TOP RATED GLOBAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON CHANGE
Ciara Lancaster is an accredited change leadership expert, a global authority on change fatigue and resilience, and Australia’s only main-stage speaker with real-world experience leading workplace change and transformation at Deloitte. With a magnetic presence, Ciara equips teams and leaders to navigate always-on change with confidence and optimism.
Ciara meets audiences where they are through emotional resonance, then guides them toward her signature shifts forward. In a workplace defined by escalating pressure, competing commitments, intense change and future of work anxiety, teams want something real: clarity they trust, tools they use tomorrow, and guidance that reignites momentum.
Her ideal audience are leaders exhausted from carrying the load, yet determined to make their teams change-fit for the year ahead. Ciara’s mission is to energise and equip them with grounded, immediately usable coaching strategies that lift organisational-wide change resilience and support any transformation roadmap.
Book Ciara Lancaster, main-stage speaker, to help your leaders unite and thrive amidst nonstop change. Ciara brings the insider view and practical tools teams can use the moment they return to their desks… plus a few playful moments that spark connection and leave the room smiling.
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Common Challenges Identified During Continous Change
2026 will be the biggest year of change ever — are you prepared for the velocity?
🟣 "Our team are incredible, but they're on the brink of burnout. The accelerating pace of workplace change and uncertainty feels overwhelming and unsustainable."
🟣 "Some of our best people are fatigued and disengaged. We want to pull them back in without boring them to death with academic theory or futurist jargon."
🟣 "We keep being told to 'lead through change' but no one has actually trained us on how to do that. We’re all struggling in silence, and the pace is intense."
🟣 "Our last ‘solution’ was a breathwork session. This missed the mark. We need less box-breathing and more actionable, change momentum practices."
🟣 "The team would benefit from a reset on performing under pressure, while juggling BAU and non-stop change. We don’t know how to keep up and support one another."
🟣"Our business recently launched future-fit values and behaviours to 'Embrace Change & Be Adaptive'. How can these be brought to life in a meaningful way?"
🟣 "We have an outstanding Change Manager, but they can't do it alone. External insights and team alignment could reignite our energy and enthusiasm for change."
🟣"Our original focus was senior leader development, but your reputation for big-stage, all-staff conferences has us thinking bigger. Can you take us to the next level?
Discover The Secrets To Reimagine Change®
Ciara Lancaster's Signature Keynote
Teams are tired of future-of-work fantasies. Cue the eye-rolls. Leaders and teams are grappling with the future of now, juggling the heaviest wave of workplace change in history. Ciara Lancaster flips the script. With battle scars from leading large-scale change initiatives and transformation at Deloitte, she equips organisations to turn overwhelm into opportunity. Through specialised change resilience and coaching skills, she empowers people to be future-fit and aligned with your epic transformation roadmap.
The Reimagine Change® keynote will challenge you to:
🟣 Reset your mindset to overcome change fatigue and thrive through always-on change
🟣 Apply human skills that kill drama, energise people, and accelerate projects
🟣 Use foresight to map a pathway forward when change lands in your lap
Why This Matters:
🟣 The pace of change is unrelenting. Teams without change-fit skills face burnout, disengagement, and stalled transformation.
🟣 CEOs need all-hands strategies that protect people, accelerate projects, and inspire sustainable, change momentum.
🟣 Ciara delivers reality-based coaching grounded in change leadership, neuroscience and inspirational stage-craft.
Expect practical tools, energising strategies, and the spark you need to reignite your team’s change journey. Your audience leaves change-fit, resilient, and ready to contribute and succeed in the modern era of workplace change.
*Yes! Every keynote is joyfully customised after our speaker briefing video call. I'd be honoured to speak at your conference.
Ciara Lancaster is trusted by the world's biggest brands.
Training local and worldwide audiences.
Success Stories
"Ciara is an amazing speaker with easy to digest advice! Thanks for bringing the energy you bring to our 5 state forum tour. We are already hearing good news stories from our teams implementing the personal changes shared in the keynote.”
