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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.

Europe

Raquel Ark

Born and raised in Puerto Rico and Ohio, USA, and now living in Germany, Raquel has over 25 years of experience managing, coaching, facilitating, and teaching in the communication field. As founder of Listening ALCHEMY, Raquel is very curious about the conditions and capacities to hold a listening space that connects and inspires.   She has been researching and experimenting with listening beyond traditional training and has learned from and collaborated with listening scientists and professionals. She is the podcast host for, “Listen in with Raquel Ark, focused on listening in teams and organisations beyond what we typically consider.   Experience includes:   Communication & interpersonal effectiveness consulting, training & coaching in e.g., tech, large organizations, and NGOs  Leadership positions in the health & chemical industry  University instructor in both Germany and USA 1st Vice President-elect for the International Listening Association    

Listening

Communication

Leadership

Oceania

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

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

Yasmine Khater

Yasmine is on a mission to develop trustworthy leaders in hopes that we transform the global trust crisis and accelerate the speed of problem-solving. An adventurer, storyteller, B Corp Ambassador, podcast host and producer of Asia's first documentary series around climate change. People buy from people they know, like and trust.     Backed with 14 years of experience in psychology, communication, and mixed heritage, Yasmine has helped Danone craft the story to launch the first 100% circular bottle and enabled ClubMed employees to amplify their story. Focusing on building trust, her Sales Story Labs enable leaders to have greater influence, visibility, and impact on their business. During her show, the Sales Story Podcast, she interviews CEOs from across Asia on how they utilized storytelling to sell ideas, raise funds, and inspire teams to scale their business.     An adventurer, Yasmine has embarked on an Arctic expedition, cycled, and hiked through some of the world's toughest mountain terrains. She is currently working on raising funds to produce a documentary with UNDP and the World Bank to feature new Asian sustainable innovations. She is passionate about more inclusive conversations and is a certified interfaith facilitator that helps leaders in education be more innovative. Her program, Panels that Inspire, instills women leaders with confidence to increase female representation on industry panel. 

Sales

Branding

Storytelling

Oceania

Toni Powell

Toni Powell is an author, storyteller, wake up artist and a passionate enquirer about what makes people tick. She's constantly researching her favorite topics: why good relationships work and how to create a wonderful life. Toni's funny, yet profound, keynotes have seen her speaking on stage alongside the likes of Brene Brown, Ruby Wax, and The Dalai Lama.     Brene even said that Toni's 2013 TEDx talk The Power of Words had a big impact on her life. What a Feeling is Toni's newest book; a candid and entertaining book that's based on 40 years of personal research into what makes for great relationships with everyone you know. 

Self-development

Self-help

Storytelling

North America

Laurel Wilson

Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, RLC, BSc, CLE, CCCE, CLD is a TEDx and international speaker, perinatal expert, consultant, educator, and author. Laurel is the co-author of two books, The Attachment Pregnancy and The Greatest Pregnancy Ever. Her passion is blending today's recent scientific findings with the mind/body/spirit wisdom to help professionals and families realize the magnitude and importance of the perinatal period. Spending 17 years as Executive Director for Lactation Programs for the Childbirth and Postpartum Professionals Association formed the foundation of her inquiry into the science of human milk. She served on the board the United States Breastfeeding Committee from 2016-2019 and currently acts as an advisor for InJoy Health and Kindred Media.     Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for nearly three decades and has two wonderful grown sons, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences. 

Health/Well-being

Asia

Bhali Gill

Bhali Gill is a psychologist, professional speaker, and executive coach with over 10 years of experience in Australia and Singapore. She has worked with global organisations such as SAP, Randstad, Accenture, Abbott, and IBM. Currently, she is lecturing the psychology program at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and James Cook University (JCU). With a reach of over 100,000 readers, her writing has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Golf/Women, SUSScribe, and Medium.   Bhali is also the founder of Corporate Wellbeing and Conscious Unicorn, where her work and dedication to creating productive, mentally healthy, and positive workplaces for employees and organisations have come highly recommended. Her wellbeing/leadership workshops have been applauded by many employees who have testified to having developed new skills, transformed their lives, and created the resilience needed in global organisations.   As an experienced, certified and highly skilled executive and personal coach, Bhali has enabled her clients to discover and reach their potential whilst remaining aligned to themselves. She has a broad range of coaching experience including coaching leaders to develop an effective team, thinking more strategically, and increasing emotional intelligence. She has worked with directors & C-suite leaders from various organisations such as Unilever, Nike, Standard Chartered, Airbnb, and Uber.    

