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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

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

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

Global

Krystina Jackson

Krystina is a dynamic organizational development consultant and certified diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) practitioner with over 15 years of experience. As the Founder and CEO of Converge Consulting Group, she partners with mission-driven organizations to advance equity and inclusion through transformative change management and learning. Drawing on her background in science and education, Krystina has developed a unique approach to DEIB that emphasizes clarity, accessibility, and practical application. As a sought-after keynote speaker and thought-leader, she inspires audiences to create more inclusive and equitable cultures.   Krystina brings a personal commitment to advancing equity and inclusion as a woman of color. 

DEI

Leadership

Communication

Global

Karen Schofield

Karen is an award-winning speaker and consultant, who's spent 18 years specializing in consumer insight and behavior change, developing innovative approaches to understand the psychology of why we behave the way we do and how to influence it. Her interest in resilience and happiness is as much personal as professional. After being suddenly and tragically widowed in her early 30s, she relocated to Singapore where she set up and managed a successful business for a UK-based insights company. Three years later, she took a few months out to travel solo around Asia, which included (in her opinion) one of the ultimate tests of resilience and mental strength vipassana before relocating back to her home city of Manchester, UK.     She's since started her own business, as a full-time speaker, trainer and consultant in behaviour change, consumer insight and innovation. She specialises in developing innovative approaches to understanding and influencing decision making and behaviour, combining techniques from disciplines spanning academic and commercial spheres, from positive psychology to creative uses of technology. She's partnered with businesses across Europe, APAC and the US, from global MNCs like Unilever, GSK, Ferrero and Friesland Campina to smaller organisations and not-for-profits. Karen runs corporate training with the UK Market Research Society and has trained and mentored hundreds of insight practitioners both within her own organisations and client businesses. She is currently writing a book on resilience, happiness and mental wellbeing. 

Health/Well-being

Psychology

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

Tricia Broderick

Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead without Blame and founder of Ignite Insight + Innovation, is a leadership and organizational advisor. With over twenty-five years of experience, her transformational leadership ignites the growth of leaders and resilient high-performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia boldly role models putting people first.  Her aim is to create inclusive connections and collaborations that challenge and support people in an authentic, vulnerable, and engaging way.    Over the years, she has held a variety of roles from software engineer to executive in a range of industries.  Since 2010, Tricia has spoken for small workgroups to thousands of conference attendees. Today, she is a highly-rated advisor, trainer, coach, facilitator, and motivational keynote speaker.     

Leadership

Business Agility & Resilience

Motivation & Empowerment

Global

Sara Kelly

Sara Kelly is a Human Resources specialist, storyteller, and creative writer. Based in Singapore, her diverse experience includes more than a decade in various HR positions covering European and Asia Pacific regions and leading global projects. A master of observation, she writes non-fiction articles about her working experiences, expat life, and parenthood, authors a children’s poetry site, and regularly speaks on these and related topics at spoken-word events.   Sara’s professional and creative work is driven by her desire to challenge perceptions and turn the status quo upside down. Financial equity is one issue she has cared deeply about since becoming a volunteer with Aidha – a charity empowering and providing opportunities for low-income women to transform their lives through sustainable wealth creation.    Sara holds a BA in Media and communications from the University of NSW, Australia, and an MA in Creative Writing from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

Human Resources

Storytelling

Parenthood

Financial Education

Global

Kate Christie

Kate Christie, Founder & CEO of Time Stylers is a Time Investment Expert, International Speaker, and best-selling author. She empowers high performing individuals and teams with the mindset, skills, and strategies to find and harness hours of lost time.     As a speaker, facilitator, coach, bestselling author of 3 Time Management books and CEO of Time Stylers, Kate draws on her background as an Executive, Lawyer, Entrepreneur and mother of 3 teenagers to consult to big and small business, government departments and C suite executives on maximizing individual time spend and managing organizational drag through smart time investment strategies.     Her clients include organizations such as Westpac, La Oreal, Deloitte, PWC and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, along with small and medium enterprises. Kate has appeared on television, radio and in print as a leading commentator on time management and maximizing work/ life integration to ensure your success across work, family, community, and life. With a reputation for helping her clients find 30 hours of lost time a month, Kate's focus is to ensure you are left educated, entertained, and with a lasting impact on the way you choose to live, work and play. 

Self-development

Self-help

Success

Global

Karolina Gwinner

Karolina is a high-energy and performance-driven leadership keynote speaker. She empowers leaders, executives, and C-suite to thrive by becoming more intentional, mindful, and resilient. As a result, they can unleash the best in themselves and their teams and make a bigger positive impact on their organisations. Karolina is the Knowledge Partner of Women Leaders Institute.     Since 2016 she has been collaborating with the Women in Leadership Conference in APAC and her workshops have proven to be extremely popular with leaders at all levels. Karolina co-authored the book titled “Breakthrough: Secrets of Growth, Happiness, And Bouncebacks from Women Around the World” which aims at helping leaders discover what truly matters to them and find the courage to act on it. She is also a Speaker Training Lead for KeyNote Women Speakers, a member of Asia Professional Speakers Association APSS and Global Speakers Federation GSF.     Karolina developed her expertise while living in five different countries and working for corporations such as Hewlett-Packard in Germany, Merrill Lynch, and Bank of New York Mellon in Ireland. Karolina has worked with leaders of top organisations including Mastercard, Adobe Systems, Fuji Xerox, PwC, Mazars, Agilent, Roche, MSD, Shell, Honeywell, DB Schenker, PGIM, AIA, Swiss Re, NETS, DBS, Willis Towers Watson, Columbia Threadneedle, Changi Airport. Karolina is well known for her engaging speaking style, contagious energy, and immense passion for helping leaders unleash their full leadership potential. 

