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Global KeyNote Speakers

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.

Global

Catarina Rivera

Catarina Rivera, MSEd, MPH, CPACC is a disabled public speaker and DEI consultant with over 14 years of experience in the public sector. Catarina works with companies to improve accessibility and inclusion, retain employees, and design better products. She is the founder of Blindish Latina, a platform smashing disability stigmas through storytelling, advocacy, and training. Catarina has worn hearing aids from a young age and was diagnosed with progressive vision loss at 17 years old.     Catarina has a BA from Duke University, an MSEd from Bank Street College of Education, and an MPH from Hunter College. She is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (IAAP). She is a member of RespectAbility's National Disability Speakers Bureau and. Catarina is also committed to social justice.    

Diversity

Equity & Inclusion

Disability Inclusion

Accessibility

Global

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

Global

Bhavna Toor

Bhavna Toor is the Founder and CEO of Shenomics, a mindful leadership platform supporting women to live and lead with authenticity, mindfulness, and impact. Under Bhavna’s leadership, Shenomics has positively impacted over 100,000 women from all walks of life. As an internationally trained mindfulness and women’s leadership coach, Bhavna has spoken on various platforms including TEDx and has trained and coached high-potential leaders at leading Fortune 500 companies around the world.   Bhavna’s prior experience includes mentoring leaders and entrepreneurs as the CEO and Director of the National Social Entrepreneurship Forum and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the GSF Global Accelerator. Prior to that, Bhavna had a 9-year celebrated career on Wall Street, most recently as a Vice President and Client Portfolio Manager for a portfolio of hedge funds at a top investment firm in New York.   Bhavna has lived and worked in over 8 countries and has an MBA in Social Impact from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Bhavna is the recipient of multiple awards, including WEF’s “Iconic Woman Creating a Better World for All”

Mindful (or Conscious) Leadership

Women in Leadership

Diversity & Inclusion

Global

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth is a knowledgeable and accomplished Digital Marketing Specialist with over 25 years of experience in business training and execution. She loves to find clarity in the ever-changing world of digital marketing and uses this to educate professionals about strategies and techniques they can use to grow their businesses. Elizabeth is a fully qualified trainer, holding an ACLP training certificate and also a postgraduate diploma in education for adults.    Elizabeth launched her own training and consultancy business, ELIZABETH TAYLOR COACHING, in January 2020. She provides business and marketing audits, digital marketing training, and 121 business coaching. Elizabeth supports professionals and entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing clarity and direction on their goals, target market, communication channels, and content. Previous to this, the majority of Elizabeth’s early career was within the entertainment industry, focused on marketing DVDs for Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, and MGM.

Communication

Marketing

Branding

Global

Adele Hung

Adele Hung is a global commercial director at GSK, one of the largest biopharmaceutical companies. She is an international keynote speaker based in Singapore. Her professional journey includes founding a social enterprise in Hong Kong, founding a healthcare consultancy in China's Greater Bay Area, and working in investment banking. Adele has forged a successful career holding key leadership positions across marketing, digital and strategy functions.   Having lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Adele believes in cultural authenticity. In 2017 she established the Women Leadership Initiative in Singapore to support diversity and encourage active allyship in the workplace. She regularly speaks about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Adele inspires people to overcome self-limiting beliefs by relating her transformational leadership stories and cultural experiences. Her speech is backed by not only her first-hand leadership experience but also her professional understanding of how humans communicate and how leaders transform.   Adele holds a BSc in Speech Pathology and Behavioural Psychology, and an M.B.A with Strategy and Finance majors. She lives with her loving husband and their two young daughters.   

Leadership

Diversity & Inclusion

Culture

Global

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

Global

Sandra Bravo

Sandra has a wealth of experience including a decade managing sales teams, 15 years in corporate entrepreneurship, and more than nine years speaking at International events. She is also a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP, Speaker's Trainer, Bestselling Author, and International Keynote Speaker. As a single mother of two and owner of three businesses, Sandra believes deeply in the power of female empowerment. A self-motivated and ambitious leader, she emulates pure determination and will.     Establishing her own business - AmaSSSing - to support like-minded women, Sandra channels her energy into transforming female-led businesses and supporting their personal enrichment through public speaking. Having spoken in over 13 countries and trained over 15000 students, Sandra brings a wealth of knowledge and passion for her practice. With a Master's in Business Management, Sandra's passion lies in inspiring others to discover their voice, manifest their dreams, and take their businesses to the next level. She is fluent in both English and Spanish. 

