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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.

Dr. Elke Duwenig

Dr. Elke Duwenig is an inspiring senior expert, skilled in biotechnology and innovation on agricultural and life science challenges, with a passion for sustainable solutions. She is currently active in Regulatory and Government Affairs for Human Nutrition, Animal Nutrition, Enzymes, Flavour, and Pharma products at Nutrition & Health, BASF SE. She was also an expert lead in the Corporate Renewable Raw Material Roadmap at BASF. Elke gives expert guidance for strategies and roadmaps as well as for R&D projects and sales products. She is strongly engaged in legislation and authority work to safeguard biotech products and opening markets together with EuropaBio, EU SFI, FEFANA, AMFEP, and other trade associations and think tanks like BIC, ILSI, and AFSI, both in the EU and globally.   Elke studied biology and chemistry at the University of Münster, Germany, and Stanford University, USA. She graduated and completed her doctorate in molecular plant physiology at the Institute for Gene-Biological Research (Institut für genbiologische Forschung) IGF, Berlin, and did two postdocs at the Max-Planck Institute in Golm and the University of Freiburg, Germany, before joining BASF.   

Biotechnology

Sustainability

Green Transformation

Gail Gibson

Gail Gibson, Accredited Master Coach and Founder of Gaisha Consultancy Ltd. drives culture transformation and nurtures leaders with growth mindsets for personal and career advancement. Partnering with businesses globally, she designs personalized coaching programs, inspiring leaders to perform at their peak in times of change. Creator of The Can Do Way®, Gail fosters conscious, compassionate leadership.     Author, podcast host, and advocate for women's mental wealth, she thrives in nature, embodying her principles of growth and well-being.   

Growth Mindset

Empowerment

Personal Development

Katrina McCarter

Katrina is the founder and CEO of Marketing to Mums, a marketing and research consultancy based in Australia. She is a Marketing Strategist who specializes in understanding mothers as a powerful market sector, through experience and research.     Katrina is the author of the best-selling book, Marketing to Mums, and is highly regarded for her creative growth strategies and her ability to negotiate strategic partnerships to increase sales and profits in selling to mums. Katrina is an award-winning businesswoman and mother of three, Katrina is a sought-after international speaker and regular contributor to business media. 

Marketing

Branding

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

Magdalena Poulin

Magdalena has over 15 years of diversified and multinational work experience in the EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Oceania regions. Currently based at Macquarie University, she oversees the design and implementation of the Workplace Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy, builds strategic partnerships, and fosters a culture of belonging. Prior to Macquarie University, she designed Diversity & Inclusion strategies and large-scale programs at AIG, HP, and EMC.   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.  Having lived in 6 countries, Magdalena is a global citizen who currently lives in Sydney with her partner and two children. In her leisure time, she mentors women globally leads KeyNote Women Oceania chapter expansion, and volunteers at a Polish Community Language School in Sydney. 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

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

Dominique Rose Van-Winther

Dominique leads Asia-Pacific for The Hoffman Agency, the renowned global tech-focused comms agency.  A seasoned marketing & communications consultant with a strong tech foundation, bringing over 20+ years of leadership experience at global consulting firms: including within IPG, McCann WorldGroup, and WPP, as well as having run D-Central, her own AI consultancy.   In this role, Dominique leads the agency's operations in the Asia-Pacific region to further enhance its impact in the technology and communications sector. Recently, Dominique has focused on helping companies to build their AI strategy and upskill executives. Additionally, Dominique also serves as a Non-Executive Director for Synthar, a subsidiary of Trispectra AI, and an investor in numerous deep tech, AI, blockchain, and other tech ventures.   An expert in building teams and operations, Dominique is passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, and nurturing exceptional talent. A Danish-American, she has lived & worked in France, Russia, Hong Kong, Thailand & Singapore.

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Dr. Stacey Ashley

To lead this marathon of change, leaders must navigate the complexities of globalization, technological advancement, social interconnectivity, hybrid work, massively accelerating change, a multi-generational workforce, and more.  With over 30 years of experience, Stacey has helped 1000 to develop their leadership competence, confidence, and credibility.  The author of six Amazon #1 best-selling books about leadership, Stacey has a talent for translating complex concepts into simple & practical ideas for immediate application. Obsessed with elevating the practice of leadership, and equipping leaders globally to create a future of possibility. Stacey typically speaks at conferences, develops leadership strategies and programs, consults, and coaches.  Stacey helps CEOs and their teams:   Build the practical foundations for effective leadership  Get out of the trenches, to lead strategically and with influence  Transition quickly and effectively to leading larger, more complex portfolios  Effectively lead change and transformation  Develop a coaching toolkit and approach  Create a leadership coaching capability

Leadership

Coaching

Change Management

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

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

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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

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
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