Ideas
that
change
the
room.
Keynotes that move people from recognition to action. Real-world leadership, workforce change, business building and the space to think.
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The capacity
nobody measures.
Attention, recovery
and longevity at work.
Built around Make ROOM: reclaim the margin, get out of your head, think outside and make the change last.
A keynote for leadership conferences, offsites and CHRO summits, with a one-minute practice the room can do together.
Enquire about Head RoomThe conversations
companies need to have.
Six keynotes for CHROs, People, Learning & Development, managers, benefits leaders and employee groups.
01The Expiration Date Delusion
Senior-talent retention+
More than half of workers over 50 are pushed out before they choose to leave, and they take your institutional knowledge with them. What the quiet benching of your most experienced people is actually costing you, and how to stop it without a single new headcount.
02AI Isn't Replacing Your Best People. It's Waiting On Them.
AI adoption+
Your AI rollout is stalling in the layer of the org that holds the judgment. Thirty years of pattern recognition plus AI beats AI alone every time, but only if you train the people who have it. The keynote that unsticks adoption.
03The Caregiver On Your Payroll
Caregiver attrition+
77% of employers know caregiving stress is hitting their workforce. Nearly a quarter of caregivers have already left an employer over it. Fay was that employee for eighteen years while running a $300M business. What she needed, what she didn’t get, and what it would have cost you to keep her.
04Burnout Is An Identity Crisis In Disguise
Wellbeing and executive performance+
Your top performers aren’t tired. They’ve stopped recognizing themselves in the work. Why wellness programs miss it, why the highest performers hide it longest, and the reset that actually holds.
05The Conversation You're Avoiding
Manager capability+
How to talk to the senior person who has gone quiet, without it becoming a performance review or an exit interview. Practical, scripted, and the single highest-leverage manager skill nobody is teaching.
06The Visibility Reboot
Women’s leadership programming+
For the women who were told their moment had passed. Turning a lifetime of being underestimated into the loudest asset in the room, and what leadership has to change so the room can hear it.
Built for founders.
Backed by experience.
Four keynotes for founder events, retail and franchise audiences.
01Thirteen Brands, One Playbook
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What actually gets a brand open. The same pattern behind a $300M global retail network and a company funded out of a personal account. The decisions that matter, in the order they matter, and the ones everybody wastes six months on.
02The Market Entry Mistakes That Kill Good Brands
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Why a brand that works at home dies here. Choosing the wrong entry model, the wrong partner, and sites picked on rent instead of customer. The five decisions made before a lease is signed that decide the whole thing.
03Build It So A Stranger Can Run It
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Your business works because you are in it. Franchising means it has to work when you are not, run by someone you have never met, in a town you have never visited. What a real system contains, and why most brands recruit franchisees years too early.
04Blank Page, Board Date
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Unilever handed Fay a blank page and a deadline for North America. Wilkinson Sword handed her a market with no customers in it. How to get something open on time, with less money than the plan assumed and no room to be precious.
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Online.
Together.
From $10,000 CAD
or from US$7,500
Plus travel from Toronto, quoted separately. International events are quoted individually.Half-day workshops, virtual and non-profit engagements are quoted for your event. Final scope and fee are agreed before booking.Discuss your eventMake room for
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