Gleding speaking
"Thirteen years on stage. One message that sticks."
Early childhood is the most important leadership topic of our time, and the most human. I also know that this perspective is a bit new to many, we have been brought up thinking that we have a professional life and a private life - without knowing that these two worlds of ours, are so intertwined.
So the talks are made carefully around stories, well documented research and practical tools to make your people thrive and perform at their best.
If you want pure entertainment, find a someone else. If you want lasting change, new perspectives and to give your people an authentic experience - humour and painful truths combined, bring me to your stage, your conference or your team.
Keynote
Keynote
The main stage
20-60 minutes that reframe how a room thinks, for conferences, leadership events, school and parenting events.
Workshop
Workshop
Lets engage
A working session that turns the ideas into practice, for groups and teams from five to a hundred people. Tailor made with you. I deliver workshops from a few hours, to full day experience.
Fireside and panel
Fireside and panel
In conversation
A hosted conversation or panel appearance, flexible, personal and easy to build an event around.
1350+
talks and workshops
4x
bestselling author
3x
Top 5 speaker of the year
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The keynote
Topics
Feel safe, achieve more
When Google spent two years studying what makes its best teams work, the single strongest predictor wasn't talent, experience, or process, it was whether people felt safe enough to speak up.
In Feel Safe, Achieve More, Siri Abrahamsen connects that finding to a bigger truth: the psychological safety high-performing teams need is built through how they're met, not managed. Practical and research-grounded.
The advantage of discomfort
Resilience is not a personality trait - it's trained
Resilience isn't a personality trait, it's trained, the same way an athlete trains. Drawing on her own years as a competitive junior tennis player and a decade coaching mindset and self-leadership, Siri Abrahamsen shows audiences why discomfort, not comfort, is where real growth happens — and gives them a concrete, repeatable way to build the mental strength to keep going when it's hard.
You'll leave with: why optimists solve more problems (and it's a skill, not a personality), the difference between pushing through and building real resilience, a personal framework for staying steady under pressure, drawn from competitive sport and 19 years of coaching.
Fits: general conference audiences, personal-development tracks, corporate offsites, association conferences.Small actions, big differences
Quality of life is built from tiny actions and habits
Siri Abrahamsen shows why recognition (not the same as praise), small daily choices, and genuine human connection do more for wellbeing and belonging than any single grand gesture, and gives audiences something they can act on before they leave the room.
You'll leave with: the real difference between recognition and praise, why an environment is the sum of what everyone in it does, a practical model for building belonging into everyday life and work.
Fits: wellbeing days, HR/culture conferences, community and public-sector audiences, association events.