Something shifts when Em leads a room
She brings a rare combination: the intellectual depth of a scholar, the warmth of someone who has spent decades working across cultures, and the presence of someone who has done her own work. Her talks don't just inform -- they move people. Audiences leave with new language for things they've long felt but couldn't name, and a genuine sense of what's possible next.
Em works closely with event organizers to understand the context, the tensions in the room, and what this particular group of people most needs to hear. She customizes every engagement -- not superficially, but substantively -- so that what lands in the room is specific, useful, and lasting.
Themes and Sample Topics
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Thriving & Flourishing: For individuals and organizations ready to move beyond performance toward something more sustainable and alive.
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What does it actually mean to thrive? Unpacking the research and what it means for you
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Thriving individuals, flourishing ecosystems: how personal and organizational health are inseparable
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Flourishing enactment: cultivating thriving in motion, amid real world constraints
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Navigating Complexity and Chaos For leaders who sense that old maps no longer apply and need new ways of thinking and moving.
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Thinking transdisciplinarily: why the most important questions live between disciplines
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Leading without a map: staying coherent, human and generative as uncertainty increases
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Holding paradox: how to lead effectively when right feels wrong
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Ways of knowing: integrating research, intuition, and lived experience as leadership tools
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Women and Leadership Fifteen years of working with women leaders across cultures, industries, and continents.
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Thriving as yourself: leading fully without conforming
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Authenticity at work: what it really means and what gets in the way
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lets brainstorm mre - i have feedback, bias, netwroking/relationships, so many topics!
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Building Humanistic Organizations For leaders who care deeply about people and performance and refuse to sacrifice one for the other.
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Healthy agreements: the explicit and implicit norms that allow people to sustainably contribute their best
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Cultures of learning: unlearn, learn, relearn -- staying genuinely curious in complex times
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Leading across difference: unlocking collective intelligence in global and diverse teams
Audiences
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Executive Teams and Boards
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Leadership Conferences
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Virtual Events
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Business School Faculty and Students
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Company Townhalls
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Industry Groups / Events
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Women’s Networks
Recent Engagements
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Superpowers Unlocked A grounding experience for incoming leaders at Network School, integrating psychometrics, self-awareness, and the foundations of thriving -- helping people arrive fully and connect meaningfully from day one. (2026, NS, Malaysia)
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Humanistic Leadership (2026, HLA, Virtual)
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Reality Proves Possibility Facilitated sessions exploring how humanistic management principles show up in practice. (2025, Academy of Management)
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Flourishing in Practice (2025, Virtual)
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Building High Performing Teams (2026, Publishing Company, Virtual).
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Thriving into Creative Futures (2025, CCF, Virtual).
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Leading Global Teams: Leadership team retreat (2025. FMCG, Singapore).
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Mastering the Art of Feedback for Women Leaders: (2024, Virtual).
Are you looking for a speaker, event MC or expert facilitator that will WOW people? Inspire? Get people thinking? Create a deep emotional connection? Make people laugh? Propel people to take positive action? If so, then you’d better work with Em Roblin. I’ve hired her across many roles and across many years and she nails it every time.
Tiziana Figliolia
CFO
Hootsuite
