I speak on the ideas I work with every day. Complexity. Decisions under pressure. Staying effective when conditions get hard. The pattern holds across mining, energy, banking and infrastructure: when people can see the choices clearly, decisions happen fast. My talks are built to create that moment in the room.
Available for conferences, leadership events, project and delivery communities, panels and podcasts.
All talks can be adapted for your audience, format and context.
Finding the decision hiding inside complexity
Senior leadership teams, technology and delivery conferences, project communities.
The room is full of experts. Engineers. Operators. Technology leaders. Everyone working hard on their part. Yet something has stalled. Not because of capability — because the most important decisions don't sit inside a single team. They cut across them. In the handoff. The overlooked dependency. The unspoken assumption. This talk is for leaders who need the choices to be visible before work can move.
The cost of waiting
Executive teams, programme sponsors, delivery and transformation leaders.
The cost of an unmade decision rarely shows up on a balance sheet — not at first. It shows up as teams focused on their own priorities. Divided attention. Progress stalling. Workarounds that quietly multiply. By the time someone measures it, it's already been paid. This talk unpacks the cost of waiting and what it takes to move without the full picture.
The plan was right. Until it wasn't.
Project and delivery communities, programme sponsors, technology leaders.
Priorities shift. Scope changes. New information arrives that yesterday's plan didn't account for. This talk draws on real examples of mid-project pivots — where fast decisions with incomplete information made the difference between delivery and failure.
Doing hard things helps you do hard things.
Project professionals, women's leadership events, organisations navigating demanding delivery environments.
Drawing on XTERRA racing, representing New Zealand at the World Triathlon Championships and endurance adventures across multiple continents — this talk is practical, personal and built around a simple truth: what you learn pushing through discomfort transfers directly into how you lead, deliver and decide when conditions get hard.
On resilience, performance under pressure and what endurance sport actually teaches us.
We covered my move from New Zealand to Western Australia, building a contracting business, and taking a strategic approach to property in a market I didn’t grow up in. Through education, planning, and acting when opportunities appeared. We also talked about mindset, preparation, and taking action, plus how lessons from endurance sport transfer into investing and business.
On the spirit behind backing yourself, stepping forward, and discovering what becomes possible when you choose action.
Run Larapinta & Gravel Muster – doing the double.
On remote product management, visibility and keeping teams connected across distance.
