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Dr Shade
Zahrai

Award-Winning Leadership Strategist, Behavioural Researcher & Global Peak Performance Consultant to Fortune 500s

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Where self-trust rises, performance follows.

Profile

Shadé Zahrai is a leadership alchemist known for her superhuman ability to translate the latest in neuroscience and psychology research into practical and actionable strategies that drive mindset shifts and real behavioural change.

With a PhD in organisational behaviour, Dr Shadé has worked with hundreds of teams, from startups to Fortune 100 giants like Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, LVMP and J.P. Morgan, helping them transform culture, strengthen emotional intelligence, and build leadership from the inside out. She’s spent countless hours with these teams, observing clear behavioural patterns behind the happiest and most successful people, and turning those insights into powerful tools for growth.

Her science-backed strategies have empowered over 7 million students on LinkedIn Learning. Her viral educational content has been viewed more than 500 million times, and she now reaches an audience of over 5 million across social media.

A former commercial lawyer turned corporate strategist, Dr Shadé is the founder of Influenceo Global Inc., a leadership development, training, and research firm focused on elevating human-centred leadership. She's a contributor to CNBC, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, and Adweek, as well as The Jay Shetty Podcast and The Mel Robbins Podcast.

She is a 3x TEDx speaker, a former member of the Forbes Coaches Council and a past contributor to Forbes.com. Dr Shadé was named Adweek's Careers Content Creator of the Year in the Creator Visionary Awards, Mentor of the Year in the 2019 Women in Financial Services Awards, a finalist in the prestigious Telstra Women in Business Awards in both 2019 and 2020, a finalist in the Women in Finance Awards 2019, a Future Business Council Scholar and Future Leader Scholar in 2017 and 2018, and a Westpac Woman of Influence in 2016. She also hosted Season 1 of the Commonwealth Bank’s “Leading Women” podcast.

Shade's deep academic understanding of the art and science of peak performance, blended with her commercial acumen, data-driven content and captivating storytelling, combines to makes her an in-demand global speaker. Shades keynotes are characterised by authenticity, practicality and creating lasting impact.

And she’s also a 3x Australian Latin Dance Champion, so salsa lessons are an added perk.

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Talking Points

Big Trust: The Ultimate Performance Enhancer

Big Trust shows leaders and teams how to neutralise self-doubt, strengthen ownership, and perform decisively under pressure—when it matters most.
Shade Zahrai will guide you through the neuroscience research behind how to embrace an opportunity mindset, how to feel more empowered and focused, and how to more effectively influence others. She will reveal some of the latest evidence-based practices to transform your performance, supercharge your impact, and optimise team engagement.

Who is this for:
Business leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, marketers, small business owners, and anyone faced with change and transformation.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand the neuroscience behind how we respond to change to bio-hack our internal processes for enhanced productivity and performance
- Develop a toolkit of simple mindset mastery strategies to help you thrive and navigate complex emotional states
- Learn must-know tips on how to make these mindset & behavioural changes stick around for the long term

Quiet Confidence, Strong Leadership

Designed for leaders and teams navigating complexity and uncertainty, this keynote builds grounded confidence from the inside out – so people stop second-guessing, start trusting their judgment, and lead with calm clarity.

Embracing an Opportunity Mindset Science-backed Leadership Strategies to Thrive during Change

Change is inevitable. How leaders respond determines everything. This session delivers evidence-based tools to help teams stay grounded, agile, and opportunity-focused under pressure.
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After a big year of change and transformation, we recognised an opportunity to tap into the power of mindset across our leadership team, inviting Shade to facilitate at our first completely virtual Leader Summit. Shade was a dream to partner with on this project. From inception to delivery, she was completely invested in understanding our needs and our people, and designed an incredible workshop that met all of our needs and more. Shade's delivery was highly engaging, inclusive and interactive. She radiated warmth and forged connection, despite the usual roadblocks of virtual delivery, leaving our highly tenured leadership team hanging onto her every word. She was relatable, articulate, obviously extremely credible and authentic. In all my years of running leadership events, this would have to be one of the most successful yet. It has been fantastic seeing the positive sentiment pouring in - and, importantly, hearing how leaders have taken active steps in their communication, self leadership and leading high performance teams. I would highly recommend Shade to any organisation looking for a mindset breakthrough - and I can't wait to partner with her again soon! Optus

I worked with Shade on a large national event series (online) where she was our keynote speaker. She was incredibly proactive and professional. Also, her presentation hit the mark perfectly. I believe that is a credit to her top-notch presentation skills, but also to the amount of preparation and content tailoring she did.

