Michelle Gibbings

Michelle Gibbings is the workplace expert. Internationally recognised, she is the award-winning author of three books and is welcomed on stages globally to help inspire leaders, teams and organisations to create successful workplaces. Her mantra is simple – help people thrive and progress is accelerated.

Speaking internationally about better ways to lead, Michelle is in high demand as an innovative keynote speaker, advisor and executive mentor of choice, with her books a must-have for employees and managers alike – ‘Step Up: How to Build Your Influence at Work’, ‘Career Leap: How to Reinvent and Liberate your Career’, and most recently ‘Bad Boss: What to do if you work for one, manage one, or are one’.

Leveraging her more than twenty years’ senior executive experience and now her time as a successful business owner, she shares stories and insights about how to accelerate progress in different personal and organisational contexts. Michelle’s keynotes and workshops are underpinned by the latest research and thinking in neuroscience, behavioural economics, motivational science and leadership development. Sessions can be run as a keynote presentation or as an interactive workshop.

Michelle’s presentations are guaranteed to leave the audience feeling energised and ready to take action.

“Michelle’s presentations were highly engaging, lively and informative, and she also adeptly answered questions from attendees as well. Michelle’s presentations were extremely well received and in feedback surveys conducted after each event, Michelle was rated as the top speaker by a number of attendees across the three events.”
Gartner International CFO & HR Directors Forum

“Michelle has a wealth of experience and very readily shares her insights and personal experience. She is able to connect with the audience intellectually and emotionally – leaving the audience feeling uplifted, but also with clear ideas on what they can do to progress their careers. We’ve received tremendous feedback from the events.”
Australian Institute of Credit Management

“The quality of her presentation was excellent, and we received tremendous feedback from attendees. Comments such as ‘Michelle is wonderful, truthful and has great advice’, ‘What an awesome presenter – energy, enthusiasm and passion!’, ‘Great speaker’, and ‘Quality of presentation was outstanding’. I would highly recommend her.”
HR Summit

“Michelle Gibbings was brilliant. Michelle was able to craft a message for our audience that combined her body of expertise with their direct needs. By combining humour, examples, and an informal but highly focused presentation, Michelle demonstrated a knowledge of ‘decision making for the future’. True learning took place. The audience left feeling excited and motivated with some very useful take-ways.”
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FIND YOUR LEADERSHIP EDGE

Today’s business environment is restless, complex, boundary-less and ambiguous.
To be successful leaders need to be equipped to navigate the challenges of this rapidly changing world by finding their
leadership edge. This requires high levels of resilience, integrity, adaptability, courage and compassion, and ultimately, a
willingness to discard the myths of leadership to forge their unique leadership style.

Set in the context of a changing working world and drawing on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and human development,
through this keynote your participants will gain insight into how to:

• Adapt their leadership style to changing circumstances
• Better help their team and colleagues thrive through complexity
• Build a working environment that is fit for the future

HOW TO REINVENT YOURSELF AND FUTURE PROOF YOUR CAREER

In a world of work which is constantly changing, you can’t rely on others to accelerate your career.
Each person needs to be the leader of their career. Building a dynamic and progressive career isn’t about luck. It’s about the
decisions that a person makes each and every day.

In this keynote Michelle shares learnings from her executive career and the interviews she conducted as part of her second
book (Career Leap: How to Reinvent and Liberate your Career). Your participants will be:

• Challenged to think about how they currently manage their career, and whether it is holding them back or getting them fit for the future
• Introduced to the steps they can take to reinvent their career
• Encouraged to make deliberate choices to liberate and future proof their career

YOUR DECISION MAKING IS DANGEROUS

Over the last 20 years, leadership experts across multiple disciplines have identified a growing gap between the complexity of
the workplace and the capability of leaders. Central to this complexity gap is how leaders make decisions. Advanced decision
making isn’t easy, and yet it is a critical skill for all leaders.

Drawing on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and behavioural economics, your participants will gain insights into:
• How perspectives and assumptions drive behaviour and can impede effective decision making
• The three key elements needed for advanced decision making and how it leads to more effective and sustainable outcomes
• The critical traps to avoid when making decisions – in an individual and group context

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS

With an ever-changing business world, increasing uncertainty and shifting expectations, getting results and achieving outcomes
requires the ability to step up and into difficult and yet, crucial conversations. Skilfully navigating these conversations is both a
mixture of art and science. Set in the context of a changing working world and recognising the increased demands placed on
the professional in today’s complex and connected environment, in this session you’ll discover:

• What gets in the way of achieving good outcomes from crucial conversations
• How to successfully step up and into conversations that are hard and uncomfortable
• The three core ingredients for conversations to ensure you have an impact and get results

GETTING WHAT YOU WANT – NEGOTIATING WISELY

We all negotiate every day – in both our personal and professional life, and consequently, being able to successfully ask for and
get what you need is a cornerstone of a healthy and happy life. When a negotiation is badly handled it can have long-lasting
and significant consequences. In this keynote, Michelle will delve into the art and science of negotiating, sharing ideas, stories
and techniques that are equally useful in your participants’ personal and professional lives. Your participants will walk away:

• Knowing the key steps to take before, during and after a negotiation to help ensure success
• Understanding what they can do to elevate their personal power
• Recognising the importance of preparation and being ready to make deliberate choices, aware of the tradeoffs, risks and opportunities involved
• Knowing how to maintain their ‘no’, despite opposition and without eroding relationships