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Friska Wirya

  • Keynote Speaker
  • Change Management | Leadership
  • Based in Bali
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Friska Wirya keynote speaker is a globally recognised thought leader in change management and leadership, renowned for transforming how organisations and individuals adapt to disruption. With her sharp insight, authentic storytelling, and practical frameworks, she empowers leaders to turn uncertainty into opportunity. Her message is simple: the future belongs to those brave enough to evolve faster than the world around them.

Friska Wirya Keynote Speaker: Career and Achievements

A trusted Organisational Change Advisor and Leadership Coach, Friska has led transformation programs affecting more than 65,000 people. This spans six continents. She is Emeritus Faculty in Change Management for IMD and Emeritus, a TEDx speaker, and the number one bestselling author of The Future Fit Organization and The Future Fit Asian Organization. As a result, major global outlets including Harvard University, Kinokuniya, and Booktopia stock both books.

Global publications have named Friska among the Top 50 Global Change Management Thought Leaders. She is also a Top 10 Women Change Maker in Indonesia. In addition, her thought leadership has been featured in the Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Smart Company, and The CEO Magazine. Connect with Friska on LinkedIn.

Based in Bali, she continues to advise multinational clients in energy, higher education, and technology, helping organisations build agile, future-fit cultures.

Inspiration: No Change, No Progress

This keynote shares a powerful and deeply personal story of triumph over adversity. It traces her path from a challenging childhood to becoming one of Asia-Pacific’s most respected change leaders. As a result, Friska inspires audiences to find strength in vulnerability and drive transformation from within.

Future: The Truth About Future Fitness

Digital transformation is no longer optional, it is survival. In this keynote, therefore, Friska explores why most organisations struggle to evolve. She reveals the key principles behind truly future-fit enterprises that lead with agility, innovation, and purpose.

Communicating to Connecting

Communication drives every transformation, yet most teams talk more than they connect. Drawing on years of experience leading change globally, therefore, Friska reveals the secrets to influencing stakeholders and aligning teams.

Culture: Building a Digital-Ready Culture

True transformation does not start with technology, it starts with people. In this keynote, therefore, Friska shares proven strategies for shifting culture from resistance to readiness. As a result, teams learn to embrace innovation and lead through continuous change.

For organisations exploring the full range of leadership keynote speakers available through Corporate Speakers Global, Friska Wirya stands out for her rare ability to turn resistance into resilience across six continents.

Book Friska Wirya keynote speaker to help your organization lead meaningful, future-fit change. Her sessions blend rigorous change management frameworks with a deeply personal story of resilience, giving audiences both practical tools and genuine inspiration. Contact us to check availability.

TOPIC 1: INSPIRATION NO CHANGE NO PROGRESS

A story of triumph over adversity, an only child who never knew her parents, a tumultuous childhood, intense racism and bullying, to overcoming homelessness and addiction and becoming the woman she is today.

Key takeaways:

  • Mindset is king
  • Internal locus of control
  • Holistic wellbeing – mental, physical, emotional

TOPIC 2: FUTURE THE TRUTH ABOUT FUTURE FITNESS

The global pandemic has put lighter fluid on the urgency of digital transformation, yet its embers never turn into an inferno. How can you fan the digital flames?

Key takeaways:

  • The 3 principles of future fit organisations
  • Why digital transformation is a glacial evolution
  • What we can learn from other industries

TOPIC 3: COMMUNICATING TO CONNECTING

Communication can make or break a relationship, a career, a change – and in the workplace we’re often trying to change people’s thoughts, decisions and actions. Friska shares communication best practices from her experiences working around the world with challenging people.

Key takeaways:

  • The 5Cs of effective communication
  • Persuading difficult stakeholders
  • Leveraging influence principles

TOPIC 4: CULTURE BUILDING A DIGITAL-READY CULTURE

There is much talk about digital transformation, but the reality is that many organisations go through a glacial evolution, at best. Friska shares a case study on how she made transformation a reality for the largest ASX listed gold miner.

Key takeaways:

  • Defining true transformation and sustaining it
  • Driving adoption through positive psychology
  • Shifting from expense to value creation

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