The New IQ is a training and thought leadership platform for influence in complexity.
It integrates embodied, emotional, intuitive, and integrative intelligence to help people turn inner clarity into influence that resonates and ideas into impact that matters.

About The New IQ

The New IQ is a training and thought leadership platform that equips individuals and organisations to cultivate influence that is grounded, coherent, and real. In an era defined by acceleration, complexity, and digital saturation, we offer a new foundation. One that integrates embodied awareness, emotional depth, intuitive clarity, and integrated intelligence. This is not mindset coaching. It is the inner architecture required to navigate complexity and lead with influence that is values-driven and unmistakably human.

Our work reconnects people to the forms of intelligence that cannot be automated: presence, discernment, and coherence. Through keynotes, immersive workshops, and learning communities, we help individuals develop the internal clarity required to become the clearest signal in a noisy world. For organisations, we offer strategic frameworks that foster cultural trust, relational leadership, and regenerative performance.

Our offerings include keynote presentations that redefine influence as alignment rather than performance. Experiential workshops that cultivate embodied intelligence in real time. Learning communities that support identity level transformation. And strategic advisory for teams navigating cultural change.

For individuals, The New IQ is a return to influence that feels aligned and authentic. For organisations, it builds cultures that are not only effective but human-centred and future-fit. This is where influence moves from noise to resonance, from performance to presence, and from ideas to impact.

Meet the Founders

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    Rebecca Maklad

    CEO & CO-FOUNDER

    Rebecca Maklad is an influence strategist and co-founder of The New IQ.

    She works at the intersection of purpose and paradigm-shifting thought leadership, supporting individuals and organisations to build influence that is not just visible but deeply aligned and undeniably human.

    For over two decades, Rebecca has shaped the voices of world-class CEOs, authors, social entrepreneurs, and movement leaders. From elevating global speakers at Ode Management to founding The Supernova Tribe, her work has always been about amplifying messages that matter. As former Director and Speaker at Future Crunch, she helped scale intelligent optimism through science and storytelling, inspiring people to see possibility in an age of disruption.

    Through her flagship consulting process, Ignite, she has launched thought leadership platforms, books, and speaking careers that have reshaped industries and conversations. As host of The DNA of Purpose podcast, she has interviewed some of the world’s most influential changemakers, mapping the patterns behind real impact and how purpose becomes power.

    A student of psychological science and a trained breathwor, meditation and somatic dance facilitator, Rebecca brings a psychologically grounded and embodied approach to transformation. Her work reconnects people to their truth, restores coherence in how they lead, and catalyses influence from the inside out.

    Through The New IQ, she helps individuals and teams navigate complexity with clarity, cultivate presence as a strategic edge, and lead movements rooted not in performance but in purpose.

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    Melissa Neighbour

    CREATIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER

    Melissa Neighbour is a systems strategist, urban futurist, and co-founder of The New IQ.

    She is redefining how cities, communities, and cultures evolve, integrating regenerative design, ethical technology, and human-centered planning to influence how we live, connect, and lead.

    With over 15 years in the planning and property industry, Melissa has delivered award-winning sustainable developments that challenge outdated urban models and embed new paradigm intelligence into the fabric of daily life. As Owner and Principal Planner of Sky Planning, her consultancy helps shape spaces that are not only functional but deeply future-fit aligned with the rhythms of people, place, and planet.

    Melissa’s influence extends beyond the built environment. As a former speaker with Future Crunch and a sustainability lecturer at the University of Sydney, she brings bold ideas into rooms where policy, innovation, and culture intersect. From national consulting work to international forums like the World Economic Forum’s Sydney Shaper Hub, her voice has helped shape critical conversations on inclusive design, environmental equity, and the future of urban intelligence.

    Through The New IQ, Melissa applies embodied, heart, intuitive, and integrative intelligence to urban design restoring trust in civic systems, cultivating resilience in communities, and helping leaders navigate complexity with coherence. Her work sits at the intersection of infrastructure and identity, showing that the way we build cities is also the way we build culture.

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