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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.

Santa Meyer-Nandi

Santa is an award-winning advocate on how to create environmental and societal change and what kind of mind- and skill-set Change Agents need to drive forward change and navigate uncertainty, crisis, and resistance in our environment.   Santa has trained thousands of public servants as well as managers in the private sector on how to burn for a cause without burning ourselves out and create powerful visions through the FindingSustainia VISH mental contrasting method.   Trained as an environmental lawyer, Santa is a senior fellow at the Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome Germany, and a Board Member of the Stuttgart Innovation Fund. Santa was elected Best Sustainability Blogger in Germany for her blog FindingSustainia as well #FutureWoman and Germany's Top 100 sustainability influencer #Nachhaltige100. She is excited to give her first Tedx on "Loneliness in Change Agents and what can do about it. #ABetterMeForABetterWorld" in February.

Sustainability - Better Futures- Mindset & Behaviour Change

Jacqueline Kerr

Dr Jacqueline Kerr is a behaviour scientist and burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% of most cited scientists worldwide. Dr Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches. She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of burnout, to prevent burnout through comprehensive strategic planning for employee well-being aligned with DEIB, and to create sustainable and impactful organisational change informed by her two decades as a behaviour change and implementation scientist and practitioner.    Her TEDx talk (How to stop burnout before it starts) explains how burnout is a multi-level problem and provides actionable solutions that we can all use to change the social norms around burnout based on behaviour change science.

Burnout

Behaviour change

Gender equity

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.   A quiet, anxious school girl, she conquered her nerves to become an international opera singer, a keynote speaker, and is now a Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association UK. She says, “If I can speak, anyone can!”.   Susan inspires everyone to make a positive impact in business conversations by being concise, influential, confident, and credible. A multi-award-winning businesswoman, in 2020 she was named in the IALSO 100 Top Female Entrepreneurs in the UK. A Podcast host herself for many years, she is regularly interviewed on BBC Radio, local radio stations and for international podcasts.   Susan has delivered seminars, workshops, and training at numerous companies and institutions including; Durham University, LSE, Penn University Alumnae, Pfizer, I.H.S. Deloitte, Invesco, and Hewlett Packard Enterprises. Her audiences are worldwide and she has presented online to attendees from more than 90 countries.

Management

Success

Communication

Dr Sarah Whyte

Dr Sarah Whyte has a doctorate in emotional intelligence, for which she created an emotional intelligence intervention for change and gained the specialist skills to create new knowledge and become an expert in her field. She remains a massive research geek, updating her knowledge with emotion, psychology, and neuroscience research.   With more than twenty years experience of supporting thousands of people with tough emotions, first as a teacher and then as a speaker and facilitator, she now works with leaders and teams in high-pressure environments which expect peak performance. Dr Sarah helps people understand the power of emotion in building psychological safety. Through relatable stories which distill complex research into simple but powerful takeaways, she supports people to boost their performance, productivity, and communication. 

Psychological safety through emotions

Emotional Safety

Resilience & well-being

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

Geraldine Gauthier

Geraldine is an executive coach, business owner, global keynote speaker, and personal trainer. She inspires executives to reach peak performance by being mentally focused, physically energised, and emotionally connected. She runs a coaching school accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and offers a digital coaching toolbox to coaches and companies (GoMasterCoach.com).   Her career began in the Finance Industry 20 years ago where she held various positions focused on change management, merger & integration, and team development, including leadership roles in Asia & Europe. A strong believer in the power of coaching in this disrupted world, she decided to become a coach and a personal trainer to help people work smarter and live better. She delivers motivational talks and training on Energy Management, Confidence Coaching, and Inclusive Leadership.   

Leadership

Empowerment

Health/Well-being

Sweta Mishra

I am an HR practitioner with 17+years of varied HR experience and also an ICF certified coach. During the span of my career, I have set up people functions, conceptualized and implemented HR solutions such as competency frameworks, career progression models, leadership development initiatives, diagnostic interventions for culture assessment, and delivered more than 10000 hours of stand-up training.   I have worked in the capacity of a generalist as well as a specialist in a few domains; additionally, I have had the opportunity to deliver these solutions in mature as well as start-up environments. And one thing that has held me in good stead all these years is my passion is to integrate wellbeing principles into core people practices, processes, and solutions. Having worked across an array of industries such as consulting, banking, finance, IT, and ITES, I realize that conscious intentions lie at the core of the most effective people processes and policies.

Wellbeing at work

Communicating with confidence

Leading with presence

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

Murshidah Said

Murshidah has run successful businesses for more than 20 years expanding throughout Asia as well as teaching entrepreneurship to teenagers and adults. Murshidah has over 18 years of personal grooming and personal image transformational training experience to teenagers, corporate executives, and government level executives.     Prior to training, she owned a convention organizing and event management company and has organized over 150 projects spanning the Asia Pacific region (including Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Sydney) since 1993. Murshidah: In a nutshell, I am a speaker, corporate trainer, life coach, Love and Respect advocate, social entrepreneur, humanitarian, mom and wife, I help press the Re-Set button on people (only if allowed to). 

Leadership

Management

Business

Social

Rochelle Haynes

Born and bred in Barbados, Rochelle is a recognized global speaker, author, people management expert, and gig economy, advocate. She is the Founder and CEO of Crowd Potential Consulting, a firm specializing in helping businesses and individuals navigate working relationships and enhance performance in digital spaces. She has delivered specialist interactive sessions across different regions including Europe, Latin America, and Asia, on topics including career enhancement, performance management, the gig economy, and changing work practices.     She also lectures at a UK university and works with the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) as an employability mentor, a role for which she has been commended. Rochelle specializes in the emerging field of HR, a term she coined to describe people management practices that fit for remote workers, independent contractors, and blended work teams. Her research has been recognized by CIPD, who recently invited her to speak at their annual CIPD Festival of Work conference. 

New work

Digitization

Technology

Dr Olivia Ong

Known as the Heart-Centred Doctor, Dr Olivia Ong is a professional speaker, author, and physician with a thriving medical practice in Melbourne, Australia. After a serious car accident in 2008, Dr Ong became a paraplegic but began walking again 3 years later. She resumed her career in 2013 and became an accomplished dual-trained rehabilitation and pain management physician.   She wrote her first book “The Heart-Centredness of Medicine” about physician burnout, and today Dr Ong also runs programs helping doctors transform their lives from burnout to brilliance. She speaks on burnout in the healthcare industry and has appeared in the media regularly including Sky News, Channel 10, Yahoo Finance, ThriveGlobal, International Business Times Singapore, and Australian Business Journal. She has been a guest on multiple podcasts and speaks about resilience, overcoming her spinal cord injury, and compassionate leadership, with which she leads her medical teams wholeheartedly.

Burnout & Resilience

Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine

Compassionate leadership

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

Aurelie Saada

Aurelie is currently APAC Risk Lead for Microsoft Asia. She has over 15 years of international experience in risk management and audit, mainly in banking and insurance. Her journey brought her through different risk areas (operational, credit, regulatory, market, and cyber risks) different countries in Europe and Asia, and different sectors (private banking, asset management, corporate banking, and general insurance). Aurelie is also a fervent supporter of women’s professional development and leadership.     She's the former President of PrimeTime Business and Professional Women's Association, whose vision is to help professional women to achieve their highest potential through training, networking, and events. She also leads the Women at Microsoft Singapore Chapter and is a strong fervent supporter of diversity and inclusion at all levels. Born in France, she discovered Singapore through an exchange programme in 2004. She fell in love with the country its culture and the food and has built her life here with her family and friends. 

Leadership

Management

Diversity

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

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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