Words can move rooms long before they move systems.
As a speaker, I explore the stories that shape our culture, influence decision-making, and determine whose voices are heard. Through conversations about gender, power, domestic abuse, lived experience, and social change, I challenge audiences to think differently about the narratives we accept and the futures we create.
Because the stories we tell don’t just reflect the world around us. They help shape what becomes possible within it.
Speaking, for me, isn’t performance. It’s an extension of the work I do every day through storytelling, advocacy, and lived experience engagement.
I speak about the narratives that shape how we understand gender, power, domestic abuse, identity, and social change. Drawing on professional experience, survivor-informed practice, and a deep understanding of storytelling, I help audiences explore not only what is happening, but why it matters.
Whether addressing a conference, facilitating a workshop, or contributing to a panel discussion, my aim is always the same: to create conversations that inform, challenge, and inspire action.
Ideal settings include:
Each conversation in this series explores a distinct idea through storytelling, lived experience and thoughtful discussion. While every conversation has its own focus, each can be adapted for different audiences and settings without losing the heart of the message.
The idea
The stories we repeat become the beliefs we hold, the cultures we create and the systems we sustain. This conversation explores how narrative shapes everything from personal identity to public policy, and why changing systems often begins with changing the stories we tell.
Ideal for
Leadership conferences, festivals, charities, educators, communications professionals and organisations interested in culture, influence and social change.
What audiences will be reflecting on
The stories they’ve accepted as truth, the narratives shaping their own work, and how different stories can create different futures.
The idea
Silence is rarely empty. It is often shaped by fear, shame, stigma or systems that fail to listen. Drawing on lived experience and survivor-centred practice, this conversation explores why people stay silent, what it costs, and how storytelling can become part of healing and social change.
Ideal for
Domestic abuse organisations, safeguarding professionals, healthcare, local authorities, charities, educators and community organisations.
What audiences will be reflecting on
Why silence is rarely a simple choice, the barriers that prevent people from speaking, and what it truly means to create spaces where people feel safe enough to be heard.
The idea
What happens when society decides who a woman should be before she has the chance to decide for herself? Through personal reflection, culture and lived experience, this conversation explores gender, identity, power and the quiet ways women are taught to shrink themselves to fit expectations.
Ideal for
Women’s organisations, women’s empowerment, equality and inclusion events, schools, universities, literature festivals and audiences exploring power, gender, culture and the expectations placed on women and girls.
What audiences will be reflecting on
The expectations they have inherited, the labels they have accepted or challenged, and what becomes possible when women define themselves on their own terms.
The idea
Technology is changing how we live, work and communicate, but it cannot replace the human qualities that give those interactions meaning. This conversation explores what happens when innovation outpaces empathy, and why our greatest responsibility isn’t teaching machines to think, but remembering what it means to be human.
Ideal for
Technology organisations, universities, innovation events, communications teams, charities and leaders exploring the human impact of AI.
What audiences will be reflecting on
How technology shapes behaviour, where empathy belongs in innovation, and why the future depends as much on human values as technological progress.
Every audience is different. That’s why each Signature Series can be experienced in different ways.
From opening conversations to deeper exploration and fully bespoke experiences created around your audience.
Whether you’re looking for a signature keynote or a bespoke session, every talk is designed to challenge assumptions, broaden perspective, and leave audiences thinking long after the event has ended.
If the PenWarrior feels like the right fit for your audience, I’d love to hear more about your event.
