Caroline Ravenall: Leadership
Leadership strategist Caroline Ravenall empowers organisations to build future fit cultures and equips individuals with the courage, resilience, and mindset needed to thrive amid uncertainty and change.
- Highlights:
- Forthcoming author of Finding My Virginity, focused on future fit leadership and courageous living
- Nearly ten years’ strategic leadership experience in the Virgin Group under Richard Branson
- Led the setup and launch of Virgin Atlantic Airways in South Africa
- Fifteen years of consulting, business coaching, and organizational development experience
- Has partnered with Ernst & Young, Mercantile Bank, ABSA, Duke University, GIBS, Old Mutual, and Delta Airlines
- Formats:
Keynote speaker and leadership development strategist
- Audiences:
Executive teams, leadership groups, high potential talent, innovation departments, and organizations seeking resilience, adaptability, and high performance cultures
- Outcomes:
- Practical frameworks for leading confidently through uncertainty and accelerating cultural transformation.
- Mindset, behavioural, and performance tools drawn from real world adventure, disruption, and personal mastery.
- Expanded possibilities for courageous leadership and future fit organizational practice.
- Travels from: London, UK
- **Fee range: $500 - $5,000
Keynote Topics
FINDING MY VIRGINITY
In this compelling keynote, designed for business leaders and high achievers wishing to expand their influence, Caroline Ravenall – Sales Leadership draws on her own leadership experiences with Richard Branson and the Virgin Group together with 15 years of culture change experience to inspire audiences to lead with greater levels of authenticity, agility and courage in an ever changing, disruptive world.
The presentation explores the leaders’ role in building high performing business contexts by owning their relationship with power, innovation and change. Drawing on principles from Neuroscience and human performance, she inspires the audience to bring the entrepreneurial ‘magic’ back into their leadership style by tapping into their innate levels of energy, creativity and purpose.
Audiences will benefit from learning what it takes to lead effectively into the future and leave the session with five key insights for turning business into an adventure while inspiring boldness, greatness and resilience in others.
Talent Short Bio
Caroline Ravenall is an international leadership strategist, speaker, and coach whose work helps organisations cultivate future fit business cultures and inspires individuals to live with meaning, courage, and impact. Her forthcoming book, Finding My Virginity, reflects her core philosophy: that business can be an adventure and that our greatest challenges often unlock our greatest potential.
With a decade of strategic sales and leadership experience inside Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, Caroline understands first hand how to lead through ambiguity, rapid growth, and disruption. She played a central role in setting up and launching Virgin Atlantic Airways in South Africa in record time, learning invaluable lessons about agility, innovation, and the unconventional leadership mindset that defines the Virgin brand. Over the past fifteen years, she has expanded this foundation through a successful career in business consulting, coaching, and organisational transformation.
Caroline has worked with leading organisations including Ernst & Young, Mercantile Bank, ABSA, Duke University, GIBS, Old Mutual, and Delta Airlines, guiding teams to unlock potential, strengthen resilience, and navigate uncertainty with confidence.
Read Full Bio
Finding MY Virginity is the title of Caroline Ravenall forthcoming book which reflects her passion for creating future-fit business cultures and ennobling people to live more meaningful, courageous and impactful lives.
Drawing on a strategic sales and leadership background of almost 10 years in Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and 15 years of business, coaching and consulting experience, Caroline Ravenall – Leadership inspires people to unlock their potential and expand possibilities in a world fraught with change and uncertainty. Her experience has seen her work with organisations from Ernst and Young, Mercantile Bank, ABSA Bank, Duke University, GIBS, Old Mutual and Delta Airlines.
An adventurous spirit at heart, Caroline has lived, travelled and worked in many places around the world. She has negotiated multi-million-dollar contracts in London and New York, dived with Whale Sharks off the coast of Mozambique, driven off road in some of the most rugged terrain in Africa, abseiled down mountains, and spent 6 months in rural India at a meditation retreat. Much of her work today is inspired by these experiences which taught her valuable lessons in accessing peak performance states, building resilience, and embracing change.
One of her favourite business adventures was setting up and launching Virgin Atlantic Airways in South Africa in record time. Working with a disruptive brand like Virgin and a maverick boss like Branson taught her than change, ambiguity, uncertainty and adventure are around every corner. It was here that she came to recognise that business, can indeed, be an adventure, that courage and confidence are skills which can be learned, and our toughest challenges are a catalyst for unleashing our hidden genius. It is these lessons that she shares with her clients today.
Caroline Ravenall currently sits on the external Faculty at Duke University and is undertaking a master’s degree in the UK. Her work brings together the latest research in neuroscience, human potential, leadership development and organisational change.
Her programmes and keynotes have demonstrated a marked improvement in leadership effectiveness, team performance and employee well being.
Today Caroline Ravenall uses the lessons learned from the experience together with 15 years of culture change consulting, leadership development and coaching experience to inspire leaders and their teams develop the performance mindset to embrace change, ignite innovation and turn business into an adventure.
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Talent Videos
Caroline Ravenall Showreel: Leading with Courage, Clarity, and Authentic Power
A dynamic snapshot of Caroline Ravenall’s high energy keynote style, showcasing her Virgin inspired leadership lessons and her call to transform business into an adventure.
Read Summary & Key Moments
Summary
In this two minute showreel, Caroline Ravenall introduces the themes behind her signature keynote, Finding My Virginity. With humour and openness, she begins by dispelling the literal interpretation of the title and instead highlights her decade of experience working with Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic. She explains how the Virgin brand has long been known for challenging norms, disrupting industries, and operating with an adventurous mindset.
Caroline connects these principles to the modern leadership landscape, noting that organisations today are moving away from mechanical command and control toward leadership that is agile, adaptive, inspiring, and deeply human. She outlines how leaders are being asked to step up, stand out, and consistently “fly in the face of the ordinary.”
Inviting audience participation, she encourages business leaders to reflect on how they can reignite magic within their organisations. She asserts that organisational transformation begins with personal transformation: before leaders can revitalise their companies, they must unlock the magic within themselves.
Drawing on her Virgin experience and global adventures, Caroline explains that individuals under pressure do not rise to their expectations but fall to their level of practice. This underpins her core message: inspiring leadership begins with self leadership. Finding My Virginity is ultimately about cultivating courage, clarity, confidence, and energy—qualities that empower leaders to show up authentically, step into their unique strengths, and guide their teams toward a future fit culture.
Key Moments
- 00:16 Insights from ten years working with Richard Branson and the Virgin ethos.
- 00:40 Shift from traditional leadership to agile, human centred leadership.
- 01:05 Invitation to leaders to bring magic back into their organisations.
- 01:25 Core message: unlock the magic within yourself before transforming others.
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