SPEAKING
Much of my work has taken place in rapidly changing environments, across cultures and often inside crisis-driven change, where reading signals early was not academic. It was the difference between anticipating what came next and being caught by it.
That instinct now shapes everything I speak about: the body, relationships, organizations, and increasingly, democracies. In each case the pattern is the similar. The signals arrive early. Most of us look away.
Based between the United States and Europe. Available for keynotes, panels and workshop formats depending on location and schedule.
Current Talks
Aging: Collapse Is Not Inevitable and why looking good naked became less important
Physical decline is treated as a fixed schedule. It isn't. The body signals long before symptoms do, and most of what looks sudden was years in the making. This talk sets out what those early signals are, why we're trained to miss them, and what changes