Keynote Speaking
Thought-Provoking Keynotes on Women’s Careers, Burnout and Conscious Leadership
Tanya Perry-Iranzadi speaks to organisations, leadership teams, women’s networks and conferences about the systems shaping women’s experience of work, and what must change for women to remain, rise, thrive and sustain meaningful careers.
Leadership Development
Burnout Prevention
Organisation Design
Corporate Restreats
Keynote Topics
Women’s Career Longevity
Creating the Conditions for Women to Remain, Rise and Thrive
Women’s career longevity is about more than retaining women in roles. It is about creating the conditions in which women can continue to contribute, lead and grow across the changing realities of their lives.
This keynote explores why experienced women burn out, step back or leave, not because they lack ambition or capability, but because the systems around them often require chronic adaptation, endurance and self-sacrifice.
Audience outcomes
- Understand why retention alone is not enough
- Identify the conditions affecting women’s career sustainability
- Recognise the organisational cost of women stepping back or leaving
- Reframe career longevity as a leadership and business priority
Women’s Burnout Prevention
Understanding the Hidden Architecture Beneath Women’s Depletion
Women’s burnout is rarely caused by workload alone.
This keynote introduces The Hidden Architecture of Women’s Burnout™ and The 9 Layers of Women’s Burnout™, helping audiences understand the organisational, personal, physiological and relational forces that contribute to depletion.
It moves the conversation beyond resilience and wellbeing initiatives towards a more complete approach to burnout prevention and career longevity.
Audience outcomes
- Understand why women’s burnout is often missed until it is advanced
- Recognise how workplace systems and lived experience interact
- Identify patterns contributing to over-responsibility and depletion
- Develop a stronger language for burnout prevention
Conscious Leadership
The Everyday Moments That Shape Women’s Careers
Women’s careers are shaped not only by policies, programs or promotion decisions.
They are shaped every day by leaders’ decisions, assumptions, advocacy, silence, support and behaviour.
This keynote introduces The 12 Ways Leaders Impact Women’s Careers™, showing how leaders influence women’s voice, visibility, opportunity and sustainability.
The focus is not blame. It is helping leaders recognise the influence they already hold and use it more consciously.
Audience outcomes
- Understand how leaders shape women’s careers in everyday moments
- Explore the four domains of Voice, Visibility, Opportunity and Sustainability
- Turn supportive intent into practical leadership behaviour
- Recognise assumptions that may unintentionally limit women’s progress
Speaking Formats
Keynotes can be tailored for:
- Conferences and industry events
- Executive leadership teams
- Women’s networks
- People and Culture events
- Leadership forums
- International Women’s Day
- Psychosocial risk and wellbeing events
- Corporate retreats and offsites
- Mixed-gender leadership audiences
- Senior women’s development programs
Available formats include:
- 30, 45 or 60-minute keynote
- Keynote with Q&A
- Keynote plus facilitated workshop
- Half-day leadership session
- Tailored workshop or training program
- Conference or retreat program by design
Bring a Deeper Conversation to Your Organisation
Tanya’s keynotes are designed to move audiences beyond inspiration into insight, language and practical action.
They help organisations understand the systems shaping women’s retention, burnout and career longevity and the leadership shifts required to create workplaces where women can remain, rise, thrive and sustain.
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Create a Workplace Women Do Not have to Survive in Order to Succeed
When You Get in Touch, You Can Expect:
Recommendations tailored to your audience and event
A no-pressure conversation about the right fit