Long Bio for Ciara Lancaster

Ciara Lancaster is an Enterprise Change Resilience keynote speaker who built her expertise the right way, from within the trenches of transformation with clients and teams, not as an outside researcher or futurist. As a former Deloitte Australia Change Lead, she led teams of 500+ through change leadership and digital transformation before turning what she learned into Reimagine Change®, a #1 bestselling book released at the height of the pandemic that named and explored change fatigue years before the term went mainstream. She’s now on a mission to rewire a million mindsets to better cope, adapt and thrive through continuous change.

That blend of lived experience and research has since taken her onto some of the world’s biggest stages. She’s been selected to speak for Atlassian and Citibank. She’s also one of only four Australian women ever invited to represent Australia at the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) Global Conference, the world’s premier gathering for top financial services professionals. In 2025, the United Nations hand-picked her to present to 23 countries on navigating uncertainty, and in 2026, Google selected her to keynote and moderate their first-ever APAC ChangeMakers Global AI Summit in India.

Behind the stage work sits serious academic grounding: a postgraduate degree in Organisational Change Management from the AGSM Business School at UNSW, alongside further study in psychology, neuroscience, economics and compassion cultivation across Sydney University, Stanford and The Mind Academy. That expertise is reflected in how often she’s called on beyond the stage too: her thought leadership regularly features in the Australian Financial Review, Sky News, and Women’s Agenda, and in 2026 she was independently ranked Australia’s #1 LinkedIn Voice for Risk & Resilience by Favikon.

Few change and leadership speakers deliver with the cinematic, high-production energy Ciara brings to the stage, nothing dry or academic about it, just insight people can feel and use. Audiences don’t just leave informed, they leave energised, with the confidence to boost morale and the tools to succeed, today and tomorrow. It’s the same mission that drives everything she does: rewiring a million mindsets to build change resilience and change optimism, one keynote at a time. Let’s Reimagine Change® together.

Short Bio for Ciara Lancaster

Ciara Lancaster is an Enterprise Change Resilience keynote speaker, specialising in change fatigue and change leadership. She’s a former Deloitte Australia Change Lead and #1 bestselling author of Reimagine Change®. She’s been selected to speak for Atlassian, Citibank, and the United Nations. Most recently, Google handpicked her to keynote and moderate their 2026 Global AI Summit. She equips leaders and teams with the practical tools to turn always-on change into spark and momentum.