Yamini Naidu
Leadership Transformation Keynote Speaker
Yamini Naidu is the world’s only economist turned business storyteller and one of the top-ranked storytelling experts globally. She helps organisations drive transformation, align teams and achieve measurable results through the strategic power of story.
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Yamini Naidu is the world’s only economist turned business Storyteller and she is consistently voted among the top business storytellers globally. She co-founded Australia’s first storytelling company. Her work with clients is commercially savvy, results driven and sets them up for professional success. As a key note speaker, Yamini wows audiences all over the world with insights, inspiration and actionable advice.
Yamini is a best selling author of 5 books including her latest – Story Mastery: How leaders supercharge results with storytelling. As a Certified Speaking Professional, Yamini partners with business leaders to achieve results – results that leave leaders, the people who work with them, and the world a better place.
She is committed to social enterprise and supports through pro bono work the High Resolves Global Citizenship and Leadership Programs which offer a three-year transformational experience for high school students in Years 8 to 10. She supports and is working with Pollinate Energy, a not for profit focused on energy access for poor people living in urban India.
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Hooked! Connect, Engage And Inspire With Storytelling
Get ready to unlock the secrets of powerful storytelling in this immersive, exciting and inspiring keynote with Yamini Naidu, CSP the world’s only economist turned business storyteller.
Yamini pioneered business storytelling in Australia and now shares her secrets with you in this explosive keynote.
Discover what business storytelling is, why you need it right now as a leader and how you can apply storytelling for personal and professional results.
Stories and storytelling can inspire, influence, motivate and engage people where logic and bullet points may not. Think of your own experience. Isn’t it always the story, the anecdote, the example that you remember long after the event?
Business storytelling is storytelling with a purpose and for results. Whatever it is you are trying to do in business – whether you are leading people, managing change, influencing the board or building your career, storytelling can help you do it better…that’s her guarantee!
Ideal for:
Leaders, who never want to hear the words ‘I still don’t get this’, leaders who want to translate data so its compelling, and want to connect, engage and inspire with every corridor conversation, team meeting, group huddle, client pitch, and town hall. Event and conference organisers looking for a insightful, exciting, and immersive keynote.
Key Takeaways:
Audiences will leave with practical insights on what business storytelling is and how they can use it immediately at work to connect, engage and inspire. Audiences will gain a fresh perspective on a new way of working, and leave refreshed, inspired and energised.
X-Factor: Unleash Your Superpower
Your secret ingredient to being an unforgettable leader in an AI-driven world
Eggs. Milk. Pinch of salt. Mix. Heat. Serve.
You can scramble eggs. I can scramble eggs. It’s not magic.
Now, imagine Nigella Lawson placing a warm plate on our kitchen table. Even before she lifts the cloche with a suggestive smile, we know her scrambled eggs will be magical.
We know this because every chef has a special stamp that transforms even the most ordinary dish into something uniquely their own. That stamp is their X Factor.
You also have an X Factor. You, too, can elevate everything you do by applying that X Factor.
In the corporate world, we’re often “cooking” with ingredients similar to those used by our peers and competitors. So, what would it mean to have the tools to stand out with every presentation, pitch or proposal?
While you wait, the clock is ticking. AI is painting the world beige with its competent work and vanilla delivery. Every day, it’s harder to tell the difference between adequate performers and AI trained to the average.
As a leader, you can’t afford to be a background player, blending into this wall of beige. More and more, you’re measured on your ability to step forward and stand out — to champion fresh ideas, to persuade others, and to drive actions that matter.
To succeed, you need your clients and your teams to:
- Pay attention to the ideas you present.
- Sing your praises after you’ve left the room.
- Be excited to follow where you lead.
Your X Factor is the splash of colour that will distinguish you, your team and your organisation.
What is X Factor?
Your X Factor is your unique combination of experiences, interests and qualities. It is so entirely you that it could never be faked or copied — by human or machine.
Every leader has X Factor potential. It doesn’t matter if you’re introverted, extroverted, loud, quiet, considered, impulsive, neurodiverse, goofy foot, Swiftie or Beyhive…
When you identify your X Factor, you tap into a force that will animate everything you do.
Follow the X Factor
Leaders rise effortlessly above the noise when they present, propose and pitch with their X Factor. (And not because they hit their marks, paused for impact at the correct times or made the recommended amount of eye contact.)
Leaders who can name and tap into their X Factor will never have to drag a team behind them. (Because people volunteer to follow a leader with X Factor.)
This enlightening, energising, and inspiring keynote will show you how to connect with your X Factor and give you the language to express it.
Along the way, you’ll discover:
- Why some leaders are thwarted by silent resistance while others lead through change easily. (Hint: X Factor)
- How to be authentic without losing your boundaries in a world that wants everything to be personal — and that takes everything personally. (Hint: X Factor)
- How effective leaders go from managing people to moving them. (Hint: I know, you get it.)
Everyone will leave the room excited about their next pitch, presentation or proposal because they know exactly how to make it extraordinary.
Lead With Humour Keynote
You know how you feel after a good belly laugh? Your brain and body flooded with endorphins, recharged, happier. There’s a spring in your step. You feel anything is possible. Imagine amplifying this across your business, team and organisation?
Today humour is the new frontier in influence, engagement and performance. Generating laughs is Southwest Airlines official corporate motto. They test for humour as part of recruitment.
Humour? You have to be kidding, you might say. ‘I’m not funny!’. Humour in business is NOT joke telling. It’s using ‘Humour Power’. This is a new kind of humour – warm, inclusive, culturally sensitive and uplifiting. Humour power is using humour skilfully and appropriately to connect, engage and inspire.
Humour power can be taught and learnt. No matter what your message, humour helps you stand out and succeed.
This keynote is an invitation to learn how to use humour for unprecedented business success.
It is guaranteed to lower stress, and put a spring in your step, improving your performance and productivity.
And be prepared to laugh all the way there.
Ideal for:
Leaders who want to jazz up dry, boring meetings, pitches or presentation content and create joy, connection and delight one conversation at a time. You do not have to be naturally funny or tell jokes. Though being able to smile helps
Key Takeaways:
Audiences will leave laughing, learning and ready to try new ways to make their next communication funnier.
Fun, Fun, Fun! How Fun Makes You Smarter!
What if you could convert the mundane into magic with some simple old-fashioned fun? And do this fast, in 30 minutes?
That is what this Keynote on Fun guarantees.
When you uncover fun, you discover incredible possibilities in life and business. Fun is NOT funny – making other people laugh. Fun is light-hearted pleasure.
But why would you bother with fun? Because fun helps you grow smarter, lower stress, and look younger. Fun is the fastest acting potent potion for mental, emotional, and physical health. And the best bit – fun can be totally free! Fun at work can be safe, sensitive and considered.
This 30 minute practical, entertaining and fun-spiring keynote explores how to:
- Find fun at work
- Convert the mundane into fun
- Create space for fun
Ideal to shake up endless zoom calls, energise your week and boost your productivity. So are you ready to have more fun at work?
Audiences will leave with simple strategies they can immediately apply to have more fun at work.
