Speaking

Human leadership in the moments that matter.

I speak to people navigating the moments where technology, transformation, and responsibility intersect. My conversations explore leadership, AI, credibility, and the human decisions that determine whether change succeeds.

Cindy Schwartz

My work is about human leadership. I help leaders navigate change, complexity, and responsibility through leadership capability, with a particular focus on developing women leaders and creating the conditions where people can thrive.

AI + Leadership

Human Leadership in the Age of AI

As AI reshapes how organisations operate, the leaders who will matter most are those who can do what AI cannot: create trust, navigate complexity, exercise judgement, and lead people through uncertainty.

Transformation

Why Transformation Fails When Leadership Doesn't Transform

Most transformation programs stall because the organisation changes faster than the leadership around it. This keynote examines the human conditions for delivery: decision-making, accountability, operating models, and the leadership behaviours that determine whether strategy becomes reality.

Women in Technology and Leadership

Capability Was Never the Missing Piece

Highly capable women in technology and senior leadership are still told to perform confidence, soften themselves, or wait until they feel ready. This session reframes the problem: capability was never the missing piece. It explores the structural conditions that shape who is heard, trusted, promoted, and recognised, and what changes when organisations stop treating the individual as the problem.

Credibility

The Credibility Gap

Capability and credibility are not the same thing. This session explores the distance between how capable you are, how that capability is signalled, and how it is recognised, without asking leaders to perform a version of confidence that is not their own.

Change Leadership

Leading AI & Transformation Without a Blueprint

Leaders are being asked to navigate change before the answers are clear. This conversation explores how to lead through uncertainty, make decisions without perfect information, and create the conditions where transformation can succeed.

Different audiences, but the same principles.

I bring the same core thinking to every conversation, shaped for what's actually in front of that audience. A board thinking through AI and strategy hears a different version than a leadership team learning to lead people while AI takes on more of the work. The thinking is the same, the context changes.

Recent Conversations

Recent conversations

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Podcasts and Interviews

Conversations beyond the stage

Long-form conversations exploring leadership, AI, transformation, credibility, and the future of work.

Keynotes

Leadership conversations that shift perspective

For conferences, leadership events, and executive audiences exploring transformation, AI, credibility, and leadership.

Panels and Moderated Conversations

Practical perspectives on complex questions

Bringing a practical leadership perspective to discussions on AI, technology, transformation, and the future of work.

Executive Forums and Leadership Conversations

The challenges leaders are working through

Interactive sessions with leadership teams and boards exploring the decisions, capabilities, and conditions needed to navigate change.

Facilitated Sessions

Moving from discussion to action

Structured conversations designed to help teams explore challenges, align perspectives, and move from discussion to action.

Speaker enquiries

Bring the conversation you need, when you need it.

For keynotes, executive sessions, conference conversations, and board events, get in touch to talk about the audience, the context, and the questions worth exploring.

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