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“Gen Z is driving us nuts.”
“Senior leaders don’t get it.”
“Nothing we try is working.”
Five generations. Three competing models of work. One organisation trying to hold it all together.
In this sharp, thought-provoking keynote, Katie unpacks what’s really driving friction in your organisation and why so many teams feel harder to lead than they should.
From how each generation was formed, to why Gen Z is challenging long-held assumptions about work, leadership and success, to the invisible rules shaping behaviour, performance and disengagement.
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AI is rewriting the rules of work - but it’s also eroding trust, fragmenting culture, and accelerating burnout.
In this provocative and humanising keynote, Katie Iles goes beyond the hype to unpack the real leadership challenge of our time: how to stay human and find meaning when everything else is becoming automated.
Grounded in neuroscience, behavioural psychology, and the latest data on AI’s social impact across generations, this talk equips leaders with the tools to build trust, lead with story, and foster human connection in tech-saturated environments.
If your audience is navigating change, trust breakdown or hybrid fatigue, this is the keynote they need.
Burnout. Disengagement. Cognitive overload.
Today’s leaders and teams are often exhausted, cynical and disconnected. And the usual fixes aren’t working.
In this fascinating, uplifting and research-backed keynote, Katie Iles reveals why awe, curiosity and a capacity for wonder are not woo woo soft skills but performance accelerators.
Drawing on neuroscience, leadership theory and real-world application, this talk shows how cultivating “micro moments of wonder” can enhance creativity, expand time perception, reduce stress and create more human, generative and high-performing cultures.
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Lichen has survived for 400 million years. It grows where nothing else can. It withstands conditions that should kill it — drought, ice, and even the space void. It builds thriving ecosystems in the most hostile environments on Earth.
Unlike the modern day workforce, lichen doesn't succeed through competition, dominance or control. Nor does it reward individual brilliance. It is a collaboration so well designed that it produces capabilities that outperform and outlast everything around it. It is the ultimate high performing team.
Lichen logic is 400 million years old. And it is the most useful thing most organisations have never considered.
This keynote translates the fascinating biology of lichen into a practical leadership framework for building teams that sustain genuine high performance under extreme pressure – without burning through the people who make it possible.