Talks for rooms that already had a hard year
Two calls with the organiser, a look at your engagement data, 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.
Capacity, Not Grit
Resilience has become a way of asking people to absorb bad design. A reframe for leaders who can change the work.
The Honest Update
Telling people something difficult without draining their trust. For restructures, mergers, and the third delay.
Small Brave Things
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, the closing exercise, and organiser comments. Full 45-minute recording available to programme committees.
Northline Leadership SummitOslo · 2026Harbourline Health · directors’ dayLeeds · 2025Meridian Public Sector ForumToronto · 2025Castellane Group · managers offsiteLisbon · 2024Lowry School · annual lectureChicago · 2024Two Rivers 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
“Easiest speaker contract we ran all year, and the only session that showed up in our engagement scores.”
Priya Devlin · Events lead, Meridian
Booking, briefly
Fees by sector, two pro-bono dates a year for public services. Travel from Edinburgh.