My LinkedIn page details what has masqueraded as a career path - from setting up an independent environmental virology testing labatory at 29, moving to a stint on internet call centres which lead to building full service contact centres across New Zealand, migrating to the UK, working in Technology companies, Digital Agencies and now a consultant at ThoughtWorks. It’s been a journey, and it’s never been planned.

My talks and workshops are based around disucssion - talking about thorny topics with a sense of humour and the occasional truth bomb. I am able to command a large stage, and enliven a small room.

I always try to leave an audience with tangible small things they can do to be more inclusive - things that do not need policy or paperwork - they only need action.

Always entertaining, energetic and thought provoking.

Podcasting

I host the It Is Complicated podcast with Josephine Baird - where we discuss all manner of topics, and where the answer to pretty much any question is, “It’s complicated”.

Speaking CV

2021

• TEDxSquareMile: Inclusive Teams Deliver
• Intuit Trans Inclusion panel
• Virtual Grace Hopper Conference - EMEA: Keynote: Inclusive Teams Deliver
• Women in IT: Keynote: Inclusive Teams Deliver

2020

• Inclusive Hiring: The Fine art of not fitting in: Being GenderQueer in a corporate world
• ThoughtWorks: Building a virtual community centre in response to Covid-19 lockdown
• ThoughtWorks: Queer Inclusion Online
• The Pensions Regulator: Moderator for panel on LGBT inclusion with Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, and Peter Tatchell
• The Pensions Regulator: Being Genderqueer in a corporate world
• Institute of Directors: Diversity Ask Me Anything session - panelist
• Digital Leute: Keynote: Inclusive Teams Deliver
• ThoughtWorks Beyond the Status Quo: Inclusive Teams Deliver
• ThoughtWorks Spain: A Conversation on Trans inclusion (with Josephine Baird)

2019

• ThoughtWorks: Content warning - what to do when it all goes wrong!
• WorldFirst BA Day: Feed Them! Making inclusive teams
• Rise Conference Bangalore: How the knight became a general: Stop kicking Allies in the shins
• Beyond The Wall: BA Conference - Host and MC
• ThoughtWorks: Human Centred Diversity
• Global Digital Influencers Conclave for Women: The Fine art of not fitting in: Being GenderQueer in a corporate world
• CodeMotion Berlin: The Fine art of not fitting in: Being GenderQueer in a corporate world
• InterTech: Panellist: LGBTQ+ Allies across the generations

2018

• Lesbians who Tech: How the knight became a general: Stop kicking Allies in the shins
• Women in Technology: How the knight became a general: Stop kicking Allies in the shins
• DogPatch International Women’s Day: Allyship in Tech - Panelist
• Udemy Dublin: How the knight became a general: Stop kicking Allies in the shins
• ThoughtWorks: Privilege - a game everyone can play
• Diversity, Inclusion and Mental health - Host and Panelist
• ThoughtWorks Office day: Microaggressions and how to combat them
• IRM Business Analysis Conference Europe: Stop kicking Allies in the shins
• RightMove BA day: Keynote speaker 3 parts - Chaos - Stop Kicking Allies - Feed Them!

2017

• Educate and Celebrate - Diversity in Schools: Making Space: being GenderQueer in a corporate world
• Mobile World Congress Barcelona: LGBTinTech panel - Diversity in Technology
• Diversity in Technology conference : Making Space: being GenderQueer in a corporate world
• IRM Business Analysis Conference Europe: Making the Chaos Visible
• ThoughtWorks Office day: Spoons! Talking about impacts on your energy
• Tech Inclusion: Making Space: being GenderQueer in a corporate world

2006 - 2016

• Wotever Talks: Performance changes the world
• Stockholm Pride: Performance changes the world
• Wotever Talks: This is how we do it - discussing relationship dynamics
• Queer nights: Boxes; and how time impacts on performance