Angie McQuillin

Why organisations work with Angie McQuillin

• Gives technically strong managers the specific behavioural tools to hold difficult conversations they currently avoid, not a theory of why those conversations matter.
• Works the seam between imposter syndrome and assertiveness where most confidence training stops short: what to say, how to say it, and how to hold the line when pushed back on.
• Psychology degree and MBTI-certified, with 15+ years inside corporate HR at Boeing, Imperial Tobacco and Camelot, so the behavioural science lands in language an operating leader recognises.
• Track record as a keynote for mixed senior and emerging-leader audiences, including the BOSS Leaders of the Future Conference and in-house programmes at Disney, EasyJet, Amazon, Barclays and KPMG.
• Sessions are designed as interactive workshops, not lectures, so participants leave with scripts and techniques they can test the next working day.

Biography highlights

• BSc (Hons) in Psychology and certified MBTI Practitioner.
• 15+ years in corporate HR and international staffing, including roles across Boeing, Imperial Tobacco and Camelot.
• Keynote speaker and workshop lead for Walt Disney, EasyJet, KPMG, Barclays, Amazon, Bath University, Jumio and Norcan Petroleum.
• Announced keynote speaker at the BOSS Leaders of the Future Conference, Birmingham.
• Coaching practice focused on confidence, assertiveness, imposter syndrome, conflict resolution and leadership communication.

Biography

Most confidence programmes stop at the mindset. They tell people to back themselves and leave them there. The harder problem, what to actually say in the moment a senior colleague pushes back, a peer oversteps, or a direct report underperforms, is where careers get made or quietly stall.

Angie McQuillin builds her work at exactly that point. Trained in psychology with a BSc (Hons) and certified as an MBTI Practitioner, she spent 15 years inside corporate HR and international staffing at Boeing, Imperial Tobacco and Camelot before moving full time into coaching and speaking. That HR background matters. She has sat in the rooms where promotion decisions get made and watched capable people lose ground because they could not have one specific conversation.

Her sessions translate that pattern into behaviour. Managers and emerging leaders learn how to raise a concern without apologising for it, handle pushback without escalating, and hold a position under pressure. Imposter syndrome, assertiveness and conflict are treated as linked problems rather than separate workshops. Client rosters reflect the range: Walt Disney, EasyJet, KPMG, Barclays, Amazon, Bath University, Jumio and the keynote slot at the BOSS Leaders of the Future Conference in Birmingham.

The register is interactive rather than inspirational. Audiences leave with scripts and techniques they can test in their next meeting, which is the test that matters to the HR directors and L&D leads who hire her.

Key speaking topics

• Self-confidence and imposter syndrome
• Assertive communication
• Leadership communication
• Conflict resolution and difficult conversations
• Growth mindset
• Resilience under pressure
• Personal impact and influence

Ideal for

• CHROs, L&D directors and talent leads building emerging-leader and first-time manager programmes.
• Women’s leadership networks and ERGs addressing confidence, voice and visibility.
• Technical and functional leadership populations where communication is the bottleneck to promotion.
• Organisations running culture work on feedback, psychological safety and conflict norms.

Audience outcomes

• A working vocabulary for the conversations they currently avoid, including pushback, performance and boundary-setting.
• Specific techniques for handling imposter syndrome as it arrives, not as an abstract concept.
• A clearer read of their own communication defaults under stress and what to adjust first.
• Confidence grounded in behaviour they can repeat, not a temporary lift from the room.