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Katty Kay
Transform workplace confidence with Katty Kay, speaker, global affairs expert and women's leadership specialist. Katty helps organizations build confident, success-oriented mindsets and navigate change, delivering award-winning insights as a BBC correspondent and New York Times bestselling author.
Katty Kay is an award-winning journalist who's spent three decades reporting on global politics, and she brings that international lens to American politics, world affairs, and the science of confidence.
Katty is U.S. special correspondent for BBC Studios, where she makes documentaries and hosts interview series. Since 2024, she's co-hosted The Rest Is Politics: US with Anthony Scaramucci, and she's a regular contributor on MSNBC's Morning Joe. She grew up in the Middle East, has reported from Africa, Asia, and Europe, and has covered U.S. politics from Washington since 1996.
With Claire Shipman, Katty has co-authored six books on women, work, and confidence, four of them New York Times bestsellers. The Confidence Code draws on neuroscience and psychology to explain why confidence often matters as much as competence, and why women tend to have less of it than their abilities deserve. Books for girls and teenagers followed.
On stage, Katty explains what's happening in Washington and why it matters to business, with an even hand and a dry British humor that keeps heavy topics accessible. She's also in demand as a moderator and has led panels with figures including David Cameron and John Kerry.
For conferences, leadership events, and International Women's Day programs, Katty brings credibility, warmth, and a Q&A that audiences don't want to end.
Topics, sessions and talks
The global order is shifting fast. Trade wars and tariffs are redrawing supply chains, alliances that held for decades are under strain, and the relationship between Washington and Beijing shapes decisions in almost every boardroom. Katty Kay has reported on the forces behind global political change for over three decades, living and working on four continents along the way. In this talk, she unpacks where power is moving, which flashpoints matter most for business, and how leaders can plan with confidence when the ground keeps shifting.
Research shows confidence can matter as much as competence in getting ahead, yet women consistently rate themselves lower than their abilities deserve. Drawing on The Confidence Code, her bestselling book with Claire Shipman, Katty Kay explores where confidence comes from, whether it's innate or learned, and why the gap exists. She pairs the latest neuroscience and psychology with stories from her own career and the many women and girls she's interviewed. Her message is practical: act, take risks, get comfortable with failing, and confidence follows. Audiences leave with concrete ways to build it in themselves and their teams.
With the midterms reshaping the balance of power in Washington, America's politics are as polarized as they've ever been, and the decisions made in the capital ripple through markets, trade, and workplaces worldwide. Katty Kay gives audiences an inside read on what's really happening, from the personalities in the White House to the policy fights in Congress, and what it means for them. Having lived and worked in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa before settling in Washington in 1996, Katty looks at America's challenges through a global lens. Even-handed and delivered with a light touch of British humor, her insights help audiences keep the headlines in perspective.
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