Inspiring Transformational Leadership

Since 2003, Avril transformed her career from an extensive, award winning corporate experience into the hugely successful and widely popular keynote speaker, author and corporate motivator that she is today.

Forming Avril Henry Pty Ltd as a way to consolidate all her experience and skills under one identity, Avril has taken her organisation to the next level by working with senior leadership teams and employees from organisations such as IBM, Commonwealth Departments of Defence, Education, State Health Departments NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Optus, BHP Billiton, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, IBM, Astra Zeneca, University of Western Sydney and many more.

Avril seeks to inspire and advise executive and senior management on how to harness and cascade the inspiration and motivation she provides, throughout their organisations. In addition she inspires employees to collaborate with their leaders to achieve the organizations business objectives. All of these professionals, executives and decision makers have discovered the same thing: Avril has the business experience and knowledge combined with cut through communication skills to inspire organisations and individuals to realise and implement what they can offer to create sustainable organisations.

Avril has been recognised by the Australian Institute of Management at the AIM HIGH 2007 Management Convention as one of 40 of the world’s leading management thinkers. Amongst the multiple awards Avril has been recognised with over her 28 year career, in 2006 she won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement in HR at the Australian Human Resources Awards and in 2008 her consulting business was a Finalist in the City of Sydney Business Awards.

Aside from generating revenue and profit, improving employee engagement and developing effective new leaders will be two of the most important aspects that will keep your organisation competitive domestically and globally, in boom times or recessions.

Employee engagement is a business issue that is constantly changing and that requires constant focus - and for good reason. With different generations, men, women, people with disabilities, and people from different races and religious backgrounds working together, it is vital that employees be continually made aware on how to work harmoniously with people from different backgrounds, and remain sensitive and tolerant to these differences. This begins with management leading by example.

Senior management can lead employees on how to communicate more effectively with one another. But first, senior management must learn how to do this themselves. Keynote and workshop topics from Avril such as “Leading in Challenging Times”, "Motivating, Managing & Surviving Different Generations at Work", "Communicating Positively", "Winning Together Teamwork", "Resolving Conflict Constructively" and "The Business Case for Diversity" will introduce senior management to a greater understanding of how to motivate and manage all employees to interact with each other and management more effectively.