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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.

Global

Carolyn Chin Parry

As a Digital Leader and Transformation expert with over 20 years of experience, Carolyn Chin-Parry has fulfilled senior roles such as Chief Digital Officer for a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate and a KPMG Director in the transformation and change management practice. Carolyn is passionate about future-proofing companies for Industry 4.0+ and Change Leadership to create an innovative culture.     A Future of Work strategist and keynote speaker, she has been engaged by Fortune 500 clients across a wide variety of industries such as Banking, Insurance, FinTech, Mining, Oil, Gas, Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, Health, Logistics, Real Estate, Security, Aviation, Consumer Goods, Education, IT, Legal and Government. Carolyn is a Board Director for a Singaporean charity and on the International Advisory Committee for the prestigious Australian Institute of Company Directors.     Previously nominated for a National Teaching Award in Australia for Innovative Teaching, she also served on an Australian University Advisory Board for ten years. Carolyn believes in lifelong learning, growing and sharing knowledge, as well as bringing closer ties between industry, government, and educators to prepare for The Future of Work.   

New work

Digitization

Global

Arthi Rabikrisson

Arthi Rabikrisson is the Founder and Managing Director of Prerna Advisory, based in South Africa, which focuses on neuroscience-based coaching and assessment for individuals, teams and corporates; strategic business consulting to SMEs; and capital introduction to alternative funding sources. A 15-year corporate career in finance and investments prior to starting Prerna Advisory, Arthi uses her coaching, strategy, sales, and finance skills, to help individuals craft their personal and business brands holistically and with confidence to make an impact.   As a keynote speaker, Arthi talks on a range of topics on leadership development, career growth, entrepreneurship, sales, and finance – as viewed through the understanding of neuroscience.  Arthi is a global award-winning ICF-credentialed leadership coach, featured and recognised across a range of global publications including Finance Monthly the NYC Journal and The CIO Times to name a few.   Arthi is a key contributor and member of the Forbes Coaches Council and an opt-in member of the Advisory Council for Harvard Business Review. She is vetted on coaching panels for a number of South African and global companies, a mentor to graduates and budding entrepreneurs, and is a non-executive director of a US-based NGO operating in East Africa called Global Grassroots. She has served as a judge on platforms such as Africa’s Business Heroes (Jack Ma Foundation in Africa) and coached female entrepreneurs across Africa, through Future Females Empowerment Initiatives, to become investment and funding ready with global investors.

Neuroscience

Neuro-agility

Leadership

Self-development

Global

Shehara Viswanathan

Engineer by nurture, feminist by nature; Her first award-winning keynote, aged 20, was titled “Am I Being Too Ambitious?”, referring to comments she received for studying engineering. Her decades of keynote and panel moderation experience range from Cloud Asia and TechXLR8 to teaching Cloud and AI at the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisation’s ITHub.   She was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Australia, and now resides in Singapore. Shehara’s relentless passion for innovation enabled the design of game-changing digital experiences. She has taken leadership roles at SingTel, Telstra, and Cisco, in Cloud Computing, Security, and Software. She was the Head of International Cloud Portfolio at Telstra, helping the company create award-winning differentiation in Asia Pacific’s highly competitive cloud market, resulting in 6 industry awards.   Shehara recently served as Vice-Chair of the Asia Cloud Computing Association and is now a Lead Advisor for Cisco APJC.   

Innovation

Creativity

Technology

STEM

Global

Yasmine Khater

Yasmine is on a mission to develop trustworthy leaders in hopes that we transform the global trust crisis and accelerate the speed of problem-solving. An adventurer, storyteller, B Corp Ambassador, podcast host and producer of Asia's first documentary series around climate change. People buy from people they know, like and trust.     Backed with 14 years of experience in psychology, communication, and mixed heritage, Yasmine has helped Danone craft the story to launch the first 100% circular bottle and enabled ClubMed employees to amplify their story. Focusing on building trust, her Sales Story Labs enable leaders to have greater influence, visibility, and impact on their business. During her show, the Sales Story Podcast, she interviews CEOs from across Asia on how they utilized storytelling to sell ideas, raise funds, and inspire teams to scale their business.     An adventurer, Yasmine has embarked on an Arctic expedition, cycled, and hiked through some of the world's toughest mountain terrains. She is currently working on raising funds to produce a documentary with UNDP and the World Bank to feature new Asian sustainable innovations. She is passionate about more inclusive conversations and is a certified interfaith facilitator that helps leaders in education be more innovative. Her program, Panels that Inspire, instills women leaders with confidence to increase female representation on industry panel. 

