Author · Keynote speaker · 62 stages

Nobody breaks in the crisis. They break in the long middle.

Imogen Hale gives leadership rooms the language for the year after the emergency — and sends them out able to use it on Monday.

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Stages & press
The Pellinore Review
Northline Broadcasting
Harbourline Health
Meridian Leadership Forum
Working Hours podcast network
Lowry School of Management
New book · March 2026

The Steady Middle

Leading after the emergency stops being news

The applause arrives for the rescue. The damage arrives eighteen months later — in turnover, in silence, in the good people who quietly stop offering ideas.

240 interviews. Four sectors. One very tired newsroom.

Cover of The Steady Middle by Imogen Hale

45 minutes that change how the room talks on Monday

One slide. A closing exercise the exec team does live. Every talk rebuilt from your own staff survey before she writes a word.

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Keynote

45–60 min, main stage, up to 4,000. Optional moderated Q&A and signing.

02

Workshop

Half or full day, up to 40 leaders. Pre-read, two live exercises, written summary.

03

Virtual

30–75 min from a broadcast studio, two cameras, 12-month internal rights.

Portrait of Renata Ossei, Chief People Officer, in a dark suit against a dark background
“We booked a morale talk. We got a vocabulary for the year we had just survived — and nobody got blamed.”

Renata Ossei · CPO, Harbourline Health (fictional)

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