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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

Mrinalini Venkatachalam

Mrinalini Venkatachalam is the Regional Director for Southeast Asia and Oceania at WEConnect International, a global nonprofit network that works with multinational corporations and multilateral organizations to generate market-access opportunities for women’s business enterprises in over 125 countries through supplier diversity.     The organization identifies, educates, registers, and certifies women’s business enterprises based outside the U.S. that are at least 51% owned, as well as managed and controlled, by one or more women, and then connects them to qualified buyers across the globe. WEConnect International’s network of corporate members, primarily Fortune 500 companies, represent over $1 Trillion in annual purchasing power. Over the last twelve years, Mrinalini has engaged with large corporations, government agencies, SMEs, and community organizations to provide them with a platform to create measurable social impact.     She speaks regularly at community events, corporate events, and conferences about the role that gender equality plays in achieving a more sustainable world for everyone. Mrinalini has been awarded the Singapore Women's Weekly's Great Women of Our Time award in the Public Service and Education category and has been nominated as one of Cleo Singapore's 2016 top ten Changemakers. 

Inclusion

Empowerment

Gender

North America

Denise Morris Kipnis

Denise M. Kipnis Morris heads ChangeFlow Consulting, a global organization development consultancy that specializes in transformational change, and inclusion. Known for organizational puzzle-solving and big-picture thinking, her areas of expertise include: organization design, change management, culture, communication, and project management. Denise has led change projects across various sectors and countries; her clients include multinationals as well as SMEs, not-for-profits, and government agencies.     She believes in co-creating culture-specific solutions with people in the organization: developing new or existing capabilities by transferring knowledge and skills, leveraging employee leadership and participation, and fostering diversity and inclusion to build trustful working relationships. With a background in operations and project management, she focuses on practical solutions and business outcomes as well as human factors. Denise has an M.Sc in Organization Development from Pepperdine University, a B.A. in English from Stanford University, and project management certification from the U.C. Berkeley Extension. She has lived in Singapore since 2010. 

Leadership

Inclusion

Change Management

Asia

Lissy Puno

Lissy focuses her practice on promoting emotional wellness. In her 27 years as a counseling psychologist, she has helped children, teens, couples, and families achieve emotional and psychological wellbeing. Not surprisingly, she has been sought after as a professional speaker across the region - delivering live talks and presentations, facilitating wellness workshops, and appearing on television, print, and radio. With such a background, Lissy now has a wellspring of insight to guide and share with many.     Lissy's professional career has brought her to live and practice in five countries, with Singapore being her base for the past 11 years. With Lissy as one of its founding directors, International Counselling & Psychology Centre was established in 2015. She has authored two books on building and maintaining genuine connectedness as the basis for lifelong relationships and marriages. Her first book, Affairs Don't Just Happen: Protect, Repair, Recover, was launched in 2016, Stay connected (2018)and Couple goals (2019) are interactive journals.   Armed with a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Clinical Fellowship from Harvard University, Lissy is also a Certified Imago Therapist (advanced clinician) and a Certified Imago Workshop Presenter. 

Psychological Wellness

Relationships

Health & Wellness

Asia

Monica Hornung Cattan

Monica is Head of Programs at QS Quacquarelli Symonds, delivering global education and digital transformation events and publications. Originating from Chile, she graduated in International Relations, and studied further at Bologna, SOAS, and INSEAD, undertaking her MBA at Politecnico di Milano. Her international career has focused on public-private partnerships and convening multiple stakeholders to tackle urgent societal issues. Her expertise and interests lie in regional policy ecosystems and partnership strategies in Asia and Europe.    Monica’s passion for women’s empowerment and digital innovation guides her. She facilitated Google’s #IamRemarkable initiative, while her sustainability focus includes championing impactful initiatives in organizations including the UN. Other work includes Global Initiatives, World Economic Forum’s Grow Asia, Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.     Monica believes women empowerment is not an equity need, but a crucial economic imperative for climate action and sustainability. 

Sustainability (Sustainable Development Goals)

Climate Action and Empowerment

Asia

Laura Yates

Before changing to a career focused on mental health, joy, and connection, Laura spent many years working in banking and finance as a Chartered Accountant, as well as facilitating yoga, mindfulness meditation, and somatic dance alongside her corporate career.    Laura's personal mental health journey has given her a deep understanding of the necessity of having mental wellness tools within the workplace and in maintaining a balanced lifestyle. Each workshop or conference that she facilitates is routed in mindfulness practices and self-empowerment, bringing greater transformation and clarity in every experience.    Laura draws on her own extensive corporate experience and her passion for enabling others to strengthen their own minds in order to find their own authentic power and to create the space for their mental and emotional healing.

