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Shola Kaye
Empathy
Effective Leadership
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Transform workplace culture with Shola Kaye, award-winning keynote speaker on inclusive leadership and communication. Shola equips organisations with practical frameworks for psychological safety and emotional intelligence, delivering measurable improvements in employee retention and performance. Author of two books and LinkedIn Learning instructor with Fortune 500 experience.
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Shola Kaye helps organisations create people-first cultures through her expertise in communication, empathy, and inclusive leadership. Her approach combines emotional intelligence with practical frameworks to build psychologically safe workplaces where innovation thrives.
An award-winning international keynote speaker, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and author of two books, Shola brings diverse experience from roles in education, tech, science, and entertainment industries. Her work has been featured by the BBC, Harper’s Bazaar, and Marie Claire. Her clients include The United Nations, Deloitte, IBM, Google, and American Express, and she is regularly invited to deliver keynotes, leadership training, and communication programmes worldwide.
Shola's Emotional Audacity methodology equips teams with practical tools to transform workplace culture, resulting in measurable improvements in leadership effectiveness, employee retention, and business performance. Her frameworks for courageous communication and psychological safety help organisations navigate change while maintaining human connection in increasingly tech-driven environments.
Audiences leave Shola's highly interactive presentations with actionable strategies to improve feedback delivery, enhance cross-cultural communication, and develop resilient mindsets. Her sessions provide immediate tools for building empathy-driven cultures where everyone feels empowered to contribute.
Book Shola when you need a culturally sensitive, highly engaging speaker who delivers both inspiration and practical frameworks your teams can implement immediately.
Topics, sessions and talks
Shola Kaye uncovers the power of asking as a catalyst for career growth and connection. Using stories, frameworks, and practical techniques, she helps participants overcome hesitation and reframe asking as a strength. Shola shows how strategic questions can open doors, create visibility, and inspire others, leaving audiences ready to make bold requests that accelerate their development and create positive change in their organisations.
Shola Kaye explores how leaders can remain courageous, empathetic, and purpose-driven in a fast-paced, tech-enabled world. She introduces Emotional Audacity™ as a practical mindset for communicating bravely, listening deeply, and taking bold, aligned action. Blending research, corporate experience, and relatable stories, Shola equips audiences with tools for reflection, resilience, and decisive action that foster trust, innovation, and emotionally intelligent leadership.
Shola Kaye reveals the key behaviours and communication strategies that make workplaces psychologically safe and high-performing. Through powerful storytelling, practical tools, and audience interaction, she explores compassion, curiosity, and constructive dialogue as the foundations of belonging and collaboration. Shola shows how to move beyond groupthink, encourage diverse perspectives, and build trust so individuals can share ideas confidently and contribute their best work.
Shola Kaye makes the business case for embedding empathy into everyday culture, showing how it drives retention, innovation, and wellbeing. Combining clear frameworks, research, and hands-on reflection, she demonstrates how empathy can be applied across remote, hybrid, and in-person teams. Shola’s approach gives audiences the courage and confidence to make empathy a daily habit, creating stronger connections and more supportive, productive workplaces.
Shola Kaye shares how well-delivered feedback can become a powerful driver of growth, trust, and collaboration. Using real-life examples and interactive exercises, she highlights common feedback pitfalls and shows how to avoid them. Shola’s session gives individuals and leaders the tools to give and receive feedback confidently, creating an open, energised culture where communication strengthens relationships and inspires teams to thrive.
Shola Kaye transforms organisational cultures through her Emotional Audacity methodology, equipping teams with practical frameworks for communication, empathy, and inclusive leadership that drive measurable improvements in retention and performance. Book this award-winning international speaker to give your team actionable strategies for building a psychologically safe workplace where innovation thrives and everyone feels empowered to contribute.
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frequently asked questions
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Email shola.kaye@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Shola's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Shola Kaye structures her sessions around a blend of personal and professional storytelling combined with named proprietary frameworks, most notably Emotional Audacity™, which she uses to anchor practical tools for communication and leadership. Audiences move through reflective exercises and interactive elements that connect the framework directly to workplace application.
Shola Kaye's sessions cover strategic asking for career growth, emotionally intelligent leadership through her Emotional Audacity™ methodology, and building psychologically safe speak-up cultures. She is an award-winning international keynote speaker, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and author of two books, with clients including the United Nations, Deloitte, IBM, Google, and American Express.
No. PepTalk adds no booking fee, so you pay the speaker's fee and nothing beyond it. The service, from shortlist through to contracts and event-day logistics, is included. For repeat or multi-event bookings, PepTalk can agree preferential rates with your procurement team.
Share your event date, audience, format, objectives and budget, and PepTalk sends a hand-picked shortlist within 24 hours. Each suggestion comes with a profile, a fee and a recommendation on the strongest fit. Once you choose, PepTalk handles contracts, travel and logistics through to event day.
The typical fee range is the speaker's standard in-person fee in their home market, shown in their local currency. It moves with format, location, date and session length: virtual sessions and shorter slots usually cost less, while international travel and peak dates cost more. Send your brief to PepTalk and the team will confirm the exact fee in your currency.
Not all of them, and it makes no difference to your booking. PepTalk's network of 15,000+ speakers covers talent the team works with directly alongside speakers represented by agents and agencies worldwide. PepTalk approaches the speaker, negotiates the fee and handles contracting either way.
Three to six months ahead is comfortable for most events, and 12 months is better for large conferences, peak-season dates or one specific in-demand speaker. Shorter timelines are workable, and PepTalk regularly fills last-minute and replacement bookings within days. Availability is the constraint, so get in touch as soon as you have a date.
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