High-Impact Speaking Topics
The Perceptive Advantage™
How perceptiveness accelerates leadership, trust, and execution

This flagship keynote introduces The Perceptive Advantage™, the capability that underpins effective leadership, strong culture, and consistent performance.

Elly challenges a common assumption: that most organisational breakdowns are communication problems. In reality, they are perception problems. Leaders miss early signals, misread behaviour, or act too late because the truth does not surface in time.

In this keynote, Elly shows audiences how perceptiveness strengthens four critical leadership capacities: awareness, interpretation, communication, and action. 

Participants learn how to recognise subtle cues, interpret what they mean, and respond earlier and more effectively.

The result is clearer decision-making, stronger trust, and fewer surprises.




Best for:
CEOs, senior leaders, executive teams, and organisations navigating complexity or change.

Results organisations experience:
  • Faster, more confident decision-making
  • Stronger trust and alignment across teams
  • Earlier detection of cultural and operational issues
  • More consistent leadership behaviour and execution
Five key takeaways:
  • Why perceptiveness is becoming one of the most important leadership capabilities
  • The four capacities that make up The Perceptive Advantage™
  • How to notice and interpret hidden cues before problems escalate
  • The link between perceptiveness, trust, and culture
  • How leaders can act earlier with clarity and confidence

“Being a trusted leader isn’t about having all the answers - it’s about creating the conditions where truth, trust, and transparency can thrive.”

TRUST as the Foundation
The advantage behind connected teams and thriving workplaces

Trust isn’t just a nice to have - it’s a performance advantage. When trust is strong, communication flows, collaboration thrives, and teams feel safe to speak up, step up, and show up fully. When it’s missing, everything slows down, shuts down, or falls apart.

In this keynote, Elly explores how trust works at the human level - and why it’s built (or broken) in everyday conversations, not grand gestures. With insights drawn from her Trust Wisely™ principles and her experience working across leadership, law enforcement, and culture change, Elly unpacks what it really takes to build trust that lasts.

Participants will gain:
  • A practical understanding of the trust behaviours that matter most
  • Insight into how leaders shake or strengthen trust - often without realising
  • Tools to calibrate communication and model trust consistently
This is a powerful session for organisations that want more connected teams, stronger leadership, and a culture where people do their best work - because they trust the people around them.

Ideal for: Leadership programs, culture initiatives, team offsites, values-driven organisations, or any setting where trust needs to be rebuilt, strengthened, or embedded as a foundation for performance.



 


The Wonder Woman Effect
Empowering professional women to lead, speak, and live with truth, trust, and courage.

An inspiring, memorable keynote for professional women ready to step into their power with authenticity and confidence. 

Drawing on her law enforcement background and Wonder Woman inspiration, Elly shares superhero-inspired insights that help build confidence to live and lead authentically.

Through warmth and storytelling, she empowers women to find their voice, trust themselves, read the room and create meaningful impact in work and life.

Outcomes:
  • Build self-trust, confidence, and influence
  • Communicate with authenticity and courage
  • Challenge limiting beliefs and lead with purpose
  • Strengthen relationships through openness and connection

 

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What People Are Saying...
Hear from attendees at some of Elly's events...

 



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Some of Elly's Clients...
Testimonial: "I had the privilege of hearing Elly speak at the SCA Australasian Conference in Hobart in May 2025, and her impact was immediate and lasting. Elly’s session on Truth Intelligence and Trust Wisdom was one of the most powerful I’ve experienced in my professional career.

She has a remarkable ability to guide people and teams into deeper self-awareness and stronger connection, all through the lens of truth, trust, and courageous communication. One statement in particular has stayed with me: “The most powerful teams and connected relationships share one invisible foundation: the ability to create environments where truth can flourish and trust can thrive.”

That insight perfectly encapsulates what Elly brings to every room she enters – a focus on creating safe, honest, and empowering spaces. I took her message back to my team in New Zealand, and it has reinforced the core values we work hard to live by every day.

Elly is not only a gifted speaker but also a catalyst for meaningful change in leadership and workplace culture. I wholeheartedly recommend her to any organisation looking to foster deeper trust, stronger teams, and a more authentic culture."

Anita Reinecke
President & Board Member | Strata Community Association New Zealand (SCA (NZ))
“In a world driven by data and technology, our greatest advantage is still human - the ability to build trust through real connection.”
Elly Johnson

Elly is based in Australia and speaks globally. In person or virtual events.

Proud member of the Aussie Speakers USA team - taking professional Australian speakers to more stages in USA.