Leadership

Empowerment

Health/Well-being

Global

Jasmine Liew

With over two decades of experience as a Human Resource Leader in MNCs, the Private Sector, and Singapore Civil Service, Jasmine is an organization development practitioner and global speaker. As the Founder of Breakthrough Catalyst, a bespoke learning and consultancy, Jasmine equips leaders to navigate organizational changes, enhance leadership effectiveness, foster engagement and build high-performing teams in the digital age.  Jasmine's global clientele spans diverse industries, and she empowers leaders through her thought leadership and practical strategies. Pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at The University of Canberra, Jasmine includes research-based evidence in her speeches. Featured in Singapore Radio 938 and publications like The Straits Times, Business Times, Channel News Asia and HR Magazine, Jasmine is recognized for her expertise.    As Singapore's First Certified Psychological Practitioner under Professor Amy Edmondson's The Fearless Organization and Premier Partner for The 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work, Jasmine foster thriving workplace cultures within organisations and teams.   

Psychological Safety

Leadership

Change Management

Global

Natalie Turner

Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist having spent over 25 years working as a corporate innovation director, a business consultant, and an entrepreneur. She has worked for and consulted with some of the world’s leading organisations including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, helping them build innovation systems, culture, and capabilities as well as generating new ideas to help them grow their teams and businesses.     She has been featured in The Sunday Times, British Airways Inflight Magazine, Blomberg TV, and many other media, and is an Award-winning author for her book Yes, You Can Innovate and a contributing author to Unleash Your Voice – Powerful Public Speaking for Everywoman. Natalie is the inventor of The Six ‘I’s®, a Model that helps people measure their innovation strengths so that they can harness diversity and have a greater impact on new ideas.

Innovation

Purpose

Creativity

Global

Anoushka Gungadin

Anoushka is the former CEO of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, a leading global youth program. Anoushka speaks six languages, has lived and worked across Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia, with global brands such as la Oreal, Gide Loyrette Nouel. She is the Vice-President of the Australia India Business Council in Victoria and Chair of Women in Business Chapter. As a Board Director, Speaker, Facilitator and Mentor, Anoushka combines her background as a CEO, Economist, Certified Coach with her 20 years of global work experience to help leaders and businesses become future-ready.    For Anoushka, the future is diverse and intersectional Recognising that we live in globalised societies, with increasingly diverse talent and consumer, Anoushka helps leaders and businesses build cultural intelligence and inclusive diversity to thrive in the modern world, through GlobalCQ. GlobalCQ has been recognised for its innovative vision and is the winner of the 2018 Westpac 200 Businesses of Tomorrow Award. 

Diversity

Inclusion

Culture

Global

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

Global

Simone De Haas

Simone de Haas speaks internationally on The Future IS Exceptionality, The Spirit of Feminine Leadership, and Creative Leadership. Drawing on 30+ years of leading diverse groups of Exceptionals & Leading Lights as a multi-award-winning theatre director and producer, Simone brings intriguing, ground-breaking perspectives and possibilities to organisations who seek to become dynamically future-active. Simone is a masterful communicator, coach, and mentor. Her unique and diverse portfolio of work creates a strong platform for developing transformational leaders and building exceptional organisations.   Her client base includes organisations in Finance, Real Estate, MLM, Creative Industries, Regional and Rural Business Development, as well as individual C-Suite Executives and Professional Speakers. Simone's creative capacities move effortlessly and pragmatically between stage and boardroom. Whether she is singing, directing, telling quirky leadership stories, or displaying the power of creative improvisation, her presence brings extraordinary insights into the new world that is evolving. Intuitive, inspirational, and interactive, Simone is available for keynote presentations, executive coaching & consultancy, media appearances, and podcast interviews. If you are seeking accelerated business growth, human-centered connection, and new paradigms for leadership and talent management, connect with Simone at www.SimonedeHaas.com. 

Leadership

Gender

Communication

Global

Priyadarshini Sharma

A senior female leader with over 21 years of multi-country, multi-industry experience in blue-chip organisations, Priyadarshini Sharma has personally experienced several rites of passage including juggling career and family, dealing with discrimination, and helping other female leaders to thrive within their organisations. With that in mind, she became a professional speaker to share her wisdom and give back. She is a passionate and eloquent speaker on topics including Marketing & Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Coaching, and Leadership and can connect with and inspire diverse audiences.   Having lived and worked in 6 countries, Priya speaks four languages fluently and calls Singapore home. She is a certified coach and is dedicated to helping people achieve their potential. Priya is an accomplished writer with articles published in various international publications, and she is currently working on her first book. She is also a recipient of the “Campaign Asia Women to Watch” award. Priyadarshini holds a certification for Advanced public speaking and professional presenting from the Harvard extension school.

Marketing and Strategy

Leadership

Coaching for success
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