Invite me
Tell me about the room.
The event, the audience, and the question you’d like me to get my teeth into.
Speaking
Give me a good question and a room full of people. I’m in.
I speak about human change, the difference between insight and actual change, the hidden cost of functioning, what measurement can and can’t tell us, fear, pressure, business, and what happens when capable humans aren’t as free as they look.
The story behind the work
I also talk about building the work itself.
Starting with tokophobia, developing Head Trash, spending years asking whether any of it was actually working, and eventually building measurement around the questions that wouldn’t go away.
What I bring
Opinions. Stories. Questions. Charts.
I don’t particularly want to stand on a stage and deliver a polished list of seven habits everybody has forgotten by lunch. I’m much more interested in giving a room a useful way to look at something they thought they already understood.
Topics I keep coming back to
The questions.
- Why insight isn’t the same as change.
- What high functioning can hide.
- The cost of managing yourself.
- How we’d know whether somebody had actually changed.
- Fear, and the things humans build around it.
- Why success doesn’t necessarily make the human living it any freer.
If there’s a particular question you want me to get my teeth into, even better.
Formats
Keynotes, panels, podcasts, founder or leadership events, workshops.
And conversations where somebody wants more than a motivational story.