Tara Saxon
Certified Money Coach, Behavioural Change Expert & Speaker
Tara Saxon is a keynote speaker, Certified Money Coach, and behavioural change expert who reveals the hidden patterns behind performance - the private pressure, inherited beliefs, and financial stress that profoundly shape how people think, decide, lead, and show up. She connects what most organisations miss: the link between private pressure and professional performance. Because when people are under pressure privately, they show up differently publicly.
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Tara Saxon is a keynote speaker, Certified Money Coach, and behavioural change expert who helps organisations understand the hidden role money plays in pressure, performance, confidence, and decision-making.
Most performance conversations stop at strategy, skills, and motivation. Tara goes to the layer underneath – the inherited beliefs, hidden financial stress, and pressure responses that quietly shape how people think, decide, lead, and show up under pressure. It’s a lens few speakers bring, and one that lands hardest in the rooms where the stakes are highest.
That perspective is grounded in real commercial credibility. Tara began her career in professional services at Arthur Andersen and went on to hold senior roles across NAB, HSBC-Woolworths, and American Express – years inside banking, infrastructure finance, and complex commercial environments. She understands the language of risk, funding, contracts, and commercial pressure, and she has seen firsthand that no matter how sophisticated the structure or strategy, success always comes back to human beings: their confidence, their behaviour, and their capacity to decide well under pressure.
At the heart of her work is a simple, powerful belief: the micro always rolls up to the macro. The pressure people carry privately does not stay neatly contained – it spills into teams, leadership, culture, and the commercial and community outcomes organisations care about most. Her Undercurrent™ framework – Reveal, Repair, Reclaim – gives audiences a clear, memorable pathway from awareness to action.
Tara speaks for corporate audiences, associations, leadership events, and conferences across mining, infrastructure, government, and financial services, and has been trusted by organisations including BHP, Westpac, AMP, Unitywater, and the City of Las Vegas. Her keynotes are participatory, emotionally resonant, and commercially relevant – edutainment with substance, never a lecture.
She holds a B.Com and M.App.Fin., is ICF-accredited (PCC), and is a Certified Money Coach (CMC®). She is the founder of The Intentional Wealth Co.
Topics
Signature Keynote
The Hidden Patterns Behind Performance
Why your highest performers might be running on patterns they never chose. A participatory, music-led keynote exploring how inherited beliefs, pressure responses, and hidden financial stress shape the way people think, decide, lead, and perform.
Workplace Keynote
Financial Wellbeing as a Workplace Strategy
Meeting psychosocial safety requirements with substance, not box ticking. Financial stress is a recognised workplace hazard. This keynote helps leaders understand why – and what meaningful support looks like.
Systems Keynote
The Micro to Macro Effect
How individual pressure shapes organisational and community outcomes. When private stress multiplies across teams and populations, it shapes culture, capability, public trust, and the success of major projects and infrastructure. The micro always rolls up to the macro.
Leadership Keynote
Money, Identity and Decision-Making Under Pressure
Why smart people make strange decisions about money – and what that means for leadership, confidence, and authority. A bold exploration of how money shapes identity and every decision that matters.
