Keynote speakers

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Alicia McKay

Strategy and leadership speaker, author and facilitator

Alicia McKay is a New Zealand strategist, writer and speaker who works with senior leaders, councils and conferences on strategy and leadership. She wrote From Strategy to Action, You Don't Need An MBA and Local Legends, and runs Not An MBA, an eight-week live online course for senior leaders. She has worked with more than 120 organizations in New Zealand and Australia.

• New Zealand
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Andrew Bryant

Self-leadership keynote speaker, executive coach and author

Andrew Bryant founded Self Leadership International and works as a keynote speaker and executive coach on self-leadership. He co-authored Self Leadership (McGraw-Hill) and wrote POTENTIAL-IZE (Wiley). After 17 years in Singapore he now lives in Sintra, Portugal, and coaches executives online. He offers leadership workshops, executive leadership team programs and a Self-Leadership Coach Certification.

• Sintra, Portugal
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Boris Grundl

Leadership speaker, author and founder of Grundl Leadership Institut

Boris Grundl founded the Grundl Leadership Institut in Trossingen, Germany, which works with organizations on leadership and responsibility. He has given more than 1,600 talks in nine countries, and his books, including Steh auf!, have sold more than 100,000 copies. The institute runs the Leading Simple program and keynote talks, in German.

• Trossingen, Germany
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Carla Miller

Women's leadership coach, trainer and author

Carla Miller founded Carla Miller Training, which delivers leadership, confidence and influence training and executive coaching for women leaders across the UK. She is the author of Closing the Influence Gap, a finalist in the Business Book Awards, and hosts the Influence & Impact podcast. She and her team of coaches also offer one-to-one executive coaching for senior women and keynote talks.

• United Kingdom
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Dan Pontefract

Leadership strategist, keynote speaker and author

Dan Pontefract is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, workshop facilitator and author of six books on leadership, purpose and the future of work, including Flat Army, The Purpose Effect, Lead. Care. Win. and The Future of Work Is Grey. He offers six ready-made keynotes, workshops and consulting from Vancouver. He previously held senior leadership roles at TELUS, SAP and Business Objects.

• Vancouver, Canada
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David Henzel

Entrepreneur and speaker on AI transformation and culture

David Henzel is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded MaxCDN and upcoach and now runs Relote, which helps companies become AI-native. He speaks on AI transformation, culture without fear and personal operating systems, in keynotes, workshops, webinars and university lectures. He leads Love Not Fear, a framework for conscious leadership, and is based in Bodrum, Türkiye.

• Bodrum, Türkiye
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Debbie Nicol

Leadership consultant, facilitator and speaker in the Middle East

Debbie Nicol founded business en motion in 2004, a Dubai-based consultancy for leadership, organizational development, change and training across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. She and her team run The Leadership Challenge workshops and coaching, and she speaks at events through DEBtalks. She wrote the Workplace Doctor column for The National and gave a TEDx talk on leadership dependency.

• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Jitske Kramer

Corporate anthropologist, keynote speaker and author

Jitske Kramer is a Dutch corporate anthropologist, speaker and author who works on organizational culture, inclusion and change. She founded Human Dimensions, a training organization, and wrote or co-wrote De Corporate Tribe (Dutch management book of the year 2016), Building Tribes, Deep Democracy, Jam Cultures and Tricky Tijden. Her keynotes include Building Tribes, Jam Cultures and Deep Democracy.

• Netherlands
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Liz Wiseman

Author of Multipliers and CEO of The Wiseman Group

Liz Wiseman is the CEO of The Wiseman Group, a talent development and research organization headquartered in Silicon Valley. She wrote Multipliers, Impact Players and Rookie Smarts and co-wrote The Multiplier Effect; Multipliers has sold more than one million copies. The firm offers keynotes, workshops, assessments and Multipliers certification, delivered with partners and master practitioners.

• United States
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Michael Bungay Stanier

Author of The Coaching Habit, speaker and founder of MBS Works

Michael Bungay Stanier writes and teaches on coaching and leadership. He is the author of The Coaching Habit, The Advice Trap, How to Begin and How to Work with (Almost) Anyone, with more than one million copies sold, and founded Box of Crayons. Through MBS Works he runs courses including Future You Leadership and Bring Out Their Best, and speaks to organizations.

• Toronto, Canada
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Michelle Bowden

Persuasive presenting trainer, keynote speaker and author

Michelle Bowden trains business professionals in persuasive presenting. She has run her 2-day Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass more than 1,070 times for over 13,500 people, live in Sydney and Melbourne and online. She is the author of How to Present (Wiley) and How to Persuade, and speaks at conferences and company events.

• Sydney, Australia
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Rasmus Hougaard

Founder and CEO of Potential Project, author and keynote speaker

Rasmus Hougaard is the founder and CEO of Potential Project, a leadership development firm. He co-wrote The Mind of the Leader and Compassionate Leadership and wrote More Human, all published by Harvard Business Review Press. He speaks at events and coaches C-suite executives at organizations including IKEA, Accenture, Wal-Mart and Unilever. He lives in Copenhagen.

• Denmark
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Sabina Nawaz

CEO coach, keynote speaker and author of You're the Boss

Sabina Nawaz coaches and advises CEOs and C-level executives and speaks on leading under pressure. She began her management career in software development at Microsoft. She is the author of You're the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) and has written for Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Her keynotes include Preventing Mental Malware and From Critic to Champion.

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Sally Helgesen

Women's leadership author, speaker and coach

Sally Helgesen writes, speaks and coaches on women's leadership. She co-authored How Women Rise with Marshall Goldsmith, with rights sold in 24 languages, and wrote Rising Together, The Female Advantage and The Web of Inclusion. She delivers keynotes and masterclasses, including How Women Rise and Rising Together, and has worked in 37 countries over 35 years. She is in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

• Chatham, United States
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Simon Hazeldine

Sales psychology and sales leadership speaker and author

Simon Hazeldine is a UK sales performance specialist, keynote speaker and author of ten books, including Neuro-Sell, Bare Knuckle Selling and How To Lead Your Sales Team. He created Brain Friendly Selling, an approach that applies psychology and neuroscience to selling, and runs corporate sales training and sales leadership work. He has spoken in more than thirty countries.

• Loughborough, United Kingdom
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Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Insight, Shatterproof and Bankable Leadership. She leads The Eurich Group, a boutique consultancy offering executive coaching, executive team work and custom leadership programs, and speaks internationally on self-awareness and resilience. Her TEDx talk has been viewed more than 10 million times.

• United States
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Todd Herman

Peak performance coach, keynote speaker and author

Todd Herman coaches and mentors pro athletes, business leaders and public figures on performance, strategy, mindset and execution. He is the author of the WSJ and international bestseller The Alter Ego Effect, translated into 11 languages, and has spoken to audiences from 150 to 15,000 since 1997. Private coaching for elite performers is by application, with group options. He created 90 Day Year.

• New York, United States
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Tracey Ezard

Leadership and culture speaker, author and educator

Tracey Ezard is a Melbourne-based speaker, author and educator who works with organizations and schools on leadership and collaborative culture. She wrote Ferocious Warmth, Glue and The Buzz. Her named offers include Ferocious Warmth Leadership Development, Ferocious Warmth Leadership Teams, the Critical Friend Program, group mentoring and The Buzz Workshops.

• Melbourne, Australia
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