Success comes down to your ability to communicate value and create connection and engagement.
Kieran Flanagan is an internationally award-winning leader and speaker on communication - through positioning, persuasion, brand building, experience design and the power of taking a stand.
Kieran is also the creative mind behind both Australia’s most successful product launch and the world’s most successful brand resurrection.
She has delivered leadership development and communication strategies for global tech giants, team building retreats for big pharma, engineering firms and financial powerhouses, as well as brand workshops for entrepreneurs, thought leaders and small businesses.
The author of four books on engagement, influence, trends and the future of skills, and the co-host of “A Show Called BrandIn” for LinkedIn, Kieran is a bundle of energy who helps her audiences and clients laugh while they learn powerful tools to attract, engage and energise their clients, customers, collaborators and communities.
Rated a “Top 25 C-Suite Speaker to Watch” by Meetings & Conventions USA, she has worked with the UN in Asia, global corporations like Coca-Cola and Unilever and high-performance teams in organisations such as EY, HP and The NSW Government… equipping them to connect, engage and stand out with impact!
Talking Points
Unleash your Younique
Playing small does nothing for you… or the world. In a culture chasing the next big thing, leaders and high performers must decide: build it, or be it. In this energetic and practical presentation, Kieran shows you how to turn your unique perspective into a powerful brand, take a stand that matters, and draw the right people to you and your work.
Unleash your Younique
The Communication Equation
Influence isn’t about information, it’s about creating a unique emotional connection. This session rewires how leaders and teams sell ideas, shift behaviours, and win hearts (so minds willingly follow). Kieran arms you with tools to own the room - including The Communication Sequence, the 4 Humours, and a fresh framework for transforming information into engagement.
The Communication Equation
Collaborative Intelligence (We-Q)
Raise your collaborative intelligence (We-Q), and discover why (and how) collaborative cultures out-innovate, out-problem-solve and outperform (especially in challenging times). Kieran reveals how cognitive diversity is a genuine superpower, as well as how to harness it with the right team structures, systems and processes. All with practical strategies to boost connection, engagement and shared ownership, so your people don’t just work together… they win together.
Collaborative Intelligence (We-Q)
Insights - Debates & Panels
When You Need Variety (and Levity) in Your Day!Insights - Debates & Panels
When your event needs more than a polite cup of tea—ie. when it needs a double shot of espresso—Kieran is the jolt your audience will thank you for.
Whether she’s providing expert commentary on an issue as a panel participant, an agile facilitator shaping and curating a complicated conversation, or the captain of a great debate, she brings brains and banter in equal measure, mixing sharp insights with the kind of laughter that makes learning stick.
Expect fast-moving ideas, occasionally ingenious metaphors, and the perfect blend of provocation and play to keep conversations alive and audiences leaning in.
Kieran doesn’t just keep the room awake—she sparks new thinking that lingers long after the session.
From Unlocking the genius in your team (for Level Crossings Victoria) to unpacking The Forever Skills (for VISA), she has a track record of making complex topics accessible, energising, and, yes, entertaining.
If you need a voice to ignite the dialogue, challenge assumptions, and make your event feel like the place to be, Kieran is the one you want holding the mic.
The Round Table: Live Conference Show
The Round Table is a Conference “Show” where your people become the stars… and the audience gets to witness strategic innovation happening right before their eyes!The Round Table: Live Conference Show
After decades of captaining great debates, participating in panels, conducting on-stage interviews and facilitating innovation workshops, we decided to take everything great about all of them and remove the boring bits.
Enter… The Round Table!
In a world where AI can do almost everything except deliver real human experience, what truly matters now is connection, creativity and conversation. If production is in a race to the bottom, where “everything” might end up costing nothing (and it’s starting to look that way), the only thing left worth paying for is the human experience.
The truth is cafés aren’t really about coffee, they’re about connection; gyms aren’t about fitness, they’re about Instagrammable identity and New Year’s optimism; and conferences aren’t about information, they’re about transformation. It’s all ultimately about feeling something… purpose, connection, inspiration, excitement.
The Round Table is designed to make your conference an unforgettable experience. It’s a hybrid of a great debate, live podcast and a TV panel show - where your leaders, guests and teams don’t just attend, they become the stars of the show!
Imagine the wit of QI, the cheekiness of I’m Sorry, I haven’t a clue, the creativity of The Gruen Transfer and the insight of Hypotheticals - all mixed with the chemistry and excitement of a live TV show.
However… we don’t just host the show, we coach your people to be the show. Using our own Younique backgrounds: in performance psychology, presentation skills, creativity, business strategy and stand-up comedy, we help your team to look sharp, sound smart, get a laugh or two for all the right reasons, and connect with your audience and delegates authentically and confidently.
It’s fast, funny and full to the brim with “wow factor.”
And here’s the kicker: when your leaders and people shine… your organisation lifts together:
1. Conferences should transform, not just inform - The best events make people feel, not just think.
2. Your people are the stars - We coach and showcase your talent, turning insight into impact.
3. Entertainment + Education = Engagement - “Edu-tainment” blends laughter, learning and leadership.
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The Behaviour Report
In 12 years of running SWB, Kieran is the ?rst speaker to receive a 100% approval rating from all delegates! ... keep reading SWB
Kieran facilitated a highly engaging, entertaining and thought-provoking workshop around entrepreneurship, risk-taking and decision making within a highly regulated environment.
I learned a huge amount and the team feedback has been incredibly positive.
Comedy relief from down under with a huge helping of #knowledge.
Kieran's presentation was a breath of fresh air. She is a ball of energy, totally engaging, brilliant use of humour, super visuals and great delivery, but above all she was totally on message with great content. They loved her.
An extraordinary ability to solve highly complicated and political problems.
Kieran facilitated a highly engaging, entertaining and thought-provoking workshop around entrepreneurship, risk-taking and decision making within a highly regulated environment.
Kieran’s opening keynote established the spirit of the conference from the outset. Embracing the theme in an engaging, relevant and lively presentation. She was the perfect choice.
Delegates were literally buzzing through the hours of workshops that followed and we were able to achieve the directions we required to take us forward.
Kieran’s presentation was a breath of fresh air. She is a ball of energy, totally engaging, brilliant use of humour, super visuals and great delivery, but above all she was totally on message with great content. They loved her.
In 12 years of running SWB, Kieran is the first speaker to receive a 100% approval rating from all delegates!
Kieran delivered riveting speeches that kept a diverse audience engaged and wanting more.
Kieran’s deep insight, cutting humour and ability to convey complex messages to our audience were the standout features of her keynote. It’s great to work with stage professionals who deliver.
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