Twenty-two invited speaking engagements across academia, industry and policy — past and forthcoming. The conditions under which I most enjoy showing up.
Engagements below are scaffold copy — client to confirm venues, dates and final talk titles.
Forthcoming
04 confirmed · 2026
KeynoteNov 2026
"The environment is the intervention" — opening keynote
Australian HR Institute Annual Conference
Melbourne · AU
Invited seminarSep 2026
"Voice without exit — psychosocial safety in long-tenure teams"
London Business School · OB Group
London · UK
Panel chairAug 2026
Symposium on Reflexivity, Practice & Power
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Chicago · US
KeynoteJul 2026
"Designing classrooms that teach" — pedagogy keynote
EFMD Annual Conference
Lisbon · PT
Past · academic
12 engagements · 2018 — 2025
Visiting seminarMay 2025
"Reflexivity as practice" · OB research seminar
INSEAD · Singapore campus
Singapore
KeynoteNov 2024
"What family firms taught me about value transmission" — ANZAM
Australian & NZ Academy of Management
Sydney · AU
Invited seminarSep 2024
"Becoming a leader: identity, environment, and the slow work of formation"
University of Cambridge · Judge Business School
Cambridge · UK
KeynoteJun 2024
EGOS · Sub-theme keynote on reflexivity
European Group for Organizational Studies
Milan · IT
Doctoral consortium2018 — 2023
Six doctoral consortium faculty positions · AOM, EGOS, ANZAM
Full details in the downloadable CV.
Various
Past · industry & policy
06 engagements · 2021 — 2025
KeynoteApr 2025
"Psychosocial safety in practice" · for HR leaders
SafeWork SA · State Forum
Adelaide · AU
WorkshopFeb 2025
Designing reflexive teams — full-day workshop
Royal Adelaide Hospital, executive leadership
Adelaide · AU
Round-tableNov 2024
Productivity Commission · panel on workplace wellbeing
Australian Government
Canberra · AU
KeynoteAug 2023
"What 'low motivation' actually means" — for senior leaders
BankSA · Annual leadership offsite
Adelaide · AU
Workshop2021 — 2024
Three further industry workshops · government & private sector
Full details available on request.
Various
Available talks
The environment is the intervention
A 45-minute keynote — drawing on the FT50 work and the longitudinal field studies — on why people, processes, and structures change only when their environment does, and what that means for leaders.
There is no such thing as a demotivated person
A 60-minute leadership address built around the thesis of Breaking Mental Models. Best suited to senior leadership offsites and conferences.
Reflexivity as a workplace condition
A 90-minute teaching workshop for executive education, postgraduate cohorts, and clinical leadership programmes.
Designing classrooms that teach
A 45-minute pedagogy talk for higher-education and EdTech audiences — on the architecture, behaviour and ritual of the postgraduate classroom.