Talks and workshops for groups navigating change

For women's groups, professional associations, faith communities, and organizations whose people are in the midst of real-life transitions.

• Practical, story-rich sessions on transition, listening, and self-knowledge.
• Shaped to your audience, setting, and the questions they are actually carrying.
• Available as a single keynote, a multi-session series, or a half-day workshop, in person or online.

I speak to groups about transition, listening, and the kind of self-knowledge that helps people move through change with more steadiness. Every talk is shaped to the room — your audience, your setting, the questions they are actually carrying. The themes below are where I start. The session we build is yours.

Signature keynote

Between Stories: Navigating the Space Between Who You Were and Who You Are Becoming

For audiences in the middle of a meaningful transition — an empty nest, retirement, the end of a relationship, a change in health or family role. A practical way to move through the in-between time with less reactivity and surer footing. Participants leave with a simple framework for naming where they are, normalizing the uncertainty of the in-between, and identifying steadying next steps they can take right away. Available as a talk or a longer workshop.

A deeper session

My Body Knew: The Wisdom That Arrives Before the Words

Most of us learn to override the early signals our bodies send — the fatigue that lingers, the unease before something that once felt easy. This session reframes those signals as information worth listening to, and helps people catch them sooner. Participants practice noticing early signals, telling the difference between noise and a meaningful cue, and choosing one small experiment based on what their bodies are telling them. Works on its own, or as a second session for a group that has already heard Between Stories.

For groups in transition

Listening: The Practice That Changes Every Relationship You Have

Real listening is rarer than we think, and it shapes every relationship that matters — most of all when those relationships are changing underneath you. This session gives practical tools for being present, hearing what is actually being said, and giving and receiving feedback well, applied to the bonds that get quietly rewritten when a role ends: with adult children as they become their own people, with a spouse as the house empties or work falls away, with the community spaces that once filled part of the week.

For leaders in workplaces and communities

I also work with organizations—companies, nonprofits, associations, and the boards and teams that run them—on how their people lead, communicate, and build a culture that holds up under pressure. Engagements can be a single keynote, a multi-session series, or a coached leadership cohort, shaped to your people and the change they’re navigating.

Leader as Coach: How Managers Develop Capable, Self-Reliant Teams

For managers and lay leaders who keep ending up doing their team's work — at the office, in congregations, in schools, and in volunteer organizations. The questions a coaching-minded leader learns to ask, and the judgment to know when a question serves better than an answer. Draws on years of organizational leadership and an ACC coaching credential. Leaders leave with a set of coaching questions, a clearer sense of when to ask versus when to answer, and a simple structure for one-on-one conversations that grow their people rather than create more dependence.

Listening: The Skill That Changes Every Conversation at Work

Listening and feedback as core working skills. People leave able to hear a colleague or direct report fully, surface what isn't being said, and give feedback that lands. Strong on its own, and a natural pairing with Leader as Coach for a two-session leadership program.

For the full set of organizational talks, programs, and leadership cohorts, Download Talks & Programs for Organizations (PDF). To talk through a program for your team, Get in Touch.

I tailor length and format to your group, from a short keynote to a half-day workshop, offered in person or online. An organization can book a single talk, build a multi-session series or retreat, or bring me back for a deeper session once the group knows my work. To talk about a session for your organization, community, or event, get in touch and we'll shape it for your people.