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KeyNote Speakers in North America

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

Adele Hung

Adele Hung is currently Head of Established Portfolio and Digital GSK. Passionate about driving diversity and inclusion, she is also the chairperson for the Women's Leadership Initiative in GSK Singapore. A registered Speech Pathologist with a behavioral psychology background, Adele holds an MBA with a finance major and was formerly the founder of healthcare consultancy firms in Hong Kong and China. Born and bred in Asia, Adele believes in embracing authentic Asian identity and a multi-cultural quotient. Adele joined GSK through a global talent leadership program. She successfully progresses across local, regional and global settings.     She has also worked and lived in Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. With diverse career experiences and successful Asian leadership experience in global MNCs, Adele intentionally speaks about breaking the Asian leadership ceiling, with emphasis on cultural agility and unconscious bias. Adele's speaking style is breezy with humour and audience-interactive. Her speech is backed not only by her first-hand leadership experience but also through professional understanding as a speech pathologist about how humans communicate. Her analysis of human communicative and leadership behaviors always impresses and inspires participants to transform.

Leadership

Diversity

Culture

Asia

Natalie Turner

As the digital landscape continues to change at a rapid pace, dismantling and disrupting the way that we do business, how can we ensure that we harness the diverse skills of our workforce to create impactful innovation? Natalie Turner, Author, TEDx speaker, and innovation culture and skills specialist, focuses on the importance of diversity of skills and ways of thinking in her highly interactive Keynote through the lens of her methodology, the Six I's of Innovation.     The Six I's offers an end-to-end people-centered approach to innovation, blending the principles of design thinking with organizational development, and a unique innovation strengths assessment for individuals and teams. Natalie is the author of Business Book of the Month; Yes, You Can Innovate. Discover your innovation strengths and develop your creative potential and Founder and CEO of The Entheo Network.     Natalie has worked for and consulted with some of the world's leading organizations including CISCO Systems, Singapore Airlines, and LEO Pharma Asia, helping them build innovation systems, culture, and capabilities, as well as generating new ideas to help them grow their teams and businesses. From the UK, Natalie now lives in Malaysia, works out of Singapore, and travels the world extensively, inspiring people to live their PURPOSE and reach their innovation potential. 

Leadership

Innovation

Creativity

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

Europe

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

Asia

Ivana Fertitta

Ivana Fertitta is an Italian Psychologist, Facilitator, Emcee, and Keynote Speaker. With over 20 years of experience in Community Psychology, Business Management, and training, she brings a unique set of skills to each of her talks. She has helped many corporate clients increase engagement, manage stress, develop resilience, and face change positively. Leveraging her expertise in Positive Psychology, Ivana helps people feel happier and more balanced and fulfilled.     She has a warm and energetic personality and connects with her audience in an authentic, engaging, and fun way. In her spare time, she is leading the highly sought-after Public Speaking Training Programme with Keynote Women Speakers and she is committed to the mission of bringing more diversity to the speaking stages of the world. Ivana also supports Aidha Singapore through mentoring foreign domestic workers in communication and leadership skills. 

Moderator/Emcee

Health/Well-being

Asia

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

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

Europe

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

Asia

Kavya Kanchana

Kavya keeps her passion for people, technology, and business alive daily at Microsoft, a leading global technology company redefining and democratizing the next digital waves. With close to 18 years of active industry experience, in her current capacity, she leads the Cloud Acquisition business for Microsoft’s Corporate segment in AsiaPacific. Educated as an electrical and electronics engineer in India, Kavya currently lives in Singapore.    Kavya’s connection to Keynote is unique as she is one of the founding members and first Co-Chair of Keynote. Kavya is passionate about bridging the diversity divide in the tech industry and on speaking stages. She is the creator and co-host of the Microsoft-led Code; Without Barriers podcast. ( Code; Without Barriers Podcast ) She believes that every leader of today should embrace technology as an enabler, diversity as an essential ingredient, and sustainability as the ultimate goal for business and societal transformation. Her keynotes are conversations at the intersection of these three ideas.

TECHNOLOGY SALES

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY

STRATEGIC ALLIANCES & PARTNERSHIPS

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION in TECH

BUSINESS ACTIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

North America

Jill Goldenziel

Dr. Goldenziel speaks and consults on International Law, International Security, Geopolitical Risk, Leadership, Business, and Human Rights, Migration, and Disinformation. She has briefed United Nations officials, world parliamentarians, and senior military leaders on her award-winning research, including speaking alongside Angela Merkel and other world leaders at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Migration.  At Marine Corps University, Dr. Goldenziel has lectured 1,200 U.S. and foreign field-grade military officers on the law of war, international law, and migration, and has taught 200 officers in seminars on law, leadership, and international security.  She is also an Affiliated Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fox Leadership International program.  Dr. Goldenziel’s work has appeared in top scholarly journals, and she is regularly quoted and cited in the press. She holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in Government from Harvard, a J.D. from NYU, and an A.B. from Princeton. Visit http://www.jillgoldenziel.com and follow her @JillGoldenziel.     

Leadership

Geopolitical Risk

Business and Human Rights

Law

Asia

Mette Johansson

Mette Johansson is an author, professional speaker, and the owner of MetaMind Training. She worked in leadership roles for multinational corporations for 15 years before she founded MetaMind Training, a training consultancy which provides learning programmes in leadership, people, and communication skills. Mette speaks internationally on how to become a true leader: the leader who we follow not because of their position, wealth, or title – but because we are inspired to follow them.     For over 20 years, Mette has studied leadership, motivation, and engagement. Her bestselling book "How to Make Yourself Promotable: 7 skills to help you climb the career ladder" describes some of these skills, and more. She has co-authored two other books and is currently working on her next book project. Mette is a recipient of the Asia Women Icon award and is the initiator of and current Chair for KeyNote – Asia’s Women Speakers, Asia’s leading directory of female speakers. Having lived, studied, and worked in 11 countries, Mette is a global citizen who speaks fluently in four languages and now calls Singapore home.   

Leadership

Culture

Communication

Europe

Aurelie Litynski

Aurelie Litynski, founder of Happitude at Work, has been trained by leading global experts on the topics of positive psychology, positive neuroplasticity, and happiness in the workplace. As Chief Happiness Officer, Aurelie draws on her extensive training and active engagement in the field to create workshops, programs, and public events that tackle topics such as workplace behaviour, communication, empathy, and trust. Her expertise spans a variety of industries and targets SMEs, multinational organizations, and corporate leaders while helping them boost happiness in the workplace, which translates to better productivity and performance.     Aurelie is on a mission: turning frustrations at work into happiness at work!   

Happiness at work

Positive psychology

Leading with positivity

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

Asia

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

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