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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

Uma Rudd Chia

Uma Rudd Chia is an award-winning Executive Creative Director and co-founder of a boutique ad agency, KVUR. She has two decades of experience as a global creative director at various multi-national advertising agencies. She holds an M.A. in Digital Media Management and Technology from Hyper Island. She authored Hey Pastor! Your Church is Going Out of Business and Who Killed Death? At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, she authored her third book, 10 Things Brands Could Do to Survive a Crisis, which became a Kindle bestseller overnight and a playbook for brands to navigate the Covid-19 climate.    Uma is a keynote speaker who has spoken at global conferences to over 200,000 people across 14 countries in the past 5 years on topics of innovation and technology, women leadership, and creativity. She is the wife of one husband and mother to two human babies and one fur baby. She loves physics and wakes up dreaming of walking on Mars. 

Creativity & Artificial Intelligence

Diversity & Inclusivity

Mental Health & Wellness

Global

Wendy Tan

Wendy's work is about learning and bringing forth ideas to help us act with wisdom for the greater good. Being a Chinese with a Western education, Wendy draws from both wells to find insight and inspiration for us to be better human beings and leaders to create institutions that work for all.     The author of Wholeness in a Disruptive World: Pearls of Wisdom from East and West, Wendy is also a Certified Professional Speaker (CSP), a designation conferred by the National Speakers Association as the international measure of professional platform competence. She connects with her audience through her authentic, heartful and thought-provoking disposition. Her work has won the InnovPlus Spark and HRO Today Thought Leadership Awards. Wendy co-founded Flame Centre in 2004, a talent development practice based in Asia.     Flame Centre partners with Dr. Beverly Kaye in career development and talent engagement solutions and Peter Block's Flawless Consulting workshops in the Asia Pacific region. Wendy has worked with numerous multinational corporations and government agencies in her career. She speaks both English and Mandarin. Wendy holds a Master's of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University and graduated with honors from the National University of Singapore in Psychology. 

Learning Ability

Resilience

Learning in the Future of Work

Whole Leader

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

Susan Heaton-Wright

Susan Heaton-Wright is a Virtual impact, communications, and speaking expert for rising leaders and the creator of the Superstar Communicator™ methodology. She is an international speaker; the MD of award-winning music company, Viva Live Music, podcaster, and a former prize-winning international opera singer. Susan has delivered virtual seminars, workshops, and training for many companies including AstraZeneca, Deloitte, RBS, Shell, Microsoft, AXA, the NHS, and Quintiles. As a CPD accredited speaker, she regularly delivers remote speeches and seminars to lawyers, accountants, and finance professionals, as well as leaders and rising leaders in organisations. Her clients have gone on to be interviewed by Sky News and the BBC as well as speaking at industry conferences.   She is regularly interviewed on BBC Radio Five Live and BBC2, as well as on local radio stations and international podcasts. Susan has contributed to articles in Forbes, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, The Scotsman, and numerous other trade publications. In 2020, she was named as an #ialso 100 Top Inspirational Female Entrepreneurs in the UK. Susan is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, The Royal Society of Arts, and the Incorporated Society of Musicians. She leads a project of musicians in Greece annually, to deliver music workshops to refugees in Athens as part of the ‘Love without Borders’ charity. 

Management

Success

Communication

Global

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

Global

Anna Kopp

Anna Kopp studied international communication at Stockholm University before moving to Germany. She has worked in the IT industry since 1993 in sales, operations, and management roles and has been at Microsoft for 16 years. She was responsible globally for customer satisfaction in the online division before switching to IT 6 years ago and now drives business processes and technology in Germany. With a focus on efficiency and simplification, she leads digital transformation from an IT perspective.     She is also Head of Office for the Munich HQ, where she is responsible for the modern world of work from a cultural perspective. She believes firmly that the human being is the focal point for all the changes in today’s world. She has won multiple leadership awards, and is also a rock singer with her own band, and has released several albums. She is also an avid biker and has completed a number of adventure expeditions and desert rallies on her BMW 1200. 

New work

Digitization

Culture

Global

Susanna Hasenoehrl

Susanna Hasenoehrl works as Director Asia at Yara International, the crop nutrition company for the future. She is responsible for growth & commercialisation of the company’s digital farming solutions aimed at the 350 million smallholders in Asia, and the Sustainability Lead. Her previous career spans global leadership roles at Siemens, Nokia, and leading start-ups, including the world’s 1st free mobile operator Blyk, the world’s largest migraine patient community, and the healthy nutrition recommendation engine Joice.    Susanna delivers talks in English, German and Finnish, her mother tongue. Holding a Masters in International Business from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and SKEMA France, she is also a certified leadership coach and an Associate Member of the Asian Professional Speakers Singapore (APSS).

Climate

Sustainability

Digitization

Technology

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

Dr Tanvi Gautam

C-suite advisor, multi-award-winning keynote speaker, best-selling author, and executive coach, Dr. Tanvi Gautam is a passionate, provocative, and practice-oriented speaker. Quoted & published by international forums such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes.com, Business Times & Economic Times, Dr. Tanvi is a ICF certified business story coach who has worked with a number of prominent multinationals including Microsoft, Exxon, Mastercard, Dell, and TNT, to name but a few.   A faculty & program director with SMU Executive Development and founder of Asia's 1st globally attended program for women executives, Dr. Tanvi has worked on 3 different continents delivering programmes on transformational leadership, purpose-based brand storytelling, change management, and more for C-suite leaders, senior partners, and commercial directors. She helps senior executives raise their potential as impactful, authentic, engaged, and inclusive leaders.   Her speaking, coaching, and workshops are designed keeping in mind the demands of careers and leadership in the age of disruption. 

Storytelling

HR

Leadership

Gender

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