A high-impact session for that crucial late-afternoon slot when energy typically dips. I ensure your audience leaves energized, not exhausted.

DMs are open if you're looking to turn generational differences into your competitive advantage.

🎤 The conversation starter
An off-topic session that gets delegates talking—both with their partners that evening and with colleagues the next morning. The kind of content that extends your event's impact beyond the venue.
🎤 Energy injection

You need someone with a different professional background who brings fresh insights your industry hasn't heard before. My decade plus as a secondary school headteacher gives me a unique lens on generational dynamics.

🎤 Main stage opener or closer:
When Gen Z recruitment, retention, or multigenerational collaboration is central to your delegates' challenges. 
🎤 The outside perspective

If your event tackles workforce challenges—specifically recruiting and retaining Gen Z or navigating multigenerational workplace dynamics—let's talk.

How conference planners typically use my keynotes:

and all liaison in advance. Stunning venue and a stupendously well organised event.

Darn right I'm going to name drop. And yes I bottled out on saying hello.

So many questions from the floor from a bunch of pros trying to get it right in recruiting and retaining the best young Gen Z professionals that they can.

Thank you to Fay Watkin and Charlotte Benton-Hughes for the opportunity

If so, is that getting worse?

Here's part of a fascinating conversation I had with Charlotte Noon, Gen Z coach recently. 

She specialises in working with teens and young adults.

I strongly recommend you check out all she does.

Already getting through the second print run, hopefully won't be long before a third.

Who is up for the audiobook version?

A huge thank you to Shiggi Pakter for all recording and engineering and also Andrea Johnson at Troubador books.

And after all I am a speaker - so why not...you know...SPEAK!

So in a few weeks the audiobook version of The Snowflake Myth will be available on all major platforms - Audible, Spotify, Apple etc.

It's been a great first month in terms of sales, engagement and so on.

'fireside chat' last week about recruiting/retaining Gen Z and The Snowflake Myth.

Local government has a great story to tell to young professionals about the difference it can make. The same applies to Children's Services.

Best wishes to this year's cohort!

Credit Amanda for the photo

This was a programme for new Directors of Children's Services, the most incredibly difficult job and society needs all who do it to have all they need.

So a big thank you to Gail, Amanda and Lisa at The Staff College for hosting me for a

And is for 

➡️managers navigating multi-generational workplaces
➡️parents seeking to understand their adult sons and daughters. 

Link to buy in bio!

The Snowflake Myth (Explaining Gen z in the workplace and beyond) is OUT NOW! 

The book 

➡️challenges the negative stereotypes 
➡️offers practical strategies for recruiting and retaining

👥 TEAMS - I help senior leadership teams become far greater than the sum of their parts:

• Solve your own problems
• Set the standards for how others should operate
• Reinvent itself in the eyes of others

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🎯 COACHING - I support senior leaders to see the wood for the trees so they thrive in work and life:

• Solve the problems which keep you awake at 3am
• Prepare for difficult conversations
• Manage up, and ensure you get the support you need

• Explain Gen Z to Gen X (and other generations)
 • Support organisations to recruit and retain Gen Z
 • Help leaders make the most of the multi-generational workplace