Keynotes & Trainings

High-impact learning formats across leadership, complexity, and inclusion.

Ideas only matter if they translate into capability.

In fast-moving organisations, leadership, communication, and inclusion are not abstract themes. They shape decisions, culture, and performance in real time. My keynotes and interactive training formats are designed to create intellectual clarity while enabling applied movement.

This is not inspiration for its own sake. It is structured learning that strengthens leadership in practice.

What this work enables

Keynotes and trainings are designed to:

  • Translate strategic clarity into applied leadership capability

  • Surface bias and blind spots in practical, non-performative ways

  • Strengthen communication under pressure

  • Navigate complexity without oversimplifying it

  • Connect identity, authority, and decision-making

These formats combine intellectual depth with structured interaction, so the room is engaged, not passive.

Contexts where this work is often used

Keynotes and trainings may support:

  • Leadership development programmes

  • Strategy kick-offs or transformation phases

  • DEI initiatives requiring depth and nuance

  • Cross-functional alignment sessions

  • Conference audiences navigating sector-wide change

In practice

“Over the past decade, Catherine has led numerous workshops within our organization. She has an exceptional ability to make complex topics accessible, keep sessions engaging, and create space for honest, productive dialogue. People leave her workshops clearer, more confident, and energized.”
— Nele Schnieder, CPO Scholz & Friends Family
Catherine Gaudry and Nele Schnieder, CPO of the Scholz & Friends Family, at a leadership workshop

Focus areas

Common themes include:

  • Inclusive leadership & bias (DEI)

  • Leadership in complexity and transition

  • Organisational communication and clarity

  • Authority, identity, and power in systems

  • Decision-making in ambiguous environments

  • Leading in the age of AI

  • Women’s development and self-advocacy

Each engagement is tailored to context rather than delivered as a fixed keynote circuit talk.

Formats

Every engagement is shaped to your audience and objectives. Formats range from conference keynotes and interactive trainings to strategy-aligned workshops and multi-session programmes. In English, German or French, online or in person.

Formats I run regularly:

  • A group workshop on what presence is, what blocks it, and how to build it: authority, voice, physicality and communicating with clarity under pressure.

    Participants leave with: a clearer sense of how they come across, practical tools for making a point and holding a room, and practice in front of others in a safe setting.

    For: mixed groups at any seniority level.

    Formats: half or full day, shaped to the group. For individual work, see Presence & Presentation Coaching.

  • A practical introduction to how power, bias and microaggressions show up in everyday communication, and what to do about them. No prior knowledge needed.

    Participants leave with: a shared language for difference, and concrete ways to notice bias in everyday interactions, respond to microaggressions, and hold conversations where everyone can contribute.

    For: teams and organisations at any stage of their inclusion work.

    Formats: 4–6 hour workshop, or a training series with longer individual sessions.

  • As AI takes over more of the work, what remains is what makes leadership human: staying steady under pressure, deciding from your values, and raising difficult issues while they are still small.

    Participants leave with: a personal plan for staying steady under pressure, their core values as a check for decisions, a clear structure for raising difficult issues without escalation, and a next step for tensions that can’t simply be solved.

    For: people who lead teams, from corporates to start-ups.

    Formats: keynote (45–60 min), half- or full-day workshop, or two-day training with a behaviour profile and a follow-up session.

  • A space for exchange, reflection and growth, built around four areas: purpose, perspective, position and practice. It covers values, power and bias, authority, presence and self-advocacy.

    Participants leave with: clarity on their own values and narratives, and practical tools for taking up space and advocating for themselves.

    For: women at every level, not only those in leadership roles.

    Formats: two-day programme or individual modules, developed with HR for your context.

Where to start

We begin with a conversation about your audience, strategic objectives, and the shift you want the room to experience.

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