Each adapts to your audience, from 20-minute keynote to half-day workshop. For the workshop format, see Consulting.
Global engagement has been stuck between 20 and 30 percent for two decades, at a documented cost of $8.8 trillion a year, while the industry measuring it grew every year. This talk shows why: engagement is a lagging indicator, the echo of conditions leaders never measure. And it shows what the leading indicator is.
For: conferences, HR leadership audiences.
Trust behaves like capital: it compounds through repeated interactions, in both directions. The five structural drivers that determine its direction, the flywheel that converts it into performance, and the lag that hides its decay until the damage is done. The book, in 45 minutes.
For: executive teams, leadership offsites.
The practices. What leaders stop doing, annual surveys, dashboard theater, surveillance disguised as insight, and what they do instead: transparency defaults, fairness as predictable rules, one committed action at a time, re-measured. Concrete, behavioral, and immediately applicable on Monday.
For: leadership teams, management audiences.
As AI absorbs execution, organizations get smaller, faster, and more dependent on the one variable machines don't supply: whether people trust the organization enough to bring their best. Why trust is the defining leadership concern of the AI era.
For: tech conferences, founder audiences.
Based in Ireland · travels worldwide · in English or Dutch.
Keynote · fireside · podcast. Half-day and full-day workshops are on the consulting page.
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