Speaking
My virtual & in-person keynotes and interventions are designed to equip business leaders and high achievers with the insights and tools to prevent and recover from burnout while also building a culture of wellbeing, innovation and resilience within your organisation.
Keynote Presentations (Virtual & In-Person)
Conferences & In-Company Events
Key Insights
- Learn why burnout is not just about stress management and the hours you work.
- Discover the neuroscience of peak performance and mental agility and nip burnout in the bud
- 3 practical insights to turn your performance into a form of art.
- Duration: 60 minutes
Overview
In today’s fast-paced virtual business environment we are required to show up, step up and stand out more than we have ever done. The challenge, however, is being able to strike a balance between meeting demands and completely hitting the wall.
In our world of constant change and disruption, Executive burnout is a global epidemic, costing organizations billions of dollars annually. In this light-hearted, authentic and yet thought-provoking keynote presentation, Caroline candidly and humorously shares her experiences with leadership burnout as a classic high achiever in Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.
Weaving together stories, analogies and the wisdom from neuro-science she compares high-performance today to a form of art. The audience will leave with some powerful take-home value in the form of three inspiring insights for performing under pressure while also asking the bigger, bolder questions that allow them to experience life differently.
Key Insights
- Making the transition from reactive to creative leadership
- Learn why the old rational ways of operating will no longer cut it today
- Upgrade the leadership inner-operating systems to a wider range of perception and capacity
- 5 practical take-home insights for leading more purposefully, powerfully and authentically
- Duration: 60 minutes
Overview
We are standing at the crossroads of a huge opportunity as a global society. We have the technological and scientific means to positively change our world on a massive scale, yet to make this happen, we must also redefine how we develop our humanity, both individually and collectively. This brings us face to face with our individual and team edge – where we move from the comfortable to the uncomfortable; the familiar to unfamiliar, the certain to the uncertain. Learning how to navigate a complex world means expanding our individual and collective edge. Mental fitness, peak performance, diversity, leadership, consciousness, and culture are not individual pursuits, they are part of one interconnected journey of continuous learning and growth.
Key Insights
- What is required for leaders to fully show up in their role today
- The leader’s relationship with power and authenticity
- The role of culture in turning business into an adventure
- 5 practical take-home insights for insights for leading more purposefully
- Duration: 60 minutes
Overview
In this compelling and lighthearted keynote designed for Women in Leadership, Caroline draws on her own leadership experiences with Richard Branson and the Virgin Group to inspire female audiences to lead with greater levels of authenticity, agility, purpose, and courage in an ever-changing, disruptive world.
Using relatable stories, anecdotes, and humour and insightful research she explores how leaders bring the weather, and why an organisation or team cannot grow beyond the consciousness or capacity of its leaders. Using relevant examples from, Virgin, Harvard and neuroscience, she invites the audience to think about adapting their own leadership to meet the needs of a VUCA world. Audiences will leave the presentation with five key insights for turning business into an adventure while inspiring boldness, greatness, and resilience in others.
Interactive Team Thinking Interventions (Virtual, In Person, Hybrid)
45 minutes – 4 hours
Breakout Sessions: Seminars: Conferences: In-Company Events
Key Insights
- Explore the neuroscience of performance
- Discover your unique performance centre
- Shortcut the stress response
Overview.
Using principles from Neuroscience, Mindfulness and Martial arts, this 2 – hour interactive workshop introduces some practical techniques to help participants act more resourcefully under pressure. The techniques are designed to shortcut the stress response, break destructive habits and give participants the 1-second advantage.
Key Insights
- Pinpoint your individual or team performance set points.
- Explore a framework for radical change
- Develop strategies for shifting gears
Overview.
Moving from exhaustion and overload into the Zone or flow state is sometimes just a matter of perception. This 2-hour interactive workshop introduces a comprehensive framework for changing perceptions and behaviours and building personal energy and capacity.
Key Insights
- Leading and influencing through language
- Discover why language creates action and orients future results
- Discover powerful distinctions for influential conversations that get results
- Explore the power of language for personal energy and effectiveness
Overview.
This insightful intervention focusses on how leaders can effectively use language to increase accountability, build commitment, enhance relationships, speed up communication and drive business results. It introduces powerful distinctions for influential conversations that have profound and beneficial effects in individual and team functional
Key Insights
- Discover the neuroscience of meditation on performance
- Build a foundation for greater levels of mental focus, agility, creativity, emotional intelligence and empathy
- Begin to reduce stress and anxiety and increase personal resilience
- Experience a powerful ancient heart-based meditation technique which slows down brainwaves and initiates greater levels of composure under pressure
Overview.
