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Your people are smart, capable and ambitious.
But in today’s fast-changing world of work, talent alone isn’t enough. Without clarity, ownership and the confidence to take action, careers can stall – and so can your organisation.
Antoinette Oglethorpe is on a mission to change that. As the creator of the COMPASS framework and author of Confident Career Conversations, she empowers individuals to take charge of their development, and equips leaders to support them every step of the way.
In her dynamic and engaging keynotes, Antoinette shares powerful stories, practical tools and a healthy dose of humour to spark real change. Her sessions inspire audiences to stop waiting for clarity or permission, and start navigating their careers with purpose, adaptability and momentum.
With a background at Accenture and two decades advising global organisations like the UN, WHO and NHS, Antoinette understands the realities of leading in complex environments. Her keynotes are more than motivational – they’re transformational.
Audiences leave energised, empowered and ready to take meaningful steps toward success – on their terms and for their organisation’s benefit. The result? Happier employees, stronger leaders and a more resilient, future-ready workforce.
After hearing Antoinette speak, career development won’t feel like a tick-box exercise. It’ll feel like a shared journey – with a COMPASS to guide the way.
Antoinette Oglethorpe’s keynote is built around her powerful COMPASS framework – a fresh, flexible approach to career development in today’s unpredictable workplace. Rather than a one-size-fits-all talk, clients select 3–4 of the following COMPASS elements to match their goals and audience needs, making every keynote deeply relevant and immediately actionable.
The COMPASS Framework:
Clarity: Help your people understand their strengths, values and direction, so they can thrive with focus and purpose.
Ownership: Inspire employees to take responsibility for their own development and reduce overreliance on managers.
Mindset: Build resilience and adaptability to help teams bounce back from setbacks and embrace change.
People: Strengthen relationships through mentoring and collaboration that fuels growth and connection.
Amplify: Equip leaders to have better, more meaningful career conversations that drive engagement and performance.
Success: Redefine success beyond pay and promotions, leading to greater wellbeing, retention, and fulfilment.
Small Steps: Encourage sustainable progress with a practical, low-pressure approach to long-term growth.
Each keynote is packed with real-life stories, energising takeaways, and practical tools that help people take ownership of their careers – and help organisations build a stronger culture of engagement, development, and retention.
We sincerely appreciate your invaluable contribution as a guest speaker in our Career Week 2023. I really appreciated the brilliant presentation. The feedback received so far on the session are very positive. I’ve heard from several participants that they really appreciated hearing about your journey, your perspective and practical advice on rethinking career development, taking ownership, the importance of career conversation and leveraging all available support mechanisms to enrich one’s portfolio.
We would like to express our appreciation for a very successful and informative presentation by Antoinette Oglethorpe; during our HR conference “Reinventing HR”. We appreciate the time that had been dedicated from your side, which was definitely of an added value and were reflected into constructive and fruitful discussions among all attendees. Special thanks and gratitude to Ms. Antoinette for the professionalism, dedication, that was reflected into the superior quality of work delivered. Your dedicated time, and efforts to support the HR conference are highly valued. Looking forward for more fruitful cooperation in the future.
