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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

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

Oceania

Magdalena Poulin

Magdalena has over 15 years of diversified and multinational work experience in the EMEA and the Asia Pacific regions. Currently based at AIG, she oversees the strategy and implementation of the Talent, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program for the APAC region where she seeks to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging. Prior to AIG, she built the Diversity & Inclusion functions and programs at HP and EMC, and she speaks regularly on inclusion, women empowerment, bias, and inclusive leadership.   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.   Magdalena lives in Sydney with her husband and two children. In her leisure time, she mentors women globally under the Women Accelerators program and sits on the AmCham Australia Diversity & Inclusion Committee. 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

North America

Precious Watkins

Precious Watkins was raised in Chicago. Becoming a single mother as a teenager, she struggled to find herself while trying to be the best parent she could be. On her journey to rediscover and redefine her self-identity, she realized that her life could be what SHE decided to make it. Precious developed a strong will to keep going and curve every hardball thrown her way.     When Precious healed herself and found her identity, she realized that she had a story to tell. She wanted her story to heal someone else out there, if not the world. With her strong intention and passion for helping others, Precious became a Certified Life Coach, Author of “Complicated Tears” and is now an e empowering Keynote speaker.     “Complicated Tears” isn’t just Precious sharing her story with the world but using her story to empower other women. She’s now walking with purpose and living her dreams. 

Childhood Trauma

Intimate Relationships and Grief

Asia

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

Asia

Karin Barry

Karin is an Executive with 20+ years of experience in Operations, Finance, and Strategy across the International Development, Banking, and Professional Services Industries. She is passionate about driving transformation and innovation at an individual level and across corporate culture. With her diverse background, she has a special talent for consolidating learnings from across multiple domains.     Her corporate experience has included leading change initiatives, defining and leading strategic transformation alongside Boards and Executive committees, and conceptualizing corporate reorganization plans.  Karin has lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, Singapore, and the USA. Originally hailing from the USA, she leverages her international experience to craft cross-culturally compelling leadership and change initiatives.   

Leadership

Management

Diversity

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

North America

Ruchika Tulshyan

Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist and keynote speaker. She is the CEO of Candour, a practice that advises global organizations on diversity & inclusion strategy and communications. She is also author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace. An eminent journalist, Ruchika writes regularly for publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes and The Seattle Times.     She is also Distinguished Professional-in-Residence for the Communication Department at Seattle University. In 2019, Ruchika was named to the Thinkers50 "On the Radar" list, a global community of influential management thinkers to watch. Originally from Singapore, Ruchika has lived and worked in multiple countries over three continents. She currently resides in Seattle, USA. 

Equity

Inclusion

New work

Asia

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

Asia

Dr Sarah Whyte

Dr Sarah Whyte is an experienced global speaker, facilitator, and ICF coach. Through in-person and virtual speaking engagements, she helps businesses and leaders to support their people to enhance their emotional resilience and well-being. Drawing from her background in education and her doctorate in emotional intelligence, Sarah shares practical, science-backed strategies to boost resilience which are firmly rooted in the way our brains work.     Sarah’s warm, engaging approach inspires audiences to truly understand how resilience makes a positive difference to ourselves, our personal and professional relationships, and our communication with others, increasing productivity, performance, and business outcomes.     Originally from the United Kingdom, Sarah now calls Singapore home. When she’s not working, she spends most of her time running around after her two young daughters and getting as much sleep as possible.  

Resilience

Emotional well-being

Relocation well-being

Oceania

Toni Powell

Toni Powell is an author, storyteller, wake up artist and a passionate enquirer about what makes people tick. She's constantly researching her favorite topics: why good relationships work and how to create a wonderful life. Toni's funny, yet profound, keynotes have seen her speaking on stage alongside the likes of Brene Brown, Ruby Wax, and The Dalai Lama.     Brene even said that Toni's 2013 TEDx talk The Power of Words had a big impact on her life. What a Feeling is Toni's newest book; a candid and entertaining book that's based on 40 years of personal research into what makes for great relationships with everyone you know. 

Self-development

Self-help

Storytelling

Asia

Liana Attard

Liana is a Partner with a multinational consulting business, based in Singapore and is the Multinational Client Group Leader for Asia. She has worked for 19 years in the insurance, broking, and consulting industry in both Asia and Australia, with 15 years of experience focused on international consulting in the HR and employee benefits space.   She is an ambassador for diversity and inclusion in the workplace across Asia, driving thought leadership and related solutions on mental wellbeing and an aging workforce and structuring inclusive rewards programs. Outside of her day job, Liana is the Lead Chair for Women@Mercer BRG for Asia, is a member of the women in business group at Britcham and the MMC Asia Pacific Risk Committee, looking at issues impacting Asia and organisations from risk, workforce, aging & automation and climate change/reliance perspective.   

Diversity

Equity

Inclusion

Gender

Health/Well-being

North America

Catarina Rivera

Catarina Rivera, MSEd, MPH, CPACC is a disabled public speaker and DEI consultant with over 14 years of experience in the public sector. Catarina works with companies to improve accessibility and inclusion, retain employees, and design better products. She is the founder of Blindish Latina, a platform smashing disability stigmas through storytelling, advocacy, and training. Catarina has worn hearing aids from a young age and was diagnosed with progressive vision loss at 17 years old.     Catarina has a BA from Duke University, an MSEd from Bank Street College of Education, and an MPH from Hunter College. She is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (IAAP). She is a member of RespectAbility's National Disability Speakers Bureau and. Catarina is also committed to social justice.    

Diversity

Equity & Inclusion

Disability Inclusion

Accessibility

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