DLA Piper

Thank you for running such an insightful session. It was anabsolute pleasure listening and watching you present. You give off so much enthusiasm and energy it's impossible not to get inspired.

ResMed

My experience of working with Shade was excellent. We reached out to Shade to deliver a virtual keynote to business leaders. The content and delivery was highly engaging and we received positive feedback from attending customers and prospects. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Shade and I look forward to working with her again in the future.

SAP

Huge thanks to Shade for coming and talking to my teamrecently at our annual conference. Shade was able to adapt to our online approach and customize her presentation to theneeds of our dedicated team. Thanks for the insight and skills provided to the team.

Creative Activation

The Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) has engaged Shade Zahrai to present a motivational session Brilliance of Resilience' during HIMAA's inaugural Virtual Conference. The session was so thought provoking, engaging and interactive that we continue to receive a lot of positive feedback from the virtual attendees. Shade was brilliant with her extensive psychological knowledge that she presented professionally. Her advice and examples were relevant, inspiring and applicable to everyone. Shade's warm personality and fabulous presentation skills contributed to the session's success.

HIMAA

During the challenges of Melbourne lockdown, Shade returned to our firm to deliver a two part keynote around the brilliance of constructive resilience. It was powerful and timely to say the least. Her engaging style and impactful message, even when delivered virtually, left us with actionable strategies to help us all get through a challenging time, and an inspirational recharge we all needed. She is incredibly insightful, relatable and what makes her a standout is her commercial acumen combined with her neuroscience backed research. With overwhelmingly positive feedback, I highly recommend Shade to any company wanting to engage, educate and empower their team members.

Moore Australia

Shade hosted a webinar for the Australian Insurance Law Association titled the Brilliance of Constructive Resilience'. The webinar was practical, insightful and perfectly delivered. We received very positive feedback from our attendees. Shade was also a pleasure to deal with in the lead up to the event. I would be comfortable recommending her for any organisation looking for a first class and knowledgeable presenter in her areas of expertise.

Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA)

Shadé Zahrai delivered an insightful and hugely valuable webinar, which was extremely well received. Electrolux APAC & MEA team absolutely loved it! She offered a huge amount of value through her stories and expertise on how to demonstrate a growth mindset not only in thought, but in action. I believe that it was one of the successful webinars that our talent team had provided. As a speaker Shadé is highly engaging, articulate, passionate and has has a remarkable ability to leave a lasting impact through her relatable stories and actionable frameworks.

Electrolux

Shadé exceeded our expectations, kept the entire audience engaged Undoubtedly one of the best talks we have had. The feedback was extremely positive. Generally people ask us for quick talks, but in this case everyone told us that they wanted to continue listening to her. We cannot wait to invite her again!

Proctor & Gamble

Shadé captivated our audience from the get-go. She delivered a keynote for our annual Conference and although the event was virtual, the audience felt like they were in the room with Shadé. Her keynote was highly engaging, relevant and the content touched many members of our audience. I look forward to working with Shadé in the near future.

Chisholm Institute of TAFE

Her techniques for leadership and resilience were very insightful - I received feedback from employees who begun using them next day! Shadé is an upbeat, motivated and positive person. I could have listened to her all day

JP Morgan

Shadé is one of the best speakers we have ever worked with. She knows how to tailor the content to the audience and the sessions were engaging and insightful throughout. We had an overwhelming positive response with thousands signing up to listen, ask questions and learn from Shadé's experience. Shadé is amazing and knows how to keep an audience engaged!

The Female Lead

She did an incredible job! She was engaging, professional and had amazing insights through out. She was invaluable to this event and can't wait to work with her again in the future!

Monster

Shade and the team at Influenceo Global were a breeze to work with! We were very impressed with the level of professionalism and high quality of Shade's delivery, particularly since the webinar was hosted from her home!

DLA Piper

Shade was great! We have received a lot of positive feedback on the event and value she provided the participants. The event was seamless and Shade's presentation and delivery was incredibly engaging “ it's the most participation I've seen from a group here before.

Bristol Myers Squibb

Shade professionalism coupled with her expertise and presence resulted in an incredibly valuable event. Shade was quickly able to understand our needs and adapt to provide a 1-hour session that provided the perfect balance of content, participation, and evidence to really drive an impactful session.

Bristol Myers Squibb Australia

Shade' exceeded all expectations and gave our attendees real life insights and tips to improve both their wellbeing and performance moving forward. If you're looking for a keynote speaker that will 'wow' your attendees, Shade's the perfect fit.

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ)
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