Ciara Lancaster
Change Fatigue & Resilience Expert
Australia’s leading change leadership expert and a global authority on change fatigue and resilience, Ciara equips organisations to turn change exhaustion into clarity, capability, and momentum. She brings insider transformation experience, practical tools teams can use immediately, and playful moments that spark connection and leave the room smiling.
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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. Known for her magnetic stage presence, she equips teams and leaders to navigate always-on change with confidence, clarity, and optimism.
After leading teams of 500+ through change management, business transformation and digital innovation efforts at Deloitte Australia, Ciara Lancaster went on to write and own the topic of change fatigue and resilience in her book.
During the peak of the pandemic, ‘Reimagine Change’ became a #1 best-seller in Organisational Behaviour and Stress Management. You will frequently see Ciara Lancaster’s thought leadership in the media. The Financial Review, Sky News, In The Black, Women’s Agenda and CEOWorld Magazine.
Keynote speaker, Ciara Lancaster, is also an alumna of Sydney University, University of New South Wales, Stanford University and The Mind Academy in the domains of Psychology, Economics, Organisational Change Management, Compassion Cultivation and Modern Psychology. Most importantly, in a world dominated by celebrity, Ciara brings authenticity, vulnerability and relatedness that the audience comments on time and time again.
In 2025, Ciara Lancaster was hand-picked by a division of the United Nations to virtually present to 23 countries on the custom topic of uncertainty through disruption.
Ciara Lancaster knows that in the business world inspiration isn’t enough. It’s all about impact. For this reason, audience members will learn at least three action steps, as shared from the stage.
Many leaders also gift their team copies of the book as a valuable post-event resource to embed the learnings. Let’s Reimagine Change® together.
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Ciara Lancaster’s Signature Keynote
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.
Every keynote is joyfully customised after a speaker briefing video call.
