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Born in New Zealand, citizen of Australia, and now resident of the USA, Bernadette McClelland’s journey is one of resilience, reinvention, and impact. Overcoming bankruptcy and being bedridden for a year, she turned adversity into a global platform for transformation, helping leaders and teams navigate their own version of disruption with courage and conviction.
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A dynamic keynote speaker and executive coach, Bernadette empowers leaders, sales teams and organizations to turn potential challenges into breakthrough outcomes. She’s recognized by the US Government as being in the top 1% of global sales leaders, has been a Tony Robbins breakout speaker at his ‘Unleash the Power Within’ event setting a record for company sales as well as coaching his Elite and Platinum clients for Asia Pacific.
She is the author of six books, including ‘SHIFT and DISRUPT: Stop Selling Widgets. Start Selling Wisdom’ and ‘The Art of Commercial Conversations’, two having been endorsed by Brian Tracy. Her insights on Deliberate Disruption integrate neuroscience, leadership evolution, and real-world experience, equipping audiences with strategies to transform complexity into clarity and challenges into growth.
Bernadette mentors Harvard MBA students, mentors the incarcerated inside the walls of Colorado’s maximum-security prisons, and also mentors Australian and New Zealand businesses expanding into the USA. She’s been named a Top LinkedIn Voice, voted one of the 50 Top Keynote Speakers by Top Sales World and has been invited to speak at sales and leadership conferences in 12 countries on 4 continents.
In her personal life, she is happily married to her husband Tim, is the proud mother of two and grandmother to three little girls. Having personally experienced being on welfare a decade ago, her Deliberate Disruption framework equips leaders with actionable strategies to turn uncertainty into opportunity, leveraging courage, conviction, and choice.
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