Sales

Branding

Storytelling

Global

Cindy Tien

Impactful, authentic, and inspiring, are a few words to describe Cindy Tien, a professional speaker who has worked with global clients including American Express, Citibank, and S&P.  Growing up in a household of 20 people, Cindy battled with addictions, traumatic health problems, and self-destructive behaviours, but learned through her difficult circumstances that we all have the power to transform our reality. Her personal stories inspire authenticity & awakening with life-changing strategies for individuals to achieve higher levels of consciousness, connect deeply with their inner self, and develop the courage to pursue their desires purposefully.    As an advocate for personal development, she is certified in Public Speaking, Neuro-linguistic programming, Confidence coaching, Emotional quotient, Social Intelligence, and Visual branding. Her upcoming book – “True Presence – Empowering you to Influence with a Purpose”, stems from her study of human behaviour over 2 decades. Cindy is sought after as a thought-provoking, entertaining, and edgy influencer who delivers results.  

Empowerment

Authenticity

Courage

Resilience

Global

Monica Hornung Cattan

Monica is the Global Director of Strategic Partnerships and Engagement 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, the 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

Global

Magdalena Poulin

Magdalena has over 15 years of diversified and multinational work experience in the EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Oceania regions. Currently based at Macquarie University, she oversees the design and implementation of the Workplace Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy, builds strategic partnerships, and fosters a culture of belonging. Prior to Macquarie University, she designed Diversity & Inclusion strategies and large-scale programs at AIG, HP, and EMC.   Magdalena seeks to transform workplaces and cultures through people, governance, and technology. She is passionate about empowering underrepresented communities and bridging the gaps of inequitable access to resources and opportunities. Magdalena is one of the Founding Members of KeyNote, a non-profit organization that aims to promote gender diversity on speaking stages and she founded the Two-Way Mentoring Program at PrimeTime, Business and Professional Women’s Association in Singapore.  Having lived in 6 countries, Magdalena is a global citizen who currently lives in Sydney with her partner and two children. In her leisure time, she mentors women globally leads KeyNote Women Oceania chapter expansion, and volunteers at a Polish Community Language School in Sydney. Magdalena likes staying active through aerial arts, yoga, and rock climbing, and she loves traveling around the world with her family.   

Equity

Inclusion

Intersectionality

Leadership

Global

Bhavna Toor

Bhavna Toor is the Founder and CEO of Shenomics, a mindful leadership platform supporting women to live and lead with authenticity, mindfulness, and impact. Under Bhavna’s leadership, Shenomics has positively impacted over 100,000 women from all walks of life. As an internationally trained mindfulness and women’s leadership coach, Bhavna has spoken on various platforms including TEDx and has trained and coached high-potential leaders at leading Fortune 500 companies around the world.   Bhavna’s prior experience includes mentoring leaders and entrepreneurs as the CEO and Director of the National Social Entrepreneurship Forum and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the GSF Global Accelerator. Prior to that, Bhavna had a 9-year celebrated career on Wall Street, most recently as a Vice President and Client Portfolio Manager for a portfolio of hedge funds at a top investment firm in New York.   Bhavna has lived and worked in over 8 countries and has an MBA in Social Impact from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Bhavna is the recipient of multiple awards, including WEF’s “Iconic Woman Creating a Better World for All”

Mindful (or Conscious) Leadership

Women in Leadership

Diversity & Inclusion

Global

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

Global

Aarathi Arumugam

With her humor, authenticity, and matter-of-factness, Aarathi manages to take a topic that is typically a taboo and uses it to empower other women and couples to be brave on their journey towards building a family. Based on her personal experience of building a family, Aarathi speaks about resilience and finding alternative ways to go after what you want to achieve in life.     Aarathi is an entrepreneur and mother, passionate about being in business and connecting communities through causes close to her heart. With a career trajectory that has taken different paths from corporate, volunteer organizations to start-ups, Aarathi sees the knowledge, experiences, and skills gained from these roles as her personal MBA, and harnesses this power to help nurture families and individuals on their journeys, so that they may thrive and celebrate their own growth. 

