Modern leadership isn’t about certainty. It’s about the willingness to embrace change and plan for the unplannable.
Cassie Roma is a leadership speaker, advisor, and former senior executive who helps organisations build brave, human cultures — without burning people out or fixing the wrong things.
After more than two decades inside complex leadership systems, Cassie understands where confidence quietly erodes, why burnout becomes normalised, and how well-intentioned cultures often fail the very people holding them together.
Her work is grounded not in theory, but in lived experience — navigating power, pressure, and change from the inside.
Cassie is known for naming what many leaders feel but struggle to articulate. She challenges outdated leadership models with warmth, clarity, and courage, helping leaders shift from performative culture work to change that actually sticks.
Her talks and interactive sessions blend storytelling, practical insight, and systems thinking — leaving audiences both inspired and equipped.
A compelling and compassionate voice on modern leadership, confidence, kindness, and systemic change, Cassie’s keynotes resonate with leaders navigating uncertainty, growth, and cultural tension.
Audiences often describe her work as a rare combination of grounding and galvanising — a permission slip to lead, live, and work more honestly, humanly, and bravely.
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THE HUMAN ADVANTAGE: Leading with Story, Courage & Belonging in an AI-Powered World
In a world accelerating toward automation, optimisation, and certainty, leadership’s greatest advantage isn’t speed. It’s humanity.THE HUMAN ADVANTAGE: Leading with Story, Courage & Belonging in an AI-Powered World
The Human Advantage is Cassie Roma’s signature keynote on what it takes to lead well in times of rapid change, AI disruption, and constant noise, without losing trust, creativity, or care.
Blending lived experience, research, and powerful storytelling, Cassie reframes leadership for the future, showing why ethics, belonging, and courage are not “soft skills,” but the capabilities that will define highperforming teams and resilient cultures.
This keynote grounds emerging technology in human values and gives leaders the language, clarity, and confidence to build futures where people don’t just keep up, they thrive.
This keynote explores:
Why humanity is leadership’s true competitive edge Storytelling as a strategic tool for trust, clarity, and alignment
Belonging as a performance and innovation multiplier
Ethical leadership in an AI-powered world
Leading through uncertainty without burning people out
A B.R.A.V.E framework for courageous, human-first leadership
Audiences leave with:
A clear, human-first framework for modern leadership
Practical tools for building trust and belonging
Language for navigating change with integrity
Confidence to lead technology, teams, and culture with conscience
Permission to lead as a whole human, not a polished performance
Ideal for:
Leadership and executive audiences
Future-of-work, technology, and AI conferences
Strategy days and senior leadership offsites
Organisations navigating change, growth, or transformation
AN UNLIKELY LEADER: Why Not Fitting the Mould Might Be Your Greatest Strength
This keynote moves people – to laughter, tears, and action. It’s for everyone who has ever felt different in rooms of sameness.AN UNLIKELY LEADER: Why Not Fitting the Mould Might Be Your Greatest Strength
Through stories of her own lived experience, Cassie inspires people to embrace their individuality and celebrate their own unique skills, thought-processes, and definitions of success. An Unlikely Leader is one of Cassie Roma’s signature keynotes that delves into values-led leadership, non-linear careers, and the quiet courage it takes to build impact without chasing approval, titles, or power. Blending personal storytelling, data, and cultural insight, this keynote challenges traditional ideas of ambition and success, showing how curiosity, compassion, and fairness are not detours from leadership, but the path itself.
This is a keynote for people who never set out to “get ahead,” but to make a difference, and discovered along the way that this is exactly what leadership looks like now.
EVERYTHING IS MADE UP - CREATING THE LIFE/CAREER OF YOUR DREAMS:
We’re taught from a very young age how to measure success - at work & in life. We chase titles & awards & recognition & things. But, rarely are the measures we’re taught the ones that we know in our hearts & minds to be the things that make us truly happy.EVERYTHING IS MADE UP - CREATING THE LIFE/CAREER OF YOUR DREAMS:
In this keynote we will look at defining success on our own terms. We will dive into harnessing curiosity & asking “why?” more often. And, we’ll gain a deeper understanding around the power of play, innovation, & unlearning everything we thought to be true.
When we approach the world as a rookie, even experts land on new truths.
Truths that make work & the world better through connection to self & others.
All of which help businesses & brands thrive.
Keywords: collaboration, communication, engagement, productivity, leadership, goal-setting, mental health, leadership, business strategy, HR, people & culture.
HOW TO LEVERAGE CHANGE: LEADING B.R.A.V.E. IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
In How To Leverage Change, Cassie introduces a new leadership stance — not blind positivity, but a grounded, courageous belief in what’s possible, paired with small, meaningful actions that create momentum.HOW TO LEVERAGE CHANGE: LEADING B.R.A.V.E. IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
This keynote equips audience memebers to stay steady, human, and ready whilst navigating the complexity of modern work, AI, and human-first leadership.