The practice of mindfulness and meditation is growing in popularity among many business leaders and CEO’s. Busy executives are discovering that there is something far more powerful in the practice of meditation than relaxation alone. The post-meditation effects back in the workplace are having profound effects which are impacting beneficially on leadership and business results.
This interactive experiential session, conducted with a scientific approach, introduces participants to an ancient heart-based meditation technique that rapidly speeds up progress. Participants often experience similar brainwave states in their very first session, to those experienced by practitioners who have been meditating for many years.
Training in this practice is offered free of charge to individuals and organisations wishing to adopt it as part of their wellness programmes
Longer Programmes & Masterclasses:
In-person, virtual or hybrid
1 – 5 days
Teams and Culture
Key Insights
- Build a resilient, agile, high performing work context from the ground up
- Decipher the underlying performance dynamics which drive burnout
- Increase team/organisation insight, ownership, accountability and collaboration
Overview
A highly innovative and interactive 1 – 2 day team thinking exercise. Participants actively design their own resilient high performing team / organisational culture centred around wellbeing, and vitality while remaining focussed on business results. The process breaks down barriers and conflicts which stifle creativity and team energy and integrates the team psyche to focus on what matters most, short and long term.
Key Insights
- Get inside the functional and dysfunctional dynamics at play within the team
- Build higher levels of trust and collaboration between team members
- Increase dialogues, conversation and feedback
Overview
An Interactive 1 – 2 day team development and coaching process designed to alleviate team conflicts and relationship stress which drives burnout and poor performance. Build insight, collaboration, communication and trust. Works for functional / cross-functional teams.
Key Insights
- Build individual resilience, competence, and emotional agility
- Discover practical techniques for improving health, wellbeing and performance
- Understand the role of the gut in overall health, happiness and wellbeing
- Address the signs and symptoms of burnout before its too late
- Improve levels of perception and self-awareness
Overview
Practically implementable science-based and axiomatic strategies to support exhausted leaders and overwhelmed teams to develop a resilient way of being in work and life. Participants learn to interrupt the mental and emotional turbulence which underpins burnout and resistance to change.
Human-Centred Leadership
Key Insights
- Develop the quality and skill of powerful leadership presence
- Act more resourcefully in the face of opposition or conflict
- Develop greater levels of personal insight, creativity and compassion
Overview
In a world of constant change, we all face the challenge of keeping body, mind and soul aligned while continuing to forge ahead in our various pursuits. This can present a challenge for leaders who are required to maintain a powerful, authentic presence in the face of continuous disruption while also cultivating high levels of performance for themselves, their teams and organisations. This unique leadership development programme assists busy executives perform more skilfully under pressure by creating new resourceful patterns of behaviour. Using principles from Neuroscience, Mindfulness and Martial Arts, the practices introduced in this programme work with individuals physiology to shortcut the stress response and operate from a more resourceful state, particularly in the face of challenge or difficulty. Read More
Key Insights
- Understand the meaning of Imposter Syndrome and its impact on performance
- Explore the female relationship with power
- Develop powerful ‘go to strategies’ for showing up with greater style, courage, and grace
- Challenge the inner critic and develop personal strategies for greater success
- Develop the quality and skill of powerful leadership presence
- Act more resourcefully in the face of opposition or conflict
- Develop greater levels of personal insight, creativity, and resourcefulness
Overview
Designed for women in leadership who often feel like a fraud!
Imposter syndrome, as it’s termed in psychology, can leave many women confronting issues of insecurity and self-doubt in their leadership roles. No matter how hard they have worked, or how high they have climbed in an organisation, many women feel undeserving and fake.
Using principles from Neuroscience, Ontology, Mindfulness and Martial arts, this programme is designed to help women develop powerful personal strategies to lead with greater levels of presence, resourcefulness, self-confidence, and grace by coming to terms with their own inner critic.
Key Insights
- Discover practical distinctions for authentic leadership impact
- Enhanced communication for greater levels of influence
- Increase your mental and emotional agility in the face of challenge and complexity
- Build greater levels of team cohesion and trust
- Cultivate a powerful leadership presence
- Improve your ability to create and sustain inspiring workplace cultures
Overview
With the growing volatility of organisational life, being a leader today is way more than just having a title on our business card. Leading in a fast-paced VUCA world means that leaders are continually required to inspire and engage others, deal with rapid and successive change and have the mental agility to process greater levels of complexity.
This 3-day leadership programme is designed to introduce leaders to powerful distinctions and insights for greater self-cultivation.
Based on academic principles from Organisational Behaviour, Philosophy, Linguistics, Emotional Intelligence, Neuroscience and Biology among others, this programme introduces participants to a set of robust distinctions to help them become more self-authoring and self-correcting in their leadership pursuits.
