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Speeches & workshop topics

Human-Centred Leadership

This session explores what truly empathic leadership looks like and why it’s a commercial advantage, not a soft skill. Belinda challenges the myth that empathy means ‘being nice’ and instead, shows how human-centred leadership drives performance, trust, and long-term impact.

The Empathy Code in AI

This talk explores how AI can enhance empathy — not replace it. Belinda shares her experience in companies training AI & LLM’s to pick up emotional cues, support human responses, and avoid the trap of scripted, soulless interactions. Belinda offers practical tips about using tech to bring more humanity back into our work.

Courageous Conversations

Belinda helps leaders tackle the conversations they often avoid — from delivering bad news to setting boundaries — with clarity and empathy. Sharing behavioural tools like emotional labelling and message framing, Belinda helps teams speak truthfully whilst building trust. It’s about replacing silence and spin with courage and connection.

Belinda Parmar OBE: 

The Leading Authority on the intersection of AI, Empathy & Business Performance 

Belinda is the Chief Executive Officer of The Empathy Business, an award-winning consultancy that helps companies embed empathy into their Culture, Communications and Contact Centres.

Belinda is currently leading Empathy & AI pilot programmes within companies to explore how technology can support more human-centric business with a focus on prioritising people over process. Her ‘Empathic AI’ approach led to a 20.9% reduction in complaints at AGL, Australia’s largest energy company with a cost saving of $1.1million. See case study.

Belinda is a Non-Executive Director for the UK Ministry of Defence and recipient of an OBE for Services to Women in Technology. She is a trained barrister and linguist, and her career path reflects her core belief: that magic happens when head meets heart, when logic is fused with emotion, and when AI is designed to serve humanity.

Can AI Have Empathy?

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in the way businesses communicate, support customers and lead people, Belinda asks a critical question: Can AI truly understand empathy or can it only imitate it?

Drawing on research, real-world business experience and her work helping organisations build more empathetic cultures, Belinda explores the opportunities and risks of bringing empathy into an AI-powered world.

“AI is good at modelling and mimicking empathy. But can it really feel?”

Belinda Parmar OBE at Novartis

What Belinda explores

Empathic AI
Can AI understand empathy, or is it simply getting better at mimicking human emotional responses?

The Human Advantage
Why empathy remains a uniquely powerful human capability as AI transforms the workplace.

Empathy in Action
How organisations can turn empathy from an abstract value into measurable business behaviour.