24 Nov 2025
For two decades, Kate Raynes-Goldie has helped people understand, navigate and shape the future through the human skill of curiosity. She brings curiosity the same to her long-running tech and innovation column for Business News, translating emerging ideas into how we work, connect, and solve problems.
Dr Raynes-Goldie is the chief curiosity officer at The Up Next Company, a global keynote speaker, Oceania’s leading LEGO® Serious Play® expert, and creator of SUPERCONNECT®, an internationally used expansion of LEGO® Serious Play® that unlocks innovation and problem solving through curiosity, human connection, trust and psychological safety which been used by Google, RSM, and insurance company Youi.
Born in Toronto, she has spoken on five continents, including TEDxPerth, SXSW (US), SXSW Sydney and the International LEGO® Serious Play® Conference at LEGOLAND Billund, Denmark, and has judged or mentored for the NASA Space Apps Challenge, Curtin Ignition and Startup Weekend Perth. Her work has been featured in the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, ELLE, and MTV.
Dr Raynes-Goldie is regularly invited to teach at university level, most recently in The University of Western Australia’s strategic communication master’s Program and the Tokyo City University program at Murdoch. She has also taught at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab and Curtin University’s Business School, where she is a past senior adjunct research fellow.
She was a 40under40 Award winner in 2018 and in 2016 was named the Australian Computer Society’s professional of the year. She is a member of Professional Speakers Australia and an accredited mental health first aider.
