Lead as yourself.

Create the conditions for others to thrive.

Renée Walker is a New Zealand executive coach, keynote speaker and facilitator helping chief executives, boards and leadership teams bring substance, courage and humanity into the room.

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20+ years executive leadership

Trusted by leaders across corporate, government, rural, health, disability and purpose-led organisations

Leadership should not require becoming somebody else.

Too many capable people learn to edit themselves down to fit rooms they were asked to lead.

Renée’s work helps leaders recover clarity, confidence and range - then build cultures where other people can do the same.

Three ways to work with Renée

For stages

Keynote Speaking

Bold, memorable talks that make authenticity practical for senior leaders and teams.

For stages

Keynote Speaking

Bold, memorable talks that make authenticity practical for senior leaders and teams.

For senior leaders

Executive Coaching

Reflective, direct coaching for leaders navigating complexity, visibility and influence.

For senior leaders

Executive Coaching

Reflective, direct coaching for leaders navigating complexity, visibility and influence.

For groups

Facilitation

Carefully held conversations for boards, executive teams and leadership groups who need movement, trust and clarity.

For groups

Facilitation

Carefully held conversations for boards, executive teams and leadership groups who need movement, trust and clarity.

Permission to Twirl

The point is not performance.

It is permission - for clarity, courage and full-colour leadership.

Renée helps leaders stop mistaking conformity for professionalism. Permission to Twirl is a disciplined invitation to lead with self-knowledge, presence and enough spaciousness for others to thrive too.

A practical framework for full-colour leadership

See Yourself Clearly

Name the patterns, strengths and defaults that travel with you into leadership.

See Yourself Clearly

Name the patterns, strengths and defaults that travel with you into leadership.

Trust What You Bring

Stop over-editing the very qualities that make your leadership useful.

Trust What You Bring

Stop over-editing the very qualities that make your leadership useful.

Connect Intentionally

Build relationships with presence, curiosity and enough honesty to matter.

Connect Intentionally

Build relationships with presence, curiosity and enough honesty to matter.

Lead Courageously

Make the call, hold the line and stay human while complexity rises.

Lead Courageously

Make the call, hold the line and stay human while complexity rises.

Create Space for Others

Shape rooms, systems and conversations where people can do their best work.

Create Space for Others

Shape rooms, systems and conversations where people can do their best work.

Executive substance. Unmistakable humanity.

Renée has sat inside the complexity she now helps leaders navigate.

With more than 20 years of executive leadership experience — including Chief Operating Officer at UniMed and Deputy Chief Executive at EQC — Renée brings credibility earned in real systems, real pressure and real consequence.

What clients create after the room changes

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Sharper self-trust

Leaders stop second-guessing their own useful difference.

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Sharper self-trust

Leaders stop second-guessing their own useful difference.

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Braver conversations

Teams say the thing that matters and stay connected while doing it.

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Braver conversations

Teams say the thing that matters and stay connected while doing it.

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Clearer leadership presence

Executives bring more of themselves without losing discipline or authority.

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Clearer leadership presence

Executives bring more of themselves without losing discipline or authority.

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Cultures with room

People feel trusted to contribute, challenge and thrive.

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Cultures with room

People feel trusted to contribute, challenge and thrive.

The kind of impact people remember

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Renée brought warmth, rigour and a rare ability to help senior people be honest without becoming defensive.

Board Chair

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Renée brought warmth, rigour and a rare ability to help senior people be honest without becoming defensive.

Board Chair

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Our executive team left with language, courage and practical commitments we are still using.

Chief Executive

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Our executive team left with language, courage and practical commitments we are still using.

Chief Executive

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She made leadership feel more human without ever making it feel less serious.

People and Culture Leader

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She made leadership feel more human without ever making it feel less serious.

People and Culture Leader

Ready to create the conditions for fuller leadership?

Start a conversation about coaching, speaking or facilitation for your board, executive team or leadership group.

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Renée Walker - Executive Presence. Unmistakable Humanity.