SPEAKING

Ideas are only useful if people can understand what to do with them.

I’m an experienced speaker, interviewer, and moderator known for making complicated ideas feel clear, human, and actionable.

Over two decades, I have spoken to audiences about everything from parenting and overwhelmed lives to creative entrepreneurship, career change, and communication. Today, my strategic advisory work also brings me into conversations about narrative, organizational coherence, and communicating through complexity.

What I speak about

Communication + organizational clarity

How organizations find the story underneath the noise, communicate through moments of change, and create greater alignment between what they believe, what they say, and what people actually understand.

Possible topics could include strategic communications, narrative coherence, communicating through change, and translating complexity for different audiences.

Work + creative life

What twenty years of building an unconventional career has taught me about reinvention, entrepreneurship, creativity, decision-making, and knowing when the old version of your work no longer fits.

Editing your life

Practical, research-informed conversations about overwhelm, parenting, priorities, and making more room for what matters — without turning life into another optimization project.

Every engagement is shaped around the audience and the conversation you want to create.

Not every great conversation needs a keynote.

I’m available for:

  • Keynotes and talks

  • Panels and fireside conversations

  • Moderation and interviewing

  • Workshops and facilitated conversations

  • Podcast and media appearances

Formats

“Accessible, concrete, powerful strategies...with authenticity and humor.” —Laura McCarthy

“A natural and conversational manner...she was really able to connect with the group.” —Edward Doherty

“Her wisdom is real, grounded, and doable.” —Chrysula Winegar

SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Alt Summit

BlogHer

Center for Parent and Teen Communication

Children's Miracle Network

DSM Nutritional Products

GSK

March of Dimes

Massachusetts Conference for Women

Mom 2.0 Summit

Parenting in Place

PayPal

Prevent Child Abuse America

Responsibility.org

SPARK Kindness

Alt Summit BlogHer Center for Parent and Teen Communication Children's Miracle Network DSM Nutritional Products GSK March of Dimes Massachusetts Conference for Women Mom 2.0 Summit Parenting in Place PayPal Prevent Child Abuse America Responsibility.org SPARK Kindness

Where else you might have seen or heard me

DOCUMENTARY

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things

Netflix · 2015 · Featured appearance

IMDb →

NPR · ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

How to Talk to Kids About Anti-Asian Racism

March 2021 · Also aired on NPR's Code Switch

Listen →

BBC WORLD NEWS

The State of Working Moms During the Pandemic

2020 · Live broadcast

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WGBH

How Parents Can Hold On to the Slow Pandemic Pace as Social Events Pick Up

April 2021

Listen →

Planning something interesting?

Whether you're looking for a speaker, moderator, podcast guest, or someone who can help an audience make sense of a complicated idea, I'd love to hear what you're working on.