About Kirra
Lead with Confidence.
Protect What Matters.
An industry pioneer since the early 90s, Kirra has equipped leaders to turn human risk into resilience, trust, and inspired leadership. Kirra is an expert advisor and international keynote speaker on digital and online safety, governance, and human behaviour online. For over three decades, she has been on the frontline of technology, risk, and leadership.
Long before “cyber safety” became a buzzword, she was pioneering strategies to protect people and organisations in a connected world. As the Founder of Safe on Social and Ctrl+Shft, she has built the frameworks, programs, and governance models that schools, corporations, and governments now rely on to keep their people safe and resilient. Kirra is known for her ability to translate complex digital risk into human-centred strategies that safeguard people, strengthen reputation, and build trust.
She works directly with boards, executives, educators, and frontline leaders, helping them not just to respond to risk, but to lead with confidence in the face of constant digital change. As a keynote speaker, strategist, educator, expert witness, writer, and media commentator, she has inspired and educated millions globally. Her impact is measured in the leaders she empowers to step forward, set higher standards, and create lasting cultural change.
Kirra's work proves that protecting people in a digital world isn’t just compliance... it’s leadership. Kirra’s lived experience of being the target of a relentless adult cyberbullying campaign at 43, by someone she once trusted, has uniquely shaped her expertise.
What could have silenced her instead became the catalyst for her life’s work. She calls this experience her “superpower”—not because it was easy, but because it gave her an unfiltered understanding of the real-world impacts of online harm: the isolation, the reputational fallout, the way it can destabilise even the most resilient person. That experience sharpened her ability to offer solutions that are not just theoretical, but practical, human, and deeply empathetic. It taught her what policies miss, what platforms ignore, and what leaders often fail to see until it is too late. This is why governments, schools, and corporations trust Kirra to build frameworks that don’t just tick boxes, but genuinely protect people.
Today, she brings that insight into every boardroom, classroom, and keynote stage she steps onto, showing audiences that digital safety is not an abstract risk—it is lived experience, and it demands leadership. Her work proves that the strongest digital safety strategies are those built with both expertise and empathy, capable of protecting people while strengthening trust, reputation, and organisational resilience.
Australian, based in Florence, Italy, working globally, Kirra’s perspective and fearless voice set her apart. She speaks with the authority of lived experience, the insight of a strategist, and the inspiration of a leader who has turned adversity into purpose.