SPEAKING
A Voice That
Opens Rooms
Matthew speaks to corporates, conferences and community events about grief, OCD, resilience and what genuine strength looks like when your world caves in. He doesn't just tell a story. He opens a door.
“Powerful, raw and emotional — a reminder that sometimes the strongest of us are struggling the most.”
— Ben Colston
THE KEYNOTE
One Keynote. Three Audiences
A Father's Love — delivered for the room that needs to hear it most.
WORKPLACE & CORPORATE
How to show up for the person sitting next to you
Behind every high-performing colleague is a life you know nothing about.
Most firefighters will never talk about the worst thing they're carrying. Not because they don't want to. Because nobody went first.
In A Father's Love, Matthew Wright goes first. A third-generation firefighter and Peer Support Officer, Matthew shares the stillbirth of his daughter Mia Grace, the years of swallowed grief that followed, and the severe OCD that consumed him in silence while he showed up to every shift like nothing was wrong.
This keynote doesn't tell emergency service audiences to ask for help. It shows them what happens when someone finally does and what becomes possible on the other side.
The audience leaves with a new definition of strength, the confidence to start a conversation, and permission to not be okay.
PEER SUPPORT & MENTAL HEALTH
What it actually costs to carry someone else's pain
Built on the framework developed from lived experience.
After the stillbirth of his daughter Mia Grace, Matthew Wright experienced both sides of support — the people who showed up, and the people who disappeared. As a Peer Support Officer who later found himself unable to ask for help, he knows exactly what the difference feels like.
A Father's Love — Supporting the Person Behind the Uniform, gives peer supporters, leaders and frontline teams a rare view from inside the experience they're trained to support. Not theory. Not frameworks. A first-person account of what actually helps when someone is grieving, struggling, or silently falling apart.
The audience leaves with a practical language for difficult conversations, a reframe of what showing up means, and renewed purpose in the work.
HEALTHCARE
What good care looks like from the inside
A first-person account of what it feels like to receive outstanding care during the worst days of your life.
On Valentine's Day 2023, Matthew Wright and his wife Jordan held their daughter Mia Grace for the first time. She was stillborn. In the three days that followed, a team of medical professionals gave them something no protocol could mandate: the chance to be her parents.
In this keynote, Matthew takes healthcare audiences inside that experience, not as a case study, but as a father. He shares how exceptional bereavement care, quiet presence and human kindness carried his family through the worst moment of their lives, and how that care continued to echo through grief, trauma, OCD and recovery, in moments the clinicians may never know changed everything.
This is not a talk about what went wrong. It is a powerful reminder of what becomes possible when healthcare professionals get it right.
The audience leaves with clarity on the lasting impact of small acts of care and an open door for honest conversation about how organisations support the people doing this work.
What they said
“Raw, emotional and thought-provoking. This presentation will have people thinking and start conversations that need to be had.”
— Brett
“One man’s journey from the joy of pregnancy, to absolute heartbreak, and the side that isn’t always given a voice.”
— Blake McCrindle
“It flowed well, built from the start and left me with meaningful actions.”
— Ben Colston
“Your story is one that builds hope. Courage is asking for help, not soldiering on.”
— Anonymous
“Deeply moving and brave.”
— Maddy Dalley