Inspiration, tools, and ideas your team can use right now.
Need a speaker for your event, conference, speaker series, class, or meetup? Or someone to lead professional development for your writers, designers, marketers, and anyone else who works on your website and digital products? I might just be the guy.
I’ve filled rooms, Zooms, and theaters for clients and events of all kinds, including UX Days Tokyo, Button, UX Lisbon, the Information Architecture Summit, PUSH UX (Munich), AIGA Design Camp, IxDA’s Interaction, the MIMA Summit, LavaCon, the Plain Language Summit, Capital One, Rocket Mortgage, Mendix, and Schibsted.
Audiences appreciate that I talk like a normal person, not a “thought leader” or motivational speaker, and that my decks are packed full of ideas and inspiration, not text. There’s always something for your audience or team to apply as soon as they get back to their studio, desk, or board room.
Wake up—or shake up—the room.
“Boring” is not a word you’ll find on your feedback forms. I am an energized and energizing, thoughtful, and occasionally funny presenter who never fails to get the audience engaged. I’ve delivered well over 100 public talks, workshops, and training events, and dozens and dozens of both online and in-person classes. I can keep the grad students awake—your early AM or right-after-lunch audience is not a problem!
Here are a few example presentations to give you an idea of my speaking style. Many of my current decks feature hand-illustrated slides that bring a personal touch.
Inspire your team with new tools, ideas, confidence, and momentum.
Upskill Teams
Interactive presentations and skills training on UX and content strategy topics including:
- UX writing foundations
- Content strategy foundations
- User-centered content planning
- Content testing and evidence-based writing
- Mapping content ecosystems
- Better writing workflows
- Communicating product changes to users
All training topics can be facilitated online or in-person.
Engage Audiences
Memorable conversation starters for any business or marketing event. Audience favorites include:
- Creating Clarity (what clarity really means, why it matters, and how to achieve it)
- What Even is a Website? (everyone in your org thinks about the website differently, and why that’s a problem, and how to fix it)
- Designing Friendly Experiences (lessons from Dale Carnegie for service and experience design)
- Brainstorming is Broken (better approaches to ideation and creativity)
- How to Get the Writing Done (there’s more to writing than writing)
Align Leadership
Expert-facilitated workshops to help your digital strategy leaders:
- Create a content strategy framework
- Articulate product vision and voice
- Roadmap and prioritize strategic initiatives
- Establish content governance best practices
- Reimagine how content and design can work together
Stop spinning your wheels and get the clarity you need to move forward. Most workshops can be completed in just one or two days.