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Saffron Baggallay is a high-performance thought leader, sociologist, and human behavior expert with more than 10,000 hours of coaching and facilitation experience helping teams excel. With over 26 years working alongside global organizations and senior leaders, she brings rare depth to understanding what truly creates winning teams and thriving cultures.
More than a keynote speaker, Saffron is a live-data collector and catalyst for measurable change. During her presentations, she gathers real-time insights directly from the audience, translating them into immediate takeaways and long-term strategic intelligence for the organization. Her ability to read group dynamics, interpret patterns, and tailor content to each audience ensures that every keynote is relevant, personalized, and actionable.
As an internationally recognized Enneagram expert, Master Facilitator, and founder of the Saffron Baggallay Learning Academy, she specializes in leadership development, resilience, transformation, and company culture. She is also the pioneer of “efficiency learning,” an always-on, integrated learning approach designed to sustain engagement and accelerate behavioral change.
Saffron Baggallay is a thought leader in high performance, a sociologist and human behavior expert, and with more than 10,000 hours of coaching and facilitation experience helping teams excel, Saffron has a depth of understanding into what truly creates winning teams that is hard to beat. As a speaker, she brings more than just inspiration to the stage.
She’s not just a speaker: she’s a live-data collector, deep listener, and catalyst for lasting change inside your business. Bringing you real-time insights with real impact is what sets Saffron apart. She doesn’t just deliver content to your audience – she engages with them. During her keynotes, Saffron gathers live, in-the-room data from attendees, providing immediate takeaways they can implement, while also equipping your business with powerful, human-centered insights you can use long after the applause.
She reads a room with precision, interprets group dynamics effortlessly, and tailors each keynote to your unique context, culture, and goals. With over two decades of experience as a Sociologist, Master Facilitator, and Enneagram expert, Saffron brings a rare and practical understanding of what makes organizations thrive – and what holds them back. Specializing in leadership, resilience, transformation, and company culture, Saffron integrates your vision with her expertise to deliver bespoke keynotes that resonate, inspire action, and drive performance. Saffron has credentials that matter, including 26 years working with global organizations and leaders.
She is an internationally recognized Enneagram expert; the host of a thought-leading podcast on transformation and self-awareness; founder of the Saffron Baggallay Learning Academy and an award-winning entrepreneur with a passion for measurable change. If your clients want a speaker who delivers more than motivation – someone who can shift mindsets, spark engagement, and surface the insights that actually move the needle – Saffron Baggallay is the speaker you’ve been searching for.
Off the stage, she is the CEO of the Saffron Baggallay Learning Academy, an executive coach/advisor, master facilitator and Enneagram aficionado. She is a pioneer of ‘efficiency learning’ which creates an always-on, integrated and accelerated learning environment that keeps learners engaged and excited.
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In this 2 minute 59 second keynote showreel, Saffron Baggallay introduces her approach to high performance through what she calls the Human Code. As a sociologist, executive coach, and master facilitator with more than two decades of experience, she positions herself as a “code cracker” who helps individuals and teams understand the underlying drivers of behavior, motivation, and performance.
Saffron explains that high performance requires impact, and impact begins with understanding how people interpret, prioritize, and express what matters to them. Her Human Code framework focuses on how individuals process commitment, meaning, influence, and engagement. According to Saffron, each person’s code determines how they think, communicate, and buy into a shared vision.
She addresses a common workplace challenge: lack of commitment within teams. Rather than defaulting to frustration, she encourages leaders to examine how commitment is defined and interpreted differently by different people. By identifying these distinctions, organizations can reduce friction and increase alignment.
A core message in the reel is the importance of shifting from digital strategy obsession to people strategy mastery. Saffron argues that digital transformation succeeds or fails based on the human behaviors behind it. In the 21st century, high performance is fundamentally about people skills, influence, and energy optimization.
In her keynote, Saffron Baggallay challenges the audience to rethink how they understand leadership, resilience, and connection. She begins by pointing out that traditional education systems condition us to rely only on the cognitive brain, but neuroscience has shown that humans have three brains—the head, the heart, and the gut. Each plays a role in decision-making, emotional intelligence, and intuition.
Through interactive exercises, she demonstrates how people sense energy, feel compassion, or react quickly to injustice—signs of different personality codes. These codes, she explains, are essentially coping strategies and unconscious biases that shape how individuals behave, especially under stress. While these traits can be strengths, they also lead to burnout when overused.
For example, one personality type (the “Eight”) often fights fiercely for justice and protecting the underdog. While this passion is powerful, it can also drain energy and lead to exhaustion, especially when feelings of betrayal trigger deeper stress responses.
Saffron emphasizes that burnout is a global crisis costing the economy trillions, and it prevents people from building meaningful connections. Yet connection is not optional—it is a neurological need. To create high-performance teams, individuals must first connect with themselves by understanding their code. Once leaders understand their needs and can articulate them, they can build stronger, more authentic connections with others.
She concludes by encouraging audiences to “know your code,” not only for personal growth but also for building organizational and cultural awareness. In today’s digital world, authentic connection, not disconnection, is the key to survival and thriving.
00:15 – Opening exercise: raising hands and challenging assumptions
01:00 – Explaining the three brains: head, heart, and gut
02:30 – Audience participation: sensing energy, compassion, and intuition
04:00 – Case study of personality type “Eight” and its role in fighting injustice
06:00 – How unconscious bias and codes shape behavior and burnout
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