We're not in a technology crisis. We're in a listening crisis.

Talk 1

We're Not in a Technology Crisis. We're in a Listening Crisis.

Leaders expect AI to make their people faster. Their people say it has made the work heavier. That gap is costing billions, and better data will not close it. I name what is being left out, and what changes when a room listens to body, soil, ancestral memory and the algorithm at once.

Takeaways

• · Why the AI productivity gap is a listening gap.
• · The Four Intelligences: body, soil, DNA, algorithms.
• · A shared language teams keep using long after the talk.

Who it's for

C-suite and boards. AI transformation summits. Strategy and innovation leaders.

Talk 2

Cartography Is Not Home: AI and the Logic of the Map

Maps decided what counted. Whatever they left off stopped existing on paper. AI is doing the same thing at scale. Working with original pages from the 1899 Times Atlas, I trace how colonial map logic lives on in the data we train on, and what it costs the people still left off the page. Available as a talk or an immersive experience with sound.

Takeaways

• · How inherited assumptions travel into AI systems.
• · Questions to ask of any dataset before you trust it.
• · Why the people missing from your data are missing from your future.

Who it's for

Data and technology leaders. Cultural institutions. Arts and innovation festivals. International organisations.

Talk 3

Power That Doesn't Exhaust Itself: The Hidden Cost of Not Listening

Poor mental health costs UK employers £51 billion a year. The biggest share is presenteeism: people at work, but not heard. This is not a wellbeing problem to hand to HR. It is where AI investment leaks away. Drawing on my own leadership and lived experience, I show why exhaustion is what performance-based authority costs, and what presence makes possible instead.

Takeaways

• · Why burnout is an innovation risk, not a welfare issue.
• · Where unheard people show up on the balance sheet.
• · Authority others can organise around, without burning out.

Who it's for

CEOs and executive teams. Financial and professional services. Health sector leadership. Organisations rolling out AI at scale.

Talk 4

What Type of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?

This question stops executives mid-sentence. It moves leadership from reputation to legacy: the conditions you leave for those who come after. Drawn from my Wiley book, Leadership Legacy, it gives weight to a knowing most leaders already carry.

Takeaways

• · A shared language for long-term consequence.
• · One governing question for every decision that matters.
• · Legacy as strategy, not sentiment.

Who it's for

Board retreats. Leadership programmes. Impact investors. Sustainability and ESG leaders.

Talk 5

Right Question, Wrong Problem

Why AI ethics starts with listening

Most AI ethics asks how to make the machine behave. This keynote asks who was listened to before it was built.

We keep asking whether AI needs its own rules. It is the right question. It may be the wrong problem.

I begin with a piece of coal, around 300 million years old, passed hand to hand. Then a 1912 shipping chart, forecasting a canal that was not yet open. Who saved the most? Who was never on the table?

From there, the audience takes the question apart, four words at a time: We. Need. AI-specific. Regulation. Whose values make the rules? Is the problem the technology, or the relationship? What is missing from the law?

Live stories carry it: AI agents that built their own rules but never spoke to a human, a union that regulated a relationship rather than a machine, and an Indigenous people's statement to the builders of AI.

Audiences leave with a different question, and a felt sense of why it matters.

What audiences take away

• · A simple way to read any AI question for what it assumes
• · A clear picture of how the EU, UK, US and China answer differently
• · Why the people affected by AI belong in the room where it is governed

Formats

Who it's for

Universities, leadership teams, conferences, policy and public sector audiences

We're not in a technology crisis. We're in a listening crisis.