Rabia Siddique

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Keynote Presentations

Building Trust in a Changing World

A highly sought after keynote presentation aimed at senior leaders and decision makers who need to rebuild or build greater trust in and within their businesses and organisations

The erosion of trust has become the defining existential crisis of our time, undermining the credibility of organisations, institutions, and leaders, and threatening the foundations of social cohesion.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, leaders face unprecedented challenges in building organizational trust and resilience.

Drawing from my extensive experience as a humanitarian lawyer, senior army officer, leadership consultant, and international speaker, I offer a unique perspective that empowers leaders to navigate these complexities with confidence and skill.

My career has been defined by high-stakes crisis management, cultural transformation, and advocating for justice and equality. These experiences allow me to provide actionable strategies that drive transformation and organisational and brand trust, integrity and recognition through sharing my evidenced based six step approach.

Courage Under Fire

An Unforgettable Presentation Ideal for a Wide Audience Who Aspire to be Truly Great Leaders

Rabia uses her unique and powerful story as a starting point, and by sharing her truths and vulnerabilities with the audience, Rabia explores what it means to be a truly great and authentic leader. She addresses what she believes are the essential qualities and key roles for a great and effective leader. She calls her audience to a higher purpose, challenging them to practice and live great, authentic leadership, to lead by example and be agents of change.

What’s Holding you Hostage

A Topical Keynote Address That Will Inspire Leaders at All Levels to Be the Change Makers Current Times Are Calling on All of Us to Be

The world is calling upon us to reflect, reset our priorities, to see and fully embrace the realities in front of us – the beautiful and the ugly – and to have the courage to speak up and step up in ways we perhaps never have before.

This is the mark of a great leader and change maker, and great leadership is characterised by those who embody and demonstrate resilience, courage, focus, discipline & authenticity. It is this type of leadership that we need more than ever right now.

Are you ready to be inspired and empowered to release your inner giant? To be the change you need to be to impact your own life and the lives of others around you?

Rabia takes audiences through what it means to be a great leader, and how they, too, can lead themselves with courage, integrity and resilience.

Gifts in a Crisis

An Impactful Keynote Presentation That Will Equip Audiences to Change Their Perspectives and Truly Step Up in Times of Uncertainty and Adversity

Winston Churchill once said, we should never let a good crisis go to waste!

Life is a choice. We can choose to be the victims of our circumstances, believing that we cannot change what seems overwhelming. Or we can choose not to be defined by that which often confounds us. We can choose to adapt, thrive, learn and lead the change that we are all capable of by seeking out the opportunities.

So what choice will you make? How will you use your influence and privileged position? What leader will you be?

Through her lived experience and powerful storytelling, Rabia takes audiences through these questions to decide for themselves.

Master Classes

Building Trust in a Changing World

The TRUST Framework™ is a leadership consulting model designed to build lasting trust, drive transformation, and cultivate resilience within organizations. Rooted in decades of leadership, humanitarian advocacy, and cultural transformation experience, this model empowers leaders to achieve sustainable success through actionable strategies and real-world insights.

Core Pillars of the TRUST Framework™:

T – Transparency & Accountability:

• Focus: Confronting current realities with openness and integrity.
• Outcome: Establishes trust through authentic leadership and clear communication.

R – Resilience & Adaptability:

• Focus: Challenging perspectives to encourage flexibility and embrace change.
• Outcome: Builds adaptive, diverse teams ready to innovate and drive positive transformation.

U – Unity & Psychological Safety:

• Focus: Creating safe environments where team members feel valued, respected, and empowered.
• Outcome: Fosters collaboration and a culture of inclusion and belonging.

S – Strategic Values-Driven Leadership:

• Focus: Mastering communication and storytelling to inspire and mobilize action.
• Outcome: Strengthens organizational credibility and long-term integrity.

T – Transformational Communication:

• Focus: Mastering communication and storytelling to inspire and mobilize action.
• Outcome: Creates alignment, shared vision, purpose-driven engagement and enhanced stakeholder trust.

The Power of Storytelling

This workshop focuses on identifying, crafting and using stories in the leadership context to engage staff and clients, bring to life and communicate with effectiveness company values and build trust, respect and sustainable relationships with stakeholders.

Participants will be empowered to:

• Identify and articulate their impactful story for change;
• Craft stories to serve others and manage change;
• Use stories to influence, build engagement and inspire others to take action; and
• Embrace stories in a leadership and business context.

Building the Resilience Muscle

This workshop explores resilience, and gives practical tools for cultivating more of it, from the perspective of an international humanitarian, hostage survivor, returned British army officer and mother of triplets.

Participants will be empowered to:

• Re-write their own stories of loss and failure to see the growth and life lessons;
• Use perspective shifting techniques to overcome narratives that feed anxiety and fear;
• Build personal and psychological resilience; and
• More readily identify and draw upon internal and external resources in order to practice resilience when situations and events require it.

Workshops

Building Your Resilience Muscle

Half Day Workshop

Is resilience a trait that we are born with, or is it a skill that we can learn? In essence, it’s both.

Resilience is the ability to recover from set backs and adapt to challenging circumstances. It is a key psychological tool that empowers us to feel effective and capable of handling uncertainty. It is what we need more than ever in order to thrive in this uncertain, volatile world in which we live.

Resilience is a muscle; something that we must exercise and build upon regularly. It’s a muscle that has kept Rabia alive and able to overcome the most challenging situations.

