Is your culture one that values learning from both challenges and successes? Are people supported when they share mistakes? Are team members actively contributing to each other’s growth?

Imagine a workplace where lessons, whether from wins, failures, or setbacks, are embraced and shared. A Gift Mindset Culture empowers people to learn, connect, and create psychological safety by transforming experience into insight.

Renée Giarrusso delivers an engaging experience that has audiences asking, “How could we not adopt a Gift Mindset?” Drawing on decades of leadership and coaching experience, she shares practical strategies, personal stories, and the powerful G.I.F.T. process to help people reframe challenges as growth opportunities. By adopting a Gift Mindset, we begin to live our legacy now leading with purpose, connection, and contribution.

Renée has helped thousands of leaders and teams shift their mindset to drive performance, wellbeing, and collaboration. Her award-winning book Gift Mindset® can be bundled with your keynote, personalised with your company logo and a foreword from your CEO.

Keynote Themes:

• What is a Gift Mindset® and why it matters

• The 4 drivers that fuel a Gift Mindset Culture

• The G.I.F.T. process to transform challenges and successes into lessons

• Overcoming common barriers to sharing

• Practical examples: Win Wednesdays, Failure Fridays

• Exploring one of 12 Gift soft skills such as Optimism, Gratitude, Resilience, or Curiosity

• How to embed a culture of openness, growth, and contribution

Optional add-on:
Keynotes can focus on 1–2 of the 12 Gifts (soft skills) most relevant to your organisation’s needs, delivered as stand-alone keynotes or part of a leadership series. All sessions are interactive, outcome-driven, and include a plan to apply the learnings back into the business.

A Personal Journey of Strength, Mindset & Meaningful Lessons

When Renée Giarrusso was diagnosed in 2024 with Stage 3 breast cancer discovered by following her intuition—her world changed overnight. Over the next 12 months, she underwent more than 60 rigorous treatments while continuing to lead her business and deliver impactful work.

In this powerful and deeply personal keynote, Renée shares what helped her not only cope, but grow through adversity: adopting a Gift Mindset®, amplifying optimism, staying in gratitude, and reframing her experience from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me.”

She also dives into the emotional shifts, mindset disciplines, and support systems that kept her grounded, offering insights for navigating any type of adversity with clarity and courage.

This keynote is a message of hope, resilience, and perspective for anyone facing change, challenge, or uncertainty. You’ll walk away inspired, grounded, and equipped with practical takeaways to turn adversity into opportunity.

With AI handling more tasks, the real differentiator in leadership is emotional intelligence (EQ). Renée Giarrusso asks: “What are you doing with the time AI gives back—to connect, lead, and influence?”

This timely keynote explores the human edge in a tech-driven world. Renée unpacks the core competencies of high EQ such as empathy, optimism, self-awareness, and relationship management and how they drive stronger collaboration, trust, and adaptability.

She also reveals how high-EQ leaders outperform, and why developing these skills is essential for future-ready teams and organisations.

You’ll gain practical tools to build EQ in your daily interactions and discover why 90% of top performers rate EQ as critical to success. Walk away with tangible strategies to humanise leadership, build stronger teams, and elevate long-term performance.

Leadership today is complex and ever evolving. With constant change, hybrid work, and rapid tech advancements, leaders must be agile, self-aware, and people focused.

In this high-energy keynote, Renée Giarrusso explores how to go from limited to limitless leadership by focusing on what truly matters. She shares her signature “3 Cs”—Commitment, Communication, and Connection and six superpowers that drive leadership effectiveness in today’s fast-paced world.

Renée challenges old models and empowers leaders at all levels to break through limits, influence with impact, and lead in a way that energises themselves and their teams.

Whether leading self, others, or decisions, this session will reignite your leadership mindset and equip you with tools to lead with greater confidence, clarity, and purpose.

Motivation drives performance—but too many people do what they’re good at, not what lights them up. This keynote explores how to unlock deep motivation in yourself and others for greater energy, engagement, and fulfillment.

Renée helps individuals and teams uncover their top intrinsic motivators through interactive exercises and language-based tools. She brings clarity to what drives us, how to connect it to our roles, and how to tap into the motivation of others for greater alignment and collaboration.

You’ll discover how to build rapport, harness strengths, and connect more meaningfully—even in hybrid or remote environments. This keynote is ideal for teams looking to re-energise, reduce burnout, and amplify strengths in a dynamic way.

Perfect for teams seeking renewed energy, stronger relationships, and higher performance.

In today’s world of distraction and change, effective communication is the gateway to connection, influence, and collaboration. Without it, team performance, trust, and engagement can erode quickly.

In this interactive keynote, Renée shares tools to overcome common communication barriers and build rapport that cuts through noise. She introduces her 2 Sides in 2 Minutes game to boost listening, perspective, and shared understanding making this session both fun and transformative.

Renée explores how to elevate communication across channels—verbal, written, and virtual—while appreciating diverse views and fostering genuine connection.

Expect takeaways you can apply immediately to improve team dynamics, stakeholder relationships, and overall communication impact.

Renée is frequently engaged to facilitate interactive workshops and focused “Skill Pill” sessions—2 to 3-hour immersions that can support a keynote or stand alone as powerful learning experiences. These sessions are ideal for conferences, team off-sites, leadership retreats, or company launches.

Each session is tailored to what’s most relevant and needed in your organisation right now. Combining insight, discussion, and practical tools, Skill Pills are designed to maximise engagement and ROI—creating a rich learning environment for up to 100 in-person participants or 500 virtually.

Renée brings over 25 years of deep expertise across leadership, communication, and mindset development. Every session includes real-time application, hands-on practice, and a clear action plan to implement learnings back on the job. A comprehensive session manual is provided for all participants.

Popular Skill Pill Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Who’s Looking after the Leader

• Emotional & Social Intelligence

• Limitless Leadership

• Mindset Over Matter

• Leading with Optimism

• Review & Renew Habits

• Supercharge Working Remotely

• Adopting a Gift Mindset® Culture

• Self-Management for Productivity

• Re-Energising for Wellbeing

• Leading with Gratitude & Empathy

• Curiosity for Innovation

• Courageous Conversations

• Leading from the Inside Out

• Coaching to Empower

• Cut-Through Communication

• Brand You – Personal Branding

Each Skill Pill session is designed to be engaging, practical, and actionable—providing teams with the mindset shifts and tools they need to perform and thrive in today’s changing world.