The keynote speakers for October Business Month (OBM) 2025 have been revealed with two of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs headlining this year’s program.

OBM is the Northern Territory’s premier business event providing Territory businesses with a month-long professional development of inspirational and educational events.

This year Territory businesses will hear from:

Carolyn Creswell 

Inspirational leader, founder and CEO of Australia’s favourite muesli brand, Carman’s.

Carolyn will share the inspiring story behind Carman’s — how she transformed a $1,000 muesli business into a global brand.

Covering growth milestones, leadership insights, strategic challenges, and brand building, she offers valuable lessons on resilience, innovation, culture, purpose, and work-life balance — sprinkled with candid reflections from over three decades in business.

Simon Griffiths 

Social entrepreneur, co-Founder and CEO of the eco-friendly toilet paper brand, Who Gives a Crap.

Simon will share the Who Gives A Crap story of taking the company from an idea to more than $18m donated, including the viral crowdfunding campaign and growing the company at 2-3x year-on-year for almost 10 years. From there, he will share 10 key lessons learnt along the way.

Territory Success Stories will continue to be showcased as keynote events. This year’s TSS include Anneliese Grazioli, Anita Synnott, Dan Richards, Laura-Jane (LJ) Devlin, Paul Graham and Vicki-Leigh Lettice, to name a few.

Early bird tickets for the keynote speaker events are on sale now. 

Eligible purchases during this period will go into the draw to win a trip to Dili, Timor-Leste, thanks to airline sponsor Airnorth.

The full OBM program will be released later in August.