Emilie Sydney-Smith
From Big Tech mindset to real-world results. Emilie empowers companies to scale with confidence and future-proof strategy.
Why book Emilie Sydney-Smith for your next event
- Learn how to dismantle bureaucracy, boost productivity, and create a culture where top talent thrives and stays.
- Master Big Tech-inspired strategies to spark innovation, scale transformation, and outpace disruption with confidence.
- Founder of an AI startup transforming personal confidence through data-backed appearance optimization.
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Big Tech Thinking for Non-Tech Companies
Emilie empowers organizations to drive exponential growth by combining Big Tech agility with real-world strategy. Her keynotes reveal how to unlock 70X ROI, double or triple profits, and boost talent retention through AI-driven confidence, culture transformation, and future-ready innovation frameworks.
Keynote Speaker Emilie Sydney-Smith is a powerhouse in transformation, innovation, and future-proof leadership. Known for delivering high-impact strategies that unlock exponential growth, Emilie helps organizations break through stagnation, drive cultural change, and scale with confidence. Her keynotes are tailored for business leaders who want to stay ahead of disruption and build resilient, future-ready teams.
As the Founder & CEO of E5S, Emilie leverages AI to empower personal and professional confidence through tailored, data-driven appearance optimization. Her work addresses the human side of transformation—giving people the tools they need to lead with assurance in a complex world.
Previously the Chief Transformation Officer at Aboitiz, the Philippines’ second-largest conglomerate, Emilie created new business lines with nation-scale impact and trained hundreds of employees to think and perform like they were in Big Tech. Before that, she was CEO of ExO Works, where she helped clients like Visa, Siemens, and Procter & Gamble achieve up to 70X ROI through innovation-led transformation.
Book Emilie Sydney-Smith for your event to gain proven frameworks, practical tools, and bold inspiration. Whether you're facing digital disruption, culture fatigue, or the challenge of scaling innovation, Emilie delivers keynotes that empower organizations to thrive in change, not just survive it.
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Keynote by Emilie Sydney-Smith: Designing billion dollar opportunities alongside AI
Keynote Speaker Emilie Sydney-Smith reveals how she built her AI-powered startup in a fraction of the usual time with stronger validation and sharper focus. Her keynotes equip leaders, founders, and teams with the practical tools and mindset to harness AI for faster innovation, smarter decision-making, and scalable impact.
Emilie shares real-world insights on how organizations can capture their share of the trillions AI is set to generate without falling into common traps. From startup agility to enterprise-level transformation, her proven strategies help turn bold ideas into validated business opportunities.
Book Emilie Sydney-Smith for your event and empower your audience with actionable AI strategies, time-saving shortcuts, and innovation frameworks that drive measurable results.
Audience takeaways:
How I easily created my startup in 1/10 the time and with better validation by using AI
AI will create trillions of dollars of wealth - how to design opportunities for your organization or startup to capture some of that
Practical tips on how to get started and what not to do
Keynote by Emilie Sydney-Smith: Truly growing your company – we’ve been doing it the hard way
Too often, businesses fall into the trap of building or buying “more of the same,” even as margins shrink and disruption looms. In her powerful keynotes, Emilie Sydney-Smith reveals how to identify when your organization is stuck in a growth rut—and how to break free.
Drawing from hands-on experience with 30 of the world’s biggest companies, Emilie delivers a failsafe blueprint for unlocking high-profit, high-impact growth through new ventures that leverage your existing talent and capabilities.
She also shares practical strategies to build ultra-productive, inspired, and low-politics cultures that triple talent retention and spark lasting innovation.
Book Emilie Sydney-Smith for your event to learn how to jailbreak your company out of destructive strategies and ignite true growth from the inside out.
Audience takeaways:
Building or buying more of the same is not really growth if profit margins are dropping or the industry is about to be disrupted
How to tell if your company is in that rut and how to jailbreak the company out of that destructive strategy, no matter your role
Failsafe process for creating growth through new ventures with high profits, high impact that leverage your current talents
How to create an ultra-productive, inspired, low-politics team culture at the same time with triple the talent retention
Eureka moments: a different approach to cost cutting and productivity boosts in your current business
Case studies from work with 30 of the world’s biggest companies
Keynote by Emilie Sydney-Smith: Creating lucrative new startups or business lines
Keynote Speaker Emilie Sydney-Smith helps organizations escape this cycle with a proven process for building high-profit, high-impact ventures that customers urgently want. Drawing on case studies from 30 of the world’s biggest companies, Emilie shows how to unlock growth using your existing talent, infrastructure, and insight without falling for overhyped tech or costly missteps.
Her keynotes also reveal how to create ultra-productive, inspired teams with low politics and triple the retention, while adopting the right technologies to fuel long-term success.
Whether you're innovating inside a large enterprise or scaling something new, Emilie delivers powerful, actionable strategies to get your next move right.
Book Emilie Sydney-Smith for your event and empower your leaders to build what truly matters—urgently desired products, standout teams, and sustainable growth.
Audience takeaways:
Failsafe process for creating growth through new ventures with high profits, high impact that leverage your current talents
Case studies from work with 30 of the world’s biggest companies
How do you make sure customers urgently desire your new products or services?
How to create an ultra-productive, inspired, low-politics team culture at the same time with triple the talent retention
Adopting groundbreaking technology that underpins success, rather than “shiny objects” no matter how tech savvy your company is now
Accessing the world’s top experts in the business niche is easier than you think
Keynote by Emilie Sydney-Smith: Creating high performance teams with minimal politics
Many organizations struggle to create cultures where people not only perform but actually love their work and colleagues. In her inspiring keynotes, Emilie Sydney-Smith shares practical strategies to build teams rooted in deep trust, openness, and shared purpose where people consistently do the best work of their lives.
Drawing from firsthand experience as a CEO and transformation leader, Emilie reveals the simple mindset shift and one powerful rule she uses with her own teams to eliminate politics, encourage good behavior, and spark high performance without heavy-handed policies.
If you want your people to feel energized, engaged, and deeply committed, book Emilie Sydney-Smith for your event. Her keynote delivers actionable tools that transform workplace culture into a magnet for passion, productivity, and top-tier talent.
Audience takeaways:
Practical experience in helping people adore their work and team so much that they do the best work of their lives
How to build deep trust and openness
My one rule for my staff that almost guarantees good behaviour with no need for any other policy
Keynote by Emilie Sydney-Smith: Geopolitics: Preparing your operations for a dangerous world
Most organizations aren’t and by the time danger strikes, it’s too late to prepare. In her powerful keynotes, Emilie Sydney-Smith offers a clear, practical starting point for leaders who’ve never considered how these rising global threats could affect their teams, operations, or families.
Through compelling case studies and business simulations, Emilie shares how companies can uncover hidden risks, identify unexpected opportunities, and build strategic skills that strengthen resilience and inspire hope. Her sessions equip audiences with tools to respond decisively to disruption before it happens.
If you want your organization to stay calm, capable, and ahead of crisis, book Emilie Sydney-Smith for your event. Her keynote is not just about risk, it’s about turning uncertainty into camaraderie, strength, and a powerful source of innovation.
