About - Dr Gemma Munro

Dr
Gemma
Munro

Dr Gemma Munro is a transformative and award-winning speaker and coach, with a PhD in performance psychology and a knack of sparking rapid and easeful change. For over two decades, Gemma has worked with leaders and changemakers across the globe to help them reconnect with their purpose, spark their clarity, lift their courage and lead with energy.

Gemma has ignited change in workplaces across the planet, and inspired over 77,000 people worldwide. She has spoken to global and national audiences at Google, Amazon, Qantas, Vodafone, PayPal and the NHS in London, and her keynote at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley was live-streamed to every Google office on the planet.

A two-time Telstra Businesswoman of the Year finalist, Gemma has been called ‘a human alarm-clock’, ‘a lightning bolt of love’ and ‘a cross between a switched-on psychologist and a fairy godmother’. As a classically trained singer, she has performed in Westminster Abbey, Radio City Music Hall and, somewhat heart-stoppingly, to 53,000 screaming fans as a backing vocalist for the Rolling Stones.

Gemma is the co-host of The Oyster Sisters podcast and was the Founder of Inkling Women, known for its work across Australia, Asia and the UK in rapidly lifting the percentage of women at leadership level. Before that she was a tremendously serious management consultant and a recovering academic, having completed her PhD at a relatively young and impressionable age. She lives on five acres in the Adelaide Hills with her husband Ben Barnett and their exceptionally loving, occasionally exhausting and usually hungry blended tribe of three teenagers and a farm dog called Lucie.

A new manifesto for leadership

Listen to my manifesto or enjoy the read.

There’s a part of you that believes life is meant to be extraordinary.

That – (just quietly) – you are extraordinary.

There is a spark within you longing to be expressed, a purpose longing to be fulfilled, a life longing to be lived. You may not know what it looks like, but you know it doesn’t feel like this.

It doesn’t feel this timid, this tired, this stifled, this stuck, this confused, this chaotic, this heavy, this hard.

It doesn’t feel like crossing the lists, ticking the boxes and toiling away at what’s expected of you. This used to be enough. But it’s not enough anymore.

On the inside, you’re yearning for change. For a life that’s courageous, clear and bright, full of purpose, ease and joy.

You’re yearning to create your extraordinary. Not necessarily in the big, bold jazz hands sense of the word. Extraordinary could be staying soft in a harsh world, or colourful in a grey world, or rested in a tired world.

But the ordinary world is loud, the familiarity feels safe, and the temptation to keep recreating the life you know is real.

That’s why those who are here to live an extraordinary life are also here to be extraordinarily brave. You’re here to ditch the ordinary, the expected, the tried and the tested. To sail into new ports, different ports, fresh ports and show the world: HEY! IT’S BEAUTIFUL HERE!

This is who I’m here for.

For the bright, sparky humans, the kind, intuitive humans,
the awake, come-alive humans, and the out-of-the-ordinary humans who are willing to access the courage needed
to spark the change required to break free from the ordinary and create your extraordinary.

For cosy courage sparkers, joy enhancers, leadership brighteners and clarity illuminators

A letter from me
to you

Dear you,

Inside you is a light that is yours, and yours alone. It’s made up of your purpose, your passions and your gifts. When you tap into it, you feel alive. When others see it, they come alive.

Part of you remembers what it’s like to have a fire in your belly. And part of you has forgotten how sparky feels. Over the years, old hurts and habits have dimmed your light. Old ways of working and leading have doused your fire. It can feel like you’re stuck on a hamster wheel, too scared to stop, too tired to transform.

My life’s work involves helping those who are here to change the world so they can hop off the hamster wheel, get out of their own way and create their extraordinary – whatever that looks like to them.

I’m here to help you uncover your purpose, lift your courage, dissolve your limits, rekindle your spark and ignite your life and leadership. And I’m here to make the entire transformation process rapid, easeful and joyful.

I know that you are extraordinary. I believe that, in unleashing your extraordinary, you will brighten the world. Whether you’re attending one of my keynotes, programs, one-on-one coaching sessions or leadership offsites, my job is to help you make that not just possible, but inevitable.