Keynote Speaker
Emma Maidment is a keynote speaker and internationally published author. She speaks on identity-led authority, personal brand, and what it actually takes to build a business in flow state.
Every talk starts in the same place. Who you are is the operating system. Brand, performance, resilience and the decisions you make all run on top of it.
The most commercially valuable thing you own is the part of yourself you have been trained to sand down.
For leadership audiences: Trust is the scarcest asset in any organisation, and it is built by people who sound like themselves. Polished is not the same as credible.
Audiences leave with:
Keynote 45 to 60 minutes · Fireside · Virtual
Authentic leadership · Leadership presence · Personal brand · Values-led leadership · Women in leadership · Executive presence
Flow is not a mood and it is not a personality type. It is a state of peak performance with known conditions, and most people are working in a way that guarantees they never reach it.
For leadership audiences: Organisations design work in a way that makes flow structurally impossible, then run wellbeing programmes to compensate. The performance gap is not a motivation problem. It is a conditions problem.
Audiences leave with:
Keynote 45 to 60 minutes · Workshop half day · Virtual
Flow state · High performance · Mindset · Focus · Deep work · Productivity · Employee performance
Corporate wellbeing has spent a decade selling calm. Calm was never the goal, and chasing it is part of what is burning people out.
For leadership audiences: The goal is range. The ability to move between pressure and recovery on purpose. Teams do not need to be calmer. They need to know how to come back.
Audiences leave with:
Keynote 45 minutes · Workshop 90 to 180 minutes · Virtual
Resilience · Wellbeing · Performance under pressure · Stress · Nervous system regulation · Psychological safety
Every market is now saturated with output that sounds correct and means nothing. What cannot be replicated has just become the most valuable thing you own, and it is the same thing it always was. Your values, your judgement, and the specific way you see the world.
For leadership audiences: AI made competence cheap. It made human judgement, trust and a clear point of view expensive. The organisations that win will be the ones whose people still sound like people.
Audiences leave with:
Keynote 45 minutes · Panel · Fireside · Virtual
Future of work · AI and leadership · Human skills · Trust · Differentiation · Values-led business · Thought leadership
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Emma speaks on flow state, high performance, identity and authority-led personal branding. Her four signature talks are Be Who You Are, Find Your Flow, Calm Is Not The Goal and The Human Advantage. She is the author of Find Your Flow, published by Affirm Press and Simon & Schuster in 2024.
Emma has delivered keynotes and workshops for audiences from intimate leadership teams through to conference main stages. Past engagements include Cotton On Group, BlueScope Steel, Swisse Wellness, Wanderlust Australia and the Nurture Change Business Retreat in Fiji.
Yes. Emma is based in Crete, Greece, and speaks across Europe, the UK, Australia and internationally. Virtual delivery is available for all talks.
Yes. Every talk is adapted to the audience and the event theme. Emma joins a briefing call with the organiser before the event to align the content.
A pre-event briefing call, the keynote or workshop delivery, and promotional assets for the event including a speaker bio, headshot and talk description. Emma stays for the wider event where the format allows.