This inspiring keynote is a rallying call for leaders ready to choose courage, clarity, and humanity when certainty disappears.
THE IMPACT OF STORYTELLING IN BUSINESS: WHY STORYTELLING IS THE ULTIMATE BUSINESS & COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
Facts inform.THE IMPACT OF STORYTELLING IN BUSINESS: WHY STORYTELLING IS THE ULTIMATE BUSINESS & COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
Stories transform.
In this enlightening and inspiring keynote, Cassie teaches leaders how to use storytelling — not as polish or performance, but as a strategic capability that creates meaning and alignment during change.
This energetic session is a practical look at how to use storytelling as a business strategy, leadership tool, trust-builder, and harbinger of connection.
When everything shifts, story is how humans stay oriented.
THE ART OF YOU: REINVENTION, RESILIENCE, & REFRAMING IDENTITY
Life is a series of transitions — promotions, pivots, endings, and new beginnings — yet most of us are never taught how to navigate them.THE ART OF YOU: REINVENTION, RESILIENCE, & REFRAMING IDENTITY
The Art of You, Cassie reframes change not as
disruption or failure, but as a leadership threshold — one that can become a powerful catalyst for growth and clarity.
This keynote brings B.R.A.V.E. leadership inward, talks to life transitions, and helps people lead themselves through uncertainty so they can lead others well.
This is a deeply human dive into navigating change, identity shifts, and reinvention with courage and care.
EVERYTHING IS MADE UP: THE STORIES WE WERE TOLD, THE SYSTEMS WE INHERITED, AND THE FUTURE WE GET TO REWRITE
In Everything Is Made Up, Cassie Roma invitesEVERYTHING IS MADE UP: THE STORIES WE WERE TOLD, THE SYSTEMS WE INHERITED, AND THE FUTURE WE GET TO REWRITE
audiences to explore how assumptions quietly shape behaviour, culture, and decision-making. And, how unquestioned systems can limit human potential.
Through storytelling, reflection, and a deeply human lens on the digital future, Cassie shows how asking better questions opens new possibilities.
Because if stories and systems were made by people — they can be remade by people.
And the future is still being written.
THE HUMAN ADVANTAGE: WHY STORY, BELONGING & COURAGE MATTER MORE THAN EVER
In The Human Advantage, Cassie Roma delivers a deeply moving, future-facing keynote about leadership, storytelling, and belonging in an age shaped by rapid change, AI, and constant noise.THE HUMAN ADVANTAGE: WHY STORY, BELONGING & COURAGE MATTER MORE THAN EVER
Blending lived experience, research, and powerful storytelling, Cassie shows why empathy, creativity, and courage aren’t “soft skills” — they’re our greatest strategic edge.
Hopeful, grounding, and quietly radical, The Human Advantage leaves audiences feeling braver, more connected, and ready to lead what comes next — together.
OWNING YOUR STORY: FROM INVISIBLE TO UNSTOPPABLE
Every story holds the power to connect, inspire, and create change — but first, we have to believe our own story matters.OWNING YOUR STORY: FROM INVISIBLE TO UNSTOPPABLE
In Owning Your Story, Cassie invites audiences to reclaim the fullness of their journey and share it with honesty, confidence, and care.
This keynote explores how the stories we tell
ourselves shape our behaviour, our leadership, and our sense of worth — and how choosing a new narrative can unlock confidence, clarity, and momentum.
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Cassie is a truly innovative thinker and practitioner in the field of global marketing. She has great insight on how to build your business both locally and worldwide using innovative combin ... keep reading VidCon International
Cassie's special blend of industry insight, strategic thinking, and creative brilliance is truly unlike anything I've ever seen before. She leads with more kindness than I've ever experienced, and has broken more ground in brand storytelling than any other human in her field. Radiating sunshine, ridiculous brain power and a passion for telling stories in the right way - working with Cassie is a privilege
Cassie is magnetic. She lives her life with soul and purpose. Everything Cassie turns her head to in life or work, she contributes her whole self. Cassie has a CV that dazzles, and she delivers for clients above and beyond expectation, with intelligence, thoughtfulness, empathy, verve, attention to detail and her fierce sense of humour. Above all, Cassie is an absolute pleasure to know
Cassie was fantastic, loved her energy and she really connected with the audience. She was very easy to work with and was happy to work with us - would highly recommend.
Cassie was fantastic. Her ability to integrate messaging from the two previous sessions added enormous value to the entire afternoon. It was a privilege to host her.
