Iris Du – Our Leadership, Manifestation and Behavioural Strategist
Empowering Leaders & Life since 2007
Iris Du is a multi-award-winning leadership strategist, motivational speaker, best-selling author and human behaviour expert who thrives on helping individuals, leaders and businesses achieve the success they deserve.
Drawing on leadership, attraction and manifestation strategies, Iris works with organisations to help them leverage their natural talent to create highly engaged and high performing leaders and teams.

Creating Leaders & Teams is her passion
Boasting 15 years of leadership experience, Iris also draws on her own story of overcoming adversity to help CEOs, executives and business owners gain clarity, focus and the ability to achieve their goals faster by maximising productivity while creating trusted relationships.
Iris arrived in Australia aged 15, on her own, with no family or friends and had to fight to survive each and every day.
With persistence, she turned that adversity into opportunity, using it to grow and develop the skills she now shares with others as a leadership strategist and co-founder of the You Want Group.
Iris is a master NLP practitioner, Human Behaviour expert, Chinese metaphysics consultant and a certified conversational hypnotherapist, who thrives on empowering individuals and businesses to discover their values and passion.
Her Mission is to help you manifest the life you want
Having overcome adversity to create the fulfilling life she envisioned, Iris Du is passionate about sharing her insight with others.
Her unfailing mission is to help leaders and individuals attain the personal and professional success they desire and enjoy the life they deserve.








Wisdom from Iris
If You Want To Be Great, Be Resilient! How True Grit Can Help You Manifest And Attract Success
Greatness comes to those who are resilient. Resilience helps you survive adversities and turn difficulties in your life into challenges you can overcome. Get rid of self-doubt and grow confidence with this useful article on manifestation and the law of attraction. Read on to find out more…
How To Be A Greater Leader: Hit Reset and Start Again
Has your leadership journey hit a snag? Do you wish you could start again? These leadership hacks can do exactly that – help you hit reset and start again to become a greater leader. Along the way, you will also discover the 3E Principle for Communication in Crisis. Let’s start here…
5 Ways To Manifesting Self-Awareness
I wasn’t born a successful leader. I earned it. I lived a sheltered life until about 15 years of age when I was sent to Australia – on my own. It was a steep learning curve. I was in a strange land amongst people from a culture I had no...
5 Tips To Speak Like A Great Leader
One of the most curious observations I made in one of my earlier jobs was how the phone in the office would ring for a long time without anyone in the room picking it up. I was in an office filled with workers but most of them were afraid to answer the phone because...
What makes a good leader in a crisis?
On 11th March, Adam Silver – the NBA Commissioner – stunned the world when he announced that the league was going into lockdown. At the time, Silver explained that the COVID-19 pandemic was too uncertain, and it was time to put the health and safety of the players...
Empathy – why it matters in leadership now
One of the people I admired most in the world is former First Lady – Michele Obama. I think she is the personification of wisdom. An African American woman who has obtained an Ivy League education, built a successful career, brought up two beautiful daughters and...
RETURN TO WORK (RTW): HOW TO PREPARE YOUR BUSINESS
The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to an explosion of buzzwords in the business world. ‘New normal’ has been circulating on hyper-speed all over the business community. So, have established words like ‘self-isolation’, ‘key workers’, ‘lockdown’ and ‘quarantine’....
Is Staff Engagement All You Need To Succeed?
Why managing upwards and sideways is just as important… Most leadership advice aimed at building, aligning, and energizing successful teams. We all know that employees who feel they are part of a team have a higher level of engagement, are more productive and...
Your True Inspiration
When I sat down to write this article, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with the current global crisis that we’re up against. In such trying times, it is a challenge to find the motivation to put that aside and find the concentration to hit the screen and do the...
The Key to Productivity May Lie in How Happy Your Staff Are
What makes you happy to go to work every morning? Is it because the work you do is stimulating? Do you feel appreciated and valued? Maybe you’re working in a great office environment? Or could it be that you are working with some amazing people? Or is something...