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KeyNote Speakers in Asia

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

Dr. Karine Lespinasse

Dr. Karine Lespinasse is a language researcher and practitioner with degrees in computational linguistics (NLP) and information science. She specialised in children’s language development through her work in APAC, Europe, and the USA. Karine brings her passion for neurolinguistics and tech, as well as a deep understanding of the diverse reality of today’s global world to parents and schools. A published author, Karine has written on NLP, growth mindset in language education, Third Culture Kids, and storytelling in Asia.     Trained by Laughter Yoga founder, Dr. Kataria, Karine also has ten years of experience in laughter therapy and healing, working with children and adults across Asia, the USA, and France. After experiencing challenging times with high stress in her life, Laughter Yoga and Reiki paved the way for her recovery and ultimate well-being.     Karine brings warmth and passion to the stage and empowers the audience to feel positive and engaged.  About Dr. Karine 

Health and Wellness

Communication

Diversity and Inclusion

Asia

Pallavi Arora

Pallavi is an accomplished technology leader with over 30 years of industry experience. She is passionate about empowering people to take risks, innovate, and be their best selves. Her team of inventors clocked 40 patents across 5G, IoT, network configuration, and automation tools, including winning industry awards under her mentorship.   Pallavi is committed to bringing more diversity into STEM and mentoring people in leadership and critical thinking. She mentors and sponsors women across various functions and companies, coaching them for leadership roles. She founded Cisco Connected Women (India) to further strengthen diversity in technology and leadership roles. In addition, Pallavi is the Executive Sponsor of an award-winning innovative hiring program – Cisco Ideathon, a dedicated program to offer equal employment opportunities to increase diversity, promote inclusion, and break barriers for students from Tier 2/3 colleges. Within two years of inception, Cisco Ideathon has reached over 20,000 students across 24 states in India, including remote villages, and has achieved 50% diversity in hiring. 

Bold and Authentic Leadership

Role of Customer Experience in the evolving technology landscape including Automation

Cloud Computing

and Cybersecurity

Diversity and Inclusion

Asia

Indigo Triplett

Dr. Indigo is a Success and Mind Wellness Practitioner. She specializes in helping people step into their greatness to live their best life. She infuses the successful practices of the West with wellness philosophies of the East. She earned a Ph.D. in Values-Driven Leadership with an emphasis in mental health, which she utilizes to help you become more effective personally and professionally. Her methodology is based on the values of positive psychology, ethics/integrity, servant leadership, etc. These are the cornerstones of her practice and what she instills in her messages. She shares how success and wellness don't have to be diametrically opposed.     Dr. Indigo has 20+ years of successfully owning and operating a business, in the US. She launched the 4D Performance SDN. BHD., in Malaysia in 2017. She led her company to be recognized as a Top 500 Fastest-Growing Companies in America by Inc. Magazine in 2012 and 2013, which is huge considering there were, “Almost 28 million small businesses in the US”, according to FORBES Magazine. Her company, Careers in Transition Inc., was ranked 239th on the Inc. list. As a renowned Speaker, Dr. Indigo is hilariously honest and refreshingly blunt giving a professional twist that captures her audience's imagination and inspires their spirit. 

Leadership

Health/Well-being

Change Management

Asia

Freda Liu

Vivacious persona who has lived and breathed business in the past decade with Malaysia's only business radio station and has conducted over 5000 interviews and some prominent names include Martin Cooper, author Stephen Covey, motivational speaker Nick Vijucic, former GE CEO Jack Welch, the Duke of York HRH Prince Andrew to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. At BFM, her show Enterprise provides the tools to help businesses succeed covering topics with the startup scene, personal development, technology to organizational development. While HerVantage talks about women of leadership and influence to showcase women representation in all strata of society from sports, the arts & sciences to entrepreneurship.

Branding

Success

Sustainability

Asia

Bianca Stringuini

"Bianca Stringuini is the Founder and Managing Director for Bianca Stringuini, Talent & Inclusion. Originally from Brazil Bianca has held strong commercial and strategy focused business roles in diverse sectors such as banking, real estate and fashion, mostly in international business development and branding across South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Established in Singapore for 11 years with a focus on the financial sector her previous roles were Head of Diversity & Inclusion for JP Morgan Chase, AIG and American Express in Asia Pacific and a Senior Consultant at Mercer. She is a cultural awareness, change management and cultural transformation certified facilitator and has spoken as a talent and diversity leader in multiple international Conferences and Forums including the UN CSW Global Conference on Empowering Women Financially, D&I Asia Conference in Hong Kong, and World Bank organized a symposium on Women Banking Alliance plus several others in Asia and the USA."

Diversity

Inclusion

New work

Asia

Charlotte Wilkinson

"Charlotte is the Founder of Hello Sister, Asia's only Female focused marketing consultancy. After 18 years of global brand consulting working on some of the world's biggest brands she decided to found Hello Sister, to rid the Asia region of mediocre women's marketing. Charlotte, has over 20 years' experience in brand consulting, including 15 based in Asia. She launched Hello Sister - Asia's only female focused brand consultancy in 2016 to help businesses target and engage women in the region more effectively. Since launching she has worked with various fashion retailers, GSK, Abbott ,DBS, Unilever, Pernod Ricard and Triumph along with various female focused start ups to create strategies to be more relevant to women. She has also facilitated over 250 workshops in Asia over the last 12 years covering all industries from Luxury to Fintech and from Japan to Pakistan. She's a regular on the female business scene as a Primetime, SheEO, The Women's Forum, a Lean in Member, and a mentor for Protege Women in Leadership. She is also a co-host for the Asian Female Leadership podcast - How She Did It Asia.  She is often asked to be a speaker in Asia and contributor to press articles on woman for the likes of The Economist, The Financial Times, Campaign and Trendwatching."

