Ideas that change the way organisations think.

Dilys Sillah is a keynote speaker, TEDx alumna, and broadcaster whose sessions combine three decades of professional authority with a presence and conviction that makes ideas impossible to ignore and impossible to forget.

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Work where it is most needed and most complex.

Dilys Sillah has spent over three decades studying human behaviour, institutional culture, and the communication that determines whether organisations and the people inside them perform at the level they are capable of.She has held senior leadership positions across public sector institutions in the United Kingdom.
She has coached and developed executives internationally, including at senior leadership level in the United Arab Emirates.

She is a TEDx alumna with a broadcasting career spanning more than thirteen years and an audience of over 50,000 followers built on the authority and authenticity of what she has to say.When Dilys speaks, she does not deliver a presentation. She opens a conversation that the audience carries with them long after they leave the room.

Her sessions are grounded in the specific realities of the environments she speaks to, public sector organisations, corporate leadership forums, African business and government summits, and international conferences where the stakes of communication and leadership are highest. She is equally at home addressing a government ministry in Accra, a local authority leadership team in London, or a pan-African business summit bringing together the continent's most senior decision makers.

Current Keynote Topics - Premium Consultancy

Current keynote topics.

01

The Missing Framework

Why AI governance without communication governance is incomplete. The talk opening doors in government and corporate boardrooms across the UK and West Africa. What communication governance is, why almost no organisation has it, and what organisations stand to gain by building it now.

Government • Corporate • International
02

They Taught Us to Be Quiet. Then They Gave Us AI.

The talk that connects Africa's cultural communication inheritance to the AI tools the continent is being asked to use. Based on the forthcoming book of the same name, due for publication March 2027. For African business and government audiences, diaspora events, and international conferences focused on AI and the African voice.

African Business • Government • Diaspora Events
03

Before Your Organisation Can Communicate with AI, It Needs to Communicate with Itself

For corporate and public sector audiences navigating AI adoption. The human communication foundations that determine whether AI amplifies organisational capability or amplifies organisational dysfunction.

Corporate • Public Sector • AI Adoption
04

Leadership, Burnout, and the Human Cost of Getting Communication Wrong

For senior leadership forums and HR and organisational development audiences. How the communication culture of an organisation is the single most reliable leading indicator of its leadership health, staff retention, and long term resilience.

Leadership Forums • HR • Organisational Development
05

Be Heard. Be Understood.

The keynote version of the flagship communication workshop. The fundamentals of human communication that every professional needs and almost nobody has been formally taught. Delivered with the energy, the humour, and the precision of someone who has lived every word of it.

Professional Development • All Sectors

Where Dilys speaks.

Dilys is available for keynote addresses and facilitated sessions across a range of contexts including national and international conferences on leadership, communication, technology, and AI governance; public sector and local government leadership forums; African business and government summits including pan-African events focused on digital transformation, AI strategy, and leadership development; corporate leadership days, away days, and senior leadership events; learning and development conferences and HR professional forums; and university and academic institutions with a focus on leadership, communication, or African studies.

Every session is built for the room it is in

Dilys does not deliver the same session to every audience. Every keynote and facilitated session is designed around the specific theme, the specific audience, and the specific outcome the event is trying to achieve. The core ideas are consistent.

The delivery is always bespoke. If you are an event organiser, a conference producer, or an organisational development lead, we would welcome a conversation about what a session with Dilys would look like for your audience and your event.

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