TALKS + WORKSHOPS
I speak with boards, leaders, and builders about leading when the path isn’t clear: AI, expectations, endings, and making something from nothing. Every session is participatory: you’ll talk, write, and practice, not just listen.
GOVERNANCE + EXECUTIVE
Change-Ready Governance: What Boards Need to Ask Before They Approve the Roadmap
Boards approve big transformations without a shared definition of “ready” or “done.” You get a short set of questions to ask before signing off, to catch the gaps that turn into expensive surprises.
Facilitated working session · 45–60 min · Boards and executive teams
Closing Well: What Nonprofit and Mission-Driven Leaders Owe an Ending
Endings get treated as failures when they’re a discipline with their own best practices. A candid, practical session built on my odd niche skill: leading closures with integrity.
Talk + working session · 60 min · Executive directors, boards, founders, funders
PEOPLE-LEADERS + MANAGERS
Neither Cheerleader Nor Holdout: A Third Way on AI Adoption
Most leaders fake enthusiasm for AI or quietly dig in. Both cost you. You’ll learn a framework (foundation → context → action), then use it on a live decision you’re facing.
Talk + working session · 60–75 min · Leaders and managers, any industry
The Art of Expectations: The One Move Every Leader Gets Wrong
Most friction is an unspoken-expectations problem. You set the what, and hand off the how. I share a true story of getting this wrong, and you practice the fix.
Mini-workshop with live practice · 45 min · Any manager or leader
Don’t Cut Your Own Bangs: Leading Through the Urge to Overcorrect
When people feel at the whim of circumstances, they reach for control, and sometimes reach badly. Learn to tell decisive action from a rash one.
Participatory talk · 30–45 min · Leaders and teams in visible disruption
PRACTITIONERS + BUILDERS
The Practice That Didn’t Exist Yet: Building Change Capability From Zero
The Clockwork story, told as a case study: how to pitch something intangible, prove value before there’s a track record, and scale without losing what made it work.
Case-study talk + Q&A · 45–60 min · Practice leads and intrapreneurs
Beyond the Build: Driving Adoption From Day One
Adoption isn’t a communications task after launch. It’s a design constraint from kickoff. Learn to build it into your existing product process.
Mini-workshop · 60–90 min · Product, engineering, and UX teams
The Art of Expectations: Ask Like a Reporter, Lead Like a Human
Change efforts fail quietly in the gap between what leaders assumed and what teams expected. Learn reporter-style questions that surface unstated expectations before they turn into resistance.
Mini-workshop with live practice · 45 min · Managers and project leads
ANY LEVEL, ANY SECTOR
What Advocacy Taught Me About Technology Adoption
Community organizing and enterprise change work run on the same engine: people move because they’re organized around something they believe in, not because they’re told to.
Participatory talk · 30–45 min · Mixed corporate and nonprofit audiences
Build Your AI Rules of Engagement
Write down the non-negotiables, the “I’d-rather-nots,” and the “hell-yeses” you actually hold about AI at work. You leave with a document that’s yours.
Hands-on workshop · 45–60 min · Anyone using AI at work, any level
Planning an event? Tell me who’s in the room and what you want them walking away with. I’m totally in.