Woman in white dress standing indoors with window background

Keynote Speaker

Elevating Leadership
Inspiring Change

With decades of experience in senior leadership marketing roles across top-tier multinationals, Jai Sanderson is a dynamic keynote speaker who ignites transformation in leadership, mindset, and high-performance culture. Known for her engaging, interactive style, Jai delivers impactful presentations that blend cutting-edge insights, compelling storytelling, and actionable strategies to drive real change.

Her storytelling is raw and real, drawing from hard-earned lessons, industry expertise, and the realities of leading in high-stakes corporate environments. 

Participants leave not just inspired but with new insights, strategies, and serious action steps to take their leadership and business to the next level.

Jai’s keynote speaking engagements can be adapted to corporate conferences, leadership development programs, marketing industry & professional association events, women in leadership, corporate events and even lunch & learns.

Here’s What I Cover

  • Mastering trust, psychological safety, and strategic agility to keep teams performing at their peak.

    Success doesn’t come from pushing teams harder—it comes from leadership that knows how to build a team aligned to a clear vision and trust, who own their accountability, share cohesive trust and resilience under pressure, and who deliver on their results. And this is all while maintaining motivation, momentum and psychological safety.

    With the insights from an experienced senior leader who has walked the path, Jai unpacks the key elements that kept her teams thriving under pressure—from knowing how to restore energy and boost productivity, to fostering psychological safety and trust, to embedding a growth mindset and cross-functional strategic thinking.

    This keynote provides leaders with the knowledge and tools to build, maintain, and optimise resilient, high-impact teams that can adapt, innovate, and excel in any environment.

    Core themes: Team Cohesion, Resilience Under Pressure, Growth Mindset, Psychological Safety, Strategic Thinking, Coaching Culture

  • Real stories of silent struggles—and the practical tools to overcome them.

    A raw and powerful keynote that strips back the corporate facade and reveals the personal challenges of leadership.

    Through real stories, deep insights, and practical strategies, Jai helps leaders navigate imposter syndrome, perfectionism, isolation, and burnout, while unpacking some deeper situations she faced along her own leadership journey —working with ADHD in a high-pressure environment; a family member mental health crisis and the impact on the job; when menopause impacts your performance, ; and when your job starts to takes over your personal identity

    You will leave this keynote feeling inspired, seen and understood, empowered and armed with practical tools that can be actioned immediately.

    Core themes: Building Authenticity, Resilience, Mental Well-Being, Emotional intelligence, Mindset Shifts, Empathic Leadership, Personal & Professional Transformation, Work/Life Balance

  • Reframing marketing leadership to drive influence, strategy, and business transformation.

    The corporate landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. Executive Committees are under pressure to meet urgent revenue demands, navigate complex digital transformations, and integrate fast-paced technology and data-driven decision-making. And in the midst of it all, the marketing function needs a new mandate. Today’s CMOs and marketing professionals must transcend “business-as-usual” comms-based marketing and step into their full potential as strategic business leaders.

    Jai delivers a bold, forward-thinking keynote that unpacks the paradigm shift required for marketing to reclaim its seat at the executive table. From mastering cross-functional influence to leading company-wide transformation, this keynote challenges marketing professionals to embrace a new era of strategic leadership.

    You will leave this keynote with a redefined perspective on marketing’s role and a clear framework for the competencies required to thrive in today’s corporate world.

    Core themes: Strategic Collaboration & Influence, Driving Business Transformation, Building & Leading High-Performing Marketing Teams, Impact, Cross Functional Agility