Conference & Professional Speaker for NZ + AU

Managing your digital identity is a top business priority today. So, how do you show up online?

As a conference and professional speaker for New Zealand and Australian business; social strategist Sarah Pearce brings a new and important perspective on the topics of sales, marketing, and business reputation. In her conference presentation, Trust and Reputation in a Digital World, Sarah teaches her audience how to be safe, seen and stay relevant in a super-connected, constantly-changing landscape.

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With the advent of the internet our world has changed forever. Privacy, as we knew it, has gone and the way we trust has been transformed. More and more people are online – the statistics are staggering! Social media has become both the greatest opportunity and the greatest threat to every business today. Customer behaviour and expectation has evolved, and to survive and thrive in business you must keep up.

Sarah and I have met twice in the space of 20 years on a professional level. Last weekend she re appeared as a barnstorming (flamboyantly energetic and successful) keynote presenter at a national conference I attended. Her presentation provided an informative and entertaining insight into the new world of technology, internet and electronic footprints. Thoroughly enjoyable. Looking Forward to seeing her energy levels in 20 years from now!
Patrick Girvan
I just attended the 2nd Women in Telco and Technology facilitated by Sarah. Her style and insights were absolutely perfect for the event. Every insight she provided to delegates showed her level of experience, and talent for coaching, facilitating and growing people’s leadership. Excellent!
Pauline Hampshire, Field CIO – ASEAN region at Cisco
I had the pleasure of watching Sarah deliver a powerful presentation on the importance of having a strong online presence to a large group at the annual Early Childhood Council Conference. Complete with valuable lessons and relevant case studies, Sarah engaged her audience for the duration of the presentation with thought-provoking content and practical steps for managing your digital presence by utilising the power of social media. Informative, entertaining, and motivating – I can highly recommend Sarah as an excellent speaker.
Jamie Lainson, Zesty Design
We engaged Sarah to address our annual conference of childcare centre owners, managers and teaching staff. She had them enthralled, disturbed and captivated from the outset. A great and engaging presenter with very welcome take-home messages and practical advice. Loved it.
Peter Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer of the Early Childhood Council
I engaged Sarah as a keynote speaker for my group again this year, this time at our annual Business Owner Symposium held in Queenstown. Sarah’s first session was on Resilience, the second was on Strategic Success. She had a huge and positive impact on the business owners, which was much appreciated. Thankyou Sarah!
Mike Pero, Mike Pero Real Estate
Sarah has an incredible talent to capture an audience and hold that attention for the duration of her speaking engagements. She is dynamic and her natural enthusiasm for the industry is noticeable to anyone who listens to her. I would highly recommend booking Sarah for your next event.
Anita Dobson, Real Estate Agent
Sarah was the most amazing Chair at our Women in Property Leadership Summit 2017! She kept speakers to time and fielded questions from the audience with a smooth confidence. At times when the audience weren’t forthcoming, she asked informed questions of the speakers herself. Most importantly she did an incredible job of summarising the two days in her own session at the end, & helped everyone construct action plans to take back to the office. I can’t recommend Sarah enough!!
Emily Fornieri, Liquid Learning
As an event manager, I can tell you Sarah Pearce is a delight to deal with — the perfect professional you would want to have on your team. I highly recommend her to anyone who wants to give their audience that Wow experience!
-Lisa Carter
Lisa Carter, Head of Client Success at Results.com
Fun, fabulous and on point, what more could one ask for! Sarah has the ability to inspire people to take action and make a positive change to their business. Highly recommend her.
Shayne Thompson, National Training Manager Bayleys
Sarah was a valuable speaker at our annual Bayleys conference this year. She provided useful and relevant information about social media today, along with some handy tips and easily actionable steps. She is also very motivational in her style – which has already encouraged me to take action! I’ve since looked up her website and found that to be a great source of inspiration too, sparking some ideas of my own. Thank you Sarah!
Larissa Lynch – Salesperson
Sarah’s presentation at our national conference was really interesting, entertaining…and scary! The scary part being that we should be very careful how our online lives are perceived by the public, and their interpretations about us from the things we post on our social and business sites. Thanks, Sarah, for the great information and some fantastic ideas: relevant to all of us, both personally and professionally.
Robyn Brown, Salesperson
We had the pleasure of listening to Sarah speak at our Bayleys annual conference, a fantastic reminder of the importance of social media as well as the complications and problems it can cause if done wrong! Sarah has amazing stage presence and delivers a powerful message with such passion.
Glenn and Carina Dick, Award-winning Business Owners

Drawing from content in her first book, Online Reputation: Your Most Valuable Asset in a Digital Age, the business author and blogger shares compelling case-studies of how social media can either positively or negatively affect users real life (IRL). Sarah reveals the deadly sins of social media, discusses real life examples of reputation ruin, and teaches the 5 steps to building a strong presence and identity online. She empowers her audience with the tools and confidence needed to outshine the competition. They learn how to handle negative reviews, minimise their digital shadow, and create a powerful reputational firewall to help protect them from online attack.

Sarah’s conference and corporate presentations are known to be as entertaining as they are educational, empowering the audience with insights on how to manage their digital identity as a top business priority.

You can also get more insights into personal branding, social media + reputation management, leadership and all things online from Sarah’s business blog here.

We engaged Sarah Pearce as keynote speaker for our annual conference. Her communication style was effective and tailored to the audience. The feedback from all attendees, regardless their role, was extremely positive. I highly recommend her!
Hannah McQueen, Founder and director of enableMe.co.nz

Sarah Pearce is one of those people who can get up on stage in front of hundreds of people and have the audience hanging off her every word. I would like to think of her as one of the ‘lucky ones’ who effortlessly influences, embraces and changes people or businesses for the better – but I know luck has nothing to do with it. There’s a ton of hard work, experience, and dedication that goes in behind it all.
– Zac Snelling, Ray White, NZ Executive

Sarah Pearce is an engaging and intelligent speaker who makes the topic of social media something you want to sit up and listen to. Sarah presented to our network of executive women and her presentation resonated with members who found Sarah helpful, authentic, professional and with a clear message on the importance of social media for each of our businesses.
– Gretchen Williamson, Craigs Investment Partners