Speaking & facilitation
Keynotes and workshops that give organizations language for the human side of change — from a Master-accredited strategist who has lived it at every altitude, from the boardroom to the rally car.
See her on stage
Chelsea presented Constructive Conversations with Chelsea Walsh at ACMP Global Connect 2025 — and returns to the Global Connect stage in 2026. Two consecutive years speaking at the world's largest gathering of change management professionals.
Signature talks
Different doors, one idea underneath: organizations don't transform — people decide to move, one at a time.
Emotional intelligence in an AI-driven workplace.
Every organization is racing to adopt AI. Almost none are preparing their people for what that adoption actually feels like. This talk reframes AI transformation as what it really is — a human change problem wearing a technology costume — and gives leaders a practical way to build the one capability machines can't replicate: emotionally intelligent judgment under pressure.
Change is not a process. It's people deciding to move.
Twenty years inside organizational transformation taught Chelsea one uncomfortable truth: strategy decks don't move people. Being seen does. This talk connects the mechanics of large-scale change with the human mechanics of recognition — and shows how one meaningful moment, deliberately created, can travel further than any communications plan.
The talks nobody wants to have are the ones that move everything.
Presented at ACMP Global Connect 2025. Resistance isn't a personality flaw — it's information. This session gives practitioners and leaders a framework for the conversations that transformation actually runs on: the awkward ones, the resistant ones, the ones everyone keeps postponing until the project is already in trouble.
What an international road rally teaches you about pressure, communication and trust.
Strap into a rally car with a co-driver for days on end and every theory you hold about communication gets stress-tested at speed. Drawing on Chelsea's international rally experience, this talk turns the cockpit into a case study: how trust is actually built, how communication survives pressure, and what teams can learn from two people who cannot afford to stop moving.
Credentials
Audiences
Formats
Investment
Every engagement is built around the outcome you need — from a single virtual spark to a year-long partnership. All rates in CAD.
Virtual keynote
From $5,000 CAD
A high-energy virtual session that actually holds a remote audience — built for distributed teams and online events.
In person
From $12,500 CAD
The signature experience. A tailored in-person keynote that gives your audience language, energy and a story they retell.
Half day
From $20,000 CAD
Keynote plus working session. Your audience hears the idea in the morning and practises it before lunch.
Full day + custom coins
From $35,000 CAD
A full-day experience with Kindness in Motion built in — co-branded coins put recognition physically in the room.
Annual
Custom — from $75,000 CAD
A year-long relationship: multiple engagements, a running recognition program and a speaker who knows your organization by name.
Speaker kit
Bio, talk summaries, technical requirements and photography — assembled for your event's format and sent the same week you ask.
Request the Speaker KitCommon questions
Three to six months for keynotes is comfortable; conference seasons fill earlier. Shorter timelines are sometimes possible — ask, worst case is a fast no.
Yes. Chelsea is based in Canada and speaks internationally. Travel outside the local region is billed at cost.
Every engagement starts with a discovery call. The core frameworks stay consistent; the language, examples and emphasis are rebuilt around your audience and event theme.
Internal recording rights are available as an add-on. Public distribution is agreed case by case.
Co-branded Kindness in Motion coins give every attendee a physical way to act on the talk — recognition moves through your event in real time instead of staying an idea on a slide.
