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All the KeyNote speakers on our directory are screened by our recruitment team. They are inspirational thought-leaders, and experienced and accomplished speakers. Our teams are here to advise you on the most suitable speaker for your event. You can rest assured that you will get the inspirational subject-matter expert that you are looking for. Our speakers have typically spoken to large audiences (hundreds of people). In addition, we are training experts and thought-leaders to inspire from stage.

Are you looking for thought leaders and experts in the areas of leadership, marketing, HR, diversity and inclusion, technology, finance, sustainability, transformation, politics, mindfulness, or sexual health? We have them all! You can have a diverse and balanced speaker panel at your next conference, convention, or corporate gathering.

Asia

Danielle Van de Velde

Dani Van de Velde helps others understand and master the art of meditation, transformative inner practice, and healing through private coaching, energy sessions, courses, and tailored programs for individuals, schools, and organisations. She is a popular speaker at industry forums, a published writer, and holds regular retreats in Asia and Australia.  Dani is a qualified meditation teacher through the Awareness Institute, Australia, a member of the Meditation Association of Australia and the International Meditation Teachers’ Association, recognising the standard of her teaching and program development.   Dani draws from techniques and wisdom of numerous world traditions, current research, and her own experience. She is a Reiki Master and a sought-after healer and spiritual mentor with an international client base. Her focus is on enabling others to understand and work with the design and function of their mind/body/energy system, to engage in the transformative inner practice for purpose-driven direction, maximum performance, self-healing, and intuitive living.    

Meditation

Inner Transformation

Conscious Living

Asia

Able Wanamakok

Able is a 16+ year communications expert well-known across Asia as an International Presenter, TV Personality, Motivational Speaker, Author, Forbes Coaches Council, Communication & Presenter Coach and Host of 'You Are Able' Video Series. Her aim is to guide individuals of 13 years + to communicate honestly, openly, and from their hearts. With her own experiences and her client's success stories, she leads through the formative process of going beyond one’s ego to find a true authentic self. To use one’s natural strengths and talents to nurture relationships with oneself and others.    Open and honest, Able has a lively personality, successfully balancing family life with the glamorous world of celebrity. Able is an Award-Winning Coach named an “Asia Women Leader 2019” and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. As a news anchor, TV show host, stage emcee, and voice-over artist, Able has worked all over the world taking on many stages including TEDx. To put it into Able's own words, in all her work her aim is, “Bring out the diamond within each person and help them to go beyond ego through my gift in communications”.    Her clients include other coaches, students, pageants, executives, and anyone who wishes to become the best version of themselves. She's been invited to speak and train at companies such as Conductor, AON, Corporate Diva, Thammasat, and Bangkok University + various International Schools in Asia.   

Empowerment

Moderator/Emcee

Self-development

Communication

Asia

Pallavi Srivastava

Pallavi is currently the Global Talent Partner for Kyndryl Inc - a newly created spin-off of IBM's Global Technology Services where she was the APAC Talent Leader until 2021. Prior to the Talent role in IBM, Pallavi was the Country HR Leader for IBM Singapore. Pallavi has more than 23 years of experience in the field of Human Resources across areas related to HR consulting & strategy, HR Analytics, Talent, and Leadership. Development, Compensation & Performance management. Pallavi has held several portfolios with IBM's internal HR and HR consulting units.     After having worked in India and the US, she has been based in Singapore for 10 years now. A passionate believer in leveraging technology for HR solutions of the future, Pallavi often represents IBM's point of view on the future of HR at regional and international conferences. Pallavi holds a B A (Hons) in Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources. Pallavi also received the Business HR professional and Global Compensation & Benefits certification from Cornell University. Certified by. IBM for Design Thinking, Agile, and as a Cognitive HR practitioner, Pallavi was recently featured in the HRD Magazine's HRD Hot List in 2017.

HR

New work

Technology

Asia

Christine Amour-Levar

Christine Amour-Levar is a French-Swiss-Filipina, Philanthropist, Record-Breaking Adventurer, Best-Selling Author, and Human Rights & Sustainability Advisor. She started her professional journey working for Nike across the world and went on to build a global career as a marketing and communications expert and social entrepreneur intent on solving some of the world’s most pressing issues.   A passionate champion of female empowerment and environmental conservation, she founded not one, but two award-winning, non-profit organisations, Women on a Mission (WOAM) and HER Planet Earth, to bridge these two passions. Both take all-female teams on pioneering expeditions —with WOAM empowering and supporting women who have been subjected to violence and abuse, and HER Planet Earth raising funds for underprivileged women affected by climate change.     Christine published ‘Wild Wisdom – Life Lessons from Leading teams to some of the Most Inhospitable Places in the World’ with Penguin Random House in 2022, and has contributed to international publications such as Forbes, the HuffPost, the Straits Times of Singapore, Thrive Global and the Manila Bulletin Newspaper of the Philippines. Her speaking engagements have been hosted by INSEAD, Nike, TBWA, Microsoft, Unilever, Credit Suisse, TEDx, and more. Being included on Tatler Asia’s Most Influential Impact List 2020, Christine has won multiple international awards including the GGEF Woman Eco Gamechanger Award 2022, the United Women Singapore Gender Equality Impact Award 2020, Woman of the Future Kindness & Leadership Southeast Asia Leading Lights 2020 and the ‘100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World’ Award™.            

