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Breda McCague is a dynamic, high-impact speaker and event host who brings energetic inspiration into every room she enters.
Her career spans leadership roles across global strategy, regulatory transformation, technology and culture. Alongside this, Breda served for 20 years in the Irish Reserve Defence Forces, becoming the first female Lieutenant in her Infantry unit. This rare combination of military precision and deep organisational behavioural expertise shapes her powerful, memorable delivery style.
Breda specialises in Visionary Leadership, Ambitious and Strategic Goal-Setting, Growth Mindsets, and Emotional Intelligence. She is known for designing inclusive events, delivering hackathons, and motivating teams, leaders, and audiences of all sizes. Her natural presence and charisma are widely recognised for reigniting focus, boosting motivation, and raising dopamine levels, leaving participants energised and ready to take action.
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Breda is exceptional and one of our highest rated speakers at First Derivative. I had the pleasure of listening to Breda on numerous occasions and witnessed first-hand the raised energy levels in the room because Breda has a unique way of encouraging people to step out of their comfort zone. If you want a fun, high-energy, relevant and thought-provoking talk delivered to any level of leadership in your organisation then I would highly recommend Breda McCague!
Breda facilitated a leadership keynote for one of our operations team effectiveness sessions. Breda skilfully wove in key leadership insights whilst sharing her leadership journey in a style and was relatable to individual contributors and leaders of large teams in equal measure. Breda is facilitates with high energy transitioning key talking points into practical actions for the team. I’m happy to recommend Breda has a leadership facilitator or trainer and wish her continued success.
