keynote speaking from a positive psychology-informed business expert
Dr Aarti Anhal, Founder of before nine, offers keynote speaking and conference presentation services for audiences seeking inspiration with impact.
As a management consultant advising FTSE companies and COO of a successful start-up, Aarti spent 15+ years helping businesses develop organisational resilience capabilities to transform adversity into opportunity. During this time, she spoke extensively on resilience topics including “Adaptive Crisis Leadership” and “Organisational Readiness”.
Yet she found that the people dimension was missing from organisations’ resilience, transformation and performance strategies. So in the summer of 2017, Aarti founded before nine to bridge the needs of individuals and organisations – combining positive psychology and business management with optimal organisational performance.
Aarti and the before nine team are evolving this approach to help organisations emerging from the Covid pandemic to recover, grow and thrive.
Aarti now speaks on a range of topics including “Unlocking our personal resilience”, “Positive leadership for an uncertain future” and “A people-first approach to change and transformation”. She is known for her engaging style in sharing her experience and expertise. She loves to educate, energise and inspire!
Speaking engagements include:
Barclays
Global Incident Manager Network
Barts NHS Health Trust
Women’s Network support during COVID-19
Business Continuity Institute (BCI)
COVID-19 Support to Business Continuity & Resilience professionals
Keynote Speaker at BCI World Conference & Exhibition 2021
Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (CIPD)
Internal Health & Wellbeing Week 2019 as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2019
Change Management Institute (CMI)
London, Bucks & North-West Chapter events
Cushman & Wakefield
i-Suite Leaders event 2019
Higher Education Business Continuity Network (HEBCoN)
Keynote Speaker, HEBCoN Annual Conference 2019
HSBC
Change & Transformation Network 2019
Scottish Power
Business Continuity Awareness Week Conference 2019
LSE
Keynote Speaker, Professional Services Staff Annual Conference 2020
Yorkshire Water
Business Continuity Awareness Week Conference 2019
Hays Plc
'Hays Leading Women' event during COVID-19
Newham Learning
Keynote Speaker, Annual Headteacher Conference 2021
If you’d like to talk to Aarti about an upcoming event, just get in touch.
Dr Aarti Anhal spoke at our Leadership Summit and left everyone with a strong sense of the leadership they want to bring to the organisation. Her multifaceted background, from risk and resilience to business development, her wealth of leadership insights and her ability to communicate with impact and wit, left a big impression on our leaders. She used her own hard-earned insights, from settings we could relate to, making her points very impactful. After she finished, one leader said “I should have heard this 20 years ago” and I agree.
COWI
It was a pleasure to work with Dr Aarti Anhal as part of our inaugural alumni conference. Aarti was very conscientious in her approach and diligent in incorporating the feedback from our planning sessions. She was very passionate and knowledgeable about her work, thus enriching our conversations around leadership. During the presentation itself, she authentically connected with the audience and was an integral part of the interactions.”
Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) Programme team, LSE
Aarti’s keynote session at our annual conference was instrumental in the success of the day. She liaised closely with the organising committee to ensure the session was bespoke to the needs of the group. The session was engaging, relevant, stimulating and interactive which generated a number of thought provoking conversations. Feedback has been extremely positive so thank you for your time and thought you put into the keynote.
Newham Learning
Thank you so much for your insights and contribution! We are now some of your biggest fans! The praise from attendees was genuinely first class. ‘Phenomenal’, ‘insightful, ‘fascinating’, ‘inspired’, ‘great speaker’ and ‘enthralling’ being the most frequent adjectives.
Barclays
The keynote from Dr Aarti Anhal was nothing short of incredible - she stole the show. I am quite happy to admit she moved me to tears and the act of being quite emotional combined with seeing my other colleagues made me feel like I wasn't alone. Aarti was a phenomenal speaker, and the talk was so helpful in reminding us of the resilience we have all been showing just getting through the pandemic.
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
We had the pleasure of having a session with Aarti as part of our annual employee kick off event, framing what was coming up in the year ahead. As part of our event , we wanted to have a session focusing on our own self development and looking at how we can be more resilient in this ever changing VUCA world. Aarti ticked all the boxes for us! We all took away some great learnings from her session and it provoked a lot of self-reflection and thinking as people entered the start of 2023.
Alfa Laval UK&I
Aarti gave an absolutely fantastic keynote at our Directorate away day. Everyone in the team took something away from her session and the discussion afterwards reflected this great emotional and personal impact. All the team learnt something about themselves that really resonated. I highly recommend!
NSPCC
