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Fi combines more than three decades of leadership experience with insight into the changing workplace, bringing warmth, humour, practical thinking and real-world experience to every audience.
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Your People Have Changed.
Has Your Leadership?
Leadership Speaker | Organisational Development Strategist | Facilitator
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Fi McKay is an award-winning leadership strategist, speaker, facilitator and Director of Legend Transformational Leadership Company (Legend TLC).
With more than four decades of executive leadership experience, Fi helps organisations navigate the changing workplace and build stronger leaders, teams and cultures. Her work spans leadership and team development, workplace culture, intercultural communication and generations at work.
Her career has spanned senior executive leadership, economic development, social development, labour force planning, road safety, immigration settlement and organisational development. Known for combining strategic thinking with practical implementation, Fi transforms complexity into clarity and gives audiences practical ideas they can put to work immediately.
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Profile summary
Fi McKay brings extensive executive leadership experience and a career spanning senior executive leadership, economic development, social development, labour force planning, road safety, immigration settlement and organisational development.
As Director of Legend Transformational Leadership Company (Legend TLC), she works with organisations navigating the realities of today’s changing workplace, including changing employee attitudes and expectations, increasing cultural diversity, multiple generations working side by side and the ongoing challenge of attracting, developing and retaining great people.
Fi combines strategic thinking with practical implementation. Rather than beginning with predetermined solutions, she starts by understanding what is really going on, identifies what is needed and in what order, then helps organisations turn insight into practical, sustainable change.
Her work spans leadership and team development, workplace culture, intercultural communication and generations at work.
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Signature keynotes
Your People Have Changed. Has Your Leadership?
The workplace has changed more in the past decade than many organisations realise. Increasing cultural diversity, multiple generations working alongside one another, changing workplace attitudes and expectations, and demographic shifts are reshaping our workforce and what leadership requires.
Fi explores what is changing, why traditional leadership approaches may no longer be enough, and what leaders can do differently to build workplaces where people and performance thrive.
Success In A Kiwi Workplace
Understanding New Zealand workplace culture and the unwritten rules for success
For many migrants and international professionals, succeeding in New Zealand is about far more than speaking English or having the right qualifications. It is about understanding the unwritten rules, communication styles and workplace expectations that shape everyday working life.
Fi helps audiences understand Kiwi workplace culture, build confidence, strengthen relationships and recognise the value of the cultural strengths they bring.
Something Different?
Fi also speaks on leadership, workplace culture, intercultural communication, generations at work, demographic change and building stronger workplaces. Every presentation is shaped around the audience and the purpose of the event.
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Why event organisers will love Fi
She Gets People Thinking and Talking
Fi isn’t afraid to challenge the way people think about leadership, people and workplaces. She brings fresh perspectives, asks the questions others may not and creates those lightbulb moments that keep conversations going long after she leaves the stage. Every presentation is shaped around the audience, so the challenge is relevant to their world.
She Knows What’s Changing and Why It Matters
Fi draws together demographic, generational and cultural insight with real workplace experience to help audiences understand what is changing, why it matters and what it means for leadership.
She Brings The Room With Her
Warm, energetic and engaging, Fi uses humour, stories and straight talking to connect with audiences. She creates an environment where people feel comfortable exploring challenging ideas, questioning assumptions and seeing things differently.
She Turns Insight Into Action
Fi makes complex workplace issues understandable and practical. Audiences leave with ideas, tools and approaches they can use, turning new thinking into meaningful action.
She’s Done The Work, Not Just Studied It
Fi’s insights are grounded in extensive leadership and organisational experience. She has led people, navigated change, tackled difficult workplace challenges and knows first-hand what it takes to turn ideas into action and achieve outstanding results.
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Endorsements and client feedback
“Fi crafted a bespoke programme that hit the mark perfectly. Managers reported immediate, positive results — workers who had struggled to understand them were suddenly engaged. This single intervention was game-changing.”
Workforce Central Dunedin
(Hospital Build Project) Construction Sector
“Your generosity, intuition, and sense of fun make your workshops powerful and magic. You’ve demystified change and collaboration — the whole team left uplifted and inspired.”
“Following leadership changes and high staff turnover, Fi’s expertise and deep understanding of the health sector helped us refocus and revitalise. Her workshops sparked a noticeable positive culture change and renewed leadership confidence.”
“Fi’s workshops are insightful, practical, and life changing. Her ‘Yin and Yang’ approach helps leaders understand themselves while learning to connect meaningfully with others. A must for any organisation committed to inclusion.”
Diverse Workforce Programme Tourism Sector
“Fi’s keynote on Kiwi workplace culture was eye-opening. Her practical stories helped me recognise and bridge cultural communication gaps. That awareness changed how I led my team — and led directly to my promotion.”
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Leadership Speaker | Organisational
Development Strategist | Facilitator
022 125 9145|fi@fimckay.co.nz
www.legendtlc.co.nz
linkedin.com/in/fimckay
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