Andrea Clarke Keynote Speaker

Award-winning author of Future Fit (2019) and Adapt (2025)
Futures Director at SOON, guiding global organisations through change
17-year Washington D.C. news career (Reuters, Al Jazeera, Seven Network)

Andrea Clarke's Biography

Andrea Clarke is a futures strategist who helps leaders turn uncertainty into competitive advantage. As Futures Director at SOON, she partners with forward-thinking organisations—including Atlassian, Rio Tinto, NBN Co and Austrade—to decode weak signals, align culture with rapid transformation, and scale adaptability as a leadership capability. Her first book, Future Fit, won Australian Business Book of the Year, while Adapt extends her practical framework for mastering change across disrupted industries.

A dynamic keynote speaker, Andrea combines newsroom urgency with boardroom insight. She spent 17 years reporting from Capitol Hill, conflict zones and global summits for Thomson Reuters, Al Jazeera English and Australia’s Seven Network, honing the communication clarity she now imparts to executive teams. Audiences value her energy and candour as she challenges them to shift from reacting to change to shaping it—and to keep humans, not machines, at the centre of work.

Grounded in international affairs and human-rights advocacy, Andrea brings a deeply human lens to future-of-work debates. Her commentary appears in the Australian Financial Review, ABC and the TODAY Show, and she regularly delivers foresight reports on leadership, technology and human agency.

Based in Sydney and working across Asia-Pacific and the UK, Andrea equips organisations with the tools to build personal agency, grow staying power and thrive amid relentless disruption.

Adapting to the Future of Work

In a world obsessed with artificial intelligence, we’re missing the real story: the future won’t be shaped by algorithms alone — it will be shaped by the humans who can adapt to them. This is a practical keynote that reframes adaptability as the most essential skill of our time — more critical than IQ or EQ. Drawing on global research, real-world insight, and her own experience inside executive teams, Andrea shows how organisations can shift from AI anxiety to AI fluency — not by chasing tools, but by transforming talent.

Adapting Faster & Working Smarter

What is your role in the future of work? Andrea provokes the audience to own their role in change and stay future-fit for the long game — by prioritising three fundamental human skills: adaptability, learning, and energy management. In a world defined by constant transformation, this session delivers sharp insights, practical frameworks, and compelling stories to help leaders unlock momentum, reduce resistance to change, and create teams that are better prepared for change. This is a bold call to action for leaders ready to shape what’s next.