As CEO of Emergent Global, Holly Ransom 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—and been... Read more
As CEO of Emergent Global, Holly Ransom 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—and been trusted by brands like Coca-Cola, Google, 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 shared the stage with leaders, changemakers 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 Ransom’s leadership journey defies convention. She has chaired the G20 Youth Summit and the UN’s Coalition of Young Women Entrepreneurs, delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama, been awarded the U.S. Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence, and completed a Fulbright Scholarship at Harvard Kennedy School.
She is also the co-founder and lead moderator of Energy Disruptors: UNITE, the award-winning summit voted Canada’s Best Conference three times, known for convening global leaders across sectors to accelerate the clean energy transition through bold ideas and unfiltered conversations.
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 advocating for gender equality in 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.
Despite billions invested in transformation, more than 70% of change efforts fail—not because of bad strategy, but because people never truly got on board. In this high-impact keynote, Holly Ransom delivers a modern blueprint for making transformation stick by activating people who believe they matter to the mission. Her Three...
What separates good teams from truly extraordinary ones? In this dynamic keynote, Holly Ransom pulls back the curtain on what elite teams do differently—from NASA to world-class sports organizations—revealing the systems and mindsets that create consistent excellence under pressure. Backed by behavioral science and real-world applications, Holly’s High-Precision Performance Framework™...
In today’s attention economy, effective communication isn’t about volume—it’s about impact. With companies losing $1.2 trillion annually to poor communication, Holly Ransom shares a practical framework to cut through the clutter, build trust fast, and drive meaningful action. Through her exclusive Mattering Matrix™ and Three Pillars of High Precision Communication,...