Self empowerment

Mental wellness/resilience

The importance of connection

Asia

Mollie Jean De Dieu

Mollie Jean De Dieu is the General Manager of the French fashion and accessory company, Longchamp, in Singapore & Malaysia, a keynote speaker, and an avid promoter for wellness in the workforce. Over her one-and-a-half-decade long career in the fashion industry and listening to hundreds of stories of people who have navigated work whilst facing the ‘perfect storm’, Mollie realized the ‘realness’ of the subject matter and the urgent need to advocate a safe platform in the corporate world, where emotions can be heard, recognized and dealt with, for enhanced business productivity.     A self-proclaimed citizen of the world, Mollie grew up between Africa, France, the United States and has made Asia her home for the past fourteen years. She spent 9 years in Hong Kong and 5 years in Singapore where she currently resides today. Founder of the ‘Emotional Inclusion’ tagline and movement (http://www.emotionalinclusion.com), Mollie draws her passion in life through sharing conversations with captains of industry to break down archaic business stereotypes and lead the way to a better emotionally accepting corporate ecosystem. Mollie’s mission is here to shatter the status quo of today’s business landscape and lead the way to a wholesome new mindset in the workforce. 

Leadership

Inclusion

Health/Well-being

Asia

Abam Mambo

Abam Mambo is the Managing Director for workplace consultancy, BelongingIQ. She’s an employment lawyer, Belonging, Diversity and Inclusion strategist, and thought leader on workplace culture. She helps organizations boost employee engagement by etching Belongingness into their cultural footprint.     Her Belongingness Quotient model adopts a fresh and multi-disciplinary approach to creating a diverse, inclusive, safe and engaged workforce. A captivating speaker, Abam has spoken in over 25 cities around the world to organizations including the World Health Organization, Microsoft, GSK, John Deere, and Transparency International, etc.     A former litigator and workplace investigator, she has advised and trained C-suite executives and their organizations on fair employment practices, diversity and inclusion, and speak-up culture. Abam has held regional, director-level roles in Legal and Compliance at Microsoft and GSK. She’s lived and led teams in North America, Africa, and Asia, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.  

Belonging and Community

Diversity and Inclusion

Engagement and Speak Up

Personal Development

Oceania

Dr Olivia Ong

Known as the Heart-Centred Doctor, Dr Olivia Ong is a professional speaker, author, and physician with a thriving medical practice in Melbourne, Australia. After a serious car accident in 2008, Dr Ong became a paraplegic but began walking again 3 years later. She resumed her career in 2013 and became an accomplished dual-trained rehabilitation and pain management physician.   She wrote her first book “The Heart-Centredness of Medicine” about physician burnout, and today Dr Ong also runs programs helping doctors transform their lives from burnout to brilliance. She speaks on burnout in the healthcare industry and has appeared in the media regularly including Sky News, Channel 10, Yahoo Finance, ThriveGlobal, International Business Times Singapore, and Australian Business Journal. She has been a guest on multiple podcasts and speaks about resilience, overcoming her spinal cord injury, and compassionate leadership, with which she leads her medical teams wholeheartedly.

Burnout & Resilience

Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine

Compassionate leadership

North America

Jodie Goulden

Jodie Goulden is the Founder of Orgdesign Works, Board Member of the Organization Design Institute and Organization Design Forum, and Faculty for the European Organization Design Forum. As a Consultant, Jodie guides senior leaders to design organizations with impact. She loves, lives, and breathes big companies, and believes that corporations can be a force for good.       During a global HR and communications career in multinational companies, she lived and worked in Shanghai, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Perth, and Toronto. She has led international teams in corporate, strategic, and operational HR management roles. Her adventurous career is matched by her personal life; she has completed countless wilderness expeditions to Mt Everest base camp, sea kayaking in Alaska, and horse trekking in Mongolia. 

Organization design

Hybrid Working

Future of Work

Oceania

Sandra Bravo

Sandra has a wealth of experience including a decade managing sales teams, 15 years in corporate entrepreneurship, and more than nine years speaking at International events. She is also a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP, Speaker's Trainer, Bestselling Author, and International Keynote Speaker. As a single mother of two and owner of three businesses, Sandra believes deeply in the power of female empowerment. A self-motivated and ambitious leader, she emulates pure determination and will.     Establishing her own business - AmaSSSing - to support like-minded women, Sandra channels her energy into transforming female-led businesses and supporting their personal enrichment through public speaking. Having spoken in over 13 countries and trained over 15000 students, Sandra brings a wealth of knowledge and passion for her practice. With a Master's in Business Management, Sandra's passion lies in inspiring others to discover their voice, manifest their dreams, and take their businesses to the next level. She is fluent in both English and Spanish. 

