There are keynote speakers who wow you with their insight, their eloquence and their ability to challenge you to do something different. Simone touches you at a way deeper level than that.
Uma Rudd Chia - CEO / KVUR

Book Simone to Speak

Theatre is the training ground.
Leadership is the Stage.
Simone is your Director.

Simone de Haas brings the soul of theatre to the art of leadership.
With more than 40 years as a multi-award-winning theatre director, she has shaped ensembles, elevated performers, and transformed narratives across stages in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, and the United States. Simone doesn’t borrow theatre metaphors - she has lived them. Her work fuses dramaturgy, somatic intelligence, and communication psychology into a distinctive methodology that helps leaders speak with authority, lead with coherence, and build cultures of high-trust collaboration.

Simone’s presence is its own catalyst: deeply intuitive, energising, and profoundly human. She doesn’t simply teach skills; she awakens identity, amplifies impact, and turns every room into a rehearsal for what’s possible.
For leaders, teams, and women stepping into their next evolution, Simone is the guide who activates both the artistry and the intelligence of their leadership.
Simone delivers compelling keynotes on the powerful intersection of leadership and theatrical techniques through her Theatre of Leadership® and Ensemble Intelligence™ frameworks. Her presentations are consistently described as intuitive, inspirational, and genuinely interactive.

Available for keynote presentations, corporate workshops, executive coaching, strategic consultancy, and podcast interviews.

Keynotes, Masterclasses & Workshop topics include:

LEADERSHIP

  • The Leadership Paradox: Why Your Best People Won’t Step Up

  • Ensemble Intelligence™ : Turning groups into high-trust ensembles

  • Voice Your Brilliance: For Women Who Lead - Speak with authority. Lead with presence. Move with power.

COMMUNICATION & PUBLIC SPEAKING

  • Power Up Your Public Speaking with Theatre Techniques

  • Creative Communication: The Art of Being Heard, Felt & Understood

BUSINESS STORYTELLING

  • Perfect Pitch : The Art & Science of Persuasive Storytelling

Fullerton Hotel, Singapore Nov 2018

HerStory Conference - Las Vegas July 2019

“Leadership in the age of empathy requires a willingness to be vulnerable.”
— Simone de Haas

What People Are Saying

Simone de Haas is an outstanding speaker on leadership, communications and corporate storytelling. Her presentations to my CEO Institute groups of senior CEOs on leadership insights have been powerful, insightful, entertaining and highly engaging.

RAY WEEKES,
Chair, CEO Institute

Simone has the ability to light up a room and fire everyone up. Her talent and passion in the field of theatre are contagious. She has a way of connecting and drawing in each audience member and telling stories in a way you'll never forget them. Simone changed the way I tell my business story when I meet new people. The things I learned in a couple of hours will give me confidence for the rest of my career.”

LAUREN-MICHELE TOZER, Owner/Chef,
Southern Sweeties Ice Cream

Simone de Haas is an exceptional and inspiring speaker who, in a very short fifteen minutes of our corporate 'TedTalks' style event was able to invigorate and excite the audience. Simone's job was to move the audience and to enable them to ask some very deep questions. As the organiser of the event, what I saw was a speaker who delivered well beyond brief and an audience captivated from beginning to end. Thank you Simone!

NATALY K. - MetLife

"I engaged Simone as my coach for public speaking, in particular for my TEDx Talk. From the beginning Simone took the time to really listen and understand my concept with what I wanted to achieve. With her exceptional knowledge on presenting, stage presence and content, together we delivered an incredibly moving TEDx Talk. I thoroughly recommend Simone to anyone who wants to take their public speaking to the next level, where she will support you to not only impact, but will also influence many. She is one in a million!"

L. HEARL, Founder - Meg Heart

Awards

Gold Matilda Award - 2012 (Contribution to Independent Theatre)
ABC Radio Bell Award, Best Production, Best Director (2011)
Women of Influence (Girl Guides)

BE INSPIRED

From Latin inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’ from in- ‘into’ + spirare ‘breathe’. The word was originally used in the sense ‘impart a truth or idea to someone’.