Speaking about sustainable flow, organisational clarity, and empowered teams
I deliver talks that help organisations, teams, and leaders rethink how they approach flow, team design, and continuous improvement — enabling faster learning, better outcomes, and healthier systems.
Each talk is rooted in real-world experience and practical insights, offering strategic ideas you can apply immediately to build clarity, reduce cognitive load, and unlock meaningful, lasting change.
Speaking Topics
I am available for speaking engagements at conferences, meetups, leadership workshops, and internal enablement events.
Common topics include:
User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters
Team Topologies and fast flow team design
Agile and Lean principles for sustainable improvement
Organisational transformation and evolution
Building enabling structures through sociotechnical architecture
Flow-centric decision making and decentralisation
Custom sessions can also be tailored to your audience or organisational challenges.
Featured Talks
Navigating From Tension to Flow: A Human-Centred Guide to Overcoming Misalignment
Event: Fast Flow Conference UK 2025
Summary: This talk explores how to recognise and respond to tension using Team Topologies principles, flow first thinking, and a healthy dose of human insight.
From Inside-Out to Outside-In: Aligning teams around what matters
Event: Fast Flow Conference NL 2025
Summary: This talk introduces User Needs Mapping as a practical approach to shift thinking to an outside-in perspective
Finding teams and service boundaries with User Needs Mapping
Event: Fast Flow Conference 2023
Summary: This talk explores how User Needs Mapping, combined with Team Topologies heuristics, helps organisations identify and validate new team and service boundaries.
Planning for growth with Team Topologies
Event: Lean Agile Brighton 2022
Summary: This talk shares how a sustainable transport startup used Team Topologies principles to double headcount while designing scalable team structures — ensuring faster delivery, healthier collaboration, and resilience through growth.