Keynotes

Kirra doesn’t step on stage to frighten or overwhelm. She steps up to make the complex clear and to show leaders that even the dark side of digital risk can be confronted with courage and clarity.

Her keynotes are both disruptive and inspiring: she explains where systems fail, teaches how to fix them, and leaves audiences with the conviction that leadership in a digital-first world is not about keeping up with technology it’s about shaping it for good.

Leaders leave her sessions not only wiser, but braver. They leave knowing what to do next. And they leave talking about it long after the conference is over. From corporate coaching sessions, conferences and corporate off sites, Kirra works internationally. She is a resident of Florence, Italy, and carries an Australian Passport.

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Leadership in The Age of Digital Chaos

In this uncompromising keynote, Kirra Pendergast strips digital risk back to what it really is: human.

Drawing from her own lived experience as both a target and architect of systems built to withstand harm, Kirra walks leaders through the critical shift from performative response to operational readiness.

This is not about fear. It’s about preparedness. It’s not about policy on paper. It’s about leadership under pressure—when staff are bleeding, the algorithm is whispering, and your community is watching.

Kirra will challenge your assumptions about safety, coaching, and leadership in a digital-first world. You’ll walk away with more than insight you’ll leave with a blueprint.

The Dirty Side of Clean Tech

AI and digital infrastructure are sold to us as seamless, clean even. But the truth is very different.

Behind every search, every click, every “optimisation” lies an invisible network of extraction—rare earth minerals mined under dangerous conditions, billions of litres of water consumed by data centres, and hidden carbon footprints that expand with every deployment of AI at scale.

This keynote unmasks the real ESG cost of digital optimisation and reframes safety as more than protecting people from online harms. Safety must now include environmental stewardship, because the digital systems we rely on are not only shaping societies—they are straining the planet that sustains them.

Kirra takes leaders beyond compliance checklists and glossy ESG reports to show how digital strategy, governance, and sustainability are now inseparable.

She explains the hidden risks, teaches how to measure and mitigate them, and equips leaders with the frameworks to make choices that are safe for people, profitable for business, and sustainable for the planet.

This is not a warning about the future—it is a leadership blueprint for right now.

Leading with Love and Logic

Compliance keeps regulators satisfied. Culture keeps organisations alive. This keynote gives boards and executive teams the strategies to transform digital safety from a paper-based obligation into a trust infrastructure. It reframes safety as a competitive advantage — where employees, customers, and stakeholders experience the organisation as both resilient and human-first.

The Long Haunt - Workplace Bullying

Some companies are born from ambition. Kirra's was born from survival.

After over two years of enduring workplace bullying, Kirra made a decision: if no system would protect her, she would build one that could protect others.

What began as a deeply personal response to harm has since grown into a global company dedicated to safety, trust, and the dignity of people in a digital-first world.

This keynote is both raw and practical. Kirra shares the reality of bullying, not as an abstract issue, but as an experience that can strip confidence, silence talent, and destroy cultures if left unchecked.

She explains how she turned that experience into fuel: building frameworks, systems, and strategies that now safeguard communities, workplaces, and millions of everyday people.

Audiences don’t just hear a survival story. They learn how to lead differently. They leave with the conviction that harm can be prevented, that culture can be rebuilt, and that leadership is measured not by what you endure, but by what you create in its aftermath.

Speaking Highlights

Kirra has delivered keynotes, masterclasses, and public addresses across:

Safety and Digital Governance Summits
The Australian and New Zealand Parliaments
European Digital Education Network (Dublin)
EduTech (Amsterdam)
National Education Summit (AU + UK)
Privacy Conference Hong Kong
Diocesan and Government Professional Learning
Leadership Retreats
International Women’s Day flagship events
Mens Mental Health Conferences

She is regularly called on to brief boards, ministers, and legal counsel and is retained as an expert witness.

Customised Sessions

For Boards & Executives: Governance frameworks that are litigation-proof and culture-proof.

For Schools & Education Systems: Practical, trauma-informed responses to sexual extortion, cyberbullying, and AI-fuelled abuse.

For Regulators & Policy Leaders: Cross-jurisdictional insight into where the pressure points are, and how to legislate for the future—not the past.

For Platforms & Startups: How to bake trust into product design from MVP to scale, aligning safety with growth and investor confidence.

For Parents & Youth Workers: Tools to help young people build critical thinking muscles strong enough to decode a digital world where not everything is what it seems.

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