Change Resilience Expert & Author of Reimagine Change
Ciara Lancaster is an accredited change leadership expert and the author of Reimagine Change. After leading teams of more than 500 through change management, business transformation and digital innovation at Deloitte Australia, she now works independently as a speaker and author on change fatigue and resilience. She brings both theoretical rigour and practical depth to a subject that is too often treated as a technical exercise rather than a human one.
Ciara's work is grounded in the conviction that change fails not because of strategy or process, but because of people — and that the organisations that get change right are the ones that take the human dimension as seriously as the operational one. Her approach draws on psychology, systems thinking and hard-won experience to help leaders build the capability, culture and conditions for lasting transformation. Her signature keynote, Reimagine Change, sets out how to turn workplace overwhelm into opportunity through change resilience and coaching skills.
Ciara is one of only four Australian women to have spoken at the Million Dollar Round Table global conference, and in 2025 she was selected by the United Nations to present virtually to 23 countries on uncertainty through disruption. She speaks at conferences and leadership programs across Australia and internationally, and is regularly called on by boards, executive teams and HR leaders who are trying to understand why change is so hard and what they can do about it. Her sessions suit leadership summits, HR and people conferences, and organisations working through large-scale transformation.
Ciara Lancaster is a keynote speaker based in New South Wales who speaks on business strategy, change management and leadership. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
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.
• Australia's #1 keynote on high performance and culture change.
• Integrating reality-based coaching, neuroscience and the latest in human-centred change management.
• Guided by Ciara Lancaster, award-winning change resilience author and speaker with Deloitte Leader Experience.
• Modern cinematic delivery style.
• Epic culture, change research and take-aways.
• Engaging table activities, roaming mic interactivity, useful coaching worksheet.
• Your audience will learn:
How to combat the energy villain of change fatigue.
How to become more optimistic during change, and;
How to support and motivate one another to sustain the journey.
• Your audience will leave with:
Renewed enthusiasm towards change.
A new toolkit of actionable insights.
Bonus downloadable resources.
• Investing in team-wide change leadership is the greatest transformation of all.
• Feel fantastic by maximising psychological safety and minimising the psychosocial hazard of 'Poor Change Management'.
• This keynote is not the best fit for conservative, safe, boring teams.
• This keynote is perfect for fun, curious, boundary pushers.
• All content is customised via a detailed briefing call.
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
Amazing presentation! Ciara was a crowd favourite at the event, thanks to her delivery style and expertise in navigating our new normal of endless change.JLL
Ciara is an incredibly engaging and very energetic speaker. The combination of responsiveness, research and table discussions reinforced the excellent change leadership messages.Westpac
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