Public Speaking
I help leaders see the hidden dynamics shaping their organizations before they become costly.
My keynotes help audiences recognize the hidden dynamics shaping leadership, organizational change, and execution.
They leave with practical ways to see their organizations differently—and language they can use the very next day.
Nobody Asked Us
What leaders miss when they force teams together and what to do about it
Most restructurings don't fail loudly. They fail quietly — in the silences after the announcement, in the meetings where everyone agrees and nothing moves, in the chat rooms leadership doesn't know exist. By the time the damage shows up on a dashboard, it's already expensive.
For nearly twenty years, Indra Klavins has been invited into organizations during periods of growth, restructuring, integration, and change.
Across industries and leadership teams, she's noticed something remarkably consistent:
Organizations are always sending signals.
The challenge isn't seeing them.
It's knowing what they mean.
In this keynote, your audience will walk away with:
Silence signals problems, not progress.
Most resistance is actually unacknowledged uncertainty.
If the behavior looks irrational, the system probably isn't.
Unacknowledged loss becomes organizational friction.
Work people can't see becomes work they don't trust.
This talk is built for corporate leadership teams, HR and People Ops leaders, and anyone navigating the human side of organizational change. If your organization is restructuring, integrating, or scaling — and you want your leaders to stop misreading the signals and start intervening before the damage compounds — this is the talk for the room.
Indra On Stage
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Creating Equity & Cross-Organizational Connection Through Talent Calibration
Strong design organizations have well-defined career ladders that help team members understand what success looks like for their role. The best design organizations operationalize their ladders to help people navigate their careers and ensure that leaders evaluate their talent equitably and consistently across the entire organization, not just within a specific team.
In this talk, we will learn how blind calibration sessions conducted semi-annually can break down geographic and organizational siloes for the betterment of individuals, teams, and the organization.
Expensive Routers Create Connections: A DesignOps Girl in a DevOps World
DevOps has spent a decade focused on tooling that allows developers to code, deploy, monitor, and optimize quickly and efficiently. Along the way, many within that community forget that the people within that community and the developers that they serve are, first and foremost, people. Hear what happens when a Design Ops professional finds herself embedded in a DevOps team, helps them see each other as people, and applies a bit of design thinking, tools and techniques to help them learn the skills necessary as the people they serve move from the information age to the conceptual age.
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