Diversity

Empowerment

Moderator/Emcee

Global

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

Global

Valerie Chow

360 marketer - Valerie’s moniker and branding with her versatile integrated marketing experience in both digital and offline. Her strong marketing experience in Retail was honed through exposure to global brands from Nike, Marks, and Spencer to Harvey Norman. She started her career in merchandising, evolving to branding and marketing – inherent in her the ability to upskill. Pivoting her career to the Insurance industry to deepen her digital skills was the biggest “change” in her career – thrown into agile working needing a continuous growth mindset.    Change, she did, and keep on developing is her motto! With the love to learn seeded since young, she was awarded a scholarship by the Japanese government to study MBA in Tokyo, an eye-opening cultural and immersive knowledge experience. Her nature to keep on evolving in both career and life fosters a strong self-development for success. She mentors and coaches to help others to flourish onwards. 

Marketing

Self-development

Success

Global

Joanne Flinn

Twice a TEDx speaker, and founder of Audacious Sustainability, Joanne is an award-winner executive, futurist, author, and global keynote speaker. She is the author of three best-selling books on business growth and delivering results in changing times. She’s been quoted in CNA and by the Asian Banker. Her next book, Audacious Sustainability is due out in Q3’21.    Joanne Flinn ran her first $10 million dollar business at 23, went on to lead a business for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and then became a senior executive on the IT ExCo at a major Asian bank. Today she helps clients think like unicorns for sustainable high performance as an individual, teams, and businesses.  In her work with Boards and the CSuite, it’s about cash, capital, climate, and culture.     Joanne holds an MSc in Consulting and Coaching for Change from HÈC Paris jointly run with Saïd Business School, the University of Oxford, a BEc/LLB, and a post-graduate diploma in finance and investment.  She’s lived in Asia since 1978. And she has a thriving artistic practice as Booth Aster. 

Sustainability

Leadership

Finance

Audacity

Global

Dalia Feldheim

Dalia Feldheim- the founder of Flow Leadership Consultancy, draws on her own extensive corporate leadership experience and her passion for championing others, to enable organizations to promote a more authentic, happy, and psychologically safe working culture.  Before founding Flow Leadership Consultancy, Dalia spent over two decades as a C-suite global marketing executive at Procter and Gamble where she led work on some of the world’s most iconic ad campaigns two of them being 'Tampax Mother Nature' and ’Always like a girl’ ranked Forbes most influential campaign of the decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs  Dalia holds an Executive Master's degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD business school (Organizational Psychology) along with a Happiness Facilitator diploma from the ‘Happiness Studies Academy’ in partnership with Miami University.    Dalia is on a mission to share her insights and learning, successes, and struggles to help shape the new generation of leaders. She teaches ‘The Science of Happiness and Resilience’ as an Adjunct Professor at the Singapore Management University and works with the top tech companies to bring resilience and joy to work. To complement her training program, she recently founded a small startup- “Uppiness- Up your game at work”- an online game designed to help employees solve daily challenges through the use of positive psychology interventions in a fun and engaging way building skills, teamwork and growth mindset.     She is also an ICF accredited coach, a qualified psychodynamic group therapist, and yoga and meditation trainer- including personal and group coaching and mindfulness practice in her corporate programs. Finally, Dalia is a passionate advocate of women and feminine leadership- encouraging women (and men) to lean into their feminine leadership traits and “Dare to lead (more) like a girl”. Her standing ovation Ted talk speaks to the power of this idea Dare to Lead Like a Girl    Her book Dare to Lead like a Girl is scheduled for release in 2021 with proceeds dedicated to lead like a girl programs for underprivileged women around the world. 

Happiness and resilience at work

Emotional bravery / managing emotions at work

women empowerment

Global

Bhali Gill

Bhali Gill is a psychologist, professional speaker, and executive coach with over 10 years of experience in Australia and Singapore. She has worked with global organisations such as SAP, Randstad, Accenture, Abbott, and IBM. Currently, she is lecturing the psychology program at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and James Cook University (JCU). With a reach of over 100,000 readers, her writing has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Golf/Women, SUSScribe, and Medium.   Bhali is also the founder of Corporate Wellbeing and Conscious Unicorn, where her work and dedication to creating productive, mentally healthy, and positive workplaces for employees and organisations have come highly recommended. Her wellbeing/leadership workshops have been applauded by many employees who have testified to having developed new skills, transformed their lives, and created the resilience needed in global organisations.   As an experienced, certified and highly skilled executive and personal coach, Bhali has enabled her clients to discover and reach their potential whilst remaining aligned to themselves. She has a broad range of coaching experience including coaching leaders to develop an effective team, thinking more strategically, and increasing emotional intelligence. She has worked with directors & C-suite leaders from various organisations such as Unilever, Nike, Standard Chartered, Airbnb, and Uber.    

Positive Psychology

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Conscious Living
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