Keynotes on AI, leadership & culture

Give your audience a way to move the work forward.

I bring stories from leading transformation inside global businesses: what changed, what got stuck, and what we learned. We’ll connect those lessons to the decisions your audience is facing.

What the talk is built to do

A useful idea.
A different conversation.
A next move.

Help the room see the challenge clearly, question an assumption, and identify something worth changing when people return to work.

Three-time head of HR · Author of The Power to Transform

Choose the conversation

Three themes.
Your audience’s challenge.

These themes give us a starting point. We’ll agree the focus, format, and depth around your event and the people in the room.

01

The Power to Transform

For leadership teams and HR conferences

People need to see how their work connects to where the business is going. The Golden Thread makes those connections visible.

Questions and actions to take away

  • Connect business strategy to conversations, systems, and behavior.
  • Identify where your transformation is adding activity without changing work.
  • Choose a practical next move your leaders can own.

02

Leading AI adoption

For executives and senior HR leaders

Buying the technology starts a new set of leadership decisions. The work, ownership, and evidence need just as much attention.

Questions and actions to take away

  • Define the business result before choosing the tool.
  • Distinguish usage from evidence that work is improving.
  • Name the decisions and owners needed to move beyond a pilot.

03

Enable, not enforce

For managers and people leaders

People need a reason to change and the conditions to make it possible. More instructions will only take you so far.

Questions and actions to take away

  • Recognize the conditions that help new habits take hold.
  • Connect manager conversations to performance and growth.
  • Decide what support, time, or old process needs to change.

Hear the perspective

Leadership, with experience behind it.

My book draws on building Thrive at NetApp. My interviews explore the same practical question: how do people, managers, and technology work together to make the strategy real?

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Plan the right conversation

What should your audience
be ready to do?

An inquiry does not reserve a date or confirm a booking.