Engage Dr Anthony Walker as a human performance subject-matter expert: peer-reviewed research and fireground command in the same voice.
Every topic below sits inside Anthony's peer-reviewed record or his operational career. Requests outside that ground are declined and, where possible, referred to someone better placed.
Thermal physiology in operational and sporting settings: core temperature limits, acclimatisation, heat policy design, and why the body's own signals fail at the edge. The subject of his PhD and most of his 37 publications.
Fatigue risk in shift work and extended operations: what accumulates, what recovers, and how rosters and workload design decide the outcome before anyone clocks on.
What happens to judgement at the edge of tolerance, and what command owes the people it sends forward: the argument of the keynote, available as commentary and briefings.
Human systems integration, physical employment standards and psychosocial hazard management in Defence, emergency services, aviation and high-hazard industry.
Anthony advocates for stronger physiological protection for the people who do the country's most dangerous work: heat exposure limits that survive contact with the job, fatigue management treated as a designed system rather than personal hardiness, and standards written from measurement rather than tradition. He is a member of the national advisory board of Tactical and Occupational Performance Australia, and his published research on firefighters underpins the position. A dedicated advocacy page is in development; for collaboration on these issues, start here.
Print, broadcast and podcast. Plain-language explanation of heat, fatigue and performance stories, with the underlying studies to hand. For urgent deadlines, email with the deadline in the subject line and phone as backup: +61 412 313 870.
Executive and board briefings, industry panels, conference sessions and standing advisory arrangements. Structured consulting engagements are delivered through Optimised Human Performance.
Further interviews and articles are being collated. For a media biography, headshots or the speaker one-sheet, ask directly.
Peer-reviewed numbers, operational command, and a direct line. No bureau in the middle.