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The keynote your audience will still be using on Monday.
Most talks leave people inspired and unchanged. Mine leave them with a skill they can practise in their next meeting, and a sharper way of thinking about how people and organisations actually grow.
Twenty years of practice, a century of developmental science, and a room that stays awake.
WHERE THESE IDEAS HAVE TRAVELLED
SIGNATURE talks
Three big ideas. Each one shaped to the room
Your strategy is the curriculum
- HR and talent audiences
- L&D conferences
- executive teams
Organisations spend $366 billion a year developing their people, and most of it produces no measurable change. Not because the content is wrong, but because information isn’t capability. This talk makes the case for development through doing, and shows what it looks like when your must-wins become the practice field.
- The four patterns, as a diagnostic they can apply to their own organisation
- The distinction between information and capability
- The skill hierarchy as a practical tool they can use immediately
- One micro skill to try in their next meeting
Faster than the work changes
- CONFERENCE KEYNOTES
- EXECUTIVE AUDIENCES
- TRANSFORMATION AND AI AGENDAS
The skills your people will need in eighteen months don’t exist in any training catalogue today. Buying training for today’s tools is a losing strategy. The organisations that keep pace will be the ones whose people learn faster, adapt sooner and make better decisions when it counts. This talk is about building that capacity on purpose.
- The four meta skills that build every other skill
- Why conventional upskilling depreciates faster than it can be delivered
- The difference between capability and capacity, and how to grow both at once
- A way to think about development in a world that won’t hold still
The measurement is real
- Senior hr
- talent and assessment leaders
- boards
Most assessment in organisations measures preference and personality. Developmental science can measure the structure of how someone thinks, and it changes what’s possible in hiring, development and succession.
- What developmental measurement actually is, built on the work of Dr Theo Dawson and Lectica
- How it differs from the instruments they’re using now
- Where it changes high-stakes people decisions, from role design to selection to succession
Where I have spoken
Where have these ideas travelled?..
It has been delivered to technology partners, university audiences, manufacturers and business owners.
Enterprise and technology
Google Hub · ConnectWise
Academic and research
UNSW
Industry scale
Australian Manufacturing Week
Owners and founders
Victorian Business Festival
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What you get
- Someone who has done the work for twenty years and speaks from practice rather than from a literature review
- A talk built around one clear argument rather than a tour of frameworks
- Preparation. I will ask about your audience and adjust the examples to them
- A room that stays awake
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