"I highly recommend Diana for your next event as an authentic guest speaker who can capture the room and deliver a thought-provoking presentation that everyone can relate to.
"I highly recommend Diana for your next event as an authentic guest speaker who can capture the room and deliver a thought-provoking presentation that everyone can relate to.
Diana Taylor AM is a fearless community leader, business owner, lawyer and author whose experience has been deliberately earned in the hardest of places. Diana’s success and integrity-based pursuit of leadership to support great outcomes sets her apart and makes her an engaging keynote speaker and event facilitator.
Diana’s experience over more than two decades as a community football administrator to the AFL, a fight for women’s sport at Netball Australia, founder of Australia’s first and only community led private hospital caring for people diagnosed with life-limiting illness and at end-of-life and a Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Award winner, have all run alongside Diana’s commitment to her clients and pursuing the things that matter to build the community around us.
Diana’s keynote areas focus on what matters most in becoming a successful, integrity based leader, why breaking free from boxes and behaviour is critical for emerging and established female leaders and how to deliver outstanding success in community leadership and projects.
How to Embrace Conflict and Trust Decision Making to Empower People and Performance.
The complexities for leaders in managing the workplace and its relationships are growing each year, and getting this right is central to making or breaking every organisation.
As a skilled and experienced workplace lawyer, Diana has conducted over a 1,000 workplace investigations, and has seen every human dimension and management success and failure up close and personal. This keynote address will equip every established or aspiring leader to better understand their current workplace, the human dimensions and how to step into conflict to prevent irretrievable relationship breakdowns.
People and performance are dependent on human interactions within every organisation, and this keynote will elevate the approach of leaders to their workplaces.
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The Art of Breaking Barriers and Building Success.
In leadership, gender does matter and women in leadership should be supported to succeed.
In this keynote address, established and aspiring female leaders, and their supporters, are given the playbook by Diana to ensure that they are prepared for tough situations, take a strategic approach to the long game, learn how to rise again after failure, elevate personal brand even within intense public scrutiny and build a network of trust and support.
Female leadership is different. This keynote is raw, built on the back of decades of experience and is designed to build the strength and power of the female leader.
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Using Failure and Disruption to Reset and Thrive.
The world is fast, harsh and demands immediate attention. Every day, people in leadership roles are questioning themselves, their decisions, their legacy and the people around them.
In this keynote, designed for leaders and organisations of all sizes, Diana addresses the core attributes of leadership and why failure and disruption, as seen through the lens of sport, politics, business and community, are just badly wrapped gifts to be embraced. Following this exploration, the audience will be presented with a playbook to plan boldly and courageously for an elevated approach to leadership for themselves and the organisations that they serve, as well as given the tools for navigating through failure and uncertainty to produce their best ever results.
This keynote will create a competitive advantage for the audience, build on existing leadership strengths and stretch current thinking to power up performance.
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"As keynote speaker for our community networking event in Geelong, Diana spoke meaningfully about the importance of finding a personal definition of ‘community’, and how an enduring commitment to that notion can assist us all in our personal and professional pursuits to build meaningful and impactful lives. Diana spoke with a great intuitive sense as she engaged with our audience, such that irrespective of age or gender, her words carried great impact and encouragement for all.
"Diana was very generous in sharing her insights as captured in The Playbook. By sharing her experiences and what she has learnt over many years, Diana was clearly able to articulate strategies that can be applied to succeed in both a personal and business sense. I highly recommend Diana for your next event as an authentic guest speaker who can capture the room and deliver a thought-provoking presentation that everyone can relate to.
"Diana understands what her audience wants from the presentation; an understanding of their key drivers, clear guidance to inform their ideas, and new ways of looking at their opportunities.
"Diana’s presentation was excellent; the content was pitched at the right level for the audience and her personal reflections as a leader resonated strongly with the group. Diana is a highly experienced professional that has the rare quality of being able to combine strong expertise with the ability to engage with people from diverse backgrounds.
"Our event benefited greatly from Diana’s expertise and passion for the greater Geelong region. Diana is very qualified to speak on a range of topics owing to her impressive professional and governance roles. She brings a warmth in her delivery of her message that stems from her experience with engaging with people from all walks of life. I look forward to having Diana speak at a future UDIA Victoria event.
"Diana is inspiring and authentic in her storytelling. She shared the highs and the lows of her professional journey, and highlighted that although each individual's story may differ, we all have the opportunity find success with the right supports, people and foundations in place. Diana is genuine in her delivery, and engaging with an audience, we thoroughly enjoyed hosting Diana to open the Female Athlete Network Education event.
"Diana’s presentation not only provided insights into how to strategically plan for success, it challenged all in the room to look within their own lives to find their purpose and a clear direction to make every post a winner! Once again, the community benefits from Diana’s continued goal of adding significantly to her community.
"Diana was engaged by FRV to deliver a series of workplace behaviour training sessions for senior operational and corporate leaders including FRV’s Executive. Diana has a confident, assertive and inclusive speaking style when presenting to senior operational and corporate leaders and has the ability to read the room and make adjustments in the moment to engage with participants and to enable input and full participation. Diana’s deep subject matter expertise, delivery and approach has fulfilled the FRV brief and the relevant strategic objectives and outcomes for the workshops.
"Diana speaks from the heart and is an inspiring and engaging speaker. Her very personal style makes it feel like she is having a direct conversation with you. Diana’s core beliefs, experience, and values cross over into business, not-for-profits, and the sporting community. She leaves you with a sense of empowerment.
"10 out of 10! Diana is an inspirational, strong leader who is open in sharing her experiences and passions with others. The audience were engaged and the conversations that flowed afterwards were insightful and demonstrated the value of the messaging coming through. For me personally, I felt inspired and confident to continue in my own leadership journey.
