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Ivanka Menken, International Keynote Speaker on Leadership and Growth
Keynotes, workshops, and facilitation for corporate and institutional audiences internationally, including invited paid engagements in China and leadership events across the Asia-Pacific.
Enquire About SpeakingIDENTITY RISK: Leading Powerfully Without Losing Yourself
“Growth in business is visible. Growth in leadership is internal.”
Every leader reaches a moment where external success stops matching internal fulfilment. Where the business is growing, but they aren't. Where performance has become a substitute for identity, and the question they've been avoiding finally demands an answer: Who am I becoming?
In this deeply personal keynote, Ivanka shares the turning point that transformed her leadership, and her life. Drawing on 25 years as a founder, the experience of building a global company alongside her husband, a pivotal conversation with her son, and the hard truth that achievement without personal growth is a trap, Ivanka guides audiences through three dimensions of inner development that every leader must confront:
What your audience will take away
- Ivanka’s 3 Shifts Framework: a personal leadership audit they can use immediately
- A Leadership Alignment Check across Business, Relationships, and Health
- A 30-Day Personal Reset: one decision to delegate, one ego attachment to release, one health boundary to enforce, one conversation at home to initiate
- The "Second Mountain" perspective: moving from building a business to becoming a conscious, whole leader
“Lead the business. Don't become it. The real question isn't how big can you build it. It's who are you becoming?”
AT THE HEART OF IDENTITY RISK
The 3 Shifts: lead the business, don't become it
The framework audiences take away from the keynote as a personal leadership audit. It starts where many founders are: fused with the business. Each shift puts a little more distance between who you are and what you have built, until business, relationships and health sit around you, aligned.
Tap a shift to move the circles. The framework is from Ivanka's Identity Risk keynote.
The 3 Shifts · a framework by Ivanka Menken
Growth in business is visible. Growth in leadership is internal.
The Identity Risk keynote →Listen to Ivanka's live thinking before booking →ALSO AVAILABLE
Additional keynotes & topics
Connection Before Content: Growing Through the People You Lead
The leaders who grow the most are the ones who lead through genuine human connection, not authority. A talk about how investing in relationships transforms not just your team, but who you become as a leader.
The Second Mountain: From Achievement to Meaning
What happens after you’ve built the business, hit the targets, earned the recognition, and still feel incomplete? The personal journey from the first mountain of achievement to the second mountain of purpose, clarity, and conscious leadership.
Leading Whole: Aligning Business, Relationships, and Health
A candid exploration of the personal cost of unbalanced leadership, and the framework for aligning professional ambition with wellbeing, marriage, and parenthood. Growth isn’t sustainable if it only happens in one dimension.
For founders building leaders: Builder-of-Leaders Mentoring →Scaling with Systems: Lessons from Building Across 160+ Countries
What 25 years of learning from proven operating systems has taught me about scaling. Real stories from building a global business: the frameworks that worked, the ones that didn’t, and what I wish I’d known earlier.
From Survival to Strategy: The Founder’s Evolution
The arc from early-stage hustle to mature leadership, and the identity shifts required at each stage of business growth.
FORMATS
Engagement formats
Languages: English (fluent) · Dutch (native)
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A downloadable speaker kit is available on request.
ONE DECISION. 90 MINUTES.
The decision that keeps circling, settled.
Bring the one decision you keep putting off. In a private 90-minute session with Ivanka you find the real decision, weigh what waiting is costing you, and leave with it made, plus the first step you cannot take back. The relief of closure, the same day.
Strategic Clarity Intensive
A$1,500
ex GST, once · live on Zoom
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What topics does Ivanka speak on?
Ivanka’s keynotes cover leadership identity, personal growth, scaling businesses with systems, executive alignment, and the journey from achievement to meaning. Her signature keynote is Identity Risk: Leading Powerfully Without Losing Yourself.
What formats are available?
Keynote addresses (30 to 60 minutes), masterclasses and workshops (90 minutes to half day), fireside chats, panel moderation, and VIP executive roundtables. All formats can be tailored to your audience.
Does Ivanka speak internationally?
Yes. Ivanka has delivered paid speaking engagements internationally including in China, and leadership events across the Asia-Pacific region. She speaks fluent English and native Dutch.
How do I book Ivanka for an event?
Contact Ivanka directly at ivanka@ivankamenken.com with your event details, preferred format, and dates. A downloadable speaker kit is available on request.