Penny Locaso Travels from Melbourne, VIC

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Business Success
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Mental Health
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Penny helps leaders do hard things humanely, so they can excel without exhaustion and build organisations people are proud to belong to. Her work focuses on equipping leaders to make real-world impact that extends beyond performance, impact that reshapes culture, improves wellbeing, and builds a better future for business and society.

As AI reshapes the rules of work and leadership, Penny supports forward-thinking leaders to stay relevant by using AI ethically to amplify influence, deepen human connection, and lead with integrity in an increasingly automated world.

She brings a unique depth of experience as a trauma therapy–trained facilitator, internationally recognised coach, and global speaker. Her work draws on behavioural science, psychology, original qualitative research, and 20 years of commercial leadership.

Penny created the world’s first Intentional Adaptability® framework, a future-fit skillset for thriving in complexity and uncertainty, which was published in the American Journal of Consulting Psychology. She’s not afraid to call out what isn’t working and is committed to making impact measurable, not just motivational.

A published author, Penny has worked with senior leaders at Google, Microsoft, Deloitte, the Australian Defence Force and more. Her bold, evidence-backed approach to redefining leadership has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Australian Financial Review, Women’s Agenda, and on the TEDx stage, to name just a few.

She is also a qualitative researcher, publishing whitepapers that expose the unseen barriers holding women back from leadership and offering practical ways for organisations to dismantle them and create cultures where more voices can make an impact.

As a trained yoga teacher, Penny brings grounded clarity and calm into every room helping leaders reconnect with what truly matters and show up with courage, compassion, and integrity.

In a world where AI is automating expertise and speed is rewarded over depth, Penny’s work focuses on what makes leadership distinctly human. Her programs cultivate the emotional clarity, wise decision-making, adaptability, and compassion that machines can’t replicate, so leaders can stay relevant, build trust, and drive meaningful impact that lasts.

Keynote Titles

Reimagine leadership for relevance, influence, and ethical impact in an AI-powered world
Lead through pressure without losing your humanity
Excellence without exhaustion
Build future-fit capability that tech can’t replace
Women in Leadership

Testimonials

Penny was passionate, articulate, dynamic and added a lot of value to our panel discussion. She was also a delight to deal with and we would love to work with her again.

Salesforce

I had the honor and the pleasure to host Penny as a Keynote speaker at our annual meeting. She delivered a great experience and an extremely inspirational speech in front of a couple of thousand people. The content of the Fear Is Your Future talk and the way it was delivered caused a great impact and her interaction was awesome.

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