Leadership

Empowerment

Gender

Global

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

Global

Mrinalini Venkatachalam

Mrinalini Venkatachalam is the Regional Director for Southeast Asia and Oceania at WEConnect International, a global nonprofit network that works with multinational corporations and multilateral organizations to generate market-access opportunities for women’s business enterprises in over 125 countries through supplier diversity.     The organization identifies, educates, registers, and certifies women’s business enterprises based outside the U.S. that are at least 51% owned, as well as managed and controlled, by one or more women, and then connects them to qualified buyers across the globe. WEConnect International’s network of corporate members, primarily Fortune 500 companies, represent over $1 Trillion in annual purchasing power. Over the last twelve years, Mrinalini has engaged with large corporations, government agencies, SMEs, and community organizations to provide them with a platform to create measurable social impact.     She speaks regularly at community events, corporate events, and conferences about the role that gender equality plays in achieving a more sustainable world for everyone. Mrinalini has been awarded the Singapore Women's Weekly's Great Women of Our Time award in the Public Service and Education category and has been nominated as one of Cleo Singapore's 2016 top ten Changemakers. 

Inclusion

Empowerment

Gender

Global

Danielle Van de Velde

Dani Van de Velde helps others understand and master the art of meditation, transformative inner practice, and healing through private coaching, energy sessions, courses, and tailored programs for individuals, schools, and organisations. She is a popular speaker at industry forums, a published writer, and holds regular retreats in Asia and Australia.  Dani is a qualified meditation teacher through the Awareness Institute, Australia, a member of the Meditation Association of Australia and the International Meditation Teachers’ Association, recognising the standard of her teaching and program development.   Dani draws from techniques and wisdom of numerous world traditions, current research, and her own experience. She is a Reiki Master and a sought-after healer and spiritual mentor with an international client base. Her focus is on enabling others to understand and work with the design and function of their mind/body/energy system, to engage in the transformative inner practice for purpose-driven direction, maximum performance, self-healing, and intuitive living.    

Meditation

Inner Transformation

Conscious Living

Global

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

Global

Sarah Furness

After graduating from Cambridge University, Sarah followed her dream to become a Top Gun pilot in the RAF.  After flying the Hawk aircraft, she switched to flying helicopters, where she led on operational combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was a tactics instructor and also taught human performance and risk management at the world-class Defence Academy of the UK. During her experiences both at home and at war, she made two important discoveries;   - resilience and performance are NOT instinctive   - But humans have an extraordinary ability to thrive and even excel under pressure when they know how.   She now has ONE mission. To share the secret to outstanding resilience, performance, and courage “under fire”.   Her speaking style is robust (she is a combat helicopter pilot and fluent in the alpha male), proven in combat, backed by science, and good-humoured.  She has a 7-year-old son who she adores and who inspires her every day.

Resilience

Performance and Productivity

Leadership “under fire”

Global

Simone De Haas

Simone de Haas speaks internationally on The Future IS Exceptionality, The Spirit of Feminine Leadership, and Creative Leadership. Drawing on 30+ years of leading diverse groups of Exceptionals & Leading Lights as a multi-award-winning theatre director and producer, Simone brings intriguing, ground-breaking perspectives and possibilities to organisations who seek to become dynamically future-active. Simone is a masterful communicator, coach, and mentor. Her unique and diverse portfolio of work creates a strong platform for developing transformational leaders and building exceptional organisations.   Her client base includes organisations in Finance, Real Estate, MLM, Creative Industries, Regional and Rural Business Development, as well as individual C-Suite Executives and Professional Speakers. Simone's creative capacities move effortlessly and pragmatically between stage and boardroom. Whether she is singing, directing, telling quirky leadership stories, or displaying the power of creative improvisation, her presence brings extraordinary insights into the new world that is evolving. Intuitive, inspirational, and interactive, Simone is available for keynote presentations, executive coaching & consultancy, media appearances, and podcast interviews. If you are seeking accelerated business growth, human-centered connection, and new paradigms for leadership and talent management, connect with Simone at www.SimonedeHaas.com. 

Leadership

Gender

Communication

Global

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

Global

Nicole Heimann

As a veteran in her industry, Nicole has spent two decades coaching and training geographically diverse teams inside some of the world's biggest and most successful companies. She has spoken at prestigious HR summits and delivered galvanizing talks & coached CEOs, Executive Boards, Executive teams, and large global organizations. Her strategy focuses on working together to build authentic and successful leadership alliances & cultures with boards, CEOs, and leadership teams through executive team coaching.     She is the Founder and CEO of Nicole Heimann & Partners AG, author of the book How To Develop The Authentic Leader in You, and has been recognized with the Leading Global Coach Award 2019 by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith at the Thinkers 50 in London. She is part of the 100Coaches and the Biographer in the Marshall Goldsmith movie documentary The Earned Life. As an expert in Authentic Leadership, she contributes monthly to the Swiss Online Economics magazine, Money cab, and is an Associate Partner for Leadership Expertise at C-Level AG, the leading Top-Executive Community in Switzerland. 

Leadership

Management

Culture
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