A keynote that leaves your audience with tools.

Not just a feeling. Something they can use the next morning.

Heidi Dugan has spent 30 years on stages across four continents — from Chinese national television to Fortune 500 boardrooms. Her keynotes combine that lived authority with the precise, practicable frameworks from The Power of Presence.

Your audience will leave the room knowing exactly what to do differently. And why it works.

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Signature Keynotes

Heidi's signature talk. Why capable women are invisible in rooms that should be theirs — and the precise, learnable skill that changes it. Draws on 30 years of lived authority to give audiences a framework they can apply immediately.

Available in 30, 45, or 60-minute formats. Keynote or workshop format.

Becoming Unstoppable:

Presence When Half the Room

Can't See You

Heidi's TEDx keynote speech. Concrete techniques for commanding attention, building trust, and projecting authority — on screen and in person.

Achievement vs Authority:

What Changes When

the Game Changes

At a certain level, output stops being the differentiator. How you are experienced becomes the differentiator. This keynote helps senior leaders understand what shifts — and exactly how to make that shift in their own rooms.

The New Currency of Influence:

Women, AI, and Executive Presence

As AI raises the baseline for knowledge work output, presence and authority become more decisive — not less. What makes senior women indispensable in a world where work product is becoming cheaper.

Custom Keynote

Heidi works with event producers to develop bespoke keynote content for specific themes, industries, or audiences.

What event producers say

These are not transformations that took years. They happened in weeks. Because presence is not a journey — it is a skill.

And skills, when taught precisely, change fast.

★★★★★

Heidi's keynote was the highest-rated session of our two-day leadership conference. She gave the audience something they could actually use — not just inspiration that fades by Monday.

Conference Producer — Global Financial Services

★★★★★

She commanded the room from the first sentence. Our senior leaders were taking notes — that doesn't happen with every speaker.

Head of L&D — Global Pharma

★★★★★

We booked Heidi for our women in leadership offsite. What struck me was how specific and practical she was — the audience left with tools, not feelings.