I speak about speaking

The best keynotes don't just inspire a room. They change what the room believes is possible — and send people back to their work, their teams, and their lives with something they can actually use.

My keynotes are built around one question: what does THIS audience most need to hear, from someone who has spent two decades in the most intimate laboratory available — the moment before someone extraordinary steps into the spotlight. The answer is always specific, always grounded in neuroscience and real human experience, and always demonstrated live. I don't just talk about showing up fully. I model what it looks like.

Every keynote is customized to your audience, your industry, and the moment you're in. I research deeply before I arrive and I leave nothing generic on the stage.

The result: rooms that don't just applaud but actually shift. Ideas that land differently than they did an hour before. Leaders who walk out knowing something true about themselves that they didn't know walking in.

Signature Talks include:

The One Thing Every Great Speaker Does (And Nobody Teaches)

Conquer vs. Care: The Future of Power Sounds Different

Your Next Arena: Peak Performance Principles for High-Stakes Communication

Sound Human: The New Competitive Advantage

The Arena Is Ours: Claiming Your Actual Voice
(Available for women-centered audiences)

Nobody Taught You This: The New Rules of Public Speaking
(Available for early-career and student audiences)

To inquire about rates and availability, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.comor visit my PRH speakers page.

When teams are under pressure, communication is where cracks show first — and where trust is either built or quietly lost.

The workshops I design and lead are built around one conviction: that the difference between a team that moves people and one that merely informs them isn't polish or endless tips and tricks. It's permission. A felt sense that the room is yours, that your ideas are worth the space they take, that showing up fully is not a risk but a strategy.

The work is highly interactive and embodied — dynamic exercises, paired practice, and live coaching designed so the learning doesn't just land intellectually. It lands in the body, where it actually changes behavior.

For teams looking for deeper integration, workshops can be paired with a limited number of follow-up 1:1 sessions for leaders and emerging talent. This combination allows individuals to apply the work directly to their real roles, real stakes, and real moments — ensuring the insights show up everywhere, not just in the room where we practiced.

The result isn't just better presentations or clearer pitches, though that happens. It's stronger leadership signals across the organization: more trust in the room, more confidence under scrutiny, and more good ideas that rise because the conditions are finally right.

Workshops I Frequently Run
(All tailored to your audience, industry, and the specific moments that matter most)

The One Thing Every Great Speaker Does
For teams who want to understand what actually moves rooms — and why everything they've been told about public speaking has been solving the wrong problem.

Conquer vs. Care: The Future of Influence
For organizations ready to rethink how leadership communication has been inherited — and what becomes possible when teams shift from performing authority to genuinely earning it.

Your Next Arena
For teams and leaders navigating high-stakes moments under pressure — built on peak performance principles that connect what they already know about performing at their best to the communication moments that define careers.

Sound Human: The New Competitive Advantage
For mid-career and senior leaders in tech, corporate, and creative industries — on why sounding fully human under pressure is the one leadership skill AI cannot replicate, and how to access it on command.

The Arena Is Ours
For women-only or women-centered teams — on the structural and historical barriers that have kept brilliant women from getting heard, and the completely new operating system available to them right now.

Permission to Speak™
The flagship workshop. For any team, any industry, any moment of consequence — on what it actually takes to show up with authority, warmth, and presence when it matters most.

For groups seeking deeper transformation, I love creating immersive, intimate experiences that connect inner work with outer voice.

Whether it’s a fireside chat or as a guest facilitator woven through your retreat, I create space for folks to explore their purpose and permission and finally get in alignment on both. My approach treats public speaking as a form of wellness work. Drawing from linguistics, performance theory, social psychology, and nervous system awareness, I guide participants gently and playfully toward a more sustainable relationship with their voice and their power.

The result isn’t just better communication—it’s deeper self-trust.

These experiences are especially resonant for high-achieving professionals navigating fulfillment vs. burnout, leaders seeking kinder models of power in a hyper-chaotic world, and teams craving connection beyond productivity metrics. Together, we take dreaming seriously—and create shifts that participants carry back into their lives, their work, and their relationships.