Why adapt to change when you can lead it?
Winitha is a globally recognised and award-winning leader and speaker.
She's got a background as a professional dancer as well as over 20 years' experience as a C-Suite executive working in North America and Australia, leading organisation-wide transformation projects and managing billions of dollars.
Winitha was also awarded an Order of Australia Medal and is known for being an exceptional change-maker working with local grassroots community organisations and service providers at a local, state and federal level.
Winitha is committed to delivering real truths in an empowering, challenging and entertaining way.
She’s a status-quo breaker, problem-solver, change motivator and your number one cheerleader.
Winitha will help you succeed!
Talking Points
Leadership
She’s led companies, teams and billions of dollars to success. Winitha – a Woman of Colour, Order of Australia recipient and former C-suite executive with 20+ years of transformation experience – knows it’s time for a new leadership game. In her high-energy and insightful keynote, she empowers and equips audiences to break the status quo, rewrite the rules and change the game through visionary leadership.Leadership
The old way of leading is dead – the world is moving faster than ever and it needs visionary leaders who don’t just keep up, they shape the future. In this inspiring keynote, Winitha delivers hard truths with no-nonsense insights with humour and practical actions to give your people drive, clarity and ambition to step up into leadership with ownership, grit and success.
In this up-to-60-minute inspirational and insightful session, you will:
- Learn why the current way of leading is outdated.
- Discover how comfort and scarcity limits our leadership potential.
- Unpack the 5 ingredients for leaders to fuel innovation, create high-performing teams and lead the future today.
- Discover how to harness friction and complexity to fuel growth and success.
- Learn what a modern, dynamic and inspiring vision of leadership could look like for you.
- 10x your drive and ambition to lead in a truly phenomenal, powerful, and pioneering way through practical actions.
Change & Performance
A Woman of Colour who has shattered multiple glass ceilings, Winitha is a former CEO and innovation consultant working with giants like Telstra.Change & Performance
An Order of Australia Medal recipient, she’s a status-quo breaker and change-maker used to swimming against the tide to make real change happen. Winitha is THE keynote speaker to inspire and motivate your audience to embrace complex challenges and drive change, innovation and success.
If you want your people to lean into what’s hard and to lead change instead of just embracing it, this keynote is for you. Your audience will leave this session empowered, motivated, ready to choose what’s hard and to start leveraging friction and change for success.
In this up-to-60-minute inspirational and insightful session, you will:
- Learn how discomfort and scarcity are changing the way we need to lead the future.
- Discover why leaning into what’s hard is the solution you’ve been searching for.
- See how choosing and doing what’s hard develops our capability to lead change and disruptive innovation, rather than just surviving it.
- Learn loophole theory and how it helps you innovate, manage change and adapt through creative problem-solving.
- Take home tools to help you break yourself through the discomfort of doing hard stuff.
Inclusion & Belonging
With an Order of Australia medal for her work in inclusion, Winitha Bonney is a Woman of Colour to watch. She’s a former CEO who shows audiences how to turn a touchy subject into a winning strategy for commercially smart inclusion. Conscious capitalism? Yes please!Inclusion & Belonging
In this session, Winitha gives your people practical, actionable ways to replace overwhelm with inclusion, transform uncertainty to action and obligation to authenticity which will feed your bottom line, nurture happier staff and turn customers into raving fans.
In this up-to-60-minute inspirational and insightful session, you will:
- Get clear on what true inclusion is and why woke ain’t woke.
- See how purpose and empathy show up on the balance sheet.
- Discover practical actions to lift the customer and employee experience for commercially smart inclusion.
- Discover how to create authentically inclusive advertising that attracts and retains customers.
- Learn how to make inclusion not just part of your business but how you do business.
Motivation
Winitha brings inclusive, high-energy motivation that speaks to every single person in your audience. Invigorate your people with a fresh take on purpose that lifts performance and enriches the human experience.Motivation
Winitha is an inclusion expert, Woman of Colour and former C-suite executive with 20+ years experience in whole-of-organisation transformation and innovation. She knows how to deliver bold motivation with futurist thinking to shake up old, outdated narratives. This is motivation that truly energises and excites all.
Direct, no-fluff motivation that inspires and equips your people and leaders to be their own cheerleaders, carve their own path and take their spot in the world with grit, agency and confidence.
In this up-to-60-minute inspirational and insightful session, you will:
- Discover what holds us back and how we get in our own way.
- Understand what it truly means to back ourselves in how we live and lead.
- Discover the neuroscience linking grit, persistence, agency and courage.
- Learn how to problem-solve through setbacks and challenges.
- Learn how to achieve goals in half the time, energy and resources.
- Discover what it means to take your spot in the world in a practical and inspiring way.
New Activism
Meet Winitha Bonney, a powerhouse Woman of Colour with an Order of Australia Medal for her work in inclusion. She smashed through multiple glass ceilings as a former C-suite exec with 20+ years in transformation and innovation, founded a non-profit and is a professional dancer and inclusion expert. Need fresh insights on women’s equality? You need Winitha and this keynote!New Activism
Systemic oppression and inequity won’t vanish overnight, and Winitha, an inclusion expert and Woman of Colour, knows this firsthand. So, if the system isn’t changing anytime soon, we need to embrace New Activism. In this electrifying keynote, Winitha introduces a powerful concept and shares her strategies for thriving within the current system, empowering you to overcome barriers and flourish despite the challenges. Get ready to be inspired and to engage in New Activism!
In this up-to-60-minute inspirational and insightful session, you will:
- Explore the intersectionality of identity, leadership and activism.
- Learn why thriving is the new activism.
- Understand how loophole theory can help you to navigate, manage and change systems and barriers.
- Acquire actionable insights on how to effectively advocate for change, break the status quo and rewrite the rules on leadership for Women.
- Discover what it means to take your spot in the world in a practical and inspiring way.
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Winitha Bonney OAM | Speaker Showreel 2024
Discover why Winitha Bonney is a must-have Speaker, MC, and Entertainer for your next event. As a trailblazer in inclusion, Winitha brings profound insights into leadership, diversity, and navigating disruption in today's fast-paced, complex world. In this showreel, she dives into the critical shifts redefining workplaces and the future workforce, revealing how embracing change and building resilience are keys to growth. With her unique journey from hip-hop dancer to CEO, Winitha is an expert at inspiring organisations to elevate their vision and impact.Huge thanks for taking the time to talk to (us) today. Your clarity, insight and perspective opened a few minds. I've had a number of people reach out and let me know how thought-provoking ... keep reading Leo Burnett Australia
The comments after we wrapped echoed more of the same - people loved hearing from you, and could have continued for much longer!
Thank you Winitha for a really relevant and informative session. It was really well received and was great to see all of the engagement at the end.
Your session today was the best I have attended in recent memory. Thank you for making it practical and real.
You have been an absolute delight to work with and the energy you brought on the day was infectious in the best way possible.
Thank you Winitha, it was an Excellent session!
