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.

TOPICS: Leadership  •  Culture  •  Human Intelligence

• Beyond the Script: Shaping What Happens Next

  Every organisation operates from a script. Some of it is written into strategy, policy and process. Much of it exists in the unwritten expectations, habits and assumptions that shape how people think, behave and make decisions.

  But what happens when the script no longer serves the future we’re trying to create?

  Drawing on more than four decades of directing complex productions and diverse ensembles, Simone de Haas brings a distinctive perspective to leading through change.

• The Ensemble Effect™ : When Individual Brilliance Becomes Collective Excellence

  Every organisation wants exceptional people. But bringing talented individuals together doesn’t automatically create an exceptional team.

  What happens when individual brilliance competes with collective purpose? When a high performer disrupts the dynamics of the group? Or when capable people struggle to make their best contribution?

  Drawing on her extensive experience directing performers, creative teams and large-scale productions, Simone de Haas explores the often invisible dynamics that determine whether teams flourish, fragment or simply function.

• The Unspoken Advantage: Leadership Presence and the Power of Human Intelligence

  What is it about some leaders that inspires confidence, creates trust and commands attention, often before they’ve spoken a word?

  Leadership presence is one of the most powerful, yet least understood, dimensions of effective leadership. It shapes how we are perceived, how we connect with others and the influence we have in moments that matter.

  Through insights from her Signature Presence Code™, Staging Intelligence™ and Director’s Intelligence frameworks, Simone explores how self-awareness, perception, physicality, voice and relational intelligence contribute to the way leaders are experienced by others.

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