BUSINESS STORYTELLER
SPEAKER
WINNER 2025 EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR

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Connect, engage and inspire people?

Never hear the words ‘I still don’t get this’ again?

Move people to action?

Have people come on board - to invest emotionally?

Translate data so it’s compelling?

Have people understand and embrace the strategy?

Achieve personal and professional impact?

Then you are in the right place. We can help you with business storytelling.

MEET YAMINI NAIDU, CSP
Australia's Number 1 Business Storytelling Speaker - Captivating leaders and corporate audiences as the world's only economist turned business storyteller & PSA Educator of the Year 2025!

For over 15 years, Yamini Naidu has been at the forefront of business storytelling Australia. Through her books, her masterclasses and her transformative speaking keynotes, Yamini has been connecting, engaging and inspiring audiences in the areas of business storytelling and leadership.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

We recently used Yamini for our premier client event, where she toured Australia’s capital cities presenting to hundreds of our clients. Yamini has a compelling story to tell and one that resonated extremely well with our business clients. Yamini’s style is highly engaging and in many ways enchanting, as she shares the secret power of storytelling through practical examples. I would highly recommend Yamini to anyone looking to create greater engagement with their clients or employees.
Don Sillar, Head of Sales, ANZ Private

Yamini captures people’s hearts and minds.
Olivia Ruello, CEO, Business Chicks

Yamini led our leadership team on a storytelling journey which was remarkable in both its insight and impact. Her ability to identify and distil the key elements of a situation, and package these into an engaging narrative, drawing on emotion and instinct as well as logic, is unique.
Grant Kelley, Chief Executive Officer, Vicinity Centres Limited

Yamini’s ability to help leaders unlock the power of storytelling in a fun and authentic way is inspiring, insightful and transformative. I am forever grateful that our paths crossed many years ago. Yamini has had such an impact on me, and I am sure on many others.
Edweena Stratton, Chief People Officer, Culture Amp

Yamini is to storytelling as apple is to pie. Yamini makes us all better storytellers and therefore leaders.
Peter Baines OAM, Founder Hands Across Water

Our Executive Team at Dental Health Services Victoria had the privilege of a Story Telling Masterclass with the amazing Yamini Naidu. The team came away inspired and able to tell their stories in their own voice. We have been putting our new skill to good use to help join the dots for our teams and create authentic connections. The team rated it the best workshop they have done in decades. Thanks, Yamini.
Susan McKee, Chief Executive Officer, Dental Health Services Victoria

I’ve yet to meet a person who hasn’t called themselves 'Yamini’s #1 fan’ after seeing her speak. She is breathtaking in every way. Authentic and professional, hilarious and insightful, big on inspiration but even bigger on practical value.
Mykel Dixon, award-winning speaker and Creative Leadership Expert

WOWING AUDIENCES ALL AROUND THE WORLD

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BUSINESS STORYTELLING FOR LEADERS

WORK WITH YAMINI

KEYNOTE SPEAKING

How to entertain, inform and inspire any audience. Yamini Naidu, CSP is not just a speaker, but a transformative experience.

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MASTERCLASSES

Immersive, Experiential and Participatory. We immerse you in the world of storytelling and then we get you to actually do it!

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X-FACTOR

When you hear the words X factor – you immediately start to wonder
What is my X factor? Do I even have one? What if I don’t have one?

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5 Sizzling Story Starts to Make You Unforgettable...in a Good Way!

Introduction

Ever had one of those moments where you are scrambling for the perfect opening for your story? A story beginning that instantly connects and captivates your audience? But your mind draws a blank? I’ve got you covered! Presenting my video series: '5 Sizzling Story Starts to Make You Unforgettable...in a Good Way!' 🌟 Story beginnings in business storytelling are power moments. Why? Beginnings are how and when your audience decides to lean in and listen – or not. Your story's beginning is the door to your audience's attention and heart. One of the most important decisions you make with a story is where and how to begin.In each video I share one story start to captivate your audience from the get-go.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Yamini spoke at our 2019 conference in June and the feedback overwhelmingly indicated that Yamini should have been a keynote! To address this, we invited her on our August lunch roadshow around Australia and had our biggest numbers in all locations. Yamini’s engaging and humorous style made her stories memorable, complimented by her warm and friendly nature. Her session on storytelling, with examples woven throughout, helped association professionals realise the potential stories can have including demonstrating the value of being a member.

Toni Brearley, Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Society of Association Executives

Yamini’s ability to help leaders unlock the power of storytelling in a fun and authentic way is inspiring, insightful and transformative. I am forever grateful that our paths crossed many years ago. Yamini has had such an impact on me, and I am sure on many others.

Edweena Stratton, Chief People Officer, Culture Amp

We brought in Yamini Naidu into AHI because we thought we could build storytelling skill... although for many of us, to be truthful, we didn’t quite believe we had the ability. In less than 2.5 hours, Yamini convinced us otherwise. She helped us take a nar rative of nearly nothingness and help us make it extraordinary. She showed us the beauty of a good story and the science that drives it. It is a skill that will now sit with all of our participants forever... it will help us in our work, it will help us commu- nicate with our colleagues...and it will help me get my teenage children to clean their room. With great thanks, Yamini.

Mark Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, AHI (Australasian Housing Institute)

Yamini is an exceptional speaker who shares her story- telling expertise in an engaging and fun way.

John Roberts, CEO, Leadership Collective

Yamini took our team through a high energy set that had everyone fully engaged from start to finish. Through practical examples and workshopping, we experienced the power of business storytelling, with a combination of both tears and belly laughs as staff shared their stories across the team. An incredible learning experience and one we would highly recommend for capability development and commercial impact.

Bridie Swatton Née Cowell, Innovation Director at Bega Cheese Limited.

We recently used Yamini for our premier client event, where she toured Australia’s capital cities presenting to hundreds of our clients. Yamini has a compelling story to tell and one that resonated extremely well with our business clients. Yamini’s style is highly engaging and in many ways enchanting, as she shares the secret power of storytelling through practical examples. I would highly recommend Yamini to anyone thinking about how to create greater engagement with their clients or employees.

Don Sillar, Head of Sales, ANZ Private