Electrifying, mind-expanding, paradigm-shifting talks for summits, forums, and leadership gatherings.

As a polymath, AI strategist, and architect of recursive intelligence systems, I guide audiences beyond buzzwords and into the frontier—where human potential, quantum intelligence, and ethical technology converge.

Speaking Topics Include:
• Sovereign Systems Thinking & Future Intelligence
• Polymathy as the OS of the 21st Century
• Quantum Leadership in an AI-Powered World
• Conscious Innovation & Ethical Foresight
• ARCai™ (Patent Pending) & the Rise of Recursive Intelligence

If your stage needs a voice that blends genius with grit, futurism with ethics, and vision with velocity—let’s ignite it.

Jane is a powerhouse at helping organisations and individuals unlock their human potential.

She has helped thousands of people brand and position themselves as the expert in their field. She is an experienced speaker, coach, author and thought leader on personal branding and LinkedIn. She is one of 38 female Certified Professional Speakers in Australia (CSP), a title held by only 7% of speakers globally.

Jane’s calling is to help participants unlock potential from their core inner-self and their teams so they become the highest expression of themselves for their organisation and their life outside work. Organisations benefit from the highest levels of productivity, increased retention and reduced absenteeism.

Jane's Experience
Jane holds a Bachelor of Business in Marketing from SCU. She holds the Diploma of Workplace and Business Coaching, Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training. She is one of two Master Career Directors and one of 60 Professional Certified Coaches in Australia.

Jane is also experienced in the implementation of Coaching Culture and in 2010 her work was featured as a case study in Natalie Ashdown’s book Bring Out Their Best; a guide to corporate coaching containing inspirational Australian business stories.

Jane is an inspiring, warm and motivating speaker, whose message is changing the face of corporate Australia. Don’t miss the opportunity to have her speak at your next event!

It is a scientific fact, that you’ll be much happier if you just stop trying to be one dimensional and accept your own complexity. In fact, not just accept it, but aim to expand it. Multipotentiality,the ability to excel in more than one area, is not a flaw to fix. It’s a power to master.

Having many talents isn’t the problem. Knowing how to activate them without burning out, getting stuck in the “starting phase,” or being overwhelmed by choice, that’s the real art.

Turning multipotentiality into multiability means learning to focus without shrinking, to prioritize without self-betrayal, and to turn potential into performance: one meaningful, well-executed step at a time.

Whether you’re a strategist who loves photography, an engineer with a flair for writing, or a psychologist who thrives in branding, your multidimensionality is your edge. But it takes intention to transform that edge into impact.

It starts with self-awareness, continues with purpose-driven boundaries, and grows through feedback, discipline and yes, stamina. Let’s go from “I could do this” to “I did this.” Because potential is just the beginning, but ability is the legacy you leave behind.

I am a board-certified emergency physician who still practices, Advisor to the CEO of Phantom Space, and a five-time TEDx speaker. I help health systems, boards and clinicians move AI from an impressive demo into safe, daily clinical work.

Signature talks:
1. Accountable Intelligence. Where AI should lead, and where humans stay accountable. Leaders leave with clear lines of ownership before the next deployment.
2. AI That Survives the Workflow. Why healthcare AI pilots stall, and the specific moves that get a project to durable, daily adoption.
3. SAFE AI. A physician-led framework for responsible healthcare AI: weigh risk, involve clinicians, protect patients, keep a human in charge.

Formats: keynote (30 to 60 min), board briefing, fireside, panel, retreat or workshop, virtual. English, Spanish or bilingual.

Audiences: health system executives, hospital boards, physician leaders, medical associations, pharma and medtech, digital health, universities, aerospace and remote health.

Every talk is tailored to your audience. Book: DRGPT@HarveyCastroMD.com or HarveyCastroMD.com/speaker

What happens when the systems we build move faster than our ability to govern them ethically?
Not theoretically. Not someday. But right now—in boardrooms, classrooms, research labs, and policy centers around the world.
We're living through the most rapid technological transformation in human history. AI systems are reshaping education, healthcare, commerce, governance—the very fabric of how we live and work. The pace is extraordinary. The possibilities, breathtaking...

Slots - tbd.

This Keynote positions systems thinking as the foundational meta-skill that enables:
• Ethical AI governance (not just compliance)
• Robust research methodology (seeing what others miss)
• Inner leadership architecture (self-as-system)
• Multicultural values navigation (holding multiple truths)
• Legacy creation (designing for emergence)

Core Thesis: You cannot govern AI systems ethically without first learning to think systemically—and that requires transforming how you see, how you decide, and who you become as a leader. Timeslots tbd.

(60 minute keynote / Dates flexible / U.S. time zones preferred / Content will be tailored to your specific needs)

AI is becoming more accessible and more pervasive. But there’s a gap!