Leadership

Empowerment

Gender

Oceania

Gail Gibson

Executive coach, speaker & author, Gail Gibson, was born and raised on the sunny shores of Perth, Western Australia. From 1996 2018 Gibson lived and worked in the U.K. establishing and growing two successful businesses. Gail's first business, True Expressions, offered content services and communication training and coaching for small business owners.     Following a rebrand in 2014, Gail launched Gaisha Consultancy Ltd, through which she delivers her award-winning coaching programmes and inspirational presentations at events around the world. Relocating to Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in August 2018, begins a new and exciting opportunity for Gail to network, connect and extend the delivery of her Can Do coaching programmes in South East Asia and globally. 

Empowerment

Self-development

Success

Asia

Erika Balzarelli

Erika is a purpose-driven thought leader in agriculture, ex-corporate marketeer, entrepreneur, and consultant. With over 20 years of experience in agriculture, she has worked in corporates, NGOs, governments, consultancy, and start-ups. Erika holds an MBA (Netherlands) and an MPA from Harvard University.   Erika has worked across Europe, Africa, and APAC developing and implementing impactful projects in climate-smart agriculture.  Mid- 2021, Erika founded The Sustainable Smallholder consultancy studio offering services to the private sector, social enterprises, and start-ups to help transition to sustainable, profitable, innovative agriculture models. Erika also serves on the Board of Advisors for many other social enterprise start-ups that bring regenerative agriculture to smallholder farmers across ASEAN, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa.    Prior to this, Erika leads the rice business at Corteva Agriscience; she has worked in different capacities for IFAD (Ethiopia), Agricultural Transformation Agency (Ethiopia), Dalberg (India), and Syngenta (USA, Switzerland, Singapore, Indonesia).

Sustainable / climate smart agriculture

Smallholder farmers

Business Model innovation (in ag)

Europe

Claudia Stuckmann-Invernizzi

Currently, at the helm of the Head of International Public Affairs for a leading animal health company and a member of the senior leadership team, Claudia brings 20 years of experience in strategic global stakeholder management and diverse public affairs, government relations, public policy, and communication experience to the table. She has gained perspectives from different roles and projects across various industries and organisations: she worked in politics; for multinational corporations; an industry trade association and a public affairs and communication consultancy firm.     Her expertise covers a variety of sectors including environment, agriculture, biotechnology, and healthcare. Having been politically active and held various leadership positions at a non-governmental organization for over a decade, Claudia’s passion for sustainability runs deep. She was the Chairwoman of several EUW International Commissions, a candidate for the European Parliament elections in 2004 and 2009, and was elected twice as a personal substitute to a member of the European Parliament. It is Claudia’s intention to drive sustainability at executive & board levels and to ensure it is hardwired across the business, in both operations and innovations while enhancing corporate reputation.     In so doing she builds on her passion for sustainability and 20 years of experience in complex and diverse strategic global stakeholder management, as well as her track record of successfully influencing the external business environment. Claudia believes that in a complex external environment, managing the external environment beyond a business’ focus on the direct customer is key. It is not the only key for the company’s reputation and sustainability efforts, but also for the company to gain and keep its social license to operate as well as to drive short-term business success, e.g., in the context of product introductions & adoptions. Claudia displays a great ability to see issues through different lenses. Her extensive network and multi-disciplinary knowledge across industries and organisations are key attributes that make her a leader in her field. She speaks English and German and also communicates fluently with colleagues, stakeholders, and friends in French, Italian and Dutch. 

Leadership

Environment

Sustainability

Communication

Asia

Ruchi Parekh

Ruchi is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a Lawyer by training. She is also an NLP Practitioner and an Accredited Belbin Facilitator. She helps high-potential professionals build emotional resilience and a positive mindset to get to the next level in their lives, professionally and personally. Her main objective is to help clients move forward and find fulfillment & success in all the roles they play.     Expertly guiding individuals through this transition, Ruchi makes her clients feel empowered and accomplished. Her coaching style is results-oriented, ensuring clients experience a paradigm shift that allows them to achieve & maintain their own long-term results. Through unleashing the potential of each human, Ruchi enables individuals to be the best they can. Ruchi has worked with leaders in various industries including Financial Services, Legal, Media, Technology, and Human Resources, and has been featured in the Asian Money Guide for the 50 Power Women of Asia issue.      She has delivered talks at the Bar Council of the High Court of India, MNCs, NPOs, and Women's Organizations. In her talks and workshops, Ruchi emphasizes a collaborative approach to ensure that the personal development coaching she is delivering resonates with each unique organization and individual. She supports executives and employees to improve individual, team, and company performance with a focus on wellbeing, stress management, and productivity. Ruchi has won the Emerging Executive Coach of the year 2022 award.      

Leadership

Empowerment

Self-Confidence/ Finding your lost self at the top of the ladder

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