Speaking

Speaking

Leadership is demanding — and increasingly complex.

In a rapidly evolving world, many leaders are still working from inherited beliefs and outdated models of success that no longer align with sustainable performance, wellbeing, or collaborative innovation.

This creates internal and organisational friction: we strive for clarity, meaningful impact, and cohesive teams — yet operate within systems that were not designed for the realities of today.

The challenge is not a lack of capability. It is a misalignment between legacy leadership models and the future we are building.

When Kawtar speaks or facilitates a workshop, she brings what is below the surface, what needs to be seen and heard, to light with lightness.

Her style is authentic, gentle, and yet powerful and makes audiences feel safe in exploring challenging ideas, cutting to the core of what matters, and hearing and seeing what was not yet visible in their life and work.

Audiences and organizations quickly discover where the previously-invisible stuckness is, and begin the process of moving beyond it into what we are really aiming for. She cultivates the clarity, courage, and compassion that support creating cultures of well-being, belonging, and peace.

Leadership is demanding — and increasingly complex.

The challenge is not a lack of capability. It is a misalignment between legacy leadership models and the future we are building.

When Kawtar speaks or facilitates a workshop, she brings what is below the surface, what needs to be seen and heard, to light with lightness.

Keynotes

Holistic Leadership

This talk is about far more than generic work-life balance that leaders have heard a thousand times over and find hard to implement. In fact, Kawtar debunks the very myth of work-life balance. In this talk, she shares the subtle yet critical nuances of the methodologies she works with to help leaders recognize the importance of their personal wellbeing, not as a nice to have, but as a business success imperative.

Kawtar shares real life examples and strategies leaders can begin to implement today. Kawtar sheds light on the real struggles of neuro-divergence, trauma and diversity in workplaces. With humour and depth, she will help audiences recognize how easily they can turn struggles into the exact opportunities that improve their personal and business success.

Conscious Communication and Collaboration Ⓡ

The future of work is here! But first, we have to get through the tough parts. From dealing with hybrid workplaces, return to work conversations, multi-generational workforces, budgetary cutbacks, AI and generalized volatility in business and systems, conversations have become more challenging than ever. This talk brings a breath of fresh air and clarity about why it’s become so difficult to have simple conversations, and more importantly how leaders can rally and align the workforce around a shared purpose, and clear, measurable improvements to daily operations.

How Coaching Tools Can Enhance Your Leadership Culture

Coaching is a profession that unlocks dormant human potential. It is not done in a vacuum. Coaching is a rigorous process that enables a person or system to grow, adapt and excel. But coaching skills and mindsets benefit all leaders.

Kawtar has been a credentialed coach for more than a decade. In addition she teaches, mentors and assesses coaches. In other words, she has a front row seat to how coaching can and does enhance flexibility, adaptability, resilience and success!

In this talk, Kawtar will share with your audience the three keys to integrating a coaching approach into your organizational culture, and how you can get started.

"I had the pleasure to listen to Kawtar during her last speaking event with the ‘She Did It Community’ entitled Emotional Resilience. I deeply resonated with her words because she helped me to put myself right front and centre, so I could pause, take more moments to listen, and honour my emotions.

Her words brought tears to my eyes and a deep sense of being understood, cared for, and supported. Kawtar is a remarkable speaker, speaking from a place of authenticity, leadership, and love. If you want to inspire or empower your audience to step into a life aligned with their purpose and find inner peace, Kawtar is the speaker that you need."

Gaelle Berruel

Motivational Speaker, Mindset Mentor and Wellbeing Expert, Psychologies Magazine Ambassador & Founder of A Rockstar Mindset

“Kawtar creates a safe, inclusive space for challenging conversations that reveal transformative insights. She does so with such wisdom, grace and humility it engages everyone. Her own life-lived experiences are entertaining, inspiring and chock full of life lessons! I love her commitment to creating places of belonging, as she says it, "As long as we need to, we’ll be in it until we change it." Highly recommend this fearless facilitator.”

Susan (Mechley) Lucci

Soulful Facilitator / Mischievous Contributor / Purpose Guide / Essay Mentor

"I witnessed Kawtar speak at the 2023 Women Thrive Summit with grace, compassion, and a masterful ability to captivate the room with her story. I commend her ability to show up 100% authentically while staying in her power as a leader, creator, facilitator, and empowered speaker. I highly recommend Kawtar to speak at any event for trailblazers in their field. Kudos, Kawtar!"

Paige Frisone

Business Owner, Subconscious Health Practitioner, Professional Writer and Speaker

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Kawtar speaks at conferences, in organizations and on panels on the following topics:

Wellbeing & Holistic Leadership

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Authenticity in Leadership

Emotional Resilience

Purpose & Soul Journeys

Cross-Cultural Leadership

Diversity, Equity & Belonging

Women’s Leadership & Entrepreneurship

Men’s Mental Health

The Future of Work

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Media Features

Kawtar Offers Two Workshops at Conferences & Events

Workshops are experiential, interactive & highly engaging.
They are customizable & can be tailored to your organization specific needs.
Duration: 90 minutes - 3 hours

Collaborative Listening®

Listening is a core skill for life and work—one that is often not what we learn in schools or at work. This skill opens the capacities of our full brain, so that we can move beyond the left-brain, rational thinking into whole brain function, accessing intuition and heart intelligence to enhance collaboration and decision making.

This workshop can be expanded to explore listening not only at the personal and relational levels, but also listening to our intuition and deepening our right-brain skills.

Building a Values-Based Culture

Values can be aspirational, or they can be the compass of your business. Aligning your organizational culture with your proclaimed values requires intentional effort as well as the ability to have crucial conversations and make difficult decisions. When your values are the North Star of your business and teams, you begin to create a culture of increased productivity, brand value, and social leadership.

In this workshop, we begin to examine your values and how to translate them into decisions and behaviors.

“It’s both my pleasure and honor to acknowledge Kawtar for her presentation of "Empathic Listening" for the employees of Baptist Health as a speaker in our annual Stronger Together summit. Kawtar's confidence and knowledge drew in the virtual audience and engaged us to learn something new, useful, and inspiring about empathy, a much-needed skill in the modern work environment, especially healthcare. Kawtar has a soothing style and great visuals which helped the audience tap into and explore their feelings. Thank you for inspiring our workforce and helping to open up hearts and minds about the importance of empathic listening. I highly recommend if you're seeking a speaker to engage with Kawtar's deep wisdom and passion for self-leadership!”

Ashley Castle Burnes

Manager, Training and Talent Development Baptist Health – Organizational Development

"I had the pleasure of attending Kawtar’s session on “Listening on Multiple Levels” at The Event 2023 conference in Gatineau Quebec. Despite being unceremoniously interrupted by an audio visual snafu (which continued for several minutes!) Kawtar kept calm, cool, and collected during the incident further demonstrating her own mastery of being present & listening in the moment. Her group exercises were both impactful & timely. I wish we had hours more! If you have the chance to work with this incredible human - I wouldn’t miss it! Thank you Kawtar for being a light in this world!"

Julie Danaylov

Co-Founder, Cirque Revolution

"Kawtar is an engaging & passionate speaker. She has the amazing ability to talk about sensitive topics in a compassionate & understanding way. She is such a kind & warm human to be around & help inspire others to make positive change."

Sarah Needham

Executive Leadership Advisor & Coach - Professional Certified Coach | Chartered Engineer

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