Keynotes · Panels · Workshops · MC
Leanne Shelton delivers keynotes that are sharp, warm, and refreshingly practical – leaving every person in the room with the confidence and clarity to actually move forward with AI.
Featured at
Conferences, summits, chambers, boardrooms and off-sites across Australia.
ALPMA Summit
ARMA
Castle Hill RSL Group
DigiMarCon Summit
Granite Group
Independent Garden Centres
Independent Jewellers Collective
Janine Garner — Elevate
Kennards Hire
Michelle Broadbent
NSW Small Business Month
REIWA
Servcorp
Sydney Hills Business Chamber
We just had Leanne present to our Wild Fig Service Alliance breakfast meeting today and I can tell you, it had everyone captivated and tuned in. Probably the most important thing I got from Leanne is how relatable she was for everyone.
A fresh voice in a crowded space
There’s a reason audiences lean in when Leanne takes the stage. Rather than focusing on the hype and shininess of AI, she provides guidance – grounded in real business experience – on how humans and AI can *actually* work well together.
When ChatGPT arrived and disrupted her decade-long SEO copywriting agency, she didn’t retreat. She leaned in, spent years figuring out what genuinely works, formulated the HABITS Framework, and wrote the best-selling book AI-Human Fusion (Major Street Publishing, 2025). Now she teaches everything she’s learnt to leaders and teams around the world.
Leanne is a former marketing and copywriting specialist, a business owner who lived the AI pivot firsthand, a LinkedIn Top Voice in Australia, and one of the most engaging female voices in AI education today. She’s warm, direct, and refreshingly free of tech jargon… with a lot of humour thrown in!
"Leanne is a confident, positive and engaging speaker. And she really knows her stuff. I would definitely recommend Leanne as an AI speaker, trainer and facilitator."
See Leanne in action
Check out the following videos.
Find out more about Leanne’s game-changing pivot and the importance of keeping humans in the loop.
Leanne introduces the HABITS Framework and shows how a human-first mindset transforms the way teams adopt AI.
She was very knowledgeable and understandable on the subject of AI and made the subject accessible to all in attendance. She also effectively answered any question posed to her during the Q&A. Definitely someone worth following and working with if you want to know how AI fits in your business.
The topics
Both talks are drawn directly from Leanne’s best-selling book AI-Human Fusion and her HumanEdge AI Training programs – which means everything she shares on stage is grounded in real methodology, real outcomes, and real conversations with the leaders and teams she works with every day.
Keynote
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Mindset
& adoption
Most requested
Everyone’s talking about AI. Half your team is quietly using it, the other half is quietly terrified of it. But the real opportunity isn’t about mastering every tool – it’s about understanding how humans and AI work best together. Because AI adoption isn’t a technology rollout. It’s change management. In this keynote, Leanne Shelton cuts through the hype and shows audiences what a genuinely human-first approach looks like.
Drawing on the AI-Human Fusion HABITS framework from her book, Leanne brings together the four things that make adoption stick: your people, your tools, responsible integration and a practical plan. She also tackles the bit nobody puts on the slide deck – the resistance, the eye-rolls, the “I’ll just do it myself, it’s faster” – and why leaders can’t ask their teams to experiment with something they’re avoiding themselves. Change happens at the speed of trust, not the speed of the tech.
At the NSW Small Business Expo, Leanne authentically explained her own journey and presented the audience with concrete steps of what they can start doing today - while keeping the right balance between human and AI.
Keynote
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Quality
& oversight
New
You’ve seen it. The email that reads like it was written by nobody. The report where every sentence is technically fine and none of it says anything. As AI becomes part of everyday work, quality is quietly slipping – not through bad intent, but because people are skipping the thinking part and trusting the output without checking. That’s AI slop. And it’s spreading fast.
In this eye-opening keynote, Leanne Shelton shows leaders and teams how to treat AI as a powerful assistant without becoming dependent on it. She unpacks why over-reliance creeps in, what it’s quietly costing your reputation, and the safeguards every workplace needs. Audiences leave with simple oversight techniques, smarter prompting habits and human-first quality checks that protect standards without giving up the speed.
Each 60 minute keynote can be accompanied by a workshop – to extend it to 90 to 120 minutes. Leanne is also available for panels and MC engagements.
Why organisers keep booking Leanne
You’re putting your event’s credibility on the line, trusting that someone will show up, read the room, and deliver something your audience will still be talking about on the drive home.
Leanne is a best-selling author, a credentialled educator, and a LinkedIn Top Voice – but more than that, she’s the kind of speaker who genuinely connects. She’s warm, direct and funny, and she has an extraordinary ability to take something that feels complicated and make it feel completely within reach.
Leanne is also one of very few prominent female voices in the AI education space – a perspective that’s both rare and deeply needed in boardrooms, conference halls, and off-sites around the world.
Leanne delivered an excellent presentation at our AGM. She was clear, engaging, and very informative, making complex topics easy to understand. Her professionalism and ability to connect with the audience were impressive. Highly recommend!
Book Leanne
Whether it’s a conference, a company off-site, or a leadership summit, Leanne is ready to bring energy, expertise, and a healthy dose of humour to your stage.
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Have a quick chat with Leanne’s assistant. A few questions about your event, audience, and dates is all it takes to work out whether Leanne is the right voice for your stage.
Leanne is available for keynotes, panel appearances, workshops, and MC engagements – in person and virtually.
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Another way in
The best way to know whether Leanne is right for your audience is to experience her yourself. Come to a free masterclass, join a roundtable, or bring her in to work alongside your leadership team.
A one-hour live session on the human side of AI adoption and change management. It’s free, it runs regularly, and it’s the quickest way to get a genuine feel for how Leanne teaches.
A small group of leaders, a focused topic, and an intellectual conversation. Leanne’s roundtables are designed for leaders who want to go deeper on specific AI challenges – in a setting that’s intimate, practical, and not at all techy.
For leaders who want ongoing strategic support as they navigate AI change management across their organisation. Leanne works directly with leadership teams to build the frameworks, policies, and capability that make AI change stick.
Filled with energy and enthusiasm.