Speaker
Created value is only the beginning.
Kate Dillon helps organisations, teams and individuals get greater return from the valuable work they already create.
Some of the best work in your organisation is probably producing less than it could.
The work itself may be excellent.
A decision gets made and turns up three meetings later needing to be made again. An expert has something genuinely useful to offer, but other people cannot quite pick it up and run with it. Everyone leaves the same meeting agreeing, only to discover later that they were not agreeing about quite the same thing.
A successful project finishes. Much of what it made possible finishes with it.
And now we can create more, faster.
Creating more does not automatically mean getting more from what we create.
Our ability to create is outgrowing our ability to convert.
Kate Dillon's keynotes are about what happens next.
Kate has keynoted and delivered programs for:
Three different places to find more return.
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The CX of You
What is it like to experience you?
___________________________________You are the one person who never gets to experience you.
Everyone else does.
The CX of You turns customer experience back on ourselves: what happens when your judgement, expertise and intentions arrive in somebody else's world?
Funny, practical and occasionally uncomfortable.
Audiences leave seeing their own impact from the other side.
Leadership · Influence · Communication · Personal Brand
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The Traction Zone
How far does your good work actually go?
__________________________________Good work has an odd habit of looking finished before its result has been decided.
The decision was made. The recommendation was accepted. Everyone agreed.
Then it has to leave the room.
The Traction Zone reveals what determines whether valuable work gets picked up, relied on and used, or keeps coming back.
Creating more does not automatically mean getting more from what we create.
Strategy · Performance · Future of Work · AI · Execution
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The Ghost Pipeline
What has this already made possible?
___________________________________Work can finish without being finished with.
A project leaves capability behind, solving one problem exposes another or something built for one purpose turns out to be useful somewhere else.
The Ghost Pipeline is about adjacent possibility: noticing what your existing work has made possible before everybody starts creating something new.
Innovation · Growth · Resourcefulness · Intrapreneurship
“Kate was more than just a keynote speaker, she provided powerful tools such as the CLEVER model to enable our employees to adopt a panoramic view.”
Netwealth - Jessica Toth
You had to be in the room.
The thinking matters. So does what happens in the room.
A room might be testing an assumption they did not know they were making, discovering that the person beside them heard something entirely different, or meeting Bruce, a 40 kilogram Golden Retriever with his own views about communication and opportunity creation.
People laugh, they participate and occasionally they become the evidence.
Then the idea has somewhere to stick.
“Kate brought such an infectious energy; her insights challenged us all to think differently.”
BEGA - People and capability advisor
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"The session was not only insightful but deeply impactful."
Laura Henley
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"Phenomenal. Your energy, insights, and practical tools left a lasting impression."
Ludmila (Mila) Holland
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"More than just a keynote speaker, she provided powerful tools such as the CLEVER model."
Jessica Toth
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"The sessions were high energy and engaging! Walked away with fresh ideas and actionable tools."
Alexandra L Harvey
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"Brilliant presentation and offered such a different take!"
Adrian Byrt
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"Kate has a gift for making complex ideas feel actionable and empowering."
Danielle Mannens
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"Kates session was packed with practical tools and strategies."
Michelle Gurdezi
Kate has had a slightly unusual view of what happens next.
Much of Kate’s career has been spent inside large organisations, where work is tested through scrutiny, authority and consequences that matter.
Alongside it, she built a consumer business from scratch where value had to earn attention, be chosen and survive contact with the market.
The environments were wildly different, but Kate kept seeing the same thing.
Everything makes sense where it is created, then it has to go somewhere.
That question, what becomes of something useful after it is created, now runs through Kate's work across leadership, organisational performance and intrapreneurship.
On stage, she brings serious thinking together with human stories, audience participation and the occasional contribution from a 40 kilogram Golden Retriever.
Kate Dillon CSP
Keynote Speaker · Strategic Advisor · Creator of Opportunity Architecture™
Dual qualified lawyer, Australia and New York, USA
BA · LLB (Hons) · MLM (Commercial Law) · GAICD
Stanford · Harvard · MIT
Certified Speaking Professional
The room can be the beginning
A keynote can create a shared idea in 45 minutes.
What happens next depends on what the room needs to do.
Keynote
A high energy standalone experience built around your audience and event.
Masterclass
More room to apply the thinking to real work, decisions and situations already occupying the audience.
Capability
Take the thinking into the work, helping teams use it in what they do next.
Advisory
Bring Kate into consequential work that needs to be worked through, not simply talked about.