Speaking
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"Penny Terry you are extraordinary! Your presentation today was perfect. An incredible mix of information, experience and amazing delivery. Your storytelling and use of metaphor is world class!!.
Lisa O’Neill, CEO, Thought Leaders Business School
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“Penny is a true professional and was an excellent choice for our event. Her ability to engage with the audience, keep the night flowing and bring a personal approach to the evening ensured that it was an excellent event. I would have no hesitation utilising her services again or in recommending Penny to others.”.
Penny Eagan, CEO, Cancer Council, Tasmania
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“It was fabulous to have Penny as our keynote speaker at our Association Conference. Her presentation was dynamic, interesting and gave our attendees lots to ‘take away’ both personally and professionally."
Cynthia Pearce, President, School Administrators Association
Keynote Topics
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The One Thing that Fixes Everything
We keep trying to fix disengagement with another survey. We think a new platform will solve our capacity crisis. We stop scrolling, hoping to get our attention back. But still, nothing changes.
Good people leave. Many burn out. Our focus is fractured.
What if your retention problem isn’t about engagement? Your bandwidth problem isn’t about capacity? Your attention problem isn’t about focus?
Across workplaces, communities, and cultures, something vital is broken, and most haven’t noticed it yet.
In this keynote, influence specialist Penny Terry shows leaders what’s really broken as she helps them make the one shift that can’t wait any longer.
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The Question Effect
Good questions spark answers. Great questions spark change. Which ones are your people asking? Penny Terry suspects it’s the wrong kind. Most workplaces still reward answers over curiosity, and it’s costing them clarity, creativity, and progress. We depend on questions to drive our work, yet few people have ever been taught how to use them well.
In this keynote, Penny Terry draws on her years in radio, and podcasting to reveal the hidden patterns behind powerful questioning. She introduces The Question Compass™, a practical tool that helps leaders navigate any conversation using better questions: the kind that unlock ideas, fuel innovation, and shift culture.
Delegates leave seeing questions differently - not as a reflex, but a strategy. One that builds trust, sparks insight, and changes results. Because when you change your questions, you change what’s possible.
Panel Facilitation and MC
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Panel Facilitation
Penny is a professional question-asker. But, more specifically, she is a conversation starter.
She specialises in asking the sort of questions, that start the sorts of conversations, that make the sorts of change that’s needed!
After 10 years as a live radio presenter, she loves nothing more than supporting panellists to share relevant, relatable and reliable information that will keep their audience engaged.
She effortlessly guides each speaker to share the most interesting parts of who they are and what they know, so they leave the waffle and wasted words at home!
Penny is super curious and highly engaged in current affairs making her a safe pair of hands to lead your next panel discussion.
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Master of Ceremonies
After 10 years as a radio presenter, Penny is highly attuned to the needs lives audiences: those in the room, those on the stage and those behind the scenes. She works closely and continuously with organisers to understand their dreams and then bring them to life.
She knows the role of an MC goes far beyond speaker introductions and is about managing energy, creating trust and fostering a safe space for connection and learning.
Penny is highly intuitive knowing when to lift and lower energy, when to pause and reflect, and has a wit that’s quick yet, in tune.
She’s fastidious about keeping things on track and on time (otherwise she’d crash the news)!
If you’re looking for an MC that your delegates will trust and love, get in touch.