Marketing

Branding

Innovation

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

Mahal Rajan

Mahal is the founder and voice behind MetaDestiny, through which she advocates Well-Being, specializing in Resilience, Change Management and Self-Care. As a Speaker, Trainer and Author, she is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations in spreading awareness and need to cultivate well-being.   After surviving a critical medical condition, she emerged from it stronger and with a renewed perspective of life and purpose. She is a firm believer in the simple philosophy that, by taking care of ourselves, we can better care for those around us and create a more positive future for ourselves and our communities.   She is the Amazon Best-Selling Author of 'Repurposed - Finding the New You' and co-author of 'Shaken, Stirred but not Deterred.’   A highly experienced educator, Mahal holds a Masters in Education and has served in the Ministry of Education in Singapore for more than 20 years. Mahal is currently an Associate Lecturer.   

Resilience

Change Management

Self-Care

Asia

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

Asia

Sharul Channa

Sharul Channa is an Indian Singaporean comedian, emcee, and presenter. She is the first Singaporean comedian to be selected for The Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2006, Sharul graduated with a Diploma in Theatre Arts from LaSalle-SIA, college of Arts and in 2009, she added a Bachelor of Arts in Communication/Minor in Marketing at Singapore Institute of Management. She is working as a full-time comedian.     Sharul has been trained under the founder of Laughter Yoga, Yogi Mr. Madan Kataria and speaks about everything that makes us laugh.

Moderator/Emcee

Self-development

Communication

Asia

Nimisha Tailor

Nimisha is a competition and regulation specialist with 20 years of international experience. She is the founder of E-nomics, a boutique economics consultancy, helping organisations navigate policies and regulations to innovate and internationalise in an inclusive and sustainable manner.   Nimisha has experience advising large tech companies, central banks, think tanks, and international organisations (World Bank, OECD) in the areas of the digital economy, digital finance, and digital trade in Asia Pacific, United States, and Latin America. Previously, she worked at competition authorities in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Singapore, and Australia. She has written articles in industry and academic publications and has presented to industry associations, business schools, universities, workshops for ASEAN government agencies, as well as at the International Competition Network Conference. Having spoken at both academic and Tech Industry conferences, her expertise connects public-private sector perspectives.  Nimisha is passionate about developing the next generation of leaders and in her spare time, she volunteers as a mentor to university students planning their careers. Nimisha is a former member of the UK Government Economic Service and has a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science. 

Competition

Regulation

Digital Economy

Asia

Anjali Sharma

Anjali is one of the leading business storytelling consultants, author, global keynote speaker, and founder of Narrative: The Business of Stories. Anjali has spoken on the topic of Storytelling in New York, Russia, India, Singapore, Japan, Australia, and many other southeast Asian countries.    She helps business leaders, data analysts, sales professionals, and TEDx speakers find and tell stories. Anjali has worked in corporate roles for over 18 years in Australia, Singapore, and India.  Her background constantly informs her work, so that it is not just theoretical, but based on extensive experience, knowledge, and understanding of strategic issues companies face as well as issues that employees face in delivering their best work.    Anjali partners with Global 1000 companies LinkedIn, Airbnb, Microsoft, Shell, SAP, Microsoft & Danone. She regularly publishes her ideas on business storytelling on her Storytelling blog.   Find out more about her speaking engagements here.

Storytelling

Asia

Ritu Gupta-Mehrish

Ritu has 20 years of corporate experience working globally in companies such as P&G, GE Capital, and GE spin-off Genpact. She has held several leadership positions in running global operations and managing client relationships. In her last role, Ritu ran a multimillion-dollar business vertical with 1000 people across eight countries and five continents. Her business and leadership experience has enabled her to bring in a pragmatic approach to leadership development. Her client list -, highlights the level of expertise she brings to the leadership topic. Her book Leader's Block is published by Penguin Random House. She has lived in multiple countries and is currently based in Singapore with her husband and two lovely children.

Leadership

Management

Empowerment

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

Asia

Anna Mallon

"A serial entrepreneur, innovation trainer, and startup coach who spent the last 17 years transforming startups, global education, and multinational corporations across Europe and Asia. Anna has been based out of Singapore since 2004. As a mentor and coach, Anna is highly sought-after for her perspective on innovation, entrepreneurship, and change. Currently, Anna is focused on Startup2Life.com, a platform delivering programs to connect and grow aspiring entrepreneurs, startups and investors. She also owns and manages ACM Works and The Creative Experience where she delivers high-figure corporate training and innovation programs for clients including KPMG, HP, Singapore Airlines, Manulife and world-class Universities like SMU. Anna has worked with SEA's first accelerator, JFDI. Asia, facilitating complex venture building projects and contributing towards a portfolio of more than 70 promising early-stage technology startups. Earlier Anna was the Founding Director at Kalani which led her to work with the Singapore Economic Development Board and as Regional General Manager of global media player SAE she oversaw campuses and franchise partners across Europe and Asia for nearly 6 years. The busy mother of 2 also sits on the Industry Board with KAPLAN, teaches with Melbourne Business School and is a start-up scout with INVESTIBLE."

Innovation

Creativity

Entrepreneurship
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