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Speaking

On stage and in the boardroom

Keynotes that leave an audience with something to do on Monday, and closed-door sessions for boards and executive teams willing to hear it.

Signature topics

Three talks, each tailored

Every session is adapted after a call with the organiser — to the audience, the company’s situation, and what they need to leave with.

Why good strategies stall in year two

The keynote most requested by leadership conferences. Why approval and execution are different events, and the four structures that decide which strategies happen.

  • The incentive test any executive can run in an afternoon
  • Why milestone dashboards reassure and mislead
  • What to stop — and how to make stopping safe

Keynote · 45 min
Offsite · half day

The board’s blind spot: what is not happening

For directors’ institutes and board retreats. The five questions that surface deferred decisions, filtered dissent and metrics that no longer change anything.

  • Running one question per meeting
  • Separating governing from managing
  • Rebuilding the pack around decisions

Keynote · 40 min
Board session · 3 hrs

Against the first hundred days

For incoming chief executives, their boards and the investors who appointed them. How to meet the pressure for early action with evidence of rigour.

  • A dated assessment period the board will accept
  • Reading an inherited team without first impressions
  • When speed really should win

Fireside · 30 min
Workshop · half day

Formats

From a keynote to a working day

45 min

Conference keynote

For 100 to 2,000 senior leaders. Content-led, no slides beyond a handful of charts, with time for questions.

½ day

Board or executive offsite

A facilitated session using the Execution Diagnostic on your own organisation. Held under Chatham House rules.

30 min

Fireside conversation

Interviewed by your chair, CEO or host. Suits investor summits, member dinners and internal leadership events.

Recent and upcoming

Where I have spoken lately

  • Why good strategies stall in year two

    Annual Chairs’ Forum · London

    Upcoming
  • The board’s blind spot: what is not happening

    Directors’ Institute Autumn Conference · Chicago

    Keynote
  • Fireside: the incoming CEO’s first year

    Private-equity operating partners’ summit · New York

    Fireside
  • Governing through a CEO succession

    Family business governance council · Zurich

    Panel
  • Strategy execution for new chief executives

    Executive education programme · Fontainebleau

    Faculty
The only session of the conference our CEOs were still arguing about at dinner — which is exactly what we booked her for.
Programme directorAnnual leadership conference, 600 delegates

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