Bold thinking about the biggest challenges of our time
A speaker like no other
Caroline’s Keynote:
‘Higher Order’ Leadership To Rebuild Our World
With a background in the performing arts coupled with a vigorous and enquiring mind, Caroline is a brilliant and visionary speaker, who brings to her talks not just an informed and intellectual understanding of the problems our world is facing, but with a dynamic approach that is guaranteed to move and inspire you at a profound level and have you leaping from your seat, ready to change the world!
Caroline’s key note speech, ‘Higher Order’ Leadership To Rebuild Our World’, is based on her personal story of building China’s first non-profit dedicated to using the arts and creativity to develop leadership skills at the bottom of China’s economic pyramid, with migrant women at the centre of China’s industrial transformation and rise to power. With lived experience on the most challenging geopolitical relationship of our time, Caroline’s unique insights into the reality of what China’s rise means for the world, at the coal face of one of the greatest economic and social transitions of recent times and it’s implications for global leadership, make her a leader of authenticity and integrity. And it makes her an inspiring and authoritative speaker on the state of global governance and leadership today.
Caroline’s journey since leaving China, and subsequent years of living in Europe, continuing to work in Asia, North America, and the Middle East, have helped shape her thinking on what it means to move towards a truly multi-polar world, challenging existing structures of power and emerging into new possibilities of collaboration with diverse actors across the world. Drawing on her background and training as an actor, Caroline beautifully integrates performance, poetry, spoken word, music and thought leadership into speeches and talks that both inspire and move others to take action too.
Talks can also combine with interactive workshops and team-building sessions, as well as longer-term consulting and transformation initiatives in partnership with The Centre for the Arts and Global Leadership
Watch Caroline’s Ted talk here
Caroline's remarkable story of setting up a social enterprise in China in the 2000s and the impact that it has had on her leadership journey and understanding of the world makes her an authoritative and inspiring speaker, guaranteed to shift thought and inspire action for your teams
Business-specific talk
Global(e) Leadership Skills
Based on Caroline’s upcoming book of the same name, Global(e) focuses on the core skills needed by today’s leaders to manage in today’s fractured world. Building on the framework of the World Economic Forum’s 21st century skills, Caroline will give practical examples on how culturally-sensitive leadership of integrity, creativity, compassion and adaptability can give today’s leaders an edge in managing the complexity of our current and future realities across the world.
All talks can be combined with in-person workshops, longer-term consulting engagements, as well as opportunities for your teams to come on retreat to Clos de Gaye in south west France.
Thought Leadership:
New Models of Leadership and Global Governance
The crises of the past few years, in particular the collapse of the moral authority and the rule of law in the United States, coupled with the emergence of China and the Global South, is calling for an urgent reassessment of the legitimacy and effectiveness of our current systems of global governance in order to better protect against the threats of climate change, global conflict and artificial intelligence.
Leveraging her background and knowledge of China and the Global South, coupled with a commitment to ‘higher order’ leadership that goes beyond just legal and ‘technical’ frameworks, Caroline brings to the debate fresh thinking in what has lead us to this crisis point and what is needed now.
Suitable for multi-lateral institutions, think tanks, governments and businesses, Caroline’s thought-provoking talk invites us to radically reassess the assumptions we have made about how our world works and offers bold new thinking on what needs to change at an individual, national, and global level.
Deep-dive talk:
Spirituality and Transformative Leadership
The enormity of the crises we are facing in our world today are calling on us to reach a new level of consciousness in what is going to be required of us all as individual leaders. The most effective leaders our world has ever known, those who literally changed the face of the world, understood the power of deep personal growth and a commitment to bringing the ‘human in line with the divine’ (Martin Luther King) in order for us to overcome the barriers of oppression, division and conflict.
Suitable for business and government leaders, as well as schools and educational institutions, Caroline powerfully illustrates how the most extraordinary leaders our world has ever known - the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - gave us a legacy of leadership borne of something bigger than ourselves, and invited us to consider what a world empowered by spirituality might look for our individual and collective futures.
Full list of speaking topics include:
Speaking, consulting and thought-leadership on the most challenging issues of our time
Global governance and Systems Change
China and the Emerging World
The Role of Europe
Being human in the age of AI
Empowering Potential and Enabling Human Flourishing
Diversity of thought and Social Inclusion
Arts, Culture and Creativity
Education and Skills for the 21st Century
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Women’s Empowerment and Feminine Leadership
Migration, Mobility and Movement
Love, Marriage and Parenting
Spirituality and Transformative Leadership
Living through Love not Fear
