Keynote Speaker · Learning · Leadership · Loyalty
Most training is forgotten by Friday.Let's fix that.
High-octane keynotes and engaging workshops that land in the room and still show up in the work weeks later.
High-octane keynotes and engaging workshops that land in the room and still show up in the work weeks later.
Every talk is built for your room and your outcomes. Most run as a keynote, a breakout session, or a hands-on workshop.
The science of why training fades and how to make it stick. A practical keynote on learning retention, active practice, and turning one-and-done training events into behavior change you can measure.
Learning retention & behavior changeAI moved everyone from playing the instruments to conducting the orchestra. A future-of-work keynote on leading in the age of AI: setting direction, giving better feedback, asking better questions, and knowing good output when you see it. The conductor doesn't play the violin, but they know when it's off.
AI, leadership & the future of workThe inspirational keynote clients bring back again and again. Flip "I'll believe it when I see it" into "I'll see it when I believe it." Your brain answers the questions it's asked, so ask better ones. A motivational session on breaking limiting beliefs, unlocking a limitless mindset, and defying expectations, together.
Inspiration, mindset & motivationLeadership development that changes how managers show up on Monday. A funny, honest keynote on building leaders, growing emerging talent, and leading teams through constant change.
Leadership development & managersThe AI adoption gap. You bought the licenses and ran the training, and the workflows look exactly the same. A keynote on why AI rollouts stall at adoption, what actually moves behavior, and how leaders close the distance between having the tools and using them well.
AI adoption & behavior changeBurnout is a system problem wearing a personal face. A keynote on employee wellbeing and resilience that puts the focus where it belongs: workload design, manager behavior, and the operating rhythms that quietly grind good people down. Practical, honest, and free of toothless self-care advice.
Burnout, resilience & wellbeingPsychological safety, candor, and the cost of silence. Why smart teams stay quiet, what it takes to make speaking up survivable, and how leaders build the kind of trust where problems surface while they are still cheap to fix.
Psychological safety & trustEmployee engagement and retention through real development. How continuous learning and a culture of progress keep your top talent from walking out the door.
Employee engagement & retentionThe manager readiness gap. Most new leaders get a title, a team, and a wish of good luck. A keynote on building frontline and mid-level managers who can actually coach, give feedback, and hold a team together, plus what to stop outsourcing to a one-day workshop.
Manager readiness & coachingMultigenerational teams without the eye rolling. A funny, practical keynote on leading Gen Z through Boomers, translating across communication styles, and turning generational friction into a genuine advantage instead of a running joke.
Multigenerational teams & communicationChange management for organizations that have already changed too much. How to lead through constant reorgs, new systems, and shifting priorities without burning the trust you need to pull off the next one. For leaders who keep asking why adoption stalls.
Change leadership & adoptionOnboarding and ramp as a retention strategy. Why the first three months predict whether someone stays and performs, and how to design an onboarding experience that builds confidence and connection instead of drowning people in policy.
Onboarding, ramp & early retentionLearning measurement that proves business impact. Why completions and smile sheets tell you nothing, and how to measure what actually matters: what people do differently after the training. For L&D leaders being asked to show the ROI.
Learning analytics & business impactA reality check for the skills-based transformation. Real upskilling and reskilling happen through practice, feedback, and learning in the flow of work. How to build capability instead of just cataloging it.
Skills-based transformation & upskillingMake your SKO pay off in Q3, and beyond the buzz of night one. A sales kickoff keynote on turning event energy into pipeline behavior: reinforcement, practice, and sales enablement that survives contact with February.
Sales kickoffs & enablementTurn customer education into retention and revenue. How onboarding, enablement, and ongoing learning create customers who stick, expand, and advocate, from the CLO who did it at scale.
Customer education & experienceThe human side of learning in the age of AI. Where AI supercharges training, where it falls flat, and why practice, reflection, and human connection are the skills that survive automation.
AI & the future of learning
The learning space is full of people who read about the work. I have run it, built it, and taught it, for two decades.
Chief Learning Officer and Head of Customer Experience at Litmos, where I built a global strategy for learning, enablement, and post-sale success across thousands of users.
Founder of Praxis Learning and former Director of L&D at Build.com, where I stood up the team and the systems from scratch. I do not just advise. I ship.
Instructor at UC Davis and a fixture on the conference circuit, turning hard-won lessons into sessions people quote back to me years later.
A high-energy, story-driven main-stage talk that leaves your audience thinking differently and ready to act.
A breakout-length session with the frameworks, the examples, and the how. For the room that already wants the detail.
A hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves working session that sends teams home with something they built, not just notes.
All three travel well virtually. Remote sessions hold a screen the way a stage holds a room, interactive and sharp, never a monologue.
The talk plants the idea. Praxis is how organizations make it stick. It is the social, AI-enhanced engagement layer that turns a training event into structured practice, reflection, and reinforcement, built around what you already have.
See how Praxis helps teams turn training into real behavior change, the method behind every keynote and workshop I deliver.
Visit Praxis LearningWhen a keynote is not enough and you need someone in the work with you, I take on a limited number of advisory and fractional engagements.
Your on-call learning executive, building internal capability without the full-time overhead.
Turning onboarding and enablement into retention, adoption, and long-term advocacy.
Leadership development and learning programs people remember, and actually apply.
A sounding board and sparring partner for founders, HR leaders, and execs.
Tell me about your event, your audience, and the change you want in the room. I'll bring the energy and the substance.