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Rachael Karlyl is a speaker and personal leadership strategist for ambitious humans and the organisations that would quite like to keep them.

Yes, and ...

What Happens When They Give Her a Mic

Each speaking opportunity is designed for your audience, with your event purpose in mind. Here’s a good place for us to start:

Building a career, life and story you actually want to be part of is critical to your feeling success.

You followed the right path. Collected the qualifications, got the promotions and did the things that were supposed to make you feel successful. Maybe you’re not burnt out (yet) but you are asking is this it?

This topic will help ambitious humans to recognise when they are living an inherited, outdated or performative version of success. And, then - give them a practical way to design what comes next without any perfect certainty. The challenge is to transform the audience’s thinking from taking one terrifying irreversible decision into a sequence of curious, human experiments.

Permission to question, curiously.

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But, I thought I made it? Doesn’t feel that way.

The robots are taking our jobs and making us more efficient. But, what are we making space for?

Rachael brings a human perspective to the AI conversation showing people and organisations that as a technical capability becomes easier to access, human differentiation becomes valuable - not less.

This is not an anti-AI keynote. It is a compelling case for developing the judgement, trust, creativity, communication, adaptability and human connection that allow people to use technology without becoming indistinguishable from it. While the robots might be taking our jobs, we will always be able to out human them by knowing ourselves better.

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The Robots are Coming. Bring your Personality.

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Resilience is Burning Out your Best People.

Burnout is not primarily an individual resilience problem.

This topic explores how culture, leadership, expectations and everyday working environments shape sustainable performance. It will also consider the human through a macro lens outside of work.

The goal is to not teach people to tolerate dysfunctional systems more effectively. Rather to help leaders recognise what their environment is producing and give them steps to redesign it. The transformation is seeing long hours as loyalty and quite competence as coping, to rethinking the behaviours we are leading, rewarding and encouraging through our own example.

A call to do better.

Topics: burn out, leadership, executive leadership, design thinking, systems thinking, values led leadership, motivation, confidence, being human in a world of AI, corporate management, professional services, early career design, burnout recovery, goal setting, career and life design, human experience, millennial leaders

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Your event could use a little Rachael.

A keynote to get people thinking. A workshop to get them involved. An MC to keep things moving. A panelist with something to say.

Whatever you’re planning, let’s find the right fit for your room.

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Well, if they are doing it...

A little sneak peek of Rachael on stage.

A snapshot from the Happy Lawyer Happy Life Retreat stage. Rachael shared her personal story and deep knowledge of how design thinking can change your business, life and career, captivating the room with her honesty, vibrance and practical guidance. And, there was a little bit of dancing.

And, if you want more.

Rachael launched Am I Successful Yet? in April 2026 to ask a question: who decided what success was supposed to look like?

Through honest stories from her own life and conversations with guests from all walks of life, Rachael explores ambition, expectations, wrong turns and the moments that make us rethink what we’re chasing.

Turns out, success has more than one storyline.

Podcast, please 🎙️

And, more still.

In her journal Rachael shares real stories of her past experiences and what they taught her as well as theories, concepts and ideas that may help you in the season that you are in right now.

And, if you don’t have a minute to listen the guest podcast episodes, the journal will give you a run down of what happened once each episode is released.

Read Rachael's journal