Talks for rooms that have already had a hard year.
Every talk is rebuilt for the room: two calls with the organiser, a look at your engagement data if you have it, and language your people actually use. Four topics, three formats.
The Steady Middle
Why the damage lands eighteen months late, and the four repair conversations that stop it compounding. Ends with a one-page exercise the leadership team does in the room.
Capacity, Not Grit
Resilience has become a way of asking people to absorb bad design. A practical reframe for leaders who can change the work, not just the mindset.
The Honest Update
How to tell people something difficult without draining their trust. Written for restructures, mergers and the third delay to the same project.
Small Brave Things
For whole-organisation events: the ordinary courage of the person who says the awkward true thing in a meeting, and how to make that survivable.
Speaker reel, 2026 season
Three excerpts and the closing exercise, plus organiser comments. Full 45-minute recording available on request for programme committees.
45–60 minutes
Main stage, up to 4,000. One slide. Optional 15-minute moderated Q&A and a signing table.
Half or full day
Up to 40 leaders, round tables. Pre-read, two live exercises, a written summary to your exec within a week.
30–75 minutes
Broadcast-quality home studio, hard-wired, two cameras. Recorded rights for 12 months internal use included.
Northline Leadership Summit — closing keynoteOslo · 2026Harbourline Health — all-directors dayLeeds · 2025Meridian Public Sector ForumToronto · 2025Castellane Group — global managers offsiteLisbon · 2024Lowry School of Management — annual lectureChicago · 2024Two Rivers Education Trust — heads’ conferenceBristol · 2023
“She read our staff survey before writing a word. Delegates thought we had briefed her on individual departments. We hadn’t.”
Tobias Renn · Programme chair, Northline Summit
“Easiest speaker contract we ran all year, and the only one whose session showed up in our engagement scores.”
Priya Devlin · Events lead, Meridian Forum
Booking, briefly
Fees by sector, with two pro-bono dates each year for public services. Travel from Edinburgh.