The conversation around AI is still mainly a technical one - between technical experts and enthusiasts. And even after 6, 7 years of AI becoming more mature, we’re still seeing a gap in connecting this technology with business objectives. This gap largely exists because technologists tend to focus so much on technology rather than where and how it can be applied to deliver business value. The business community, however, experiences AI through Hollywood with either its futuristic or dystopian stories. Or they perceive it as the hype that they read about in the press or that they hear about from their peers. However, successful innovation and transformation go beyond pure technology aspects. And technology leaders and their teams ed to enable their business peers to understand the potential of artificial intelligence and automation in order to successfully harness the technology's benefits.

Technology has triggered disruption in almost every aspect of our lives, as well as change in human behaviour. There has been a global shift towards the digital age, and companies need to address this urgently or face existential crisis. This keynote addresses how companies can successfully transform for the digital age.

Noelle Russell is a multi-award-winning technologist and entrepreneur who specializes in helping companies with emerging technology, cloud, AI and Web 3.0. She has led teams at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon Alexa, and is a consistent champion for AI Literacy and the ethical use of AI, based on her work building some of the largest AI Models in the world. She is the founder of AI Leadership Institute. She also works with women and people of color who want to use the power of technology and influence to achieve success in business and in life. She was recently awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Artificial Intelligence as well as VentureBeat’s Women in AI Responsibility and Ethics award.

As seen on NBC, PBS, BBC, Fortune, MIT/Sloan, Forbes, CIO Magazine and the Boston Globe.

She has 3 million+ students on LinkedIn Learning

Awards Include:
Top 100 Leaders in Conversational AI
Women in AI: Responsibility and Ethics award - VentureBeat
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Artificial Intelligence
Top Leader in Voice - Voicebot.AI
Top Voice AI Influencer to Follow on Twitter - SoundHound
Top Speaker to have at your AI Event - ReadWrite

I’m an entrepreneur, futurist, digital strategist, podcast host, global keynote speaker, and a best-selling author with a specialty of inspiring organizations with bring paradigm-shifting thought leadership.

I deliver thought provoking and inspiring keynotes and talks at conferences, company meetings, trade shows, company offsites, and many more.

Pressure can quickly create reactivity, communication breakdowns, resistance, and loss of trust. Drawing from more than 25 years of executive leadership, Saby Waraich helps leaders recognize SCARE patterns and apply the CARES Framework to make clearer decisions, strengthen trust, create shared ownership, and sustain momentum through complex transformation.

What does it take to be a Stand Out leader? Leadership isn’t the easiest path, but it is a meaningful and potentially rewarding one. How can you lead through your actions - with or without an authority? What makes some leaders stand out from the crowd? The Purple Cow Leader has willing followers. Create positive morale, energy, and successful projects. Learn how to become the best leader you can be. It’s not good enough these days to be a great leader, be a stand-out leader.

People describe me as the leader’s leader. The person who can help to make the complex simple. Able to offer the simple, practical, next step, in a strategic context. The person leaders lean on when they are facing situations and circumstances that are at the same time challenging, exciting, offering opportunity, and often moving through uncharted territory. A pathfinder if you like.

Today, I describe myself as a leadership visionary. I am focused on future proofing CEOs. Their leadership, their people, and their organisations. It is about leadership. Of self, of your tribe, and your world. I believe leaders have a fundamental responsibility to lead. No more placeholding a spot on the organisation chart. It is about navigating with intention through the unknowns that are part of the complex we operate in. It is about leading possibility.

This means leaders need to learn and grow, to experiment, to develop others and to stretch beyond what they thought possible. To continuously create capability, to question, to explore, to advocate, to innovate, to disrupt. Leadership today, requires a proactive approach. No more relying on yesterday’s performance. Our world moves too fast for yesterday’s success to guarantee a future.

In 2023 I received the Thought Leader Of The Year Gold Award at the International Stevie Awards for Women In Business in New York. One of her 14 Stevie awards. I have been twice named in the global LinkedIn Top Voices, and multiple times in Thinkers360 Top Voices globally and for APAC.

With a talent for translating complex concepts into simple and practical ideas for immediate application, I am the author of seven Amazon #1 best-selling books about leadership.

I am focused on futureproofing CEOs. Their leadership, their people, and their organisations. I have helped 1000’s to develop their leadership competence, confidence, and credibility so they can:

? Build the practical foundations for effective leadership

? Get out of the trenches, to lead strategically & with influence

? Transition quickly and effectively to leading larger, more complex portfolios

? Effectively lead change and transformation

? Create a leadership coaching capability

? Create the space to lead, for greater influence and impact

? Create HP executive teams – enabling rather than impeding progress.

? Develop horizon thinking

I typically speak at conferences, develop leadership strategy, and programs, consult, and coach with clients in Australia and all over the world.



