Clare Edwards

Clare Edwards

BRK, UK
Energised, enthusiastic change Facilitator and Speaker with a Vision to have people jumping out of bed to come to work

Clare is a highly motivated organisational development professional with extensive experience in the hospitality industry and corporate business. Her particular strengths lie in her intuitive ability to sense challenges and opportunities in inter-team dynamics, to help organisations create or enhance their culture and to facilitate sustainable change through people.


An energised, enthusiastic and passionate Speaker and Facilitator, Clare combines her knowledge, skills and experience to engage her audiences on a number of topics including Thriving in Change, Mastering your Bouncebackability™ with Resilience, The Art and Science of Positometry™ and The Power of Story for Business Leaders.


Clare spent 16 years working at senior management level with International Organisations (McGraw Hill, SAP, XO Communications) before transitioning into people development. She worked with 2 leading UK team development companies, assisting key clients including The Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to take their teams to the next level of performance.


In 2005, Clare relocated to Australia, Queensland's Sunshine Coast, where she consults and facilitates various programs for her corporate, not for profit and public sector clients.


Clare holds a Diploma in the Neuroscience of Leadership, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from the University of West London and is a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Team Management Systems® (TMS) Practitioner and Aus Identities® Personality Profiling Practitioner. She holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and is a Member of the National Speakers Association of Australia (NSAA) and The Australian Institute of Management. She has also studied the Foundations of Positive Psychology with The University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal & Professional Studies and is currently completing a Diploma of the Neuroscience of Leadership.

Clare is a highly motivated organisational development professional with extensive experience in the hospitality industry and corporate business. Her particular strengths lie in her intuitive ability to sense challenges and opportunities in inter-team dynamics, to help organisations create or enhance their culture and to facilitate sustainable change through people.


An energised, enthusiastic and passionate Speaker and Facilitator, Clare combines her knowledge, skills and experience to engage her audiences on a number of topics including Thriving in Change, Mastering your Bouncebackability™ with Resilience, The Art and Science of Positometry™ and The Power of Story for Business Leaders.


Clare spent 16 years working at senior management level with International Organisations (McGraw Hill, SAP, XO Communications) before transitioning into people development. She worked with 2 leading UK team development companies, assisting key clients including The Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to take their teams to the next level of performance.


In 2005, Clare relocated to Australia, Queensland's Sunshine Coast, where she consults and facilitates various programs for her corporate, not for profit and public sector clients.


Clare holds a Diploma in the Neuroscience of Leadership, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from the University of West London and is a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Team Management Systems® (TMS) Practitioner and Aus Identities® Personality Profiling Practitioner. She holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and is a Member of the National Speakers Association of Australia (NSAA) and The Australian Institute of Management. She has also studied the Foundations of Positive Psychology with The University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal & Professional Studies and is currently completing a Diploma of the Neuroscience of Leadership.

Navigating Change from a BrainSmart Perspective

In 1985, John Kotter, change management guru, identified that up to 80% of organizational change initiatives were failing. Fast forward nearly 30 years and that statistic hasn't changed. What has changed is an understanding of WHY change is so hard.

Navigating Change from a BrainSmart Perspective brings together new knowledge of how the brain processes change together with Clare's 30+ years' experience of being a people and change manager and facilitator.

Though every keynote...

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Mastering your Bouncebackability™ with Resilience

Resilience isn't a 'nice to have' quality, it's a critical skill. With ever increased levels of stress in the workplace we need to apply the 90:10 rule. 10% of what happens to us we can do thing about, it's how we respond to the other 90% that makes the difference between floundering and flourishing. 

Clare will take you on a journey of challenge and inspiration as we study together the strategies that highly resilient people employ and how we can all develop and master our...

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Inspiring Leadership through the Power of Story

Stories have been used for millennia as the most effective medium for getting one's message across. Today indigenous cultures around the world still use this oral tradition as the sole means of conveying their laws, sharing their history and inspiring the next generation. 

Join Clare as she shows you the true power of story in Business or Education as a 'Leadership for Life' tool. As shown in her book, 'A Sprinkling of Magic', learn how to transform dry data into inspiring...

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Think back to a time when you worked for a leader who truly inspired you. Was it the policies they implemented or the technologies they chose? Or, rather, was it the way that they thought, the way that they behaved and the way that they communicated that made the difference? 

Thanks to advances in brain imaging technology over the past decade, we now know what it takes to be that inspiring leader from the perspective of the brain, it's called Neuroleadership. 

In...

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