Positive Psychology

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Conscious Living

Asia

Melanie Voskamp

Melanie works as a Revenue Controller in Singapore and has over 12 years of experience from a Magic Circle law firm as well as a premier international law firm. She chairs the Women in Business Community at ADB-Dutch Cham which has been an active partner with KeyNote on various events covering bold, food-for-thought content. Melanie is passionate about making people aware of their ability to evolve and grow.     She is originally from the Netherlands but has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She speaks 4 languages and describes herself as honest with a hint of Dutch directness, balanced by a respectful and serviceable attitude. She has a bachelor’s degree in Hotel Administration from the Hotel school "The Hague". This has engrained in her a “getting things done with a smile” approach that serves her well in the industry she now works in. 

Empowerment

Self-development

Health/Well-being

Asia

Karen Leong

In this disruptive, digital-first world, imagine the immense results you can achieve by thriving on the change to lead into the future. Karen Leong, a global keynote speaker on transformation, empowers people and organisations to be F.I.R.S.T. Future-Ready. Innovative. Relevant. Strategic. Trusted. A TEDx speaker, TEDx coach, and Certified Speaking Professional, Karen was featured in the ten most influential professional speakers in Singapore by the Singapore Business Review. She's been named Visionary Woman Leader and global thought leader on sustainable transformation by the Business APAC magazine.     The creator of the F.I.R.S.T. 360 leadership and influencing styles profiling tools, Karen is the author of the book - Win People Over. Karen co-founded Influence Solutions, named the most influential training company in APAC in the Corporate Excellence Awards. She's the founder of Rise Through the Ranks, a global online leadership summit with a community of thousands from over 70 countries. Karen is regularly interviewed as an influence expert in global media such as BBC World, Reuters and Channel News Asia. 

Leadership

Success

Change Management

Asia

Ivy Esquero

Ivy is currently Head of Marketing, APAC for Hilton’s Enterprise Brand and Loyalty Program, Hilton Honors. Previously, Ivy’s experience includes a variety of insights and analytics roles with Discovery, Microsoft, and Prudential, covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.   During her time with WE Communications and Nielsen, she worked with clients including Tencent, Lenovo, J&J, VISA, Citi, and American Express. Ivy grew up in Manila and New York City. Her career began in the US before she moved to Singapore in 2016. She speaks four languages and is working on her fifth. Her work has been covered by Campaign Asia, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Marketing Magazine, and CNET and she is on the Advisory Board for BEETc’s Martech Summit.   Ivy is fascinated with people and has had a lifelong interest in understanding what motivates them to act. She’s forever asking why and pushing people to look below the surface. 

Empowerment

Marketing

Culture

Communication

North America

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

Asia

Wendy Tan

Wendy's work is about learning and bringing forth ideas to help us act with wisdom for the greater good. Being a Chinese with a Western education, Wendy draws from both wells to find insight and inspiration for us to be better human beings and leaders to create institutions that work for all.     The author of Wholeness in a Disruptive World: Pearls of Wisdom from East and West, Wendy is also a Certified Professional Speaker (CSP), a designation conferred by the National Speakers Association as the international measure of professional platform competence. She connects with her audience through her authentic, heartful and thought-provoking disposition. Her work has won the InnovPlus Spark and HRO Today Thought Leadership Awards. Wendy co-founded Flame Centre in 2004, a talent development practice based in Asia.     Flame Centre partners with Dr. Beverly Kaye in career development and talent engagement solutions and Peter Block's Flawless Consulting workshops in the Asia Pacific region. Wendy has worked with numerous multinational corporations and government agencies in her career. She speaks both English and Mandarin. Wendy holds a Master's of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University and graduated with honors from the National University of Singapore in Psychology. 

Learning Ability

Resilience

Learning in the Future of Work

Whole Leader

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