Lived Experience Speaking

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 I deliver keynote speaking, panel contributions, and workshops that centre lived experience, complexity, and intersectionality.

This isn’t sanitised inspiration. It’s grounded, practical, and honest, built to help audiences understand what systems do to people, how harm gets normalised, and what solidarity looks like when it costs something.

• Keynote speaking (conferences, leadership days, community events)
• Panels (lived experience representation with substance, not tokenism)
• Workshops (interactive, scenario-based learning)
• MC / facilitated conversations (when you need a steady hand in a complex room)

• Scenario-driven storytelling to educate, challenge, and inspire action
• Clear, practical takeaways (not vague “awareness”)
• Trauma-informed delivery with strong boundaries (no forced disclosure)
• Audience-safe, ethically rigorous, and politically real

 Lived experience-led systems reform

• Why “consultation” often fails (and how to do it without extraction)
• What happens when systems prioritise compliance over outcomes
• How policy and practice can unintentionally replicate harm

• How identity, power, disability, poverty, gender, sexuality, culture, geography, and history stack
• Why one-size-fits-all frameworks break in real life
• What intersectionality looks like in practice (not as a buzzword)

• Moving from individual blame to structural accountability
• Ethical pluralism: multiple valid ways of knowing and healing
• Building solidarity that protects people (not performative allyship)

• Capacity vs capability (and how to stop burning out your best people)
• Boundaries, consent, and psychological safety in high-stakes spaces
• How to respond to disclosure without making it worse
• Workshops (interactive, scenario-based learning)
• MC / facilitated conversations (when you need a steady hand in a complex room)

• Workshops are interactive and built around real-world scenarios.
• Decision points: “What would you do here?”
• Debrief: impact, ethics, risk, and alternatives
• Tools people can take back into their roles

• Conferences and peak bodies
• Government and public sector teams
• Health and community services
• Education and youth services
• Not-for-profits and advocacy organisations
• Lived experience networks and community-led groups

•  Audience type and size
• Event purpose (education, culture shift, strategy, advocacy)
• Topics you want centred (and topics you want avoided)
• Accessibility needs and cultural safety requirements
• Whether you want Q&A, facilitated discussion, or workshop format

 Speaking fees are quoted based on format, audience size, preparation required, travel, and risk profile.

If you want a fast quote, send:

• format (keynote / panel / workshop)
• date, location, and audience size
• topic focus