Glenn Marsden

Why organisations work with Glenn Marsden

• In his hands, mental health becomes a business conversation that senior leaders take responsibility for, grounded in lived experience of body dysmorphia and the loss of a close friend.
• He has built and scaled a global advocacy platform from zero, the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign, which gives him direct evidence of what changes when people in positions of influence speak openly about their own pressure.
• His keynote treats wellbeing as a leadership issue, connecting how senior people hold identity and performance under change to the cultural cost of silence at the top.
• His content travels: a published book series, the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast, and hundreds of public-figure interviews give audiences a body of work to carry on with long after the keynote.

Biography highlights

• Founder, Imperfectly Perfect Campaign, launched 2018, a global mental wellbeing advocacy movement.
• Author of the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign book series, with Volume 3 released January 2026.
• Host of the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, interviewing public figures on mental health and wellbeing.
• Has delivered speaking engagements across Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Dubai, Thailand, and Japan.

Biography

The cost of mental health pressure inside organisations is now showing up where it used to stay hidden. It sits with the people running them. Glenn Marsden built the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign in 2018 to make that conversation possible, starting with a question senior leaders rarely answer in public: what does it actually cost you to keep up appearances?

The campaign was founded after the suicide of a close friend and Marsden’s own struggle with body dysmorphia. What began as a single advocacy project has grown into a content platform with a published book series, the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast, and a long roster of public-figure interviews. The argument that runs through all of it is simple: when people in positions of visibility speak openly about their own pressure, the social permission for everyone else to do the same expands.

What audiences get is a working argument, made by someone who has spent years getting senior people to say in public what they say to each other in private: that perfectionism is expensive, silence at the top sets the tone for the rest of the organisation, and the leaders who name the pressure first are the ones who change the culture.

Key speaking topics

• Mental health and the cost of perfectionism
• Identity and self-worth through change
• Resilience under sustained pressure
• Authentic leadership and lived experience
• Building advocacy platforms from zero
• Storytelling and public influence

Ideal for

• CHRO and chief people officer audiences setting the mental health agenda
• Executive leadership offsites where wellbeing is treated as a strategy issue
• Senior leadership development programmes addressing perfectionism and burnout in high performers
• Conferences on workplace wellbeing, culture, and mental health where lived experience adds credibility to the data

Audience outcomes

• A direct, founder-led account of how mental health pressure operates at senior levels and why it stays hidden.
• Words for naming perfectionism and silence inside organisations, without the wellness clichés.
• A map of how identity loss works after disruption, and how people find direction again, drawn from what the campaign has surfaced across cultures and industries.
• Evidence, from the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign and the hundreds of public-figure conversations it has gathered, of what changes when people in positions of influence speak openly.