Michael Kremer
2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics, Harvard University
Shade Zahrai
Award-Winning Leadership Strategist & Global Peak Performance Consultant to Fortune 500s
Shadé Zahrai, a renowned keynote speaker and Principal of Influenceo Global, translates neuroscience and psychology into practical strategies for leadership and career success. With a background in law, banking, and Fortune 500 consulting, she helps top organizations like Microsoft and JP Morgan elevate performance through emotional intelligence and behavioral science. She’s a best-selling author, Harvard-trained leadership coach, and former Forbes Coaches Council contributor.
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Shade Zahrai biography
In the realm of leadership development, keynote speaker Shadé Zahrai stands out as an “alchemist” who transforms cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology research into actionable insights. She merges her extensive Fortune 500 experience with her PhD studies in leadership and career performance to spark profound mindset shifts.
A former commercial lawyer who pivoted into banking and consulting, she now leads Influenceo Global Inc. Her firm partners with top organizations like Microsoft, McDonald’s, and JP Morgan. Through her programs, speaker Shadé Zahrai champions emotional intelligence and humanity to elevate both people and businesses. She infuses psychological frameworks, data-driven analysis, and real-world examples into her content.
Her research reveals common threads among the happiest and most successful individuals. Adweek named her Careers Creator of the Year. She has shared her findings in best-selling books, Harvard-trained coaching programs, and viral social media content. Over three million followers worldwide tune in for her insights, which have also appeared in the New York Times, Yahoo Finance, and on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk.
When she’s not coaching or speaking, Shadé nurtures women’s leadership initiatives and hosted Commonwealth Bank’s “Leading Women” podcast. She also invests in shaping future-ready leaders through her Women in Leadership series, maximizing confidence and driving tangible results. Her keynotes blend data-driven content, captivating storytelling, and genuine warmth to drive lasting transformation.
She designs custom solutions that address both strategic goals and personal well-being. She fosters inclusive cultures, builds resilience, and unlocks potential at every level of an organization. As a three-time Australian Latin dance champion, she even spices up events with occasional salsa lessons.
Above all, her blend of academic rigor, commercial savvy, and infectious energy makes her a sought-after authority on peak performance. She has addressed thousands of leaders on stages worldwide, offering proven strategies to build high-performance cultures. In every engagement, Shadé delivers practical tools that create measurable change and lasting success.
Shade Zahrai Speaking Videos
Shadé Zahrai- Master your Mindset, Overcome Self-Deception, Change your Life
Shadé Zahrai - 3 habits that kill your confidence
Shade Zahrai Keynote Topics
During times of change, the default human response is often to experience overwhelm and to enter ‘crisis mode’. Yet the most successful, most productive and most fulfilled professionals are those who understand how to master their mindset and focus on the plethora of opportunities that change and challenges present.
Shadé Zahrai will guide you through the neuroscience research behind how to embrace an opportunity mindset, how to feel more empowered and focussed, and how to more effectively influence others. She will reveal some of the latest evidence-based practices to transform your performance, supercharge your impact, and optimise team engagement.
Who is this for:
Business leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, marketers, small business owners, anyone faced with change and transformation.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the neuroscience behind how we respond to change to ‘bio-hack’ our internal processes for enhanced productivity and performance
- Develop a toolkit of simple mindset mastery strategies to help you thrive and navigate complex emotional states
- Learn must-know tips on how to make these mindset & behavioural changes stick around for the long term
We’ve all felt it before. Tired, stretched too thin, struggling to switch off our brains, a little concerned about the future and not being able to predict what might happen. The lives we lead can be relentlessly stressful, constantly draining our willpower. But there’s also a silver lining: we have the tools, capabilities and science-based know-how to not only learn to overcome these challenges but to build our capacity to thrive in this brave new world.
Join Shadé as she helps you understand why you think and act the way you do, and then implement science-backed behaviour change to flourish. She will share must-know peak performance practices to supercharge your impact.
Who is this for:
Business leaders, marketers, anyone who would benefit from enhancing their performance.
Key Takeaways:
- An understanding of the dominant emotional states of 2021 and how this impacts motivation, drive and performance
- Common anxiety ‘traps’ that keep high performers stuck and depleted, and must-know evidence-based tools to overcome them
- Actionable brain-based practices to maintain sustained high performance, focus and drive for the long-term
The pandemic has disrupted the way we work. During unforeseen and unprecedented change it’s all too easy to become swept by the undercurrent of disruptions outside your control and to succumb to feelings of overwhelm. Building capacity for cognitive resilience will help insulate your mindset and shift your focus to what you can control, allowing for better problem solving, clarity and emotional resilience.
Shadé Zahrai will leave you with a renewed understanding of the meaning of cognitive resilience by tapping into your emotional intelligence, leaving you empowered with a toolkit of must-know resilience strategies to enhance your wellbeing and elevate your performance.
Who is this for:
Business leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, administrators, marketers, small business owners.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the elements of wellbeing to build cognitive and emotional resilience and combat overwhelm
- Develop a selection of research-backed and actionable wellbeing ‘hacks’ using emotional intelligence tools
- Learn essential evidence-based tips to enhance focus and & supercharge productivity
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