Kate Raynes-Goldie
PROFILE
Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie is a multi award-winning human communication designer, cultural anthropologist, keynote speaker, coach & strategist, certified lego® serious play® facilitator, innovation columnist, researcher, and the creator of superconnect®.Using the magic (and science!) of curiosity and play, she helps organisations supercharge their people to boost clarity, creativity and human connection. She is an award winning designer, keynote speaker, professional speaker coach and strategist, Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator and the creator of SUPERCONNECT®.
Kate has a monthly technology and innovation column in the Business News (Western Australia) and is a frequent media commentator, appearing in the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald, ELLE, Triple J’s Hack, The Globe and Mail (Canada), NPR (US) and on MTV.
She currently teaches at the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University and have previously taught at the Curtin School of Business and the Canadian Film Centre’s New Media Lab post graduate program in Toronto. She has also been a judge for the NASA Space Apps Challenge and Startup Weekend.
With more than 20 years speaking experience, Kate has spoken at conferences around the world, including TheWebConf (formally the WWW conference), TEDxPerth, SXSW (Austin) and NXNE (Toronto).
Kate was named one of WA’s 40 under 40, as well as the Australian Computer Society’s Digital Disruptor Professional of the Year. Her work has been featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, the National Theatre in London and the new Western Australian Museum, as well as play festivals across the United States and Europe.
She holds a PhD from Curtin University’s Internet Studies Department, where she is also a past Senior Adjunct Research Fellow.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Fearlessly Curious: The Antidote to Fear in the Innovation Journey
Step a world where fear no longer holds back you back. This interactive keynote empowers audiences to overcome fear and unleash their innovative spirit using the power of curiosity and purposeful play. With 85% of executives reporting that fear is the number one barrier to innovation in their companies, this keynote provides the antidote.
Built on a LEGO-powered and science-backed experience that promotes curiosity and purposeful play, participants will learn techniques to reframe failure as valuable information, transforming fear into a catalyst for creativity. This interactive keynote also shows the power of psychologically safety for experimentation, collaboration and innovation. Attendees will walk way with tools to help them to deal with uncertainty head-on, making bold decisions and embrace change.
Key Outcomes:
- Overcoming Fear to Drive Innovation: Learn techniques to reframe failure as valuable information and transform fear into a catalyst for creativity.
- Fostering a Culture of Curiosity: Promote continuous learning and breakthrough thinking.
- Building Psychological Safety: Learn how psychological safety creates a supportive environment for experimentation, collaboration, and most importantly, innovation
Igniting Curiosity
In this powerful interactive keynote, participants embark on a journey of discovery and connection, to self, to each other and to their own curiosity.
The keynote focuses on the power of curiosity and play, which have been scientifically proven to supercharge engagement, collaboration and performance in the workplace. However, like all superpowers, curiosity and play can only be activated through action, so participants also get minds-on and then hands-on with magic of SUPERCONNECT®, a powerful tool for collaboration, innovation and inclusion built on LEGO® Serious Play®. Together, using a proven international method powered by LEGO bricks, participants create shared understandings of curiosity while creating new connections with each other.
Audiences walk away having experienced how curiosity and play can support business outcomes, particularly around boosting human connection, trust, and psychological safety all while enabling better conversations about what really matters.
Curious Intelligence
We live in a curious world, and humans are fundamentally curious beings. Why? Because curiosity has an evolutionary purpose. People had to be curious about what was happening around them. Without curiosity, they wouldn’t survive in a changing world.
Today, that world is changing faster than ever before. Technological disruption calls us to learn more quickly than we ever have had to before. So how do we inspire, educate and activate curiosity as a driving force within organisations seeking to thrive today and into the future?
In this keynote, Dr. Kate takes the audience on an adventure to unlock the art of curiosity. What is the science behind the curious mind? What tools can we use to enhance curiosity, creativity and purposeful playfulness? At the heart of this presentation is the unlocking of a curious mindset and as a strategy for life and business.
Audiences will walk away from this presentation with tools, insights and experiences that will enable them to unleash their Curious Intelligence and in doing so enhance the soft human skills that act as the foundation for innovation, creativity, collaboration and connection. After all, technology may be empowering the software, but human curiosity is what fundamentally creates and or changes the game.
Building Creativity: The Better-Than-a-Keynote Keynote
Good keynotes get people thinking. Building Creativity gets everyone… introverts and extroverts… thinking, talking, listening, laughing, questioning and problem-solving. Together.
Part keynote. Part play-based breakout. 100% grounded in proven science. Building Creativity is based on Dr Kate’s work at the leading edge of research into play-based innovation and her SUPERCONNECT® Method, which enables leaders to tap into the intelligence, experience and creativity in any room.
All of it.
All in one funforgettable hour. All tailored to target the area of performance that matters to you, from human connection to collaborative creativity to innovation. All beautifully branded, with heaps of value-adds, including event photos, videos and SUPERCONNECT® Spark kits.
Building Creativity is built on the foundations of LEGO® Serious Play® – the tool used by brands like Virgin, IKEA and Samsung – combining Lego and Dr Kate’s carefully researched questions to bring people together and new ideas, possibilities and solutions to the fore.
The payoffs of getting your play on:
- Involve EVERYONE. Tap into everybody’s experience, insights, knowledge and creativity.
- Build rapport and trust. The foundations for a connected, collaborative, creative culture.
- Inspire curiosity. About each other. About new ideas, opportunities and possibilities.
- Find smarter solutions, faster. Get more done in less time with less procrastination.
- Improve wellbeing and happiness. Boost employee engagement, satisfaction and morale.