Sustainability

Diversity

Inclusion and Climate.

Asia

Anupama Murali

Anupama has spent over 15 years as an IT consultant in multiple roles across Asia, Europe, and North America. She has led transformation projects for global financial institutions, constantly raising the bar in the way clients implement change within their organisations. It was during her successful professional life, combined with evolving family life, that she discovered that living life being inspired and relaxed at the same time is not so much about adopting new strategies, it is rather about realigning oneself.   She now empowers professionals to shift from reactive to intentional living through her 'Achieve with Equilibrium' coaching, transformational talks, and leadership development programs. She is a specialist in enabling highly accomplished individuals to overcome imposter experiences through the ‘Ignite the Leader Within’ coaching program. Her mission is to empower people to discover their personal resilience comprising resilient thinking, emotional balance, and recovery through personal congruence. She has spoken at several universities in Singapore namely NUS Medicine, Duke NUS, and NTU, and given talks at HP Enterprise, Swiss Re, and Alcon, to name a few.

Self-Awareness

Self-Leadership

Well-Being

Emotional Balance

Self-Empowerment

Asia

Arun Tamhankar

"Arun Tamhankar is the CEO of Coreview.Asia which focuses on engineering innovative technology solutions to enable business outcomes. Ms. Arun leads the team in using emerging technologies like AR/IoT/AI to create custom products & offerings that often surpass expectations. She believes in using the correct technology with the appropriate ROI when leading digital transformation journeys. She is also a loved people leader and a visionary, who is known to care deeply for her team. Ms. Arun has been in the digital space for over 18 years, mostly in the US. Prior to Coreview.Asia, she was in various leadership positions at Visa Inc, Clearwire USA and T-Mobile USA. She led the roll out of the first 4G network in the US, launched digital platforms & consumer products. Her joint work with Microsoft was presented by Bill Gates at the ITU conference. She holds patents in her name in the area of emergency response and has a couple other pending. Ms. Arun holds a Masters degree in Electrical & Computer engineering from the University of Texas.

Digitization

Technology

Asia

Natalia Rachel

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and belonging, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair.   Natalia Rachel brings an amalgamation of knowledge from years working as a therapist and clinic director with a focus on trauma & abuse recovery, as well as her own personal journey recovering from mental health misdiagnosis and physical health conditions that stemmed from childhood trauma. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education.   Her desire to answer the existential questions ‘Why am I?’, ‘Why are you?’, and ‘Why are we?’, led her on an incredible journey exploring mainstream & mental healthcare, complementary healthcare, and the spectrum of spirituality and the healing arts. Her messages distill over 20 years of her own lived self-mastery.  As we learn to live in an endemic world, Natalia Rachel is frequently called on to speak and facilitate workshops that inspire a proactive approach to healing and a collective shift towards peace and power. All her work highlights the undoubted link between mind, body, spirit, and relationships.    Her topics include belonging, mental health, trauma & trauma-informed culture, boundaries, respect & power, empathy, compassion & vulnerability. All her talks blend concepts from science, psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, philosophy and spirituality in an engaging, accessible format that includes conceptual learning, experiential process, story, self-inquiry, and self-care tool kit development. Audiences walk away feeling energized, hopeful, and empowered to walk their own path of mastery and become accountable for their social footprint.

Health/Well-being

Asia

Lakshmi Ramachandran

Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandran, PhD in Cell & Molecular Biology (USA) has over two decades of experience in diverse areas of science such as academic and pharma research, communications and research programme management.     She is an advocate of STEM and actively promotes people in science as the ambassador of the global stories in science initiative and as a co-lead organizer of the Gender Summit Asia Pacific, 2019 Singapore (GS16). Her uniqueness lies in her versatility. She is a writer, speaker, model, role model, poet, and mother of two young boys. She shares her personal experiences within and outside of science through her blog Assorted Life Flavours on lakshmiramachandran.com.     She has co-authored a unique memoir-cookbook called 'Roomies/Foodies', a witty and informative survival guide for Indian students going abroad. Born in India, brought up in India and the Middle East, educated in the US, and living in Singapore for the last 7 years, she is a global citizen, passionate about a better, peaceful and equal world. 

