01Lead Through the Unknown
Maya’s flagship talk gives leaders a practical language for uncertainty — how to make bold calls with incomplete information and bring people with you anyway.
45–60 minute keynote
Leadership summits & company kickoffs
Lead with courage through constant changeThe boldest voice in human potential and impact.
Audiences invite Maya Rhodes to help their people move through uncertainty with more imagination, trust, and decisive action.
Named a Top 10 Voice in Future-Ready Leadership
Trusted by teams across 28 countries
“The most useful hour our leadership team has shared all year.”
Chief People Officer, Northstar
“Maya made a complex future feel exciting—and completely actionable.”
VP Innovation, Fieldwork
About Maya
A voice for everyone asked to lead before they feel ready
Maya Rhodes spent fifteen years inside fast-moving organizations, guiding teams through mergers, reinventions, and the quiet fear that change brings. She learned that the leaders who thrive are not the ones with the best plan — they are the ones with the most courage.
Today she brings that hard-won clarity to stages around the world, blending research, story, and disarming honesty into keynotes audiences talk about for years.
- Former Head of People & Culture at two high-growth companies
- MSc in Organizational Psychology and published researcher on change resilience
- Author of “The Courage to Change”, translated into 11 languages
- Trusted advisor to leadership teams across 28 countries
Signature keynotes
Talks that move rooms — and the people in them
Every engagement is tailored to your audience, your moment, and the change you are asking people to make.
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02The Human Advantage
In an AI-shaped workplace, trust, imagination, and judgment become the rarest assets. This session shows teams how to build all three, on purpose, every week.
Keynote or half-day intensive
People, culture & innovation teams
03Courageous Cultures
Values on a wall change nothing. Maya unpacks how organizations turn conviction into daily behavior — and how leaders model it when it costs them something.
Keynote plus executive Q&A
Executive retreats & culture events
Maya in action
From arena stages to rooms of sixty
The bestselling book
The Courage to Change
Part field guide, part rallying cry — Maya’s book distills a decade of research and hundreds of leadership conversations into a playbook for anyone navigating transformation. Now translated into 11 languages.
“The rare business book you finish and immediately hand to your entire team.”Read Maya’s latest ideas →
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Imagination is a strategy
The organizations that win the future are the ones rehearsing it now. Maya shows leaders how to make room for possibility inside real constraints.
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Trust is a technology
Trust is not a soft value — it is infrastructure. Learn the repeatable behaviors that compound it, and the moments that quietly spend it.
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Change is a skill
Nobody is simply “good with change.” It is trained like a muscle: through reps, reflection, and the courage to stay in the room when it gets hard.
Results
The numbers behind the standing ovations
28
Countries on five continents
400+
Keynotes and intensives delivered
1.2M
People reached live and online
96%
Of clients book Maya again
Trusted by teams at
NORTHSTARFIELDWORKHELIX BANKAURORA HEALTHVANTAGE LABSMERIDIAN GROUP
Reviews
What rooms say after Maya leaves
The most useful hour our leadership team has shared all year.
Chief People Officer, Northstar
Maya made a complex future feel exciting — and completely actionable.
VP Innovation, Fieldwork
Six months later, our managers still use her language every single week.
Head of Talent, Aurora Health
She had 3,000 people laughing, thinking, and then quietly rethinking how they lead.
Global Events Director, Helix Bank