Experience is one of the most valuable assets a person, an organisation and a society has. Why then do so many women find it counts for less once they reach 50? In this talk, Kiran challenges the assumptions that leave experienced women overlooked, undervalued, or excluded. She explores what workplaces and communities lose when knowledge and judgement go unrecognised, and what becomes possible when those voices are heard.

Key themes:

• The experience we overlook, and what it costs us.

• What changes when women over fifty are heard and credited.

• The knowledge an organisation cannot afford to lose.

• What a career break does and does not leave behind.

Some of the most important things are the ones nobody says. Ideas stay unspoken, worries go unshared and decisions get made without the people who know most. Drawing on more than forty years of her own silence, Kiran explores what silence costs us, why we stay quiet, and how to make it safe to speak.

Key themes:

• The histories we bring into every conversation.

• What remains hidden when people stay quiet.

• Why an invitation to speak is not always enough.

• What happens after someone speaks and why it matters.

You can be in the room and still feel you have no right to be there. Claiming your place begins with the space you take, the presence you bring and the power you use. Drawing on her personal and professional journey, Kiran explores why so many of us wait for permission to contribute, lead or simply be ourselves. This talk considers what it means to be heard without becoming louder, to recognise the authority of your own experience and to use your influence to make room for others.

Key themes:

• The permission we wait for, and where it comes from.

• The difference between presence and volume.

• What give your voice authority.

• How claiming your place can create space for someone else.

Reinvention isn’t reserved for the young, and it rarely starts with a grand plan. Often, it starts with two questions: what do you think of yourself, and what do others think of you? The labels that others give you; ‘too old’, ‘too much’, ‘too set in your ways’) quietly become the story you tell yourself. This talk closes that gap between who we truly are and the version of ourselves we have learnt to live with.

Key themes:

• The labels that shape our choices without us noticing.

• What reinvention asks us to keep, question, and leave behind.

• How a programme can teach us about personal change.

• Moving forward when there is no single, clear path.

Most of us describe our experience through the jobs we have held rather than the things we know how to do. What possibilities does that leave unseen?

Kiran draws on her career in HR, learning, transformation, consultancy and project management, and her subsequent move into podcasting, building an online platform, and writing a book. She explores how skills, knowledge and judgement can find new uses beyond the setting in which they were acquired. This talk invites audiences to look again at what they already know and where it could take them next.

Key themes:

• What your job title leaves out about your capabilities.

• Seeing familiar skills through an unfamiliar lens.

• Making your experience relevant to a new role, sector or business.

• Exploring a different director without risking everything.

Purpose does not stop at retirement, and it doesn’t necessarily arrive as one grand epiphany. At every age, the question remains: what matters to you now?

Kiran explores the relationship between purpose, wellbeing and longevity, alongside the everyday reality of finding something worth getting up for. Looking at experience, interests and curiosity, she considers how a sense of direction cam develop as our lives change. This talk invites audiences to think about what they want the years ahead to hold, and the contribution they still want to make.

Key themes:

• The relationship between purpose, health and longevity.

• What matters when a familiar role no longer defines you.

• Where curiosity might lead, and what makes an interest worth pursuing.

• How a sense of purpose becomes something you can sustain.