What You Can Expect 

• A speaker who connects with any audience — senior leaders to frontline teams

• A warm, relatable style grounded in 30+ years of leadership experience

• Story-rich, practical insights people can apply immediately

• A strong focus on emotional intelligence, human connection, and real leadership

• Engaging delivery that blends reflection, humour, and interaction

• Collaborative planning to shape a message that fits your event perfectly

Your audience will walk away with clarity, courage, and a deeper understanding of themselves and each other.

Signature Speaking Topics 

Lead with Who You Are

The core message of Put Who First brought to life.

This keynote explores the heart of my book:
you cannot lead others wisely if you are not in wise relationship with yourself.

Leaders discover how their inner world shapes every conversation, decision, and relationship.

Grounded in Emotional Intelligence and Conversational Intelligence®, this talk helps people understand how trust is built, how presence influences others, and how everyday interactions create culture.

Themes include:

• Leading from identity, not role

• Emotional and conversational triggers

• Presence, mindset, and states of awareness

• Trust, safety, and the neuroscience of connection

• Choosing the version of yourself you bring to each moment

Audience takeaways:

• Greater self-awareness and clarity

• A deeper understanding of their behavioural patterns

• Practical tools to lead with intention rather than autopilot

• More confidence in navigating real human conversations

• Renewed connection to Who they want to be as leaders

The Power of Everyday Leadership

How small human moments — and small conversations — create big organisational impact.

This talk reveals how day-to-day interactions shape culture more than any strategy document.
We explore micro-behaviours, mattering, emotional connection, and the conversational cues that open people up or shut them down.

Themes include: micro-leadership, mattering, Conversational Intelligence®, communication habits, belonging.

The Courageous Conversation

How to speak the truth, hold the line, and stay human in the process.

This keynote unpacks what’s happening in the brain during difficult conversations — and why people often avoid them.
Audiences learn how to regulate emotion, reduce conversational triggers, build trust, and navigate difference without damaging relationships.

Themes include: emotional regulation, conflict debt, trust, C-IQ frameworks for difficult conversations, staying grounded.

Creating a life Beyond Circumstance and Condition Thinking 

Change your thinking. Change your results.

This keynote invites people to step beyond the limits of circumstance, conditioning, and the narratives that quietly shape their choices.
It’s a powerful exploration of what becomes possible when you shift from old patterns of thinking to a more intentional, expansive mindset.

Rooted in the human-centred principles of Put Who First, this talk helps people reconnect with their sense of agency, possibility, and purpose.

Themes include:

• How conditioning and old stories limit our potential

• Understanding your inner critic and emotional triggers

• Moving from reactive patterns to intentional choices

• Expanding your sense of what’s possible

• Designing a life that aligns with your values, hopes, and identity

Audience takeaways:

• A renewed belief in what they’re capable of

• Tools to interrupt limiting patterns and shift mindset

• A sense of clarity about the life they want to create

• Inspiration — and permission — to dream bigger in their work and life