PROFILE
Dr Gemma Munro is an award-winning transformative speaker and leadership coach, with a PhD in performance psychology and a knack of sparking rapid and easeful change. For over two decades, Gemma has worked with leaders and changemakers across the globe to help them reconnect with their purpose, spark their clarity, lift their courage and lead with energy.
Gemma has ignited change in workplaces across the planet, and inspired over 77,000 people worldwide. She has spoken to global and national audiences at Google, Amazon, Qantas, Vodafone, PayPal and the NHS in London, and her keynote at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley was live-streamed to every Google office on the planet.
A two-time Telstra Businesswoman of the Year finalist, Gemma has been called ‘a human alarm-clock’, ‘a lightning bolt of love’ and ‘a cross between a switched-on psychologist and a fairy godmother.’
As a classically trained singer, she has performed in Westminster Abbey, Radio City Music Hall and, somewhat heart-stoppingly, to 53,000 screaming fans as a backing vocalist for the Rolling Stones.
Gemma is the co-host of The Oyster Sisters podcast and was the Founder of Inkling, known for its work across Australia, Asia and the UK in rapidly lifting the percentage of women at leadership level. Before that she was a tremendously serious management consultant and a recovering academic, having completed her PhD at a relatively young and impressionable age. She lives on five acres in the Adelaide Hills with her husband Ben Barnett and their exceptionally loving, occasionally exhausting and usually hungry blended tribe of three teenagers and a farm dog called Lucie.
SPEAKING TOPICS
The Courage to Shine
How to quieten your fears, doubts and self-sabotage, then harness the courage to fulfil your potential
- Let go of imposter syndrome
- Soften self-sabotage
- Be in your zone of genius
Every single person has a bright spark within them made up of their unique gifts, preferences and purpose. And every single person – even the most outwardly successful – has fears, doubts and self-sabotaging behaviours that get in the way of them shining their light.
It doesn’t make us bad, stupid or lazy. It makes us human. We are simply wired that way.In this keynote, Gemma will share the five main ways we can stop dimming and start shining our light. Audiences will leave with eight practical, evidence-based and fun tools that have helped tens of thousands around the world to let go of imposter syndrome, stop self-sabotage in its tracks, and achieve a level of success, spark and courage they hadn’t thought possible.
Peaceful Peak Performance
How to move from chaos to calm, exhaustion to energy and reasonable results to peak performance
- Hop off the hamster wheel of stress and chaos
- Shift from functioning to flourishing
- Uplift performance AND peace
A typical day in the life of many leaders? Wake up, feel tired, drink coffee, check emails, feel overwhelmed, drink more coffee, attend back-to-back meetings, put out a fire, answer 3 of 78 new emails, deal with a people issue that could be an opportunity but just feels like another fire to put out, crave alcohol or sugar, attend a meeting, look at missed calls, roll eyes, play phone tag, eat sugar, feel fried, scroll phone, get home, drink wine, watch TV, go to bed, sleep fitfully, wake up … then rinse, lather, repeat.
It’s time to get off the hamster wheel of stress and overwhelm. It’s time to stop feeling fried, burned out or done like a dinner. It’s time to amplify your peace, your energy levels and your results.
In this keynote, Dr Gemma Munro shares the three shifts and seven tools that have seen over 10,000 leaders move from frazzled and burned out to energised and inspired, while also igniting their performance, purpose and peace.
Lead yourself through Change
The science and art of rapid, easeful and – (yes, it’s possible) – joyful transformation
Manage yourself through change with enthusiasm and skill
Lead through uncertainty with grace
Learn to see change as an opportunity, not a threat
At some point in your life, you’ve probably found yourself wanting to change but unable to make it last – it’s as if you have one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake. Or perhaps you’re undergoing a transformation program at work, and as much as you’re told to get excited, all you can think is “I’m so done with change!”
In this keynote, you’ll learn how to manage your very understandable tendencies to shy away from change, or to self-sabotage when faced with a need to transform. You’ll learn the seven tools Gemma has taught globally to help leaders navigate transformation with enthusiasm and ease, and to embrace change as an opportunity, not a threat.
Whether you want to transform your mindset, behaviours or results, or just navigate change and uncertainty with more skill, you’ll leave with the tools to manage change easily and well.
