Speaking & Corporate Learning
Make the invisible part of hiring discussable.
Keynotes, leadership dialogues and workshops that combine lived experience, research depth and the practical candour of the executive-search front line.
Signature topics
Programmes that change the conversation
Why Good Hires Fail
The Triadic Accountability Breakdown and the systemic conditions that make recruiter, manager and candidate blame one another.
The Day 1 Psychological Contract
How promises, assumptions and omissions during recruitment become immediate trust breaches after joining.
Autonomy Without Abandonment
Why experienced leaders still need sponsorship, context and relational access - and how “sink or swim” quietly destroys integration.
Interviewing Beyond Performance Theatre
How to distinguish evidence from charm, rehearsed certainty and institutional deception.
True Person-Organisation Fit
Why fit is not hiring people who feel familiar - and how to assess reciprocal compatibility without cloning the culture.
The Headhunter as Organisational Interpreter
A deeper model of executive search as market inquiry, sensemaking and accountability - not résumé brokerage.
Formats
Designed for serious audiences
Executive keynote
45-75 minutes. Provocative, research-backed and commercially grounded.
Leadership workshop
Half-day or full-day. Diagnostic exercises, cases and behavioural commitments.
Board / C-suite dialogue
Private facilitated conversation around a live hiring or integration challenge.
Research masterclass
For academics, HR leaders and scholar-practitioners working with qualitative inquiry and lived experience.
The tone is rigorous, not academic theatre.
Participants leave with language they can use, questions they can ask and decisions they can change. Theory is introduced only where it sharpens observation and accountability.