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About Carren Smith

Carren Smith is a powerhouse keynote speaker, entrepreneur and thought leader exploring one compelling question: "How do we create futures that is more than just an optimised past."

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Following the loss of her partner to suicide in 2001 and surviving the 2002 Bali Bombings, Carren developed a lifelong curiosity about human potential.

 

She asks "why do some people and organisations expand through adversity while others remain defined by it?"

 

This question has shaped more than two decades of research into leadership, psychology, neuroscience, human behaviour, organisational development and high performance.

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Having built and led hundreds of businesses and spoken to more than one million people in over 4000 professional presentations world wide since 2009, Carren partners with organisations ready to move beyond incremental improvement.

Through thought provoking and innovative presentations, Carren captivates her audiences by keeping them on the edge of their seats. Her natural humour,  engaging style and high energy approach ensures audiences are left inspired to change, lead, leverage and uplevel.

 

Her pioneering frameworks of Residual Reality™, The Biology of Behaviour and The Identity Trap help leaders understand how today's reality has been created, and how to unlock the imagination, courage and Creative Agency required to create a future that has no evidence... yet.

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Key Note Presentations

Carren Smith helps audiences recognise the invisible forces that carry yesterday into tomorrow. She shows them how to interrupt those patterns and create from a future they have yet to experience.

All Keynotes and workshops are highly tailored to create memorable, tangible and experiential content that can be implemented immediately for lasting flow, change and empowerment. 

Below are some examples to explore:
 

The Evidence Gap

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Evidence-led limitation VS

Future-led creation
 

Your teams will leave asking:

  • What are our current results actually revealing?

  • Which patterns are we unconsciously carrying forward?

  • Where are we optimising the past instead of originating something new?

  • What does the future we can see require of us today?

  • How do we allow that vision to begin reorganising the present?

    In this Keynote, we bring tomorrows thinking into today and side-step common traps that secretly sabotage innovation by exciting curiosity and creativity.

     

The Biology of Behaviour

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Why do intelligent people continue repeating behaviours they've already decided to change?

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We assume behaviour is largely a conscious choice.

Yet so much of human behaviour is driven by patterns that have been rehearsed until they become increasingly familiar and automatic.
 

In this Keynote explore:

  • emotional and physiological states;

  • neurochemical signalling;

  • repeated patterns;

  • neural plasticity;

  • behavioural conditioning;

  • pressure responses;

  • the relationship between state and action.

Leveraged Leadership

 

The IDENTITY TRAP is an invisible anchor forcing mediocrity when  flow and expansion are critical.

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How do leaders expand impact without multiplying effort?

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Many leaders are operating at the edge of effort.

They're working harder, making more decisions, carrying more responsibility, managing more complexity and trying to create better outcomes through greater personal output.

But there is a ceiling to effort.

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This Keynote Leverages a different question:

 

What can change in the way we lead that creates a greater effect without requiring an equal increase in force?

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