AI is revolutionizing every aspect of business—automating tasks, optimizing supply chains, personalizing experiences, and predicting trends with precision. But as technology accelerates, leaders face a pivotal question:
Will we enter the Isolation Age, where technology deepens divides and purpose fades?
Or can we create the Integration Age, where AI enhances human potential, fostering purpose-driven and connected organizations?
This keynote introduces the VISTA Framework, a groundbreaking leadership model designed to help organizations navigate the challenges of AI while unleashing uniquely human qualities that drive success:
Join Katharine McLennan as she explores the choices leaders face in this transformative era and shares actionable insights to cultivate these qualities in yourself and your organization.
AI is revolutionizing every aspect of business—automating tasks, optimizing supply chains, personalizing experiences, and predicting trends with precision. But as technology accelerates, leaders face a pivotal question:
Will we enter the Isolation Age, where technology deepens divides and purpose fades?
Or can we create the Inspiration Age, where AI enhances human potential, fostering purpose-driven and connected organizations?
This keynote introduces the VISTA Framework, a groundbreaking leadership model designed to help organizations navigate the challenges of AI while unleashing uniquely human qualities that drive success:
Join Katharine McLennan as she explores the choices leaders face in this transformative era and shares actionable insights to cultivate these qualities in yourself and your organization.
For over 30 years, I’ve spoken to diverse audiences—from intimate executive teams to arenas of 3,000+—across 20+ industries and sectors.
Here’s what I’m known for…
Tackling rarely discussed, but highly relevant issues for the post-Information Age.
Bringing the room to life Oprah-style, where audience ideas are just as vital as mine.
Equipping audiences with tools to immediately elevate their leadership, well-being, and relationships.
Sharing relatable stories from my own adventures and client experiences to illustrate practical solutions.
Customized for your event.
Every keynote is tailored to your needs, ensuring the style, content, and delivery inspire action the moment the audience leaves the room.
Over my 35-year career, I’ve worked both “inside” as a senior executive – serving as the most senior People & Culture officer at Commonwealth Bank and Cochlear and “outside” as a C-Suite advisor to over 50 organizations, specializing in CEO succession, leadership psychology, and culture blueprinting.
As a natural storyteller and teacher, I connect with audiences through tales of leadership lessons I’ve taught clients and those I’ve learned firsthand in the executive chair. I complement these relatable (and often hilarious) stories by challenging audiences with fresh perspectives. Lately, I’ve drawn on topics like neuroscience, ancient philosophy, and everyday psychotherapy.
Known for my Oprah-like audience connection, I engage participants to work with me in real-time, helping them translate their “aha” moments into actionable steps they can take to their next meeting or into their home life.
Other services Katharine offers…
This keynote explores how to create brain-friendly workplaces that enhance creativity, productivity, and well-being in the Imagination Age. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, it provides actionable strategies to design environments that reduce cognitive overload, foster innovation, and unlock the full potential of teams.
This keynote examines the intersection of AI and human wisdom, guiding leaders on how to navigate the Integration Age with clarity and purpose. By balancing technological advancements with uniquely human qualities like intuition, trust, and authenticity, it offers actionable strategies to lead effectively in an AI-driven world.
This keynote explores the neuroscience behind fearless leadership, providing insights on how to overcome anxiety and lead with confidence. By understanding how the brain processes fear and stress, leaders will gain practical strategies to build resilience, enhance decision-making, and foster a culture of courage and innovation.
This keynote redefines workplace culture as the key driver of engagement, productivity, and fulfillment—not just a corporate buzzword. Through real-world insights and actionable strategies, it explores how leaders can cultivate an environment where employees feel valued, connected, and excited to come to work every day.
The Chief People Officer needs to be the right hand of the CEO and the second most paid and powerful person in the organisation. This position will also be the final stepping stone to the CEO position. The AI Age will force us to recognise that talent and culture are the two “assets” that cannot be copied. They have the potential to grow in value exponentially—if we know how to do it and focus on it.
And the type of talent we need to develop looks nothing like any talent we trained for jobs that will no longer exist.
From 1996 to 2000, as Head of Operational Integration Planning for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, I led the transformation of vision into strategy, execution, and operations. This experience shaped my strategy, talent, leadership, and culture expertise, offering timeless, pragmatic insights for any organization today.
Applying Quantum Physics to Leadership and Culture
Quantum physics offers extraordinary and understandable insights into how to think about today’s workplaces. We reflect on abstract theories like the uncertainty theory, the observer effect, potential and possibility, and more. We turn them into everyday English and then apply them to the workplace.
Vertical Leadership: Growing into IQ and then Emotional Intelligence, then Systemic Intelligence and then Wisdom. Why our Leadership Development programs are failing us and how we transform how we develop leaders in this AI Age. We see this in our leaders, and we now have a way to describe the strength of their leadership. Hint: it is not IQ.
It is not about adding more and more skills of doing. It is rediscovering more and more ways of being.
We underestimate the impact on others and the results of the way we use our minds, the way we talk to ourselves, and the way we focus the “washing machine” of our thoughts. How can we quiet the mind, choose the thoughts we want to listen to and stay clear on the intention we want to have?
How do we navigate in a time of increasing confusion about the way the world is working and will work? How do we quiet the “monkey” mind we all have as humans so that we can take the next right step.