TRUSTED BY ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING:
ABC, ASX, ASICS, Atlassian, AAPT, Accor, Accor Plus, Boeing Defence Australia, CSIRO, CAANZ, CPA, CWI, DHA, Evolution Farming, Engie, Fatima Group, Fisher & Paykel, Healius, Hilton Hotels, Husqvarna, MINOR Hotels, Navitas, QLD Education, SAAB, Tasmania Department of Premier & Cabinet.



FEATURED KEYNOTE TOPICS

TOPIC 1 - CONFLUENCE: Minutes to Midnight

45-60 minute Keynote / Webinar / 2- hour Breakout / Multiday program.

Explore the megatrends of leadership relentlessly moving us towards a global leadership crisis. The convergence of factors creating the gap between the leaders we have and the leaders we need.

An insufficiency of the real leaders we need to create the future. The people who recognise, embrace and act on the tremendous responsibilities which come with the privilege of leadership.

This session shares ideas and questions that provoke real leaders to action.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEARN:

The consequences of the leadership confluence
The role of real leadership
The ecosystem of leadership development
The opportunity to act


"Individuals felt motivated, empowered, and confident to step into their leadership potential."

Chessy Patricia, CWI, Head of Asia Pacific Projects

See our website for more details: www.staceyashley.com



TOPIC 2 - BIG LEADERSHIP: If not now, when?

45-60 minute Keynote / Webinar / 2- hour Breakout / Multiday program.

In this interactive session, Stacey shares the changing landscape of leadership, and the need for a fuller, more holistic and human approach. Leadership that is impactful, ever enhancing and evolving. That has a greater perspective, considering both tactical solutions and strategic relevance.

What got us here will not get us there. We need Big Leadership. We need bigger thinking. We need bolder decision making. We need brave action to create the future.

It is time for leaders to go big.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEARN:

Straightforward insight into what makes it important for leaders to adopt Big Leadership
The impacts if they do not
Practical ideas and approaches for how to adopt Big Leadership


"Dr Ashley's dynamic speaking style, effortlessly captured the attention of the audience throughout the entire session."

Christina Cavallaro, Macpherson Kelly Special Counsel

See our website for more details: www.staceyashley.com



TOPIC 3 - POWER UP: Nourish your leadership energy, outlook & wellbeing

45-60 minute Keynote / Webinar / 2- hour Breakout / Multiday program

Leading significant change and transformation is no easy task. After months and years of being attention out, giving generously to the people and world around them, leaders are feeling the effects of leading enormous change.

In this interactive session with Stacey, learn how to support your leadership of self, creating a sustainable way for you to lead, so you continue to show up every day. Develop your energy, positivity, resourcefulness, outlook and resilience.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEARN:

How to support their leadership of self
How to create a sustainable way to lead
Opportunities to develop their energy, positivity, resourcefulness, outlook & wellbeing


"Dr Stacey Ashley’s delivery and training was nothing short of transformative. Her work leaves a lasting imprint!"

Fatima Gohar, Fatima Group Senior Lead Counsel

See our website for more details: www.staceyashley.com



TOPIC 4 - WHY AREN'T YOU COACHING YET? Transform Your Organisation With Coaching

45-60 minute Keynote / Webinar / 2- hour Breakout / Multiday program

Learn how to turn everyday conversations into coaching moments while building accountability and developing the people around you.

In this interactive and enlightening session, Stacey will introduce you to:

Why having a Coaching Culture is important
What it is, and
How to go about creating one in your workplace or business
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEARN:

Practical coaching tools they can use in the next conversation
New ways of working across the generations
An understanding of how adopting a leadership coaching approach will scale their leadership impact
Ideas for the next step


"Dr Stacey’s expertise and engaging presentation style makes her an outstanding speaker, facilitator and thought leader."

Taruna Aggarwal, Institute of Coaching Director of Asia

See our website for more details: www.staceyashley.com



WORKSHOPS & PROGRAMS

Extend the impact of having Stacey speak at your event by adding a breakout session, workshop, or extended program.

Workshops and programs can be combined with a keynote presentation or stand-alone. Here are just some of Stacey’s programs:

WIN FOR CEOs

From a focused half-day (brainstorming, visioning, strategy facilitation, deep-dive scoping) for executives, to a 12-month advisory, mentoring, facilitation and coaching partnership with priority access to Stacey.

ASCEND100™

This high-support, strategic development program is designed to rapidly build foundational leadership capability at scale.

Combining a world class online experience and cohorts of up to 100 leaders, with practical, real-world impact and strong ROI.

THE COACHING LEADER™

Build a leadership coaching capability in your organisation by growing trust, connection and collaboration. Support change and transformation and develop talent pipelines. Learn how to turn everyday conversations into coaching moments while building accountability and developing your people.



See our website for more details: www.staceyashley.com

Kym is a master storyteller and speaks on communicating with power, developing communication strategies in line with your vision and using the right building blocks for developing your own brand story.

She is an experienced speaker and panelist on a variety of connected themes such as mastering uncertainty and navigating the future, customer-first innovation and marketing, and the power of collaboration.

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