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Domonique Bertolucci is the international best-selling author of 13 books and five Audible Originals on mindset, leadership, and wellbeing. But she doesn’t just talk about it – she’s lived it
A warm and engaging speaker, Domonique’s keynotes take the big questions and give audiences answers that are both insightful and immediately actionable.
Beyond Grit: The New Resilience for High Performers
How to lead and perform at your best without burning out yourself or your team
The leaders most at risk aren’t the ones who don’t care enough – they’re the ones who care the most. High achievers are told to set a goal and never waver,
but far too many are white-knuckling their way through the success-failure rollercoaster, calling on grit, practising gratitude, and blaming their mindset when it all gets too much. With burnout rates at an all-time high, it’s clear it isn’t working.
The problem is that fixed thinking – even when paired with audacious, bold, or simply optimistic goals – is the fastest route to burnout. And when leaders burn out, they don’t just crash – they take their teams down with them.
You’ll discover:
- Why everything you’ve been told about resilience is just the beginning – and what it really takes to sustain it
- The difference between high achievers and overachievers – and which one burns out first
- The hidden cost of fixed thinking – even when your goals are bold and your intentions are clear
- Burnt out, checked out, or worn out – which profile is running your performance and how to shift it
- The real foundation of sustainable high performance and how to build it
The Leadership Shift: From Accidental to Intentional
How to become the leader you need to be now that people are counting on your success
Most people are promoted into leadership because they’re good at their job. But there’s a big difference between being good at what you do and being a great leader. People are rarely fully prepared for that difference – and that is when their time as an Accidental Leader begins.
The faultlines are familiar: burned-out leaders who drain their teams, low-confidence leaders who default to control, reactive decisions driven by short-term thinking, and your best people leaving when they don’t feel supported. These issues aren’t caused by bad people. They’re caused by good people, promoted into leadership without ever being shown what to do – or how to do it – once they get there.
Being an accidental leader isn’t a personal failure – it’s a structural one, and it’s predictable. The good news is that it’s also fixable.
You’ll discover:
- Why the reason you got the job is the same reason your leadership might now be at risk – and how to make sure it doesn’t get in your way
- The instinct every high performer relies on – and the moment it quietly turns from asset to liability
- The real reason being a leader feels harder than it should, and harder than you thought it would – and how to get back to ease
- Why some leaders hold steady under pressure while others crumble, and how to make sure your leadership holds strong.
- The real foundations of intentional leadership – and how to start building yours
Leadership Intelligence: A New Benchmark for Impact
What it actually takes to lead when the pressures are real and the stakes are high.
Good people leave. Change stalls. Trust erodes. Projects derail. Leaders burn out. You’ve seen the data, tried the solutions, invested in the training, the workshops, and the culture initiatives – and yet the same fundamental challenges keep showing up, quarter after quarter, team after team.
The problems aren’t random – they’re predictable, and they share the same cause: a debt that accumulates every time the complexity your business faces outpaces the leadership intelligence of the people responsible for navigating it.
The issue isn’t what you’re teaching. It’s where you’re starting.
You’ll discover:
- Why leadership success isn’t determined by skills alone, and what actually separates leaders who stay steady under pressure from those who don’t
- The hidden cost of developing competencies without the right foundations – and why new frameworks keep failing to stick
- The real source of your retention, engagement, and performance problems – and why more skills training won’t fix them
- What it takes to build teams that develop, grow, and take ownership – instead of waiting to be told what to do
- The new benchmark for measuring leadership impact – and how to start closing the gaps
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DOMONIQUE’S SPEAKER BIO
Domonique Bertolucci is the international best-selling author of 13 books and five Audible Originals on mindset, leadership, and wellbeing. But she doesn’t just talk about it – she’s lived it
With a career spanning finance, technology and media, including serving as the most senior woman in a company that achieved a $1.5 billion IPO, Domonique knows what it takes to lead when the stakes are high – without burning out or losing yourself in the process.
Domonique is the creator of Leadership Intelligence™ – a system that measures and builds the foundation every leader needs to succeed and tracks their progress along the way. For over 25 years, her work has focused on answering the questions at the heart of human performance: why do some people thrive while others struggle, and what does it really take to perform at your best without sacrificing what matters most?
A warm and engaging speaker, Domonique’s keynotes take these big questions and give audiences answers that are both insightful and immediately actionable.
Domonique jokes that she has nearly as many passports as James Bond. She is Australian by birth, Italian by blood and British by choice. She is currently based in Sydney, Australia.
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