Examples of Workshops that I have run at Events
In addition to keynote presentations, I design and deliver highly interactive 4-hour workshops that allow leaders to go far deeper into the subject matter. As a master facilitator with 35 years of experience, I create sessions where participants don’t just listen — they practise new frameworks, apply tools to real challenges, and learn from one another. My workshops are collaborative deep dives: conversation, coaching, and live application that give leaders the confidence and skill to act differently the next day.
Event planners often ask me to tailor workshops to complement a keynote or to design them entirely from scratch. I bring decades of design expertise, a library of proven frameworks, and the ability to adapt to any audience — ensuring each workshop is both relevant to the event and transformational for participants.
What participants can expect:
A 4-hour deep dive into a chosen leadership or culture theme
Hands-on practice with new frameworks and tools
Facilitated dialogue with peers for shared learning and insight
Direct coaching and interaction with me throughout
A design tailored to the event’s context, goals, and audience
Orchestrating CEO Succession
A 4-hour, hands-on workshop that equips boards, CEOs, and HR leaders with practical tools to design succession plans that work. We cover readiness, candidate profiling, development, and transition — balancing governance with humanity. Learn to avoid the pitfalls of poor planning and ensure continuity with confidence in the AI-driven age.
How to coach a C-suite Team
High-performing executive teams don’t just happen — they are designed. This workshop explores diagnostics, trust-building, and interventions to strengthen alignment and shared accountability at the very top. Participants practice real facilitation and learn frameworks to coach the CEO and their team toward sustainable collaboration and ingenuity.
Designing Culture to Deliver Ingenuity
Culture is the hidden operating system of an organisation. In this interactive session, leaders explore the six levers of culture — from structures to talent to passion — and apply proven tools to diagnose, measure, and redesign culture. We translate complexity into practical steps that drive ingenuity, energy, and competitive advantage.
Coaching a CEO
Coaching a CEO requires nuance, courage, and frameworks that go beyond generic executive coaching. This workshop introduces the evolution of CEO coaching, the four coaching domains (vision, team, operations, and presence), and the neurobiology that shapes performance. Participants practise live scenarios to deepen presence and sharpen impact at the very top.
Becoming and Evolving as a Chief People Officer
Irrelevance vs Ingenuity: The VISTA Framework
The Neuroscience of Fear in Leaders
Fear can derail even the strongest leaders. This session unpacks the neuroscience of threat response — why stress at work feels like survival — and shares techniques to retrain the brain. Participants learn to spot fear in themselves and others, and practise methods to shift into clarity, confidence, and fearless leadership under pressure.
Generational Wisdom in Leadership
Each generation brings insights leaders can’t afford to lose. From Baby Boomers to Gen Z, this session explores how to harness generational diversity for stronger culture and ingenuity. Leaders learn to pass down lessons, decode generational expectations, and foster workplaces where shared wisdom drives strategy, collaboration, and sustainable performance.
The Neurobiology of Coaching
Why do some coaching conversations transform while others stall? This workshop draws on neurobiology to reveal what strengthens attention, learning, and behavioural change. Leaders and coaches will practise using presence, feedback, and simple tools to activate the brain’s capacity for growth — making coaching both more effective and more human.
Vertical Leadership: From Intelligence to Wisdom
IQ and emotional intelligence are not enough. Leaders must now grow into systemic intelligence and wisdom. Our leadership programs are failing because they focus on doing, not being. Vertical Leadership shows how to evolve through deeper stages of intelligence, cultivating presence, perspective, and wisdom to thrive in an AI-driven age.
Spiral Dynamics: From Chaos to Clarity
The frameworks of the Information Age will not serve us in the AI Age. Spiral Dynamics offers a roadmap for societal and organisational evolution, helping us see new stages of consciousness and leadership. This session explores how to navigate chaos, embrace complexity, and lead responsibly as we shift into the next level of human ingenuity.
From Thought to Action: The Power of Intention
Our inner dialogue shapes the world around us more than we realise. This session explores how mindset, self-talk, and intention drive outcomes. Leaders will learn how to quiet the monkey mind, choose empowering thoughts, and focus attention deliberately. In times of confusion, clarity of thought and intention becomes the most practical tool we have.
Creating Brain-Friendly Workplaces for the AI Age
Imagine a future where workplaces are designed to optimise our brain, creativity, and potential. Yet our Industrial Age organisations harm serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and brain clarity—while undermining sleep, breath, and gut health. It’s time to build environments that energise human minds and inspire ingenuity in a new era.
AI Meets Human Wisdom:
Leadership in the AI Age
The Information Age is over. Knowledge and strategy are now commodities, quickly copied across the globe. The winning formula comes from blending AI, human creativity, customer passion, employee activism, and relentless improvement. Success requires leaders who inspire people to love what they do, who they work with, and the organisations they shape.
The Second Most Powerful Person Is Not the CFO
The Chief People Officer must be the CEO’s right hand—the second most powerful and highly paid executive. In the AI Age, talent and culture are the only assets competitors cannot copy. When nurtured, their value grows exponentially. Developing tomorrow’s talent will look nothing like the training built for jobs already disappearing.
The Intuitive Edge: Relearning What We've Lost
Intuition is not innate—it can be developed. Ancient societies mastered it, but long hours and modern technology buried it. In today’s uncertain world, leaders need intuition more than ever. By partnering wisely with AI, executives can relearn this forgotten skill and gain a powerful edge in decision-making, creativity, and strategic foresight.
Quantum Phsics and the Possibility of Leadership
Reclaiming Connection: Dialogue and Storytelling
Dialogue and storytelling are ancient arts that once bound communities and organisations. In the rush for efficiency, we reduced them to mechanics. It’s time to rediscover authentic conversation—heart-to-heart, mind-to-mind—and let AI handle the rest. Through words, we can rebuild trust, meaning, and connection in workplaces that feel fully human again.
