Sarah Cornally

Sarah Cornally

CSP

NSW, AUSTRALIA
Evolving Leaders, Transforming Organisations

Described as a 'frontier rider', inspiring, challenging and provocative, Sarah Cornally is a compelling speaker, with a rich suite of real-life case studies that underpin her unique insights regarding how organisations – from their most senior leaders to the front line – create the environment for everyone to thrive.

Sarah's passion is to enable people to create what really matters to them, and to help organisations and leaders respond to challenge and change insightfully. As a sought-after executive consultant for over 30 years, Sarah focuses on the journey of transformation of leaders and organisations, enabling leaders to create results and engage with others in ways that invite the best people have to offer.

Sarah is someone who explores beyond the boundaries, searching for emergent ideas that leverage the way we live and work together. As a pragmatist, Sarah is interested in what works, and what doesn't, in the real world. Bringing this to all her speaking engagements, Sarah's focus is to give real take-away strategies and ideas with insights to make them work, ensuring her audiences walk away with a new knowledge they can apply.

Sarah was awarded the Nevin Award, the National Speakers Association of Australia's highest award for outstanding contribution to the speaking industry in 2006.

Described as a 'frontier rider', inspiring, challenging and provocative, Sarah Cornally is a compelling speaker, with a rich suite of real-life case studies that underpin her unique insights regarding how organisations – from their most senior leaders to the front line – create the environment for everyone to thrive.

Sarah's passion is to enable people to create what really matters to them, and to help organisations and leaders respond to challenge and change insightfully. As a sought-after executive consultant for over 30 years, Sarah focuses on the journey of transformation of leaders and organisations, enabling leaders to create results and engage with others in ways that invite the best people have to offer.

Sarah is someone who explores beyond the boundaries, searching for emergent ideas that leverage the way we live and work together. As a pragmatist, Sarah is interested in what works, and what doesn't, in the real world. Bringing this to all her speaking engagements, Sarah's focus is to give real take-away strategies and ideas with insights to make them work, ensuring her audiences walk away with a new knowledge they can apply.

Sarah was awarded the Nevin Award, the National Speakers Association of Australia's highest award for outstanding contribution to the speaking industry in 2006.

Why quantum thinking is essential in the face of ambiguity and complexity

Sarah's quantum thinking brings a whole new dimension to leadership, organisational culture and transformation. Known for helping audiences understand the importance of courage, conflict, and systemic perspectives, Sarah's unconventional but profound approach means her presentations take you into new frontiers.

Quantum thinking understands that the complexity of the world means that organisations, people and trends don't follow logical, rational laws. Rather, energy shifts...
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Transformation – What's needed at a personal, collective, and global level

•Transformation means to change form - It asks us to change who we are from the inside out •Everything you can see on the outside of a person, or an organisation, is a product of what's on the inside. You have to change on the inside, to change on the outside. •Transformation is a confrontation of who we are, what we believe and how we show up in the world. •Organisational or global transformation doesn't happen in a vacuum - there are different levels of transformation required. •Leaders...
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Leadership – Start with unconditional acceptance, then insist on radical challenge

Break-through thinking is needed when leaders are facing challenge, disruption and complexity. 
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Systemic intelligence – Discovering hidden resources and possibilities

•Systems thinking is essential in our complex  world, because you cannot understand what you're dealing with, if you only think of challenges or opportunities as a single point of focus. Yet, for as long as we can remember, business has been operating in a mechanistic, linear, logical way. So we actually need to understand what we're dealing with, in its bigger context, and hence it brings this notion of system thinking.

•When we actually start working with systems, and look...
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Courageous Conversations

Effective leadership requires the skills for having courageous conversations. Being able to speak courageously develops trust and fairness, two critical ingredients for engagement. Leaders who commit to this in themselves and their teams have a clear advantage.

A courageous conversation is a conversation where you take the risk of being completely open and honest, with the intention of creating a better outcome for everyone involved.

It is not a 'difficult' conversation, as...

Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing