Where pressure stops breaking you - and starts building you.

No matter what the future brings it is getting more difficult for leaders to keep up with the pace of change and remain on top of their game. The reality is that in life and at work there are always storms to contend with whether we are ready or not.
The antidote is to be bold and lead with unreasonable ambition.
In this energising and highly motivating keynote, get in the room with one of Australia’s leading high-performance psychologist’s and award-winning author of “Unreasonable Ambition” will share with you how to build the strategic foresight and leadership mettle to get yourself and your teams’ storm ready no matter the ‘weather’ conditions.
Taking you on a journey through a proven psychological roadmap to get you future
ready, you will leave ready to lean into seemingly impossible challenges, feel invigorated and inspired to take bold strategic action and lead with the future in mind.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL:
Learn how to re-empower themselves and ignite their full potential to create the
future.
Build the strategic foresight and leadership mettle to get themselves and their teams’
storm ready no matter how extreme the weather conditions
Be guided through a robust leadership roadmap and proven framework to get future
ready
Leave ready to lean into seemingly impossible challenges
Feel invigorated and inspired to make bold strategic moves with the future in mind.

The world needs more creativity and innovation to make progress in a world that is blurry
around the edges and a future that is ill-defined.
It all boils down to this. How do you lead in an era where nothing is certain and being an
expert is blocking the discovery of new ideas and solutions? How do you prepare your
company to take the world by storm when everything you’ve ever known, all the tools you
rely on and the people you are comfortable with isn’t getting you the same results and you
are struggling to stay relevant?
The answer lies in being able to accelerate the ability tap into our creative potential and
non-linear logic if we are to solve for the wicked problems of tomorrow. And yet the talent
we need to help reinvent the playing field don’t last in organisations and the renegade
“weirdo” thinking we need to break the rules is being managed out.
In this game-changing keynote, Vanessa Vershaw challenges leaders to disrupt their
mindsets to embrace divergent talent and successfully lead creativity. She draws from her
years working with some of the greatest business creative minds over the last decade with
radical stories of transformation at scale. She will share her insights on how to cultivate
divergent and inclusive environments, find the courage to break the rules to accelerate
growth and nurture your own inner renegade and team to lead creatively and create
impossible change.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEARN:
How to disrupt their mindsets to embrace divergent talent and lead creativity.
To cultivate divergent and inclusive environments.
Find the courage to break the rules by nurturing their own inner renegade.
Lead creativity in teams to accelerate growth.
Create impossible change through creative problem-solving an thinking differently.

FOLLOW WITH: GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN WORKSHOP

Unlocking Creativity at Scale

Diversity, gender equality and inclusion are high on the list of corporate priorities especially in the wake of the recent research showing that numbers have not just stalled but gone backwards in the quest for a fairer world for both men and women worldwide.
Hard to believe with so much spotlight and positive momentum that give us the impression that the battle is won, and the problem is fixed.
Truth is we are far from it, and we are losing the race.
In this fresh and humorous take on one of the greatest social challenges of our time, Vanessa takes us on a journey back to our primate roots to understand the role our biology plays in driving some of the best and worst of our behaviours. She evolves us showing us how to take control of our mindsets to make better choices and move from neanderthal to sophisticated humans and leaders.
In a provocative but light-hearted way, audiences are challenged to go through moments of deep personal exploration to uncover their unconscious biases and understand how they are blocking their career success in life and at work.
This turbocharged and inspiring keynote is a celebration of humanity. It reminds us of what can be achieved when we all come together as a community of equals to celebrate and leverage the magic that diversity brings.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:
A detailed understanding of the complex dynamics at play between genders at work and how men and women lead differently.
Clarity around specific career success strategies for men and women
Psychological insights and tools to take control of their careers and lead better.
Specific knowledge to build inclusive workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Tested strategies to get ahead and gain competitive advantage for their organisations through the harnessing of diversity.

Authentic Leadership in Action

Future-Ready Leadership