COMMBANK | 5 STATE ROADSHOW OPENING SPEAKER
"Inspiring, powerfully refreshing, and deeply loved - the high level of connectivity with the teams was remarkable. We were there with you, and you helped us feel present and safe. Thank you Ciara for bringing academic knowledge along with practical tools to transform how we feel, see, and respond to change! I am using my wisdom hour to rewire my thoughts with your tools."
UNITED NATIONS | VIRTUAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR 23 COUNTRIES
"Ciara's session on change resilience was excellent. Thank you for closing Day 1 on such a high! Survey feedback showed that 90% of our delegates rated the session as excellent."
ALPMA CONFERENCE | CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
"Ciara's opening keynote left an incredibly uplifting impact on our leaders. She was a stand-out for both our audience and our event planners!"
McGRATH | OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
"Such a powerful way to wrap up Day 1, sharing insights on leadership, change and connection. Amazing to have Ciara there, she was fabulous!”
FERNWOOD FITNESS | CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
"Our team found Ciara’s virtual session really insightful. Her delivery via video highlights, research and business storytelling brilliantly validated the emotions our team have been feeling through so much change.”
CITI AUSTRALIA | VIRTUAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
"Ciara's presentation was entertaining, thoughtful and full of practical ideas and tips on how to lead our teams through ever-present change and build our change resilience muscle.”
ASX | SENIOR LEADERS FORUM OPENING SPEAKER
MEANINGFUL CHANGE ALWAYS STARTS WITH ONE
Watching a team of 55 people be made redundant in 2015 changed my life.
It was the catalyst that saw me exit a career in sales to pursue a life supporting thousands of teams to get in flow with workplace change and boost their confidence in navigating the future of work.
Bottom line...change is about emotions, resilience and priorities. Learning to navigate daily uncertainty, change fatigue and tricky transitions is a game-changer for growth! This foundation leads you to deeper engagement, greater curiosity and the inner confidence that you can successfully adapt in the face of rapid change expectations.
A thriving workplace is a continuous journey of intentional actions, leader-led behaviours and genuine connections. Let's embrace the opportunity to cultivate a workplace that reflects our commitment to change, progress and transformation every day.
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CREDIBILITY MATTERS FOR CONFERENCE PLANNERS
*Be careful of the so-called change experts who have never actually led change. The futurist, the journalist, the magician with the shiny framework… none of it stands up in real workplaces. The quickest filter is simple. Ask them: "Have you ever led a workplace change initiative?" Most can’t say yes, and even fewer can explain what it really involves. Conference audiences deserve better standards and real experience on stage that helps them solve workplace culture challenges.
Meet Your Keynote Speaker, Ciara Lancaster
- Australia's Leading Change Fatigue & Resilience Expert
- Ex-Change Lead for teams of 500+ at Deloitte Australia
- Australia's only main-stage speaker with battle scars from leading workplace change and transformation
- 5+ years exclusively speaking and researching the singular topic of change fatigue and resilience
- Author of #1 best-selling book 'Reimagine Change'
- Thought Leader in the AFR, Sky News, Women's Agenda
- 1 of 4 Australian females to ever speak at MDRT® Global Conference
- Alumna: Syd University, UNSW, Stanford, Mind Academy
- Change Management, Psychology, Neuroscience, NLP and Compassion Cultivation
- Clients: United Nations, CommBank, Dell, Allianz, McGrath, Hays, Honda, Aged Care Commissioner
- Topics: Change Leadership, Change Resilience, Change Fatigue, Culture Change, Modern Change Management, Psychological Safety, Adaptive Leadership, Uncertainty Tolerance, Emotional Intelligence.
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Reimagine Change®:
Escape change fatigue, build resilience and awaken your creative brilliance
- #1 Best-Seller Organisational Behaviour (AU)
- #1 Best-Seller Stress Management (USA)
- 'Finalist' 2021 Australian Career Book Award
Are you struggling to cope with overwhelm, change fatigue and burnout at work? Are you lying awake at night, wondering how things got so bad for you and your team? Are you hoping that the pace of organisational change slows down rather than speeds up? Rest assured, you are not alone.
If you're grappling to deal with seemingly never-ending change expectations in business and beyond, this book can help.
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