Some speakers inform people.
Kate moves them.
As a keynote speaker and MC, Kate brings together two decades of academic rigour, real-world leadership experience, and deep human insight — to create the kind of event experience that stays with people long after they've left the room.
Built around one belief.
Kate's keynotes are built around one belief: that courage comes before confidence — and that when people understand themselves more deeply, everything changes. How they lead. How they speak. How they show up.
Each keynote is tailored to your brief, your audience, and the outcome you're working towards. Whether you're looking for a 30-minute conference opener or a 60-minute keynote that anchors your entire event, Kate works with you to make it land.
All four keynotes work across corporate teams, professional associations, business owners, and personal development contexts — because the human stuff doesn't change, regardless of the room.
KEYNOTE 1
Lead Like You
A strengths-based approach to courageous leadership
The most effective leaders aren't the ones who've perfected someone else's style. They're the ones who've had the courage to understand their own — and lead from it.
This keynote challenges the idea that great leadership looks one particular way. Drawing on strengths-based methodology and her Human Signature System, Kate helps audiences understand their unique leadership wiring — their mindset, their natural strengths, and how to translate both into real, courageous impact at work and beyond. Audiences leave with a new understanding of what makes them distinctive as a leader, and the permission — and the tools — to stop trying to lead like everyone else.
BEST FOR
Leadership teams, professional development days, conferences, and anyone stepping into a new or expanded leadership role.
KEYNOTE 2
Speak Like You
A strengths-based approach to overcoming fear, building courage, and speaking with confidence
Most people don't have a public speaking problem. They have a self-belief problem. And that's a very different thing to solve.
This keynote reframes what it means to be a great communicator — away from performance, and towards presence. Kate draws on her Soulful Speaking Method to help audiences understand that there is no one way to be a compelling speaker, and that the most powerful thing you can do is learn to speak like yourself, not like someone you think you should be. Practical, permission-giving, and deeply human — this keynote meets people exactly where they are and gives them real strategies to move forward.
BEST FOR
Professional associations, women in business events, teams who present regularly, and anyone who's ever held themselves back from speaking up.
KEYNOTE 3
How to Become an Investigator of Your Own Life
A new way to understand how you think, feel, and make courageous decisions
Expanded from Kate's TEDx talk, this keynote explores one of the most important questions we rarely stop to ask: when should I trust my gut — and when should I investigate further?
Drawing on three distinct professional worlds — law and policing, movement and embodied intelligence, and leadership coaching — Kate introduces a practical framework for understanding how we think, how we feel, and how to make better, braver decisions when the stakes are high and the messages are mixed. This is self-awareness as a skill, not a concept. And it changes how people lead, communicate, and live.
BEST FOR
Leadership conferences, high-performance teams, and audiences navigating change, uncertainty, or significant decisions.
KEYNOTE 4
You're Not Faking It
Practical strategies to silence the imposter complex and lean into your expertise
Almost every high-achieving person has felt it — that quiet, persistent voice that says you don't quite belong here, that someone's about to figure out you don't know enough, that your success has been more luck than skill. That's the imposter complex. And it's far more common — and far more manageable — than most people realise.
This keynote names it, normalises it, and gives audiences real strategies to work with it. Kate breaks down the different ways the imposter complex shows up, helps people identify their own patterns, and offers a practical, courageous path forward — not to silence self-doubt forever, but to stop letting it make decisions for you.
BEST FOR
Professional associations, high-achievers in transition, early-to-mid career professionals, and any audience that needs permission to own what they know.
… And then one of them became a TEDx talk.
All keynotes are available from 30 to 60 minutes and are tailored to your event, audience, and outcomes.
Interested in a longer format? Kate's keynotes can be extended into 90-minute to full-day workshop experiences. Get in touch and we'll shape something that works for your team.