“Emotional Leadership - Leading through the Age of Ai”

Invited to speak to a senior business audience in Denver, Colorado by the World Trade Center + Denver Economic Development Organisation, on the method of ‘Emotional Leadership’. In this talk I explored how leaders can advance their skills from Emotional Intelligence + Emotional Agility, to Emotional Leadership - creating a system for measuring emotional data as signals, and using it for human & business innovation. A model featured in my recently launched eBook.

International Women’s Day - “How to Lead with Radical Diversity & Care”

Hosted twice to present to senior female business audiences, this topic is one close to my heart. For decades I worked in predominantly male environments with low diversity. I celebrate the increasing rise of Female Leaders into executive and board positions, and believe that those - like me - who have successfully navigated the challenge of leading in organisations with low diversity at the helm, can share much to future female leaders on the power of feminine leadership. This topic touches on how to bring out the best in minority groups, speak ‘truth to power’ and know when it’s time to leave.

“Innovation through Design Thinking - how to Build a Creative Culture”

I have been invited to two major global events - one for Grant Thornton Internationals World Wide partnership summit in Malaysia, and one for NZ Trade & Enterprises World Leading Better by Design Summit, on the topic of Design Thinking as a method for accelerating innovation. Trained in Design Thinking from Stanford’s prestigious D-School, I have now coached over 50 businesses in how to integrate the principles of innovation pioneered in the Bay Area and still used by leading brands world-wide - to build innovation cultures. These sessions tend to be interactive and leave audiences with a powerful ‘aha’ shift on the true power of a proven design process to unlock latent productivity.

“Building a Career to Love - Applying design to your most precious asset”.

Careers are one of our most precious and fragile assets. In the Fourth Industrial revolution we are being required to think differently about how we are working. For many of us, we will live to 100. Which means we now have the potential to have 3 or 4 careers in one lifetime - something our fore-bearers could only have dreamed of. And yet with immense optionality, comes anxiety. Whether its speaking to Students, Senior Executives or CEOs - this is one of my favourite topics - how to know when to leave. Appling HCD to one of the world’s most wicked problems most people will face at least once in their lifetime, I’m passionate about helping people find work they will love.