Speaking
Keynotes and masterclasses for senior leadership audiences navigating complexity, change, and consequence. Not inspiration. Application.
These sessions are built for leaders who want substance over spectacle — where the thinking holds up under scrutiny and the frameworks travel back into the room.
Two formats
The work takes two forms depending on what the audience needs:
Keynotes
One-hour addresses for conferences, associations, and corporate events. Built around a single thesis, developed with rigour, and applied to the conditions audiences are actually navigating.
Four keynotes available: Holding Steady (leadership under pressure), The Invisible Shift (governing distributed change), Deciding When the Room Is Watching (judgement under scrutiny), and What Capital Costs (growth decisions and consequence).
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Interactive working sessions for senior leadership groups. Not longer keynotes — different work. The frameworks are applied to the room's actual context, tested in small groups, and owned by participants before they leave.
Two masterclasses available: Leadership Under Pressure: Applied (patterns, presence, and pressure discipline) and Critical Decision Making: Applied (live decision review and shared criteria for judgement).
Explore MasterclassesWhen organizations book this work
This work is typically engaged when the audience is navigating specific conditions that require more than general leadership development.
Leadership teams under sustained pressure
Growth, restructuring, market shifts, or regulatory change creating sustained pressure on the executive team. Where the quality of leadership thinking determines outcomes.
Organizations navigating major transitions
M&A integration, leadership succession, strategic pivots, or cultural transformation. Moments where old operating systems are insufficient and new ones must be built.
Conferences for senior practitioners
CEO forums, executive gatherings, board retreats, or industry associations where the audience carries real accountability and expects application over entertainment.
Strategy days and offsites
Annual planning sessions, quarterly reviews, or leadership offsites where thinking needs to shift before decisions are made. Where depth matters more than energy.
What audiences leave with
Shared language for difficult conversations. The sessions build vocabulary that teams can use in real time — not just concepts to reference later, but language that makes action possible when pressure is high.
Frameworks that travel. Every framework presented is designed to survive contact with real decisions. Leaders leave with something they can apply on Monday morning, not just remember fondly.
Permission to name what is uncomfortable. Many of the patterns addressed in these sessions — avoidance, false certainty, decision fatigue — are present in the room but rarely named. The work creates space to acknowledge them without blame.
Clarity, not just confidence. The goal is not to leave people feeling better. It is to leave them thinking more clearly about the decisions they face and the consequences attached to them.
How bookings work
All speaking enquiries come directly. I do not work through speaker bureaus.
Every engagement begins with a conversation about the audience, what they are carrying, and what a well-spent hour (or half-day) would actually produce. I adapt examples and application to context. The thesis stays intact.
I require sufficient lead time to prepare properly. Eight to twelve weeks is preferred for conferences. Shorter timelines are possible for corporate offsites but not at the cost of quality.
Availability is limited. Not every enquiry leads to an engagement.
If you share the event context, audience composition, and the outcome that matters, I will tell you whether and how this work fits.
Not every speaking enquiry leads to a booking. That is intentional.
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