Kieran Flanagan is the co-founder and chief creative officer of the strategic think-tank the Impossible Institute. She is also a keynote speaker who has been rated in “the top 25 C-Suite Speakers to watch,” by Meetings & Conventions USA, and compared to Edward De Bono and Melissa McCarthy.
An energetic, innovative and fluid thinker, Kieran gets her audiences laughing while they learn how to unlock their genius, make positive change and make change positive through transformational leadership, creative problem solving, and critical thinking.
Kieran’s experience is broad. She has worked with professional services firms to train their future leaders, and with the UN in Singapore to develop strategies to fight human trafficking in Asia. She has run innovation programs for Unilever, Bayer and the NSW and Australian Governments, and she has facilitated cultural change programs for tech giants across multiple continents.
Kieran has been an expert commentator on ABC’s 702 Breakfast Show with Wendy Harmer as well as Channel 7’s Sunrise, Sky Business News and SBS News. She has authored books that include Forever Skills: How to future proof yourself, your team and your kids.
Regardless of her audience, Kieran leaves people feeling filled with the confidence to be more creative, more adaptable and unable to “un-think” what they have just learned. She gives her audiences the tools and techniques to solve problems more creatively. She also gives them new perspectives about themselves and their teams, in doing so, helping them access their inner genius and develop adaptive expertise.
