Speaking & Facilitation

For leadership events, away days and shared moments that need energy, insight and something people can actually use when the room empties.

Kate Southerby speaking to an audience at Innovate This 2025

What changes

A useful, memorable experience that names the real leadership pattern and turns it into next-step behaviour.

You are planning an offsite and want the conversation to go deeper than updates.

A leadership event needs insight, warmth and commercial relevance.

The team needs a skilled facilitator for a conversation that matters.

Ways to work

Energy in the room. Behaviour after it.

Talks and facilitated rooms with warmth, edge and practical use. Designed around your audience so the shift lasts beyond the event.

  • Bespoke to the room
  • Lively, practical neuroscience
  • Language people keep using

01 / Event session

Keynote

45 to 75 minutes

When a room needs a clear, memorable shift in how it thinks about pressure or relationships.

Includes

  • Bespoke talk
  • Audience relevance
  • Practical takeaway
Signature

02 / Facilitation

Facilitated Away Day

Half or full day

When a team needs to have the real conversation with structure and care.

Includes

  • Session design
  • Live facilitation
  • Action synthesis

03 / Custom format

Panel or Retreat

Custom

When the format is specific and the room needs warmth, clarity and skill.

Includes

  • Bespoke preparation
  • Contribution or facilitation
  • Post-event notes

04 / Custom

Event Partnership

Before, during and after

When the event needs to connect to a wider leadership, culture or change agenda.

Includes

  • Event design input
  • Live delivery
  • Post-event synthesis

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Questions

A few practical details.

What kinds of events do you speak at?

Kate speaks at leadership events, creative and People gatherings, away days, panels and offsites where the room needs useful insight into pressure, relationships and behaviour.

Can you facilitate leadership away days?

Yes. Facilitation can include shaping the agenda, holding the room, surfacing useful tension and turning the conversation into clear next steps.

Do you design bespoke sessions?

Yes. Sessions are designed around the audience, context and the shift the event needs to create.

Can this work alongside an existing agenda?

Yes. Kate can contribute a keynote, a facilitated segment or a more integrated thread across the day.

Next step

Bring the real situation. The format can follow.

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