Holly Ransom

Topics

• Change Management
• Creativity / Innovation
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Female Speaker
• Generations
• Inspirational
• Leadership
• Social Responsibility
• Women In Business
• World Affairs

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Holly Ransom is a global voice on leadership, change, and high performance cultures - helping leaders lead what’s next.

Holly advises Fortune 500 companies, governments, and trailblazing brands like Microsoft, Virgin, and P&G on how to build future-ready teams, drive cultural change, and lead through complexity.

A globally sought-after keynote speaker, emcee and master interviewer, Holly has captivated audiences in 25+ countries across 6 continents - and is trusted by brands like Coca-Cola, Volvo, Mastercard, and EY to elevate their most critical events.

When Barack Obama visited Australia in 2018, he personally selected Holly to moderate their conversation. Since then, she’s interviewed, leaders and icons including - Sir Richard Branson, Malala Yousafzai, Malcolm Gladwell, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Venus Williams, Brené Brown and Matthew McConaughey - transforming every exchange into a masterclass in leadership through her signature mix of curiosity, clarity, and fearless questioning. 

Holly has earned the U.S. Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence, co-chaired the G20 Youth Summit, and the UN’s Coalition of Young Women Entrepreneurs. She delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama and is a Fulbright Scholar from Harvard Kennedy School, Class of 2021. 

She is also the co-founder , event designer, and lead moderator of Energy Disruptors: UNITE, the award-winning summit voted Canada’s Best Conference three times.

Her bestselling book, The Leading Edge, is a practical playbook for navigating disruption and unlocking high-performance cultures - used by leaders and teams across the globe.

Offstage, Holly is passionate about mentoring the next generation, championing intergenerational collaboration, and bringing leadership insights to the world of high-performance sport. When she’s not advising global leaders or igniting rooms full of changemakers, you’ll find her on a sunrise run, baking something delicious, or brushing up on her already impressive Spanish.