Heather Yelland
Powerful Change through People Engagement and Values Based Leadership
“Heather has one of those rare and unique styles that dances elegantly between real and raw story-telling and evidence-based outcomes.”
CEO, Digital Talent Group International
Values: Heather is a leading authority in Values-Based Leadership and teaches people how to understand their own and one another’s values as a means by which to strengthen engagement.
Connection: Heather’s ability to connect with audiences of every size, from children to business people, is incredible and she will teach your audience how to do that too.
Leadership: The new era calls for a new approach to leadership that uplifts and encourages the development of leadership capacity in everyone, rather than harnessing followers.
Culture: Heather understands that a positive and engaging business culture is one of the most significant determinants of business success and she will share powerful strategies to help you create one.
Change: You can learn powerful techniques to create change in a manner that will engage your people and support them to innovate and excel, even during constant and rapid change.
“Same page thinking is laziness, we all are unique with certain common values.”
~ Heather Yelland
About Heather
With formal training in arts, psychology, family and systems theory and business, Heather has been a 'people' specialist for over 30 years. Her ability to get to the heart of what drives and inspires people, what limits them and prevents them from realising their fullest potential, has been the foundation of her work in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the USA and Asia. It also what makes her an incredibly powerful speaker, be it in large or small groups, and resulted in her being invited to be a TEDx speaker.
Heather is a leading authority in Values Based Leadership and is a respected voice in the international arena of business and corporate innovation, consulting, speaking, and coaching.
Having worked with such iconic brands as Macquarie Group, Mars, Origin, East West Consortium (Malaysia), Young President’s Organisation (YPO/WPO Australia and Asia), as well as New Zealand’s largest NGO, major departments of the New Zealand Government and over 180,000 individuals worldwide, Heather specialises in growing people.
Adding Extra Impacts
Heather is a renowned figure in the change leadership, business engagement and leadership development fields, bringing a new architecture to the structure of how we do this work and the impact it has on individual employee satisfaction, team innovation and business growth.
Heather has enormous respect for the importance of structure and clear process and blends this elegantly with a capacity to work with the fluid dynamic of each unique group, regardless of age or context. She is humorous, energetic, powerful, inspirational, challenging, insightful, intuitive, and concise. She also has that unique ability to engage with individuals in the context of a large group, as well as addressing the needs of the group as a whole.
She is a Content Specialist for The Growth Project, a not-for-profit initiative offering an innovative leadership development program that brings together charity and business leaders in an environment of shared learning, to strengthen the skills of both groups and better assist those they serve.
As stepmother to 8 children, Heather also knows what it means to be in the trenches, juggling multiple demands and dealing with the reality of family, business, and community commitments. Perhaps because of this, she has built several innovative companies and attracted extraordinary teams of people who are equally committed to her legacy of providing services that help develop children who believe in themselves, engaged and inspiring adults, and thriving and innovative businesses.
About Green Supercamp
Heather is also the Founder and Director of the highly acclaimed Green SuperCamp™ Australia programme, offering personal leadership, academic acceleration, environmental awareness, and social contribution to children aged 10 to 18 years.
Heather is also one of two anchor speakers for the annual Magic Moments Foundation National Youth and Business Summit, and makes an annual trip to Myanmar, where she provides training for students and teachers at the Brainworks Total Group of Schools.
When you engage Heather for your event, she will ensure the giving impact reaches those for whom access to education is not a given and enable the impact she makes for you in the room to be reflected in educational opportunities for children in India, Africa, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Remote Indigenous Australia.
Watch Heather in action
In this TEDx talk, Heather talks about uniqueness and our common value.
“Compelling. Captivating. Complete. Those 3 simple words describe Heather Yelland. But as powerful as those words are, they don't say enough. She knows precisely how to move an audience in exactly the right direction, and she does it with power where necessary, with humour, with conviction, with humility and above all with love (yes, even for those Finance Execs). Hence the reason for the world 'complete' above. She is the complete speaker, the complete leader.”
Paul Dunn,
B1G1 Chairman and Multiple TED Speaker
“Heather is one of the most remarkable people and speakers that I know. She has an innate ability to cut through to the real and relevant ‘stuff’ that affects the human spirit. She constructively challenges, enables insight and elevates at the same time. She always turns up and presents with an authenticity that needs to be ‘felt’. I highly recommend Heather to anyone.”
Larry Fingleson
Managing Director, Priority Advisory Group and The Growth Project
“Heather Yelland is a world class presenter and facilitator. What stands out is her compassion and her genuine ability to help facilitate the changes needed for the change process to begin in both children and adults. Heather provides excellent value and her presentations are so much fun. Her knowledge is boundless which is why we have had to her 8 years now.”
Jules Bowden,
Chair of Magic Moments Australia (National Youth and Business Summit)
