Rachael Robertson

In 2019, Rachael was sponsored by outdoor clothing company Yarra Trail as one of their three "Trailblazers" for the Autumn fashion season.

As of September 2017, Robertson has delivered more than 1000 keynote sessions to organisations and associations across the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Her clients range from large global organisations such as Randstad to local fundraising events such as Day of Inspiration

Rachael Robertson is an Australian author and keynote speaker. She is best known as an authority on leading in extreme environments. Robertson is a former Antarctic Expedition Leader, who lead the 58th Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) to Davis Station in 2005. Her current work of speaking, writing and mentoring is based around the leadership lessons she learned in what she terms as"the world's most extreme workplace".

Robertson's role at Davis station was to provide leadership to the 120 scientists and tradespeople over Antarctic summer (December 2004 to February 2005) and then lead and manage the 17 other people who remained behind at Davis Station to maintain the operation until the scientists and tradespeople returned in November 2005. In "Leading on the Edge" she recounts the wide disparity between Antarctic life in summer, and Antarctic life in winter. Where the pace of life and work over summer is intense, and the leader must remember not just to manage but to lead people, the focus over winter turns inwards as all the work suddenly stops. As Robertson describes in her book "the repetitive monotony of the day-to-day work and the same old faces at breakfast, lunch and inner create a nine-month-long 'groundhog day' experience".