Margie Warrell, a globally recognized leadership expert, bestselling author, and renowned keynote speaker, is a catalyst for transformation and courageous leadership. With a career dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations, Margie brings a dynamic blend of research-backed insights, practical strategies, and authentic storytelling to her presentations.
Her talks are characterized by a deep commitment to personal and professional growth, encouraging audiences to step out of their comfort zones, embrace change, and lead with courage. Margie’s approach is relatable and relatable, offering actionable tools for navigating challenges, fostering resilience, and unlocking one’s full potential.
Margie Warrell’s presentations go beyond inspiration; they provide individuals and teams with the skills and mindset needed to thrive in an ever-changing world. Whether addressing leadership development, women’s empowerment, or the art of effective communication, Margie’s talks leave a lasting impact, equipping audiences with the confidence and resilience to achieve their goals.
Margie Warrell on Leading Bravely Through Uncertainty, Change & Disruption
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Margie Warrell on Inspiring Change: How to Rethink Risk
Margie Warrell on Leading Bravely Through Uncertainty, Change & Disruption
Margie Warrell’s Speech Topics
The Courage Gap
Growing up in rural Australia, Margie learned that ‘Growth and comfort can’t ride the same horse.’ It turns out there’s hard science behind closing the ‘courage gap’ between who we are and who we can be. Margie’s remarkable story of breaking ranks with comfort will help your audience reset their understanding with risk and empower them with practical skills to bring their bravest selves to their boldest vision.
Learning objectives and audience outcomes:
Why courage is a skill, not a born trait, and how it can be mastered
Build self-awareness of where your play-it-safe instinct is keeping you small, stuck, and scared
Learn to rescript what scares you
How to embody courage, transforming your relationship with discomfort
Identify fear traps and dismantle ‘courage crushers’
Adopt a play-to-win mindset to risk more intelligently for faster success
Embed atomic ‘courage habits’ to tame your inner Chicken Little
Lead With Courage
No organization can outperform its leaders over time. It’s why the #1 threat is never external but the fear that drives smart employees to play it too safe. Leaders who invite candor and encourage innovation without demonstrating vulnerability, normalizing dissent, and de-risking ‘smart failure’ will fall short every time. Margie will embolden your leaders to lead from the inside out, building a ‘culture of courage’ that unlocks collective creativity and discretionary effort across your enterprise.
Learning objectives and audience outcomes:
Research into a ‘courage mindset’ and why it’s a force multiplier of talent
Harness ’emotional contagion’ to galvanize employees behind a bold vision with a big “Why”
What we get wrong about risk that makes us more vulnerable
Three ways to foster loyal dissent and harness constructive conflict
How to lead from self-certainty to make more effective decisions amid the unknowns
Identify the invisible ‘timidity tax’ of excess caution in your team/business
Accelerate learning and incubate innovation by scaling a play-to-win mindset
Women Daring
Feminine leadership strengths improve decisions. Yet, despite progress, the gender gap persists. Drawing on her doctoral research and decades of experience empowering women across the globe, Margie weaves personal stories as a working mother raising four children while relocating around the world, her doctoral research in women’s leadership, and proven strategies to help women make the difference their difference makes and place the ultimate bet… on themselves!
Learning objectives and audience outcomes:
Reset your relationship with power; take care while taking charge
Understand why courage trumps confidence and learn how to behave your way into believing
Reclaim the power previously given to self-doubt and imposterhood
Navigate feminine double-binds to manage the backlash effect
Speak with authority and build executive presence for impact
Amplify the voice of other women to lift as you climb
Secure the right sponsors advocating for you when you’re not in the room
Get off your own back and lower the perfectionist bar that’s holding you back
Create a plan to immediately step into your courage gap
What Test You Most, Teaches You Most!
No one is immune to life’s hardships and heartaches, yet some people handle them better and emerge better off. This powerful keynote draws on research in positive psychology, well-being, and spiritual traditions to help you reframe how you are viewing your circumstances and processing your biggest problems, expanding your bandwidth to handle them better and turn your biggest challenges into your greatest catalysts for growth and personal transformation. Weaving her own hardships and heartaches – including losing a brother to mental illness and supporting another to adjust to life with paraplegia – Margie will help your audience expand their capacity for life and find the opportunities for growth that our toughest challenges always hold.
Learning objectives and audience outcomes:
Understand why your stress is all in your head and learn how to short-circuit stressful thinking
Discover the four pillars to activate post-traumatic growth and can-do optimism
Apply BE-BEFORE-DO to thrive under pressure and align with your True North
Establish daily resilience rituals, including taking a sacred pause to turn stressors into cues for courage
Rescript the stories holding you victim to the past and fueling anxiety
Learn micro-habits that build capacity to grow through change and use setbacks to bounce forward better off
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
Extremely entertaining, inspirational and right on point for our company event.
Technology
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
…the feedback was incredible! Margie’s impressive on every measure.
Technology
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
Margie’s ability to read the audience is extraordinary…she was worthy of the standing ovation she received.
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
A standout keynote delivered with passion and authority.
Media
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
One word: Amazing!
Telecommunications
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
Margie is a master!
Travel & Tourism
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
…an exceptional communicator!
Education Programs
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
Margie was a huge hit! The highest possible ratings… and a joy to work with!
Health Care
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
Margie sets herself apart with a powerful message, delivered exceptionally.
Non-Profit
What other organizations say about Margie Warrell
Margie’s keynote was spectacular. She has my highest recommendation. Her message is one that everyone should hear in their lifetime.