Lynne Cazaly
Keynote Speaker, Author & Thought Leader in Agile Cultures and Innovation
A leading keynote speaker, author and expert in agile thinking, innovation and change. Renowned for her live digital visuals and highly practical insights, she helps leaders and teams think differently, work better and deliver stronger results.
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Lynne Cazaly is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and author, recognised as a leading authority on new ways of thinking and working. A respected thought leader in agile cultures, sensemaking, innovation and change, she delivers presentations that are engaging, inspiring, creative and genuinely entertaining, while remaining highly practical and relevant for today’s leaders.
Lynne’s sessions are interactive and outcomes-focused, designed to help leaders get the best from their teams, improve collaboration and lift performance. Known for her sharp insights and humour, she equips audiences with tools and techniques they can apply immediately.
A distinctive feature of Lynne’s presentations is her use of live digital visuals. Often scribing in real time on her iPad, she creates hand-crafted visual slides—many developed in the moment—to clarify complex ideas, provoke fresh thinking and reinforce key messages. This visual approach, combined with her candid and pragmatic style, ensures her insights resonate long after the session ends.
With a professional background spanning communications, technology, agile software development and facilitation, Lynne genuinely “walks the talk” when it comes to communication and engagement. Her extensive work with project teams across industries including technology, healthcare, banking and finance has made her a consistent highlight at conferences, where she is frequently rated the standout speaker or session.
An expert facilitator and trainer of facilitators, Lynne is a master of group processes and audience engagement. As a former broadcaster, she also brings a strong stage presence and an intuitive understanding of how to connect with an audience.
Lynne’s presentations are often described as career-, project- and team-defining moments—sessions where perspectives shift, capability is built and meaningful change begins. Her experience as a board director and chair further strengthens her credibility and ensures her insights resonate at all levels of business.
Topics
The Overload is Optional
Who isn’t overloaded, overwhelmed and exhausted from too much of everything?!
Lynne brings together the incredible insights from her Harvard Business Review article ‘How to save yourself from information overload’ AND her book ‘Argh! Too much information, not enough brain: A Practical Guide to Outsmarting Overwhelm’ to point you in the direction of relief, reset and a renewed sense of how to wisely tackle the cognitive load crisis.
With knowledge on new ways of working and the things we do that make the load heavier, you’ll notice the weight on your mind lift and you’ll understand why it’s been too hard for too long. This could be a life-changing session for you!
Curate Your Conference Experience + Cognitive Overload
What better way to kick off your conference than to support your delegates to get the most out of the program! Includes how to:
- Cope with Information Overload using Cognitive Load Coping techniques
- Manage your focus, energy and attention
- 10x (at least!) the number of takeaways you usually get at conferences
- Synthesise all the information to make your learning stick beyond the event.
Skills for What’s Next/Clever Skills
It’s not about FOMO (fear of missing out) today – it’s FOBO (fear of being obsolete). But how can we keep up with everything?
Lynne presents the essential capabilities needed to survive and advance in constantly changing workplaces. They’ll help you blend adaptability with creativity and clever thinking.
Based on her latest book ‘Clever Skills: How to use your greatest human capabilities for the unfolding future’ and refreshing all the time as new skills arrive at our Top Skills lists.
New Ways of Learning
Discover the latest approaches to learning that shift from employer-provided courses, to peer, self-directed and more modern AI methods and techniques.
The world of professional development, learning and development and organisational development is in massive change.
Jump on board these newer ways of schooling yourself… because you should be the director of your own development!
Open and Close with…
Top and Tail your conference with Lynne Cazaly’s incredible opening keynote and workshop on cognitive load coping and then wrap up the event with the harvesting and collaboration of hundreds of insights.
START: She’ll prime delegates ready to take on more knowledge than ever before…
FINISH: She’ll wrap up your event with a euphoric group learning/sharing and co-creation experience.
