For years, Katherine has delivered talks and workshops to rooms of six and conferences of six hundred, on leadership, change, and how the nervous system actually works under pressure. For most organisations, this is the first time they work with Expanding Circles directly, before anyone commits to a full programme. The science underneath is consistent. What we bring to the front of the room changes with who's in it.
"Informative, actionable, entertaining. This really shone a light on things we all deal with, but nobody talks about. Concise and practical."
Every talk or workshop is built from this same underlying material, then shaped specifically to the audience and the moment, not delivered as a fixed deck.
Sustainability Leadership and Capacity
Carrying long term, often invisible pressure, frequently without the authority to act on what you can see coming. What that does to capacity over time, and what protects it.
Dopamine, Motivation, & Why Willpower Isn't The Mechanism
How motivation actually operates at a physiological level, and why treating it as a character trait rather than a system leaves people blaming themselves for something that has a mechanism.
Resilience Under Sustained Change
What actually holds up capacity through a long period of pressure, rather than a single hard week, and why the usual advice, rest more, push through, misses what's actually happening in the nervous system.
Change & AI Adoption
The specific pattern showing up in teams whose sense of control and competence has been pulled out from under them by tools they didn't choose and don't yet trust. A distinct, documented pattern, not general change resistance.
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT
These include, but aren't limited to:
FORMATS
Public Talks
A keynote or public session, typically forty five minutes: engaging, grounded in real science, and built so a room walks away with something they can actually use, not just an idea to think about later.
Applied Workshops
A longer, hands on session, typically a few hours, where a group works directly with the material, practising it, testing it against their own work, rather than just hearing about it.
SCALE
From rooms of six to conferences of six hundred. Leadership offsites, creative industry gatherings, sustainability conferences, organisations navigating a specific, named change. The format scales. The material doesn't get thinner when the room gets bigger.
FORMAT & INVESTMENT
Get in touch with the event, the audience, and what you're hoping the room walks away with. From there we'll recommend a talk, a workshop, or both, and build the content around that specific audience.
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Fees are scoped to the event, format, and travel involved, and quoted directly once we understand what you need. Because every talk and workshop is delivered personally by Katherine, we take on a limited number of bookings each quarter, particularly across the autumn conference season.
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