Why Inclusion and Difference Fuel Innovation and Impact

Your team’s greatest edge and your organisation’s biggest impact comes from the brains and backgrounds that don’t follow the script, but blaze their own path.

In a world craving innovation, the most overlooked resource isn’t more tech, it’s diverse perspectives. This talk explores the hidden value of difference - across brains, backgrounds, and lived experience - and shows how truly inclusive leaders unlock breakthrough ideas.

Gry draws on lived experience as a neurospicy, intersectional bridge-builder who has led high-impact, diverse teams across industries and cultures. Through research, story, and sharp insight, she challenges assumptions, reframes inclusion as a strategic driver of innovation, and delivers practical tools for leaders ready to build teams where everyone belongs and contributes their best.

This talk sits at the intersection of inclusion, innovation, and impact - and will shift how you see the minds around you (and your own).

Audience Takeaways

• Understand why cognitive diversity fuels innovation and resilience
• Learn how different talent experiences the workplace - and what needs to shift
• Apply inclusive leadership practices that spark creativity, psychological safety, and high performance

Ideal For
HR, DEI, innovation leaders, team managers, and change agents building inclusive cultures that spark big ideas - including neurodiversity advocates, inclusion-focused forums, and women’s leadership or advocacy conferences aligned with inclusion, innovation, and impact.

Delivery Formats

• Keynote (30–60 minutes)
• Workshop (90 min to half-day)
• Panel or fireside chat anchor / moderator
• Leadership development series

Why Most Digital Transformation Fails - and How to Make Yours Work

We don’t need more tech. We need tech that fits the humans it serves.

Too many organisations digitise dysfunction and call it progress. In this keynote, Gry Stene draws from decades of experience leading transformation across tech, health, mining, logistics, manufacturing and education to show why real change starts not with the tech, but with the trust.

This talk helps leaders and teams get honest about resistance, capability, and the cultural gaps that stall momentum. You’ll walk away with tools to co-design transformation that feels natural, not forced - and that actually sticks.

Because digital success isn’t just about speed - it’s about fit.

You’ll experience Gry’s signature rAIse IT right™ method for getting tech to truly fit your people, your culture, and your goals.

Audience Takeaways

• Understand the top reasons digital transformations stall or fail.
• Learn how to assess readiness and resistance within teams.
• Apply the rAIse IT Right framework to lead smarter, people-first transformation

Ideal For
Transformation leaders, change managers, tech executives, and people & culture teams navigating fast-moving systems change - including digital inclusion advocates and public interest innovation groups.

Delivery Formats

• Keynote (30–60 minutes)
• Workshop (2–4 hours)
• Executive advisory or consulting series
• Masterclass for people leaders

A practical, human first guide to ethical and meaningful AI, powered by the rAIse IT right™ approach.

Ethical AI starts with us. The choices we make today shape not just technology, but the world we leave behind.

AI is everywhere, fueling new prod ucts, changing industries, and raising questions most leaders never imagined they’d have to answer. But for all its power, AI is still a reflection of the people behind it. The true challenge isn’t just building smart systems; it’s raising technology that serves humanity, not the other way around.

In this high-impact session, Gry Stene - creator of rAIse IT right™ and a 30-year veteran in AI, tech and transformation - shows how leaders can move beyond buzzwords to lead with clarity, courage, and real-world impact. Gry’s sessions blend sharp insight with story, humour, and practical action. You’ll learn why “parenting” your AI and digital decisions with values, vision, and radical empathy is the new competitive advantage.

You’ll leave with:

• A clear lens to make smarter, safer, more strategic AI choices, in real life, not just theory.
• Ways to spot risks, cut through hype, and guide your team toward ethical innovation.
• Practical tools to build trust, confidence, and people-first impact in your team.

Ideal for:
C-suite leaders, innovation teams, and transformation decision-makers looking to lead responsibly in an AI-enabled future.

Delivery Formats:

• Keynote (30–60 minutes)
• Interactive workshop (2 hours)
• Executive roundtable or strategic advisory session

When talented leaders go unseen, organisations lose out. This is your guide to standing out, claiming your space, and helping teams tap into hidden strengths.

Many high-potential leaders, especially women and those who don’t fit the traditional mould, are told to “lean in.” But what if true visibility isn’t about leaning in, but about standing out on your own terms?

Drawing on over three decades in tech, product, and transformation, often as the only woman neurospicy leader at the table, Gry Stene shares real stories and tools from her journey (captured in her book Full Throttle & Torque). 

Her bold, high-energy session gives both individuals and organisations the playbook for unlocking hidden talent and shifting from survival mode to visible, strategic impact.

You’ll discover how to reclaim your voice, presence, and influence, not as a luxury but as a leadership imperative.

Audience Takeaways

• New tools to spot and address the real cost of invisibility, to individuals, teams, and organisations.
• A lens for unleashing and supporting hidden talent in women and other underestimated leaders.
• Strategies to stand out, advocate, and ascend without burnout or self-doubt.

Ideal For
Senior leaders, people managers, and diverse talent champions - plus anyone ready to unlock hidden potential and amplify underrepresented or underestimated voices.

Delivery Formats

• Keynote (30–60 minutes)
• Workshop (2–4 hours)
• Coaching or leadership intensives
• Retreat experience or panel anchor