Corrinne Armour, Australia’s leading thinker in Fearless Leadership®
Entertaining, provocative and inspiring. Equally comfortable on a big stage or a virtual stage. As a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Corrinne has been industry recognised for her experience and professional capability amongst Australia’s leading speakers.
Corrinne shares transformational insights into brain science and incredible stories from her life in a jungle refugee camp on the edge of a war zone. Underpinned by 20 years in and out of boardrooms working with senior leaders, she brings Fearless Leadership® to life.
Corrinne is Australia’s leading thinker in Fearless Leadership. With over 10 years in corporate leadership roles, 2½ years living and teaching in the jungle on the edge of a warzone, and 20 years training and coaching leaders, she has gained invaluable insights to share with audiences.
Corrinne gets firsthand the challenges and competing priorities of leadership because she’s been there. Her work with leaders has ripple effects across the globe.
Author of ‘Leaders Who Ask: Building Fearless Cultures by telling less and asking more’ and ‘Developing Direct Reports: Taking the Guesswork Out of Leading Leaders’, as well as two specialist texts in human behaviour used by consultants worldwide.
At home in country Victoria, she co-parents two beautiful teenagers, so she knows a thing or two about life balance and juggling multiple perspectives!
Through her engaging on-stage and virtual keynotes, books and leadership development programs, Corrinne challenges leaders to perform at their best. Her work with leadership teams to embrace Fearless Leadership® results in an aligned and powerful team, creating the foundation for organisational success.
Known for captivating an audience, she will connect with your delegates, making them laugh and cry. She shares lessons that help access untapped potential, something we surely need as we navigate post-COVID and work out how to lead in a hybrid world.
Corrinne’s client list includes NAB, Bank Australia, CPA, Royal Children’s Hospital, GE Healthcare, Alfred Health, David Jones, Gippsland Water, Wannon Water, WorkSafe, Tennis Australia, Dulux Group, Payments New Zealand, EducatePlus, Fulton Hogan, Ambulance Victoria, Canon Business Services, Youi Insurance, Monash, Griffith and Federation Universities and numerous local councils and Victorian State Departments.
Talking Points
Fearless Leadership®: Untapped potential. Taking action in times of challenge.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed? Urgent priorities, high uncertainty, and rapid change pull you in different directions. People look to you for answers while fear and doubt creep in.Fearless Leadership®: Untapped potential. Taking action in times of challenge.
Leadership takes courage. Leadership is liberating. Leadership is a verb and not a noun!
Fear holds leaders back. Fearless leaders take action. They don’t let uncertainty paralyse them—they move forward with purpose, connection and trust. The ability to recognise fear, navigate through it and lead with confidence is what sets fearless leaders apart.
Through compelling storytelling—from a life-changing moment in a refugee camp in the jungle on the edge of a war zone, to leadership lessons from unexpected mentors—Corrinne reveals how connection, trust, and purpose fuel fearless leadership.
This keynote is a powerful blend of neuroscience, leadership insight, and real-world experience, equipping leaders to shift from fearful to fearless.
Are you ready?
IN THIS KEYNOTE, YOUR LEADERS WILL DISCOVER HOW TO:
- Move from fearful to fearless to take courageous action
- Build connection as a leadership strategy to create impact
- Cultivate trust to accelerate team performance
- Lead with purpose to inspire and empower others
- Develop their own fearless leadership mindset
When fear shows up—so do fearless leaders.
Creating Fearless Cultures: Lead with curiosity. Influence with questions. Spark performance.
True leadership requires a new and innovative approach. In a fast-paced world, where complexity and uncertainty reign, leaders often feel the pressure to have all the answers. Yet, the most powerful leaders don’t tell more—they ask more.Creating Fearless Cultures: Lead with curiosity. Influence with questions. Spark performance.
When leaders shift from telling to asking, they unlock engagement, accountability, and creativity in their teams. They foster fearless cultures of innovation, where curiosity leads to better problem-solving, stronger collaboration, and greater results. And by enabling their teams to think for themselves, leaders free themselves to focus on the strategic work that only they can do.
