Miranda Berkhof | Keynote Speaker
In Miranda’s keynotes, something shifts in the room.
Conversations deepen, attention sharpens, and what usually stays unspoken begins to move.
Leaders leave with more than insight. They leave with a different way of looking, listening, and leading.
She doesn’t just speak about leadership. She transforms it.















Why book Miranda?
- Trusted by top organisations.
With clients like Adyen, SAP, Siemens, DSM and ASML, she brings experience at the highest levels. - Tailored for real leadership moments.
Whether it’s a strategy day, leadership offsite, or global summit, Miranda sets the tone and deepens the conversation. - More than a talk. You get an experience.
Her keynotes are experiential and interactive, shifting the energy in the room and leaving a lasting impact. - She makes leadership personal and powerful.
Miranda helps leaders reconnect with themselves: bringing depth, clarity, and presence into how they lead. - She shifts how leaders show up.
From reactivity to reflection. From autopilot to intention. From pressure to presence. She bridges head and heart.
Miranda combines strategic insight with somatic intelligence, helping leaders align inner clarity with outer impact.
“Miranda’s keynote was a standout moment at strategy day. With over 250 senior leaders in the room, she brought a presence that was both calm and deeply impactful. Her message on somatic intelligence challenged our leaders to go beyond cognitive strategies and reconnect with their full presence—mental, emotional, and physical. The interactive moments were subtle but powerful. Weeks later, her language and insights are still part of our conversations.”
SAP Strategy Day
February 2025
“We invited Miranda to speak at our leadership offsite, and she immediately created a sense of depth and focus. Her keynote gave our 80 operational leaders new language and awareness around how they lead, especially under pressure. She managed to combine inspiration with grounded, practical insight. Her work helped our leaders access a quieter kind of strength. One that’s essential in our field.”
Trigion Leadership Day
October 2024
“Miranda opened our IP regional offsite in a way that shifted the entire atmosphere. With 200 leaders and strategists in the room, she helped us move from task focus to relational awareness. Her style is both intentional and intuitive. She reads the room, grounds the space, and makes complex ideas feel tangible. It was the perfect opening to set a different tone for the rest of the day.”
Siemens Regional Congress
November 2025
“Miranda’s keynote in Lisbon created a real shift across a room of 200 leaders. What stood out were the moments of engagement, where the room moved from listening to actively reflecting and responding. She challenged us to move from speaking in “we” to taking ownership in “I,” showing that real collaboration starts with “me.” That insight landed. It changed the quality of our dialogue and how we think about accelerating as leaders.”
DSM Accelerate Event for top 200
March 2026
Speaking themes
Each keynote is tailored to your audience, setting, and purpose. Topics explore the intersection of inner clarity and outer impact, where transformation begins and leadership expands.
Some signature themes include:
- Leading in transition
How to lead others through change while staying anchored as a leader. - The inner game of leadership
What lies underneath leadership effectiveness, and why personal evolution fuels professional impact. - The power of presence
How to lead from the body and not just the mind to embody the clarity and trust others feel. - Emotional intelligence at the core of your culture
How to stay connected to yourself and others, especially under pressure, and build cultures of safety, honesty and performance. - Navigating polarities for lasting change
How to hold opposing truths, shift systemic patterns, and lead beyond ‘either/or’ thinking as a collective.
What Makes Miranda’s Keynotes Distinctive
Engaged audience, lasting impact
Miranda has delivered keynote sessions for prominent organisations across industries, including SAP, DSM, Siemens Energy, and many others in finance, energy, tech, sustainability, and public service.
She speaks to both seasoned executives and the next generation of leaders, with a dynamic style that blends invitation, practical wisdom, and a forward-thinking perspective.
Miranda’s ability to engage audiences through real-world examples, deep insights, and a clear call to action leaves a lasting impact, empowering leaders to step into their next potential.
Immersive experience, actionable insights
Miranda’s career spans across strategy consulting, executive leadership, and deep transformative coaching. Having walked the path her audience is on, she brings a unique blend of professional insight and deep personal experience to the stage.
Her keynotes are more than presentations. They are immersive, interactive experiences, crafted to engage cognitive intellect, somatic intuition and relational awareness. With clarity and calm authority,
Miranda invites her audience to reflect, engage, and take actionable insights with them. Each keynote is designed to provoke lasting shifts in collective mindset and individual leadership practices.
The Key Note for Your Leadership
Let’s co-create a keynote that meets the requirements of your leadership moment: your summit, offsite, company event.
This is not another talk. It is a turning point.
About Miranda Berkhof
Miranda Berkhof delivers powerful, experiential keynotes that shift the experience of leadership
Her career began at McKinsey & Company, where she developed her expertise in strategy and transformation.
She has since held executive leadership roles, including Chief Transformation & People Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, and CEO of a scale-up, giving her firsthand insight into the pressures and expectations of leadership in today’s fast-moving corporate world.
Nowadays, Miranda partners with leading corporations and scale-ups to design and facilitate transformational leadership programs.
Her keynotes and leadership sessions are immersive experiences that shift mindsets, challenge assumptions, and create lasting impact on how leaders show up in their work and lives.
Credentials and background
5+ years recognised as a leading
- Executive / leadership coach
- Top team coach
- Leadership development / retreat facilitator
- Keynote speaker
15+ years in consulting and corporations
- 8 years as a McKinsey strategy consultant & transformational change expert
- 7 years in C-suite – Transformation and People, Commercial and CEO
15+ years in consulting
and corporate environments:
- 8 years as a McKinsey strategy consultant & transformational change expert
- 7 years in C-suite – Transformation and People, Commercial and CEO
Certified facilitator and coach
With the following certifications:
- 360 Leadership Circle Profile at LCP
- Systemic Change in Organisations at Bert Hellinger Institute
- Centered Leadership Facilitator and Somatic Coach at Strozzi Institute
- Breathwork Facilitation for individuals and groups at Max Strom
- Attunement Facilitation within Executive Teams at Thomas Hübl
- MBTI coaching for teams and individuals at Myers-Briggs Company
Education
With the following degrees:
- MBA from INSEAD
- Graduate from Organisational Psychology Program at Wharton Business School
- Master in Strategic Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam
Education
With the following degrees:
- MBA from INSEAD
- Graduate from Organisational Psychology Program at Wharton Business School
- Master in Strategic Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam
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