Keynote Women Speakers

Expertise: Identity-Driven

Shivon Gunalan works at the intersection of identity, leadership, and organizational culture, supporting aspiring leaders to navigate complexity with clarity, integrity, and cultural intelligence.

With a career spanning high-performance corporate environments, cross-border teams, and human leadership landscapes, Shivon focuses on leadership identity and how it shapes influence, presence, and decision-making. Her work explores what it takes to operate across cultures, power structures, and difference without losing conviction or authenticity.

She is particularly interested in how organizational cultures are formed and sustained, and how values, incentives, and behaviours interact to either build or erode trust.

At its core, Shivon’s work is about developing leaders who can hold complexity without becoming rigid, performative, or disconnected. She supports leaders to remain adaptive, intentional, and aligned as they shape the environments around them.