About Us

John is a husband, a dad, and a grandfather, and he’s also in the unenviable position where he can speak with authority on a fatal car crash in which he received serious life-threatening injuries; the result from which he was classed as unemployable at age 42.

At the time of the car crash, John and Ange had four daughters (two at private secondary college and one at University), he was a successful agency manager and of course, he had a mortgage, leased cars, education commitments etc. etc. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, John’s working life was taken from him in the most violent of ways when he was involved in a horrific car crash in which an 18-year-old girl was killed. Thankfully the crash wasn’t his fault! At that time, he didn’t know that he was about to face years of rehabilitation and counseling.

On November 18, 1995, just thirty months after John’s car crash, their family was dealt the cruelest of blows when their youngest daughter Carmen (18), fell asleep at the wheel, crashed into a tree, and was killed. Their eldest daughter Michelle was on her way to work and was the third car to arrive at the scene of Carmen’s crash.

Life doesn’t always hand out red roses.

John is an International Keynote Speaker on Road Safety, Risk, and Family. His life journey is one of incredible triumph over tragedy. When a serious car accident derailed his life, he was 42 years old, a successful businessman with a wonderful family that included four beautiful daughters. Doctors told him he would never work again. After surgeries, rehabilitation, and therapy, John was on the road to at least a partial recovery, when an even a greater tragedy struck his family when the youngest of his four daughters, 18-year-old Carmen, lost her life in a car accident. This was the most devastating of events redefining his life. Determined to do something positive about his tragedies, he began to speak to young people at secondary colleges and corporations all over Australia about how fragile and precious life is. John’s true-life story of his car crash, and then 2 years later that of his young daughter’s death in yet another car accident has inspired John to becoming a champion of road safety, using Carmen’s story to educate young drivers on safe driving. Considered as the best road safety presentation you’ll ever hear; it will change your life. Nominated for the National Australia Day Council “Australian of the Year Award” in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017. – Winner of the Victorian “Regional Achievement & Community Awards” in the category of SAFETY in 2014 – Winner of the “Ballarat Safe City Award” in the category of Road Safety in 2015 – Awarded the CommBank “Australian of the Day: on Friday December 4, 2015. Featured in all forms of media for his work, John is in high demand as a celebrated International speaker, and his true-life story motivates and empowers people. After you hear John speak, you will be guaranteed to never again take your family and friends for granted.