The agenda is full, but the real conversation is unclear.
You know the day matters, but need help turning it into something focused, human and worth people's time.
Speaking & Facilitation
Speaking and facilitation for leadership events, away days and shared moments that need energy, honesty and useful follow-through.
This is for rooms where people need more than a nice agenda. The aim is to create insight, language and momentum that people can still use when the event is over.
Who this is for
When the room needs a useful shift, not just a well-run day.
The group needs energy and honesty.
People may be tired, cautious, over-polished or unsure how direct they are allowed to be.
A keynote needs to do more than entertain.
You want people to leave with practical language around pressure, relationships, confidence, conflict or communication.
The event connects to a wider leadership or culture moment.
The session needs to support what happens next, not sit separately as a nice memory.
How I help
Design the room around the shift it needs to create.
Kate can contribute as speaker, facilitator or design partner, depending on whether the room needs insight, structure, challenge, warmth or a clearer route to action.
01
Clarify the purpose of the session
We get clear on what the room needs to understand, feel, say or decide by the end.
02
Bring practical insight
Sessions can draw on neuroscience, self-awareness, relationship intelligence, conflict, confidence, pressure and leadership habits.
03
Hold the real conversation
Facilitation creates enough structure and care for the useful tension to surface without derailing the room.
04
Turn energy into follow-through
The work closes with clear synthesis, actions or language people can carry back into the business.
What you can expect
A room that feels alive, thoughtful and practically useful.
- A session shaped around your audience and context.
- Useful energy without forced participation theatre.
- Clearer language for pressure, relationships and behaviour.
- Better conversations during the event itself.
- Actions, commitments or synthesis that help the day land.
- A speaker or facilitator who can hold both warmth and edge.
Ways to work with me
Formats for talks, away days and leadership moments.
The shape can be a keynote, facilitated away day, panel contribution, retreat session or event partnership.
Keynote
45 to 75 minutes / Event session
When a room needs a clear, memorable shift in how it thinks about pressure or relationships.
Bespoke talk
Facilitated Away Day
Half or full day / Facilitation
When a team needs to have the real conversation with structure and care.
Session design
Panel or Retreat
Custom / Custom format
When the format is specific and the room needs warmth, clarity and skill.
Bespoke preparation
Event Partnership
Before, during and after / Custom
When the event needs to connect to a wider leadership, culture or change agenda.
Event design input
Social proof
Relevant speaking, facilitation and event work.
Case study
Innovate This
A practical session on why the brain can go sideways under pressure, and what helps people get useful again.
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Case study
Gather Round
A panel event for the Bristol and Bath creative community exploring resilience, mistakes, decision-making and self-belief under pressure.
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Case study
DO Lectures
A Relationship Awareness Theory and SDI-based session at DO Lectures, giving people a practical way to understand motives, behaviour, overdone strengths and conflict without turning the room into a personality-type parlour game.
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Resource
Resilience Under Pressure: What One Room of Insurance Professionals Revealed About Work Today
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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.
A short conversation will help clarify the audience, purpose, format and what the room needs to be able to do afterwards.