MARY-BETH HOSKING
GLOBAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER | AUTHOR | EMCEE
Helping leaders turn Disruption into Direction
Mary-Beth Hosking is a global keynote speaker specialising in organisational change, leadership and workforce transformation.
Through her Fraypoint Framework and Survival FormulaTM, she helps organisations maintain productivity and revenue with confidence during periods of uncertainty.
Presentations are ideal for:
Executive Leadership Teams, C-Suite Conferences, HR and People Leaders, Transformation Teams, Technology Leaders, Industry Associations
Not-for-Profit Leaders
Based in Australia, Mary-Beth Hosking delivers keynote presentations throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the United Kingdom and internationally.
Mary-Beth in Action
Global Speaker Show-reel
See Mary-Beth in action on the stage and thought leadership interviews.
House of PMO Keynote - UK
See Mary-Beth bring change concepts to life, knowing your north star and her best selling book "Not Another Digital Transformation"
Conversations with Thought Leaders
Hosted by Granite Consulting, Mary-Beth speaks about understanding your North Star and bringing your career to life.
Not Another Digital Transformation
Mary-Beth brings to life the concepts within her best selling book.
Mary-Beth in Action
Snippets of Mary-Beth on stage with background music.
PMI NZ Keynote
Mary-Beth delivers her keynote around her concept of Not Another Digital Transformation
Keynotes:
MEASURE TWICE. CUT ONCE.
Rethinking cost, capability and performance before reducing your workforce.
KEYNOTE THEMES: Leadership | Cost Reduction | Organisational Change | Productivity | Decision Making
Are rising costs putting pressure on your organisation to reduce headcount?
Are you confident people are actually the problem?
And what could it cost if you get that decision wrong?
When organisations need to reduce costs, people are often one of the first places they look. But poor processes, bottlenecks, duplicated effort and slow decision-making can all increase costs and reduce productivity.
Cutting people doesn't fix a broken process.
Drawing on more than 30 years leading technology, transformation and organisational change, Mary-Beth Hosking shows leaders how to recognise organisational fraypoints, diagnose what's really happening and make better decisions before taking action.
Key Takeaways & Benefits
Diagnose Before You Decide
Before asking “Who can we afford to lose?”, ask:
“What's actually causing the problem?”
Understand how work gets done, where it gets stuck and what is driving unnecessary cost before deciding what needs to change.
Get the Right Experts at the Right Time
Expertise matters, but so does choosing the right expertise for the problem.
Mary-Beth's Fraypoints Framework helps leaders stabilise the situation, build their Village and bring in the right experts to diagnose the problem before jumping to the solution.
Build a Village That Challenges You
Who is around the table when your biggest decisions are being made?
Build a Village with different perspectives and experience with people prepared to challenge assumptions rather than simply confirm what you already believe.
If everyone around the table agrees with you, you may need a bigger table.
Make Better Decisions Under Pressure
Sometimes restructuring is necessary, however the decision to cut should come after the diagnosis, not before it.
Audiences leave with a practical approach they can use to recognise a fraypoint, understand what's really happening and act with greater confidence, even when they don't have all the answers.
Measure twice. Cut once.
Make sure you understand the problem before you remove the people you may need to solve it.
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH.
How to stabilise, adapt and find your way forward.
KEYNOTE THEMES: Change | Adaptability | Resilience | Leadership | Uncertainty
What do you do when what worked before doesn't work anymore?
What happens when the plan changes, certainty disappears and you don't know what to do next?
And how do you move forward when going back is no longer an option?
A Fraypoint is the moment when something changes and the old way forward no longer fits. It might be redundancy, a new role, organisational change, rapid growth, a new technology or an opportunity you never expected.
A Fraypoint isn't inherently good or bad. It's what happens next that matters.
Drawing on more than 30 years navigating change, transformation and her own professional Fraypoints, Mary-Beth Hosking gives audiences a practical framework for getting through the moments when the old answers stop working.
Because resilience isn't something you need to have before disruption happens.
It's something you build as you find your way through.
Key Takeaways & Benefits
Stabilise Before You Solve
When a Fraypoint hits, our instinct is often to fall back on familiar patterns and try to fix everything at once.
Mary-Beth shows audiences why the first step isn't solving the future.
It's stabilising what's happening now so you can work out what comes next.
Build the Right Village
You don't have to navigate a Fraypoint alone.
Your Village gives you different perspectives, support and knowledge when your own experience is no longer enough.
However, different Fraypoints require different Villages.
Knowing who you need around you is part of finding your way through.
Find the Right Expertise
Using Mary-Beth's VITAL Cycle audiences learn a repeatable way to find what they need, engage the right expertise and reassess when something isn't working.
You don't have to get every decision right the first time.
You do need to know where to start.
Just have to keep moving.
Audiences leave with a practical way to recognise a Fraypoint, stabilise the situation and navigate uncertainty with greater confidence and adaptability.
Fraypoints are inevitable.
Learning how to navigate them is a skill.
The only way out is through.
Fraypoints are inevitable. Navigating them is a skill.
Professional Speaker Representation
Represented by leading speaker bureaus across Australia and International Markets.
LEAN INTO THE FRAYPOINTS
Organisational transformation doesn't happen when everything feels comfortable.
It happens at the fraypoints, the moments where old ways of working no longer serve the future.
These are the spaces where uncertainty, resistance, and opportunity coexist.
Organisations that embrace these moments adapt and prosper in a rapidly changing often scary world.
Based in Australia, Mary-Beth Hosking delivers keynote presentations throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the United Kingdom and internationally.
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"Life will test every one of us. Resilience helps — but the real power lies in having the right formula."
- Mary-Beth Hosking
Beyond the Fraypoints
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional and ongoing custodians of the Kulin Nation – the place we call home, and we pay our deepest respects to their Elders, past and present.
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