Keynote speaker, best-selling author & Australia’s leading middle management expert
The only speaker in Australia with proprietary data from over 1,000 managers—and the proven formula to transform them into B-Suite leaders with C-Suite impact.
Only 6% of Australian managers are leading at the level we need. The rest are overloaded, undertrained, and holding your business back. Rebecca’s keynotes deliver the insight, energy, and strategic edge your audience will be talking about long after the event.
Why you need Rebecca on your stage
Unmatched, data-driven insights
Exclusive data from 1,000+ managers, 250+ businesses, and the proven formula for middle management success.
Built-in value beyond the keynote
Self-diagnostic, benchmark report, and personalised leadership or organisational development tools for every audience.
Best-selling author credibility
Attendees can receive copies of her book Impact; second book with Wiley coming 2026.
Executive relevance
Speaks to both executives and middle managers, making the business case and delivering practical strategies for greater impact.
Action-oriented
Audiences leave with tools they can implement immediately.
Signature keynotes
Influence without authority
With Rebecca Houghton
How to lead decisions, shift behaviours and drive outcomes—regardless of your seniority.
Suitable for: Leadership and Industry Conferences, and Inhouse Programs, Workshops and Conferences
Order takers to impact makers
With Rebecca Houghton
How your organisation can build B-Suite Leaders with C-Suite Impact.
Suitable for: Executive & HR offsites; People, Culture, Leadership conferences, and Future of Work, Organisational Change summits.
Meet Rebecca
Rebecca Houghton is Australia’s leading middle management expert, the founder of BoldHR®, and the publisher of the landmark B-Suite Benchmarks®: Australia’s only comprehensive dataset profiling more than 1,000 middle managers.
A popular speaker at conferences, offsites, and leadership forums. She is not on your stage to share mere opinions or recycle other people’s research. Instead, her keynotes are powered by BoldHR’s proprietary data, tested globally, and delivered with stories, strategies, and her trademark candour that leave leaders laughing one minute, challenged the next, and walking out determined to do things differently.
Rebecca’s obsession with B-Suite leadership began long before the clients or the data. It started when she stepped into her own massive middle management role and realised just how high the stakes–and how thin the support– really were. That moment sparked an obsession she’s carried ever since: proving that far from being bloated, outdated, or imminently replaceable by AI, middle managers are the untapped engine of performance, culture, and execution– the hidden power layer beneath the C-Suite that determines whether strategy thrives or dies.
- Founder of BoldHR®
- Recognised as Australia’s middle management expert
- Best-selling author of Impact: 10 Ways to Level Up Your Leadership (with a new book coming in 2026!)
- Creator of the B-Suite Benchmarks®
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