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Key Points for Diana Taylor AM

  • Diana Taylor AM, equips current and aspiring female leaders with a practical playbook to read the room, refine personal grit, build influential networks, and navigate complex career pathways without imposing limits on achievement.
  • She demonstrates how individuals and organisations can move from passive goal-setting to sustained execution by mastering short, medium, and long-term planning horizons while holding the course under pressure.
  • Diana translates the brutal, high-stakes lessons of elite sports administration into corporate strategies for reputation management, team accountability, resilience, and decision-making during crisis.
  • She outlines how leaders can drive meaningful civic and social impact by balancing purpose with strict financial sustainability, sound governance, and stakeholder alignment.

Topics for Diana Taylor AM

  • Why Heart and Grit are the True Superpowers of Exceptional Leadership.
    Diana Taylor AM has lived and breathed leadership roles in business and community for over 25 years.
    It is this experience that has shaped Diana’s leadership philosophy that she now shares with audiences today. Her philosophy is values-driven, tested under pressure, and grounded in accountability and service.
    Through the power of her storytelling, Diana makes the case for why the most enduring and effective leaders are defined not by title or authority, but by Heart and Grit.
    Heart represents values based leadership: empathy, integrity, courage, and the ability to genuinely connect with people. It is the foundation of trust, culture, and influence.
    Grit is the capacity to endure, adapt, and lead through adversity — to stay the course when pressure is high, outcomes are uncertain, and the path forward is uncomfortable.
    Together, Heart and Grit form an unstoppable leadership and competitive advantage.
    Decades of experience accompanied by organisational and people insight (found in the hardest of places) provide the foundation for Diana’s keynote.
    It explains why the greatest transformational change, and winning, only comes when leaders lead with their heart and have the necessary amount of grit to go the distance.

    Core leadership themes explore:
    • Integrity-based leadership and decision-making under pressure
    • Navigating conflict and complexity within workplaces and organisations
    • Building trust, clarity, and accountability in leadership roles
    • Explores the factors for winning in any environment including elite
    • Why fear must be faced in leadershipReflection on leadership purpose, responsibility, and long-term impact
    • Using disruption, challenge, and failure as opportunities for reflection and reset

    Audiences will learn:
    • Practical insight into leadership decision-making and workplace dynamics
    • Exposure to a structured ‘playbook’ approach to leadership, planning, execution and winning
    • Insight into the critical aspects for leading and managing people conflict
    • How to develop a personal grit scale
    • Reflection on leadership purpose, responsibility, and long-term impact

Testimonials for Diana Taylor AM

Diana has a confident, assertive and inclusive speaking style when presenting to senior operational and corporate leaders and has the ability to read the room and make adjustments in the moment to engage with participants and to enable input and full participation. Diana’s deep subject matter expertise, delivery and approach has fulfilled the FRV brief and the relevant strategic objectives and outcomes for the workshops.
Fire Rescue Victoria

Diana understands what her audience wants from the presentation; an understanding of their key drivers, clear guidance to inform their ideas, and new ways of looking at their opportunities.
Property Council of Australia

Diana speaks from the heart and is an inspiring and engaging speaker. Her core beliefs, experience, and values cross over into business, not-for-profits, and the sporting community. She leaves you with a sense of empowerment.
The Geelong College

Diana spoke meaningfully about the importance of finding a personal definition of ‘community’, and how an enduring commitment to that notion can assist us all in our personal and professional pursuits to build meaningful and impactful lives. Diana spoke with a great intuitive sense as she engaged with our audience, such that irrespective of age or gender, her words carried great impact and encouragement for all.
Victorian Women Lawyers

Our event benefited greatly from Diana’s expertise and passion for the greater
Geelong region. She brings a warmth in her delivery of her message that stems from her experience with engaging with people from all walks of life. I look forward to having Diana speak at a future UDIA Victoria event.
UDIA Victoria (Urban Development Institute of Australia)

Diana’s presentation not only provided insights into how to strategically plan for success, it challenged all in the room to look within their own lives to find their purpose and a clear direction to make every post a winner! Once again, the community benefits from Diana’s continued goal of adding significantly to her community.
Barwon Sports Academy

Diana is inspiring and authentic in her storytelling. She shared the highs and the lows of her professional journey, and highlighted that although each individual's story may differ, we all have the opportunity find success with the right supports, people and foundations in place.
The Female Athlete Network

By sharing her experiences and what she has learnt over many years, Diana was clearly able to articulate strategies that can be applied to succeed in both a personal and business sense. I highly recommend Diana for your next event as an authentic guest speaker who can capture the room and deliver a thought-provoking presentation that everyone can relate to.
Financial Advice Association of Australian