Meet The 2025 CityLife Annual Business Retreat Headline Speakers
Daniel Flynn
Co-Founder – thankyou.
In 2008, as just teenagers, Daniel Flynn and his mates Justine and Jarryd co-founded ‘Thankyou.’ to help bridge the gap between two of our world’s extremes: extreme poverty & extreme consumerism.
Thankyou. became known for its breakthrough, viral consumer marketing campaigns — from flying helicopters over supermarket head offices to launching a pay-what-you-want book – ‘Chapter One’ to raise money to help the organisation expand, which became second only to the Harry Potter book launch in airport bookstores – but this was only the beginning of this innovative brand.
A recent announcement about Thankyou.’s plans to expand globally generated 2.6 billion impressions and 825 media features in 36 countries. Thankyou. has held the number one hand-wash position in Australia for five years and some of the highest category loyalty, which has helped raise $18.55 million for its impact partners.
Thankyou. was voted Number 1 by Australian consumers as the most sustainable brand, placed ahead of Tesla in 2022 (Mumbrella, 2022). With over 35 disruptive, design-led and sustainable consumer products across the personal care and home cleaning categories, Thankyou. has to date given $18.1M (AUD) to charities from products sold in Australia & New Zealand. After the proven success of the social enterprise business model, Thankyou. is now launching across the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Daniel Flynn has spoken in global forums around the world, most notably alongside US President Barack Obama. He has been recognised in Forbes Asia 30 under 30 for Social Entrepreneurship, one of JCI’s 10 Outstanding Young People of the World, and was the recipient of EY Entrepreneur of the Year (Southern Region).
Consumerism reimagined is what Thankyou. is all about and the founders say:“We live in a world of extremes. Thankyou. exists to bridge two of them.”
Jane Caro AM
Jane Caro AM is a Walkley award-winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, feminist, public education activist and social commentator. For 35 years, she was a multi-award-winning advertising copywriter. For seven years she was an academic teaching Advertising Creative in the School of Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. In recent years, she has become most well-known for her media appearances and thought-provoking books. When she isn’t writing novels, she is a full time columnist, speaker, MC and TV, radio and media commentator.
During her remarkable career, Jane Caro has published 13 books. Her first foray into adult fiction, published in 2022, The Mother continues to be a best seller. She has written books on a variety of subjects, including schools and education, religion, feminism and ageing. Jane created and edited Unbreakable featuring stories women writers had never told before, the stories so intimate and shocking caused a wave of enquiry, all published just before the Harvey Weinstein revelations. Her latest novel is due out in April this year.
One thing Jane Caro is renowned for is her frank and honest approach to understanding the Baby Boomer demographic. Jane is well-published in commenting that this cohort represents a remarkable opportunity for business owners and marketers when pinpointing how to best spend their advertising dollars.
Jane Caro appears frequently on ABC Radio, The Drum, Sunrise & Weekend Sunrise. She created and presented five documentary series for ABC Compass, airing in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She and Catherine Fox present a popular podcast with Podcast One, Austereo Women With Clout and she writes regular columns in Nine Newspapers and her opinion pieces appear regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Big Smoke.
Jane Caro is on the boards of Bell Shakespeare and The Public Education Foundation. In her spare time, she is a beef producer and timber grower.
“This cohort represents a remarkable opportunity for business owners and marketers when pinpointing how to best spend their advertising dollars.”
