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Clare Kenny
Clare Kenny helps organisations build psychologically safe, neuroinclusive cultures that prevent burnout and boost performance. A TEDx speaker and ADHD advocate, she has worked with HSBC, KPMG, and Novartis, and previously led global wellbeing strategy at Burberry.
Clare Kenny is a keynote and TEDx speaker who helps organisations understand how neuroscience, neuroinclusion, and psychological safety shape performance, leadership, and workplace culture.
She brings two decades of experience in leadership and learning and development, including leading global wellbeing strategy at Burberry and holding senior consultancy roles across Europe and Asia. She has delivered hundreds of international keynotes, workshops, and leadership programmes for organisations including HSBC, KPMG, Novartis, Vestas, Channel 4, and The Harry Potter Studios.
Clare draws on her own late ADHD diagnosis, alongside extensive organisational experience, to translate nervous system science into practical approaches to leadership and culture. Her work helps leaders recognise how chronic stress, environmental pressures, and unexamined workplace behaviours can affect decision-making, inclusion, psychological safety, and sustainable performance. She works with organisations ranging from FTSE 100 companies to fast-growing startups.
Audiences gain practical ways to create psychologically safe environments, support different ways of thinking, and recognise the conditions that contribute to burnout, helping create cultures where people can speak up, challenge ideas, and work effectively.
Book Clare to give leaders and teams the tools to move from survival mode to sustainable, high performance.
Topics, sessions and talks
Clare Kenny examines how chronic stress affects thinking, decision-making, and performance, keeping teams stuck in survival mode long after the pressure that triggered it has passed. Drawing on the neuroscience of the nervous system, she shows leaders how to recognise the signs in themselves and their teams. Clare offers practical, evidence-based ways to move people out of survival mode and into a state where they can genuinely perform at their best.
Clare Kenny shows how a leader's own nervous system state ripples out through their team, shaping how safe people feel to speak up, take risks, and perform. She draws on the neuroscience of regulation to explain why calm, grounded leadership is a practical skill rather than a personality trait. Clare gives leaders concrete ways to regulate themselves under pressure and role model the conditions that let their teams do their best work.
Clare Kenny explores what it takes to build genuinely neuro-inclusive environments where every kind of brain can perform at its best. Drawing on her own experience of undiagnosed ADHD and two decades working in leadership and organisational culture, she unpacks the assumptions that quietly exclude neurodivergent thinking at work. Clare gives leaders practical, evidence-based ways to recognise diversity of thought as a genuine performance advantage rather than a problem to manage.
Clare Kenny unpacks what it actually takes to build a culture where people feel genuinely safe to speak up, challenge ideas, and do their best work. She names the normalised behaviours, from how disagreement is handled to who gets heard in a meeting, that quietly undermine trust and shut good ideas down. Clare gives leaders concrete, evidence-based ways to build psychological safety into everyday team behaviour, not just written policy.
Clare Kenny reframes burnout as an environmental problem rather than an individual failing, challenging the common idea that resilience training alone can fix it. She draws on the neuroscience of chronic stress to explain why some workplace cultures keep activating people's nervous systems long after the working day officially ends. Clare gives leaders practical, evidence-based ways to identify the conditions driving burnout in their teams and build sustainable, high-performing cultures instead.
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Clare Kenny draws on neuroscience research and her own late ADHD diagnosis to translate nervous system science into practical frameworks for leaders, covering chronic stress, psychological safety, and neuroinclusion. Each session moves from the underlying science to concrete, evidence-based tools that leaders can apply to their own behaviour and team environments.
Clare Kenny speaks on chronic stress and survival mode, nervous system regulation in leadership, and neuro-inclusion and diversity of thought. She led global wellbeing strategy at Burberry and has delivered international keynotes and leadership programmes for organisations including HSBC, KPMG, Novartis, and Channel 4.
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