PROFILE
Ciara Lancaster is an accredited change leadership expert, a global authority on change fatigue and resilience, and Australia’s only main-stage speaker with real-world experience leading workplace change and transformation at Deloitte. Ciara is one of only four Australian women to speak at the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT®) global conference, and in 2025, Ciara was hand-picked by the United Nations to present virtually to 23 countries on uncertainty through disruption.
After leading teams of 500+ through change management and business transformation at Deloitte Australia, Ciara wrote and owns the topic of change fatigue and resilience in the #1 best-selling book Reimagine Change®. Ciara’s thought leadership appears in The Financial Review, Sky News, In The Black, Women’s Agenda, and CEOWorld Magazine.
Known for magnetic stage presence, Ciara meets audiences where they are through emotional resonance, then wins attention and engagement by guiding them toward signature shifts forward. In a workplace defined by escalating pressure, competing commitments, and change exhaustion, teams are calling out for something real: clarity they can trust, tools they can use tomorrow, and practical guidance that reignites hope and momentum.
Ciara’s ideal audience is leaders exhausted from carrying the load, yet determined to make their teams change-fit for the year ahead. Ciara’s mission is to energise and equip people with grounded, immediately usable coaching strategies that elevate organisational-wide change resilience and align with the transformation roadmap.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Discover the Secrets to Reimagine Change
Teams are tired of future-of-work fantasies. Cue the eye-rolls. Leaders and teams are grappling with the future of now, juggling the heaviest wave of workplace change in history. Ciara Lancaster flips the script. With battle scars from leading large-scale change initiatives and transformation at Deloitte, she equips organisations to turn overwhelm into opportunity.
Through specialised change resilience and coaching skills, she empowers your people to be future-fit and aligned with your epic transformation roadmap.
The Reimagine Change® keynote will challenge you to:
- Reset your mindset to overcome change fatigue and thrive through always-on change
- Apply human skills that kill drama, energise people, and accelerate projects
- Use foresight to map a pathway forward when change lands in your lap
Why This Matters:
- The pace of change is unrelenting. Teams without change-fit skills face burnout, disengagement, and stalled transformation
- CEOs need all-hands strategies that protect people, accelerate projects, and inspire sustainable, change momentum.
- Ciara delivers reality-based coaching grounded in change leadership, neuroscience and inspirational stage-craft.
Expect practical tools, energising strategies, and the spark you need to reignite your team’s change journey. Your audience leaves change-fit, resilient, and ready to contribute and succeed in the modern era of workplace change.
