Margot Faraci

About Margot

Margot Faraci is a global leadership expert with more than two decades of senior corporate experience — delivering billions in revenue, leading teams of thousands, and working with boards on strategic transformation. Her landmark research, which surveyed 2,500 corporate leaders across the US, the UK, and Australia, demonstrated that current leadership practices are not simply underperforming: they are actively costing Australia an estimated $2.3 billion in lost productivity. That finding forms the empirical backbone of her keynotes and has earned her regular features in the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Fast Company, Business Leader, and Cosmopolitan, as well as a weekly slot talking leadership on ABC Drive radio.

What distinguishes Margot's work is the combination of hard data and personal honesty. She noticed that as she became more senior and more commercially successful, she — and those around her — became more miserable. Rather than accepting that as the price of high performance, she developed a different framework: one she has since deployed with global organisations including Amazon and Coca-Cola, and which underpins her flagship keynote on Love Leadership. Her work sits at the intersection of evidence-based research and practical tools, making the case for why traditional leadership is failing and demonstrating precisely how to shift it.

Margot is suited to senior leadership conferences, executive forums, and events where audiences are sophisticated enough to be sceptical of generic leadership content — and will respond to someone who can back every claim with data and lived experience. Her keynotes include frameworks for leading through ambiguity and crisis, building followership, and equipping the next generation of leaders for the realities of the 2030s. Clients at NSW Health, Nova Entertainment, and Macquarie Bank have described her delivery as fearless, precise, and genuinely affecting.