Dr Louise Mahler is a leadership communication scholar, a speaker, coach and best-selling author. who works with the skills of Gravitas to help leaders – from early stage entrepreneurs to international C-suite and board executives – achieve dramatic and measurable change.

Having worked and spoken with thousands of leaders live in Europe, America, China and the Pacific, she has spoken with audiences from small leadership teams to a massive 15,000 corporate events. Mahler’s clients include Gartner, Salesforce, BHP, Transdev, MDRT, NAB, IIA, Adobe and the Chief Executive Women.

For the last three years, she has been voted a top expert in Communication globally, has won two Stevie Awards as well as the highly coveted ‘Speaker of the Year’ Title in Australia and been recognised by IBMs as one of 50 top thinkers.

This all began when, moving from the Vienna State Opera back to Australia, Louise observed a ‘missing ingredient’ in corporate leadership which she has built into the algorithms of communication in high stake engagement.

Today her highly participative sessions leave participants with immediately applicable, extremely useful and thoroughly practical skills which mean you leave knowing, understanding and even embodying the change.

A regular guest on TV and Radio for her acutely observant analysis and advice Louise is a writer for The Australian Financial Review, has two Books, Resonate and Gravitas and most recently has contributed to an International tretise on Trust, The Age of Doubt.

Speaking Topics Include

The Currency Of Trust

Authenticity and trust are now inescapable. People demand them from financial institutions. From leaders. From everyday brands. They are fundamental to success.

Technology is helping, but also hindering. There is no replacement for interpersonal excellence.

In this presentation, Dr Mahler presents practical skills for building credence and restoring the building blocks of trust.

InVISIBLE: For Women In Business

Diversity and inclusion are not achieved without encountering challenges. But in-visibility is a choice. You are responsible for your destiny.

This presentation is about breaking down the barriers, being clever about how you engage with hard conversations, and giving of yourself without hesitation.

It’s about the five key barriers to visibility and how you are responsible for removing them.

Missing Ingredients Of Leadership

Leaders must inspire and engage. That task is more complex than it has even been, a combination of interpersonal skills and the power to navigate today’s communications ably.

Dr Mahler investigates the roles of body language, vocal psychology and patterns of conversation that control presence and influence. Her insight and experience will change the way you think, act and speak to achieve respect and authority.

Overcoming Performance Stress/Towards The Light

PURPOSE: Virtual Program/Live Keynote

Many of us are under stress and the old techniques are not serving us in a Covid-ravaged-world under the magnifying glass of the digital camera. Many struggle to speak, be heard and get the critical messages across succinctly.

Let’s break the myth! Taking a deep breath and relaxing has not worked and in this presentation, we will re-think your patterns and processes in a highly interactive and fun engagement. Dr Mahler will share the 7 key physical and vocal skills and techniques to break your patterns of stress and discover that a framework is the key to feeling secure, sounding trustworthy and exuding professionalism with every word.