Empowerment

Gender

STEM

Asia

Shane Herft

N/A

Asia

Indigo Triplett

Dr. Indigo is a Success and Mind Wellness Practitioner. She specializes in helping people step into their greatness to live their best life. She infuses the successful practices of the West with wellness philosophies of the East. She earned a Ph.D. in Values-Driven Leadership with an emphasis in mental health, which she utilizes to help you become more effective personally and professionally. Her methodology is based on the values of positive psychology, ethics/integrity, servant leadership, etc. These are the cornerstones of her practice and what she instills in her messages. She shares how success and wellness don't have to be diametrically opposed.     Dr. Indigo has 20+ years of successfully owning and operating a business, in the US. She launched the 4D Performance SDN. BHD., in Malaysia in 2017. She led her company to be recognized as a Top 500 Fastest-Growing Companies in America by Inc. Magazine in 2012 and 2013, which is huge considering there were, “Almost 28 million small businesses in the US”, according to FORBES Magazine. Her company, Careers in Transition Inc., was ranked 239th on the Inc. list. As a renowned Speaker, Dr. Indigo is hilariously honest and refreshingly blunt giving a professional twist that captures her audience's imagination and inspires their spirit. 

Leadership

Health/Well-being

Change Management

Asia

Mette Johansson

Mette Johansson (MBA, CSP, PCC) is a highly awarded author, speaker, and consultant. She worked in leadership roles for multinational corporations for 15 years before founding MetaMind, a training consultancy providing consulting and learning programmes on the people's side of leadership skills.   Mette has spoken internationally on Authentic, Inspirational, and Inclusive Leadership at a wide variety of global conferences, corporations, and business schools. Her clients include Citibank, Airbnb, Microsoft, UPS, Pfizer, Capitaland, and many more. Awards for her activities include the AmCham HERo award, the Asia Women Icon Award, the Golden Door – REX Karmaveer Medal, and APAC insider’s “Best Leadership Development Company 2020”.  Mette is also the founder and relentless driver of the non-profit KeyNote – Women Speakers’ directory, with a mission to bring diversity to speaking stages around the world. She is regularly featured in media in Singapore, from Harper's Bazaar to Straits Times.   Having lived in 10 countries outside her birthplace, Denmark, Mette is a global citizen who speaks fluently in four languages and currently calls Singapore home.  

Leadership

Culture

Communication

Asia

Rebel Smith

A proven technology and change senior executive who thrives on solving complex business and technology problems, Rebel Smith challenges existing paradigms and formulates strategies to drive transformation for corporations as well as individuals. With 20+ years of experience in technology, Rebel has lived through several sea changes in the industry and as such has become an architect of transformation: helping companies move from hardware to a software-centric world and preparing them for the next disruption which will come in the form of automation. Rebel relocated to Singapore from the US in 2015 and has spent the majority of that time traveling around the region (spending much of her time in China and Japan). She has worked with Fortune 500 companies including Sun Microsystems and Oracle, across multiple vertical markets including telecommunications, financial services, government, and hospitality. When not working, you can usually find Rebel on the golf course.

Leadership

Management

Change Management

Asia

Tara Huber

Dr. Tara Huber is a coach, speaker, STEM professional & mentor, and the founder of Huber Coaching. She is a Harvard-trained Ph.D. who has over 20 years' experience in stem cell biology research and research administration. Having left research in 2013, most recently Tara worked at the Genome Institute of Singapore mentoring, leading, and working on behalf of early career researchers.     Passionate about STEM professionals and seeing people flourish in this field, she then founded Huber Coaching, which provides 1-to-1 coaching and workshops on mentorship and career management for STEM professionals. Tara brings emotional intelligence into the stereotypically rational and data-driven STEM profession and speaks on career development and transitions, leadership, and essential skills for success in this challenging & competitive field. She shares & deftly incorporates her own journey of career pivots and self-actualization to inspire her audiences. 

Self-development

Innovation

STEM

Asia

Serene Seng

N/A

Asia

Anjali Sharma

Anjali is one of the leading business storytelling consultants, author, global keynote speaker, and founder of Narrative: The Business of Stories. Anjali has spoken on the topic of Storytelling in New York, Russia, India, Singapore, Japan, Australia, and many other southeast Asian countries.    She helps business leaders, data analysts, sales professionals, and TEDx speakers find and tell stories. Anjali has worked in corporate roles for over 18 years in Australia, Singapore, and India.  Her background constantly informs her work, so that it is not just theoretical, but based on extensive experience, knowledge, and understanding of strategic issues companies face as well as issues that employees face in delivering their best work.    Anjali partners with Global 1000 companies LinkedIn, Airbnb, Microsoft, Shell, SAP, Microsoft & Danone. She regularly publishes her ideas on business storytelling on her Storytelling blog.   Find out more about her speaking engagements here.

Storytelling
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