, in your own head.
That's the Two Minute Method™. It saved my life. Now it's what I bring to stages around the world.
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Meet Lizzie Williamson
They call her “The Excuse Buster from Down Under.”
Some have even called her Australia’s answer to Mel Robbins.
Lizzie Williamson is a global high-energy motivational speaker who has brought her signature Two Minute Method to organisations including Amazon, Adobe, American Bankers Association, Salesforce, Toyota and KFC, and to conferences featuring Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Arianna Huffington, Tony Robbins, and even the Dalai Lama.
Lizzie is also the author of two award-winning books, Two Minute Moves and The Active Workday Advantage, TEDx speaker, and a regular guest on morning television, with her work featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show and Sunrise.
FAQs:
Is Lizzie a good opening or closing keynote speaker? Yes, it's her specialty. Event organisers book her to open conferences with instant energy or close them with audiences leaving inspired and in action.
What makes her keynotes different? They're fully interactive - audiences are up, moving and cheering with pom-poms, experiencing the Two Minute Method™ live instead of just hearing about it. Think Mel Robbins meets Aussie energy.
Where is she based and does she travel? Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, USA — speaking across Australia, the US and worldwide, in person and virtually.
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This is what an event looks like when Lizzie is on stage.
A Lizzie Williamson keynote is something your audience does, not just hears.
Yellow pom-poms in the air — cheering themselves on first, then the person next to them. Excuse whackers busting through "it's not big enough" and "it's not good enough." 10 to 10,000 people discovering that a two-minute action, celebrated loudly, changes the energy of an entire room.
They don't leave with notes they'll never read. They leave with one tool they can use the second they're back at their desk — and a room full of people who cheered them on.
“Information was never the problem. Excuses are. And excuses can be busted - in just 2 minutes.”
Audiences don't leave with notes. They leave with excuse-busting tools.
Lizzie's keynotes gives every person in the room a practical, proven toolkit they can use the moment an excuse shows up — at work, at home, on a Monday morning when everything feels hard.
A 2-minute reset for when energy hits zero
A live excuse-busting framework they can apply to anything
The physical and mental shift that makes action feel possible again
The proof — felt in their own body, right there in the room — that conditions don't have to be perfect to start
This isn't a sit-and-listen keynote.
Here's the hard truth: If audiences leave with more information and no tools, the excuses win. Again.
They walk back to their desks, back to their routines, back to waiting for the right moment that never comes. And the event becomes the one they can't quite remember.
When you book Lizzie
✓ The room is on its feet within minutes — laughing, moving, high-fiving
✓ Excuses that have kept people stuck for years get named, called out, and busted live
✓ Every single person leaves with real tools they've already used in the room
✓ Post-event surveys light up — attendees are still talking about it weeks later
✓ You get the credit for the session nobody forgot
✓ They ask you to bring her back next year
Information isn't the problem. Excuses are. Book the speaker who fixes that.
You've worked too hard on this event for the keynote to be forgettable. Book the speaker who doesn't just fire people up — she hands them something real to take away. Excuse-busting tools they'll use the moment Monday morning hits and every reason not to start comes flooding back.
That's Lizzie's promise. Your people walk out more energised, more connected, and more ready to act — not because they felt good in the room, but because they know exactly what to do when the excuses show up.
No more excuses. Just 2 Minutes.
WHY EVENT ORGANISERS LOVE LIZZIE
“When someone feels something, they remember it. And you’ll be the one they thank.”