As an international humanitarian, hostage survivor, returned British army officer and mother of triplets, Rabia shares her 4 key tools and techniques for building your resilience muscle, so that you too can optimise your wellbeing and empower yourself to live long, happy, meaningful lives, and lead with values in line with your true purpose.

Learning Objectives

• Re-write their own stories of loss and failure to see the growth and life lessons
• Use perspective shifting techniques to overcome narratives that feed anxiety and fear
• Learn 4 simple techniques that can be incorporated into daily, weekly or monthly practice to build personal and psychological resilience
• More readily identify and draw upon internal and external resources in order to practice resilience when situations and events require it of you

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who has been struggling with navigating uncertainty, change and volatility, who wants to take back control and thrive (not just survive!)

Effecting Cultural Change

2 x Half Day Workshops

Culture is everything. It goes far beyond the company values and mission we espouse on our websites, letterheads and to our clients. It is what we say and do when we think others are not watching or listening. Essentially it is about how we treat each other, how we communicate with each other and our clients.

The growing incidence of stress, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and burnout are most often attributed to negative cultures within professions/industries, the workplace, and amongst colleagues. Too often senior leaders have not embraced and honoured their responsibility of leading by example through the inclusion of humanity and authenticity to their management and leadership.

This 2 x half-day workshop is aimed at all those wishing to lead their teams, company and themselves in a way that aligns with their personal and professional values, challenges outdated attitudes, and starts with individual conversations we have, which sets the tone for authentic, impactful communication and sustainable organisational cultural change where it is needed the most.

This workshop is broken down into two broad modules:

Module 1 – Story Telling for Leadership, Engagement, and Influence

This focuses on identifying, crafting, and using stories in the leadership context to engage staff and clients, bring to life and communicate with effectiveness company values, and build trust, respect, and sustainable relationships with stakeholders.

This module of the workshop will help you to:

• Identify and articulate your impactful story for change;
• Craft stories to serve others and manage change;
• Use stories to influence, build engagement and inspire others to take action; and
• Embrace stories in leadership and business context.

Module 2 – Courage to Change Culture

This module focuses on the courageous leadership work required to address cultural change – for an individual, team, and organisational perspective. It’s about doing things differently, being prepared to think outside the box and be a disruptor in your profession, and overcoming that which is not serving your organisation or your clients well.

This module will help you to:

• Identify and articulate your personal and organisation’s values;
• Confront the disconnect between values and actions;
• Challenge personal and professional incongruence; and
• Harness your positions of influence to be the agent for change.

Learning Objectives

Delegates will come away with useful content, practical takeaways to convert into positive action, and will learn by ‘beginning to do’ within the workshop setting. You will learn how to:

• Identify and articulate your impactful story for change;
• Craft stories to serve others and manage change;
• Use stories to influence, build engagement and inspire others to take action;
• Embrace stories in leadership and business context;
• Identify and articulate your personal and organisation’s values;
• Confront the disconnect between values and actions;
• Challenge personal and professional incongruence; and
• Harness your positions of influence to be the agent for change.

Who Should Attend?

Any professional, leader, or manager wanting to acquire the skills to impact cultural change within their organisation and industry, leave and lead in alignment with their values and/or harness the powerful vehicle of storytelling to impact change and dramatically improve outcomes within their workplace and teams.

Leading Under Pressure

Half Day Workshop

Now more than ever in our lives, organisations and communities, we need leaders and aspiring leaders to display strong character, sound values, and proven results. Great leadership is characterised by resilience, courage, focus, discipline & authenticity.

This workshop provides participants with the tools and skills needed to make sound, well informed and often difficult decisions under pressure; to inspire & motivate those around you to be all that they can; and to mobilise yourself & others to achieve outcomes and goals that add to the greater good and higher purpose of your organisation.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrating & living the 7 characteristics of great leadership.
• Identifying, confronting & overcoming that which is holding you back.
• Understanding the 4 steps to find your voice and creating sustainable change – stepping up, speaking out, leaning in, and choosing when to do so.
• Ethical decision making – sound, informed & timely action under pressure.

Who Should Attend?

Executives, leaders, managers & aspiring leaders.

Trust in Action

Build Trust, Transform Teams – A Powerful Leadership and Team Experience

In today’s uncertain and rapidly shifting landscape, trust is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s the foundation of effective leadership, resilient cultures, and high-performing teams.

That’s why I’m excited to offer organisations a powerful two-part experience that inspires, challenges and transforms:

1. Building Trust in a Changing World – Keynote (Rabia Siddique)

Drawing on over 30 years of leadership, advocacy and human rights work across war zones, boardrooms and courtrooms, this keynote is a compelling invitation to lead with authenticity, courage and connection. It will leave your leaders motivated and equipped to build cultures of psychological safety and trust – even through complexity and change.

2. Building Trust in Teams – Workshop Experience (Band Together)

To take the message deeper, I’ve partnered with James Wilson and his award-winning Band Together team. Through an interactive, music-based experience that’s unlike anything you’ve seen before, teams explore vulnerability, alignment and shared purpose in a safe, creative and fun way – culminating in a group performance that solidifies the learning and connection.

Together, this keynote + workshop duo delivers lasting impact on both leadership mindset and team culture.

If you’re looking to inspire your people, strengthen collaboration and build trust that can weather change – this is the experience for your organisation.

Rabia can tailor a session to suit your upcoming event, conference or offsite.