Keynote Speaker ยท Reinvention Architect

Your audience
won't be the same.

What happens when a $300M executive decides the boardroom wasn't the whole story. Keynotes on reinvention, the neuroscience of identity, and the second act โ€” that don't just inspire. They rewire.

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25+
Years Global Executive
$300M
P&L ยท 4 Continents
450+
Locations Led
MBA
Ivey Business School
Ex-Godiva Chocolatier ยท Ex-Unilever Dove Spa ยท Entrepreneur of the Year ยท Best New Business ยท E-RYT 500 ยท Based in Canada, speaking globally
Fay Chapple
The Story Behind the Stage

She rebuilt her life from a hospital waiting room.

Fay spent 25+ years at the top of global business โ€” senior roles at Godiva Chocolatier and Unilever's Dove Spa โ€” scaling brands across Japan, the Pacific Rim, Europe, and North America. P&Ls over $300M. An MBA from Ivey.

Then her husband suffered a catastrophic brainstem stroke at 48. Overnight, Fay became a full-time caregiver, the single income, and a mother of three โ€” the youngest just four. There was no transition plan. She rebuilt her identity, her finances, and her purpose in real time, under maximum pressure.

"Your second act will embarrass your first. That's not a pep talk. That's neuroscience."

What she learned in that rebuilding โ€” about the brain, about identity, about what's actually possible after 50 โ€” became Too Late My Assโ„ข and the lived foundation of every keynote she gives.

Signature Keynotes

Six talks. One thesis.

You're not too old, too late, or too done. You're exactly on time โ€” you just have to stop waiting for someone to ask. Each talk pairs the rigor of behavioral neuroscience with the edge of someone who has lived reinvention, not theorized it.

01
Signature ยท 45 or 60 min
A Second Act With Teeth
The talk that tears down the expiration-date myth and hands the room a method, not a pep talk. Why your second act isn't starting over โ€” it's building on everything you already are โ€” and the one question that rewrites what comes next: who are you not willing to be anymore? It ends where the book ends: nothing you survive is wasted.
02
Corporate ยท B2B
The Expiration Date Delusion
For organizations quietly benching their best people. The "magical 65 cliff" is a story, not a fact โ€” and it's costing companies their deepest institutional knowledge. How to stop treating decades of experience as a liability and turn it into the next act of the business.
03
The one that makes rooms go quiet
Nothing You Survive Is Wasted
The most personal talk in the portfolio. From a $300M boardroom to a hospital waiting room and back โ€” the science and the lived proof that everything you survive becomes the raw material for what you build next. Audiences don't just leave inspired. They leave different.
04
AI ยท Corporate & Association
AI Isn't Replacing You. It's Multiplying You.
The practical AI keynote for the experienced professional โ€” no fear, no hype, no jargon. Why thirty years of judgment plus AI is the most powerful combination in any market, and how the generation everyone wrote off becomes the one that leads the next era.
05
Women's Leadership
The Visibility Reboot: Being Seen Again
For the women who were told their moment had passed. Reclaiming presence, authority, and visibility in the rooms that matter โ€” and turning a lifetime of being underestimated into the loudest asset in the room. Built for women's conferences and leadership forums.
06
High-Performance & Burnout
Burnout to Breakthrough: The Identity Reset
Burnout at the top isn't exhaustion โ€” it's an identity crisis in disguise. How burnout rewires the brain, why willpower is the wrong tool, and the neuroscience-backed system for rebuilding from the inside out. For high-achieving teams that have hit the wall.
I've booked speakers for fifteen years. I've never had an entire room stay an extra hour just to keep talking. Fay didn't just deliver a keynote โ€” she changed what my attendees believed was possible. VP People & Culture ยท Fortune 500 Financial Services
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Formats & best fits.

Formats

  • Keynote ยท 45โ€“90 min
  • Half-Day Workshop
  • Executive Retreat
  • Panel / Fireside
  • Virtual / Hybrid

Best for

  • Corporate Leadership
  • Women's Conferences
  • HR & People Summits
  • Entrepreneurship Events
  • Association Conferences
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