Corrinne shares transformative insights—drawing on neuroscience, storytelling, and lived experience—to demonstrate how asking better questions elevates leadership. Leaders Who Ask create high-performing teams, strengthen trust, and inspire action.
Are you ready to create a fearless culture?
IN THIS KEYNOTE, YOUR LEADERS WILL DISCOVER HOW TO:
- Adopt an explorer’s mindset to drive curiosity and innovation.
- Ask better questions to engage and empower teams to get the right things done.
- Cultivate psychological safety for fearless conversations.
- Strengthen leadership impact by shifting from answers to inquiry.
- Build a culture of accountability and shared ownership through intentional questioning.
Real courage isn’t in knowing—it’s in asking.
The 12 Leadership Derailers: How to avoid archetypes that sabotage careers
We all act with the best intentions. But what happens when our inside intentions are not conveyed to others by our external behaviour? It’s harder to influence, our teams don’t respond well, our fearless career can stall… We can be derailed very fast!The 12 Leadership Derailers: How to avoid archetypes that sabotage careers
Corrinne gives the audience speed overviews of the 12 leadership derailers, drawing laughter, insight and sometimes some uncomfortable squirms as people recognise themselves and others.
Consider the leader whose intention is to support his team and maintain a high standard and yet is seen by his line manager and team as a micromanager. Performance suffers. Derailed.
This keynote draws on Corrinne’s book ‘Developing Direct Reports: Taking the guesswork out of leading leaders. She shares immediately actionable insights to help you fearlessly face your derailer and reach your leadership potential.
In this keynote Corrinne will show your people how to:
• Recognise and dodge 12 common leadership derailers
• Recognise and fearlessly face the derailer that most limits their own leadership
• Lead strong team performance
• Accelerate their career by aligning behaviour with intention
Fearlessly face what derails you. Lead with intention.
Video
Corrinne Armour CSP | Fearless Leadership® Keynote Speaker
Entertaining, provocative and inspiring, Corrinne blends contemporary brain science with powerful storytelling to help leaders navigate complexity, uncertainty and pressure. Her keynotes equip leaders to move from fearful to fearless — building trust, strengthening connection and taking courageous action when it matters most. With over 20 years working alongside senior leaders, a decade in senior corporate leadership roles, and a life-changing experience living and teaching in a refugee camp in the jungle on the edge of a warzone, Corrinne brings depth, credibility and real-world insight to every stage. Trusted by organisations across corporate, government, health, finance and local government sectors, Corrinne challenges leaders to elevate their performance and engage in the conversations that build trust and move people forward.Infectiously enthusiastic. Makes you believe you can do anything! ... keep reading Wannon Water
Corrinne’s delivery is dynamic and magnetic. She has the ability to make you feel like you are capable of being the very best version of yourself.
This was the best session of my day. Great thought provoking content presented in a fun and relatable way!
A real test of whether a presentation was worthwhile is when you can take the learning and immediately apply it to the workplace. Corrinne’s keynote did just that.
Corrinne’s level of connection with the audience was instantaneous, hitting the right chord quickly. 90 leaders were engaged in understanding their own ‘leadership derailers’ and took away strategies to improve their leadership.
Corrinne’s background is fascinating. She has mastered the art of storytelling. Her content and delivery is appealing to everyone in the audience from junior leaders to executives.
Engaging, practical, pitched well and highly appropriate for a group of both experienced and newly appointed senior leaders. Right on the mark for a dinnertime presentation and everyone left with something they could apply in their day to day work.
90 staff across 80 locations for 25 minutes ‘really liked the Corrinne part’. She connected to what people were thinking and not talking about, leaving them feeling uplifted. Her energy is contagious and she has a natural ability to put people in a good mood. We were delighted with the level of engagement achieved by an online keynote.
First session on a Friday with the conference dinner the night before and Corrinne had the audience captivated.
That was next level good.
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