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A Framework for Excellence

Explore Sonia's Leadership Triangle—a roadmap for extraordinary leadership. Discover how to embody integrity, humility, and purpose, igniting positive change within yourself and your organization.

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Balancing Success and Well-Being

Sonia delves into the vital link between well-being and leadership. Gain practical strategies to prioritise self-care, resilience, and mental health, fostering environments where individuals thrive personally and professionally.

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First Comes Courage

Leadership starts within. This is the premise of the book and keynote First Comes Courage. Sonia will take your audience through the virtues and keys to courageous leadership and how to embrace the First Comes Courage methodology and compass. You will discover the keys to leading with courage through the lens of kindness, purpose, impact and resilience.

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Honing New Leaders

Sonia provides actionable insights and guidance for new leaders embarking on their leadership journey, emphasizing adaptability, courage, and empathy.

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Just Rock It!

This high-energy and inspiring keynote based on Sonia’s second book, Just Rock It! has become a life-changer for many people. Discover how to embrace fear to lead with confidence, courage and conviction. Sonia empowers her audience to shine and stand tall and be the impact they want to be, leaving the room wanting to rock their life and leadership.

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Leadership is an Attitude

This powerful keynote is based on Sonia’s cutting-edge book Leadership Attitude, which explores why leadership is not defined by a role or a title. Discover the keys to a leadership attitude and learn how you can be a leader through your attitude, values, actions, mindset and behaviour. This keynote has been transformational for thousands of leaders worldwide, leaving the audience inspired to be the leader they want to be.

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Safety, Connection, Clarity, Ownership, Performance

Sonia reveals the five pillars of high- performance teams, guiding leaders to foster trust, collaboration, and accountability. Learn how to propel your team towards peak performance and collective success.

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Unleashing Leadership Potential

Sonia blends neuroscience and leadership to unveil the science of courage. Learn how to overcome fear and cultivate bold leadership through practical strategies and inspiring insights.

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Sonia McDonald

Inspiring Action and Empowering Courageous & Kind Leadership Worldwide

Sonia McDonald’s is an internationally respected leadership expert, speaker, and author renowned for her dynamic and captivating presentations that inspire, empower, and transform audiences. With over 30 years of experience in leadership and organisational culture, Sonia brings a unique blend of energy, empathy, kindness, and humour to her keynote speeches, making complex topics like organisational development, workplace diversity and the neuroscience of leadership, easily understandable and actionable.

As the CEO and founder of LeadershipHQ, Sonia has presented to some of the nation’s largest companies and events, translating her deep expertise in neuroscience and leadership into implementable strategies across diverse sectors and industries including retail, education, construction and engineering, consulting, executive search and the public sector. Her mission is clear: to create great leaders and empower individuals to drive meaningful change and action.

Sonia’s keynotes explore how exploring vulnerability, authenticity, and resilience are essential for effective leadership. Drawing from her extensive research and real-world experience, she equips leaders at all levels with practical tools and strategies to unleash their full potential and achieve outstanding results.

An award-winning author and influential voice, Sonia’s books include “Leadership Attitude”, “Just Rock It”, and “First Comes Courage”. She’s a regular contributor to publications such as The Australian and HRD Magazine and has been recognised globally as one of the Top 250 Influential Women and Top 100 Australian Entrepreneurs by Richtopia.

Whether speaking at conferences, workshops, or coaching sessions, Sonia’s high energy, authenticity, and humour are sure to leave a lasting impression, empowering audiences to take courageous actions and foster exceptional leadership ion their organisations and personal lives.

Testimonial

"Sonia spoke at our company's annual International Women's Day event 2022 and all our team and our guests absolutely loved her presentation. We have received feedback from many people that Sonia was inspiring and created a great positive energy in the room. Sonia really understood our company's core values and tailored the presentation to our needs. This has been one of the best industry events we have hosted and having Sonia as a speaker definitely played a role in this success."

Wolter Consulting Group

"Sonia is an outstanding motivational speaker who inspires her audience to be inclusive and balanced leaders and you always leave wanting to hear more. Thankfully she also has wonderful books to support your journey to not only outstanding leadership, but courage and growth."

Queensland Department of Education

"Sonia McDonald is an inspirational keynote and workshop presenter with a distinctive ability to bond and engage with her audiences. Sonia is well-known for her dynamic, charismatic workshop/presentation style and people walk away on an emotional and inspired high, feeling informed."

HR Architect

"Sonia is an enthusiastic speaker who communicates complex concepts in an entertaining and engaging manner. Her depth of knowledge and understanding of leadership is exemplified in the detail she goes into in her presentation. There's no fluff, just substance and she'll give you skills to take home, tell others and start using immediately to better you, your company and everyone around you."

La’Quar

"Sonia facilitated the Women in Mantra leadership workshop for us on International Women's Day. Her passion and energy left our Team Members feeling inspired to achieve leadership roles at Mantra Group, and they have already set up local networking groups and put measurable goals in place."

Mantra

"Sonia combines bucket loads of passion for her clearly defined purpose, a thorough grounding in the principles of leadership and neuroscience, and an engaging personal style which makes her an adaptable and engaging presenter in front of any audience. Presenting at the LeadX event Sonia had the audience captured with her energy and compelling story telling, leaving all attendees empowered to surround themselves with the right people and confident to take risks to learn and lead."

Revelian

We were looking for an empowering speaker and Sonia stood out to us, and boy she didn’t disappoint. Our attendees described Sonia as an ‘inspiring, extraordinary, energetic, positive, motivational and incredible speaker’. We had women leaving the room saying they were ready to ‘rock it!’

Q Super

Sonia combines three major assets: bucket loads of passion for her clearly defined purpose, a thorough grounding in the principles of leadership and neuroscience, and an engaging personal style which makes her an adapt-able and engaging presenter in front of any audience. Presenting at the event, Sonia had the audience captured with her energy, dance moves and compelling story telling, leaving all attendees empowered to surround themselves with the right people and confident to take risks to learn and lead.

Revelian