Sophie Hardman

Sophie Hardman is a senior facilitator, keynote and guest speaker who believes learning sticks best when people are genuinely enjoying themselves. And she's spent over a decade proving it, with more than 500 days in the room delivering high-impact leadership and capability programs.

Sophie brings something that's genuinely hard to find: the ability to walk into any room, pick up a well-designed program, and make it exceptional. Whether she's delivering a leadership workshop for 20 senior managers or moderating a full-day conference for 500, she shows up with warmth, presence and the kind of performer energy that keeps a room engaged from the first minute to the last. She is equally at home in a boardroom and on a stage.

Most recently an Associate Director in Learning Consulting at KPMG, Sophie spent 13 years there progressing from Chartered Accountant to leading learning transformation and capability programs across corporate and government clients. Her recent work includes leading a major learning transformation for WA Public Sector Commission, delivering a keynote on AI and the Future of Learning at the AITD conference, and building an AI-powered learning tool that secured significant organisational investment at KPMG. Technology and AI is woven through everything she designs, not as a specialism, but as a natural part of how she thinks.

Sophie is a Chartered Accountant and a qualified yoga teacher - an unusual pairing that gives her both the analytical rigour to design programs that hold up under scrutiny, and the embodied presence to read a room and hold its energy live.