Keynotes on change and motivation

FOUR IMPACT-FILLED TOPICS

Leadership

Show UP!: Visionary leadership that changes the game and rewrites the rules

She’s led companies, teams and billions of dollars to success. Winitha - a Woman of Colour, Order of Australia recipient and former C-suite executive with 20+ years of transformation experience – knows it’s time for a new leadership game. In her high-energy and insightful keynote, she empowers and equips audiences to break the status quo, rewrite the rules and change the game through visionary leadership. 

The old way of leading is dead – the world is moving faster than ever and it needs visionary leaders who don’t just keep up, they shape the future. In this inspiring keynote, Winitha delivers hard truths with no-nonsense insights with humour and practical actions to give your people drive, clarity and ambition to step up into leadership with ownership, grit and success.

In this up-to-60-minute inspirational, insightful and practical session, you will:

  • Learn why the current way of leading is outdated.

  • Discover how comfort and scarcity limit our leadership potential.

  • Unpack the 5 ingredients for leaders to fuel innovation, create high-performing teams and lead the future today.

  • Discover how to harness friction and complexity to fuel growth and success.

  • Learn what a modern, dynamic and inspiring vision of leadership could look like for you.

  • 10x your drive and ambition to lead in a truly phenomenal, powerful, and pioneering way through practical actions.

Change & Performance

Frictionless change: Choose hard things

A Woman of Colour who has shattered multiple glass ceilings, Winitha is a former CEO and innovation consultant working with giants like Telstra. 

An Order of Australia Medal recipient, she’s a status-quo breaker and change-maker used to swimming against the tide to make real change happen. Winitha is THE keynote speaker to inspire and motivate your audience to embrace complex challenges and drive change, innovation and success.

If you want your people to lean into what’s hard and to lead change instead of just embracing it, this keynote is for you. Your audience will leave this session empowered, motivated, ready to choose what’s hard and to start leveraging friction and change for success. 

In this up-to-60-minute insightful and practical session, you will:

  • Learn how discomfort and scarcity are changing the way we need to lead the future.

  • Discover why leaning into what’s hard is the solution you’ve been searching for.

  • See how choosing and doing what’s hard develops our capability to lead change and disruptive innovation, rather than just surviving it.

  • Learn loophole theory and how it helps you innovate, manage change and adapt through creative problem-solving.

  • Take home tools to help you back yourself through the discomfort of doing hard stuff.

Inclusion & Belonging

It ain’t woke: commercially smart inclusion

With an Order of Australia medal for her work in inclusion, Winitha Bonney is a Woman of Colour to watch. She’s a former CEO who shows audiences how to turn a touchy subject into a winning strategy for commercially smart inclusion. Conscious capitalism? Yes please!

In this session, Winitha gives your people practical, actionable ways to replace overwhelm with inclusion, transform uncertainty to action and obligation to authenticity which will feed your bottom line, nurture happier staff and turn customers into raving fans.

In this up-to-60-minute inspirational and insightful session, you will:

  • Get clear on what true inclusion is and why woke ain’t woke.

  • See how purpose and empathy show up on the balance sheet.

  • Discover practical actions to lift the customer and employee experience for commercially smart inclusion.

  • Discover how to create authentically inclusive advertising that attracts and retains customers.

  • Learn how to make inclusion not just part of your business but how you do business.

Motivation

Back yourself: How to take your spot in the world

Winitha brings inclusive, high-energy motivation that speaks to every single person in your audience. Invigorate your people with a fresh take on purpose that lifts performance and enriches the human experience.

Winitha is an inclusion expert, Woman of Colour and former C-suite executive with 20+ years experience in whole-of-organisation transformation and innovation. She knows how to deliver bold motivation with futurist thinking to shake up old, outdated narratives. This is motivation that truly energises and excites all.

Direct, no-fluff motivation that inspires and equips your people and leaders to be their own cheerleaders, carve their own path and take their spot in the world with grit, agency and confidence.

In this up-to-60-minute inspirational and practical session, you will:

  • Discover what holds us back and how we get in our own way.

  • Understand what it truly means to back ourselves in how we live and lead.

  • Discover the neuroscience linking grit, persistence, agency and courage

  • Learn how to problem-solve through setbacks and challenges.

  • Learn how to achieve goals in half the time, energy and resources

  • Discover what it means to take our spot in the world in a practical and inspiring way.

MC, Moderator, Panellist and Breakout Sessions

Create a stand-out event experience with expert facilitation, not just entertainment

Winitha brings high energy, expert facilitation, and innovative lateral thinking to your event experience.

As your event MC, Winitha seamlessly connects each session, drawing out fresh strategic insights, forging new linkages between valuable concepts, and turning key messages into simple, practical actions for your delegates—doubling your return on investment.

As your panel moderator, Winitha collaborates closely with panel members to craft and prepare a session that is highly engaging, energetic, informative, and inspiring. She knows how to work with panelists to extract and shape their expertise into pure gems of wisdom for your delegates while ensuring each panel member shines.

Say goodbye to yawn-worthy, dull and #manel panels.

As your panel member or moderator, Winitha adds significant value to any discussion, combining her expertise in change, inclusion, innovation, and leadership with her lived experience as a Woman and Person of Colour, and her extensive background as a C-Suite leader.

Having Winitha on your panel also eliminates the risk of lacking gender and People of Colour diversity, thereby avoiding dry and repetitive discussions with the same old faces and voices. Give your audience true cognitive diversity in panel conversations.

Winitha also leads breakout sessions, masterclasses, and innovative learning experiences for your delegates, elevating your event to the next level and ensuring it is remembered for years to come. You can learn more here.

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