Description
Katherine Hunt AI speaker sessions come from a woman who stands at the intersection of ethics, psychology and technology. She is widely recognised as Australia’s most engaging voice on ethics. Katherine has dedicated her career to helping professionals make better decisions. She helps organisations build trust and grow with integrity in the age of AI. She combines academic rigour with practical business insight, drawn from years of research and real-world advisory work.
Katherine is a former tenured academic at Griffith University. She also wrote the definitive textbooks Everyday Ethics for Financial Advisers and Ethics in Banking and Finance. Her research has appeared in dozens of peer-reviewed journals. Katherine holds a PhD in the Law and Economics of Microfinance from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Hamburg and the University of Bologna. As a result, she bridges the gap between compliance and human behaviour for leaders, boards and teams across many industries.
Keynote Topics
Customer Psychology in a Digital World: Building Trust Beyond the Algorithm
In a digital world where algorithms dictate attention, predict behaviour, and nudge decisions, the real competitive advantage is still human psychology. Dr Katherine Hunt shows why customers don’t simply buy products, they buy trust, meaning, and confidence in uncertain times. Drawing on decades of research in behavioural psychology, ethics, and decision-making, Katherine reveals the hidden drivers behind customer choices and how digital tools often distort, rather than deepen, those connections.
Key Audience Takeaways
- Decode how customers actually think, decide, and behave in a digital marketplace.
- Learn where algorithms erode trust — and how to rebuild it.
- Apply practical psychological tools to strengthen loyalty and growth.
- Leave with an action plan to stay human in a machine-led world.
Decide Like a Human: How Ethical Thinking Beats Algorithms in the Age of AI
In a world where AI is speeding up everything, your edge is in slowing down enough to make better, more human decisions. AI is fast, but you are the one who is trusted. That is not by accident. This session cuts through the jargon to show professionals how to lead with judgement, build trust in uncertain times, and apply ethical thinking – without getting lost in compliance checklists or caught up in shiny tech.
This session is high energy, practical, and packed with insight. You’ll walk away with strategies you’ll actually use with clients, your team, and your own thinking. We will unpack behavioural cues to help you read clients, a clear decision making process, and systems to help AI do some of the decision making heavy lifting, without compromising your reputation.
Key Audience Takeaways
- Why ethical decision-making isn’t just compliance, it’s a competitive edge.
- How to decode client and team behaviour under pressure using behavioural psychology.
- A practical walkthrough of the ASPIRE decision model to solve complex business and client dilemmas.
- How to apply ETHOS to AI and automation tools—to trust, verify, and scale responsibly.
- Stories and laughter from real-world misfires (and recoveries) – plus exercises to apply these models the next day.
Future-Proof Leadership: Building Trust in Hybrid & Multigenerational Teams
The future of leadership isn’t about managing tasks, it’s about earning trust across complexity. Today’s leaders face hybrid workplaces, multigenerational teams, and the constant presence of digital tools that both connect and divide. In this keynote, Dr Katherine Hunt unpacks how to lead with clarity, empathy, and ethical judgement when the rules are shifting faster than ever. With her trademark humour and sharp insight, Katherine shows why trust is the most valuable currency in leadership, how generational psychology shapes workplace expectations, and what leaders must do to stay relevant in a world where culture, technology, and human behaviour collide. This is not theory: it’s a playbook for future-proof leadership.
Key Audience Takeaways
- Build trust across hybrid and multigenerational teams.
- Understand the psychology driving workplace behaviour and loyalty.
- Apply ethical decision-making frameworks that cut through complexity.
- Walk away with tools to future-proof your leadership impact.
Behaviour-First Digital Transformation: Designing Systems for How Humans Actually Think
Most digital transformations fail not because of technology, but because they ignore how humans actually think, decide, and behave. In this keynote, Dr Katherine Hunt exposes the blind spots of tech-first strategies and shows why behaviour-first design is the true key to success. Drawing on psychology, ethics, and decades of research into client relationships, Katherine demonstrates how to align digital systems with human decision-making, trust, and emotion. The session is high-energy, funny, and deeply practical: you’ll see where algorithms clash with human nature, why adoption lags when behaviour isn’t understood, and how to future-proof transformation projects by putting people at the centre. This isn’t about more digital tools, it’s about designing systems that people want to use.
Key Audience Takeaways
- Understand why most digital transformations fail, and how to avoid it.
- Apply behaviour-first design to drive adoption and trust.
- Recognise where algorithms clash with human psychology.
- Leave with practical tools to align systems with how people really think.
