Keynote Speaker

Meredith will shift the way you see culture and leadership.

While most leaders know  culture is important, many don’t feel confident changing it. Meredith simplifies culture and brings culture to life by sharing her personal experiences of leading significant culture change and teams in the corporate world. She has a calm, yet uplifting presence that makes other leaders feel hopeful. 

Meredith speaks about leadership and culture with warmth and humour. She has the power to change how people see, feel, and experience culture so that they can make it work for them.

Meredith offers practical habits, hacks, and rituals to help leaders shift their approach, create space, and build readiness for what’s next.

Meredith Makes Culture Work

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Keynote Topics

Cultureshift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture

Shift your Leaders. Shift your Culture.

Culture isn’t a project. Culture is shaped in the moments that matter. Leaders are the single greatest accelerator or brake of cultural change.

This keynote challenges common myths about culture and gives leaders the practical actions they need to make culture work for them (and not against them).

Meredith introduces her GRASS model - Gatherings, Rituals, Actions, Symbols and Stories - helping leaders see how small, everyday actions create big shifts in culture.

Inspired by Meredith’s globally read book Shift, this session focuses on the everyday actions that make culture simple and actionable.

FROM THIS KEYNOTE, YOU WILL:
✔ Understand why culture matters now more than ever
✔ See how daily behaviours shape and shift culture
✔ Learn practical actions that shift culture in real time
✔ Feel confident & equipped to shape, shift and lead culture

Amplify the impact. Provide participants with a copy of Shift.

Leadershift: 5 Shifts for Leading the Now and Next of Work

Rethink Leadership. Realign Culture. Ready for What’s Next.

Leadership today is about delivering results while navigating seismic shifts, shaping leaders worth following, and cultures worth belonging to.

This keynote explores five pivotal shifts and catalysts leaders need to rethink their approach, challenge outdated habits, and lead with confidence in an ever-changing world.

FROM THIS KEYNOTE, YOU WILL:
✔ Recognise the shifts reshaping the workplace and team expectations
✔ Understand what it takes to build leaders worth following
✔ Rethink and unlearn traditional leadership approaches
✔ Focus on what matters most for leading in the now and next of work

Creating Capacity: Readiness for What's Next

Shift Your Leadership to Be Ready for What’s Next

Less Busyness. More Purpose. Capacity for What Matters.

The expectations and pace of work have shifted dramatically. Leadership today isn’t about productivity alone; it’s about creating the capacity, both individually and collectively, to anticipate and adapt to what’s around the corner.

In this insightful keynote, Meredith Wilson shares powerful habits, hacks, and rituals to help leaders shift from busyness to purpose - creating the clarity, calm and rhythm needed to lead well under pressure and prepare for what's ahead.

Grounded in Meredith's Creating Capacity frameworks, this session explores how clarity and energy combine to create real capacity. Leaders leave with practical tools and habits to restore focus, reclaim time and sustain performance.

FROM THIS KEYNOTE, YOU WILL:
✔ Expand your perspective and readiness for the ‘never normal’.
✔ Shift from managing time to managing attention and energy
✔ Build deliberate calm to lead through uncertainty
✔ Reclaim focus and margin for what matters most
✔ Create space and rhythm to sustain impact

Create capacity on purpose, with purpose and lead confidently through whatever is around the corner.

About Meredith Wilson

Meredith Wilson is one of Australia’s most experienced voices on organisational culture and leadership. She spent over two decades shaping culture at scale in ASX10 and global organisations, including Wesfarmers, Australia’s largest private employer, where she served in senior executive and board-level roles.

Her keynotes are built on lived experience. Having led culture transformation across some of Australia’s most complex organisations, Meredith understands what leaders are actually facing and what it takes to move culture from aspiration to action. Audiences consistently describe her as a speaker who combines warmth and humour with sharp commercial insight, and whose frameworks are immediately applicable.

Meredith speaks at leadership conferences, executive retreats and industry events across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Her three keynote topics, Cultureshift, Leadershift and Creating Capacity, are each tailored to the audience and designed to leave leaders thinking differently about their role in culture.

She is the author of Shift, a practical guide to everyday culture work.