I love talking with people about how they feel about work. I mix warmth, playfulness, humour, and openness, with easy-to-understand research-backed models, live interactive science experiments, and inspiring real-life stories to start a new conversation about what work means to your team. Stuck becomes unstuck, new possibilities open up, magic happens. Let’s create a new way of working and make work more awesome for your team.
All of my talks are based on academic research and real-life exploration. They can be offered in a variety of formats to best suit your team and available time.
Keynote Talks – 20 – 90 minutes. Inspiring, outcome-focussed, warm, playful. Magic. A keynote with me will open up the topic of work, create immediate inspiration and long-lasting impact.
Workshops – Want to go deeper and really play with the concepts? Then let’s plan half-day to multi-day workshops. This is ideal when you want to co-create a new way of working with your team.
Online – Don’t have time to meet face-to-face? Wherever your team are in the world, we can achieve the same outcomes and intimate feel with webinar and online workshop formats.
Leadership development programs – Create a bespoke leadership development program to equip your senior teams to Lead with meaning and make work awesome.
‘Let’s make work awesome! How to lead and work with meaning.’
When work is meaningful everybody benefits. So why don’t we just make it happen? This keynote equips your leaders and teams with science-based knowledge, practical tools, confidence, and inspiration to make work more meaningful in your organization.
The science is clear. When work is meaningful we wake happier to go to work, we have more energy, we’re more creative, more productive, we have more impact on our communities, and it just feels, awesome! With so many benefits for individual workers, teams, organizations, and society why don’t we just make it happen? Well, the science and practice have all been messy, complicated, and lacking a simple, overarching framework, until now!
This keynote is for Leaders and Teams who want to know exactly how to make work feel more awesome. I will offer your team my easy-to-understand bubbles of meaning framework, show them how meaningful work vs meaningless work FEELS, help them to understand why it’s important using science, and inspire with real-life stories. We’ll do live science experiments together, reframe the way we think about work, and co-create an action plan for making work more awesome. This is all delivered in a fun, highly-interactive, and encouraging style.
This keynote equips your leaders and teams with science-based knowledge, practical tools, confidence, and inspiration to make work more meaningful in your organization.
The science is clear. When work is meaningful we wake happier to go to work, we have more energy, we’re more creative, more productive, we have more impact on our communities, and it just feels, awesome! With so many benefits for individual workers, teams, organizations, and society why don’t we just make it happen? Well, the science and practice have all been messy, complicated, and lacking a simple, overarching framework, until now!
This keynote is for Leaders and Teams who want to know exactly how to make work feel more awesome. We will offer an easy-to-understand overview, grounded in real-life stories, of the latest science, philosophy, and practical tools to help you make work more meaningful. This is all delivered in a fun, encouraging, interactive, and encouraging way.
- What exactly meaningful work is and why it is important
- What it looks and FEELS like when we have it/don’t
have it - The 7 key elements that make work meaningful
- How you have accidentally been destroying meaning
for your team - The link between meaningful work and workplace
well-being
- Leaders and their teams who want to start a new
conversation about work together - Leaders who want to change the way their team
experiences work - Team members who want to take charge of their
own work relationship
- A powerful and simple framework for understanding
meaningful work - A toolkit for starting conversations with your teams
about making work meaningful - Inspiration from real-life stories and your own
personal revelations - Confidence to make work more meaningful for you
and your team - A new connection to what work means to you and
your team
Let’s enjoy our work. What we can all do to make work more fun.
When you’ve lost the fun at work, results suffer. This talk will show your team how to find the “leichtigkeit”, reclaim a sense of playfulness, and reframe their purpose.
This talk is for Teams and Leaders who want to radically change their way of thinking about work. We’ve all experienced that feeling of been stuck in our work. We turn up, do our job, try to hit our goals and find ourselves existing from quarterly report to quarterly report. Somewhere along the way work stopped being fun.
What if work could be different? What if we could reconnect with our passions? What if we could be more playful and reframe our challenges? What if we could create new connections with our colleagues? What if we could find new purpose in our work that reignites a flame within us? What if it could be fun again?
After recovering from burnout caused by work stress I asked myself all of those questions and I decided to do something radical about it. I went in search of a new way of working by doing the most fun jobs I could think of. This exploration became the ‘fun jobs project’. >From Opera Extra to Ski Instructor I tried many roles…and found myself.
This talk shares the triumphs and the challenges of finding fun and a new meaning in work. It is backed by scientific frameworks and I bring it to life with the inspiring stories of the people I met along the way. There is no hiding place in this talk. Your team will confront the way they approach work, bring out reflective insights, and equip them with the inspiration, new motivation, and tools to change their relationship with work.
- How to go from stuck to unstuck at work
- How to change the way you think and feel about
your work - How to find and connect with your passions at work
- How to be yourself at work
- A new way of framing the role of your work in your life
Leaders and their teams who want to radically
change their work relationshipTeam that feel stuck in a rut and want to reconnect
with their passions to reframe their purposeTeams that want to have a giant mirror held up to
their work mindsetAnyone who harbours a thought: what if work
could be more fun?
- A powerful human story(ies) for change
- Insights and learnings about your relationship
with work - Inspiration, tools, and confidence to reframe your
work mindset - A huge opportunity to open up the conversation with
your team and colleagues about making work fun again
How to let go of fear
Fear is our biggest human and organizational inhibitor. It keeps us safe from dangers, but it also keeps us in our comfort zones, from making changes, and from reaching our potential. This talk is for leaders, teams, and organizations that want to know how to let go of fear and take a giant leap together.
Every meaningful thing that we’ve ever done and will ever do in our lives involves overcoming fear. Whether it’s approaching our dream love partner or tackling a big audacious work goal, our human fear instinct is there to get in the way. 100% of change projects, daring to be innovative, or simply speaking up and putting our ideas forward all involve facing and overcoming the hurdle of fear.
This talk is for leaders, teams, and organisations who want to learn how to overcome fear together and take a giant leap toward their potential.
- The science of how fear holds us back
- Insights from the great philosophers in taking leaps of faith
- A science/philosophy-based approach to jumping off the metaphorical cliff edge
- What happens to our brains when we’re faced with fear and how to overcome it
- Inspiration from real-life stories to take your own leap of faith
- Confidence that you’ll be able to cope with any of the obstacles that come up
- A practical tool-kit for working through fears
- A light sense of relief that some of your fears about change have been taken off your shoulders already