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Experience how to make friends with uncertainty and change.
With her characteristic wit and practical rigour, Dara shows us why play is the most underrated tool in business. For more than a decade, Dara has been changing the global conversation on play at work, exploring the human capabilities no algorithm can replace and the ones your business can't afford to lose.
She is Director of Organisational Play at the National Institute for Play, the research institute founded by acclaimed play researcher Dr Stuart Brown. She led the design and delivery of a global play-at-work program in partnership with a major international toy foundation, working alongside organisations including IKEA and Sesame Street Workshop across multiple regions. Her applied research partnership with RMIT University is among the first to use an experimental intervention design, running play-based workshops inside real organisations and measuring the impact on engagement, belonging and learning adaptability.
Co-author of Full Stack Human: The Mindset Upgrade You Need to Stay Human in a World Ruled by Technology (Wiley, 2026), Dara writes and speaks about the human capabilities that organisations are quietly losing, and what it actually takes to get them back.
Her clients include McKinsey, PwC, AGL, MYOB and Country Road Group.
Smart, soulful and thoughtfully rebellious, she brings humour, science and lived experience to every stage she walks onto.
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