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Why Book These Talks
The people who hold everything together are your highest performers. They're also the ones most likely to leave, burn out, or quietly disengage.
Motivational speakers tell them to push harder. That works - until it doesn't.
This talk names what's actually happening - and what needs to change if you want to keep the people you can't afford to lose.
If you're ready to have that conversation with your audience, let's talk.
We've built workplaces, families, helping professions, and cultures that quietly run on individual effort. We reward the people who hold everything together. We celebrate the ones who never break down.
And we call it resilience.
Here's what I know for sure:
The people who hold everything together are collapsing in private. The ones who never break down are breaking down where no one can see.
Much of what we call resilience is simply well-masked depletion.
The problem was never insufficient effort.
The problem was insufficient design.
Topics
Keynotes and talks for conferences, leadership events, and live audiences on:
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Why effort stops working and what capacity actually requires
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Nervous system safety - the prerequisite for choice
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Why systems not designed for us keep extracting cost, and what needs to change
For anyone who knows the cost is rising - and for those responsible for designing the systems people must live inside.
What These Talks Do
If you want your audience fired up for an hour, book a motivational speaker.
If you want them thinking differently six months later - let's talk.
These talks don't ask people to push harder. They give people language they'll still be using long after the event ends.
They name what's actually happening.
What Audiences Leave With
These talks help audiences see:
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The systems they're living inside
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The cost those systems quietly extract
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What becomes possible when conditions change
That's where capacity returns. That's where sovereignty becomes sustainable.
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They leave with language they didn't have before.
Grounded, Not Theoretical
This work is grounded in:
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2,100+ hours of clinical practice exclusively with neurodivergent clients
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Lived experience (AuDHD)
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Nervous system science
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Years of working with people whose systems were never designed for the systems they were surviving
I speak with warmth, humour, and clarity - making complex ideas accessible, naming emotional truth without spectacle, and leaving people with language they didn't have before.
Formats
Talks can be tailored for:
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Keynote delivery
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Conference plenaries
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Panels
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Facilitated sessions or workshops
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Always with the same ethic:
​Architecture of choice, not force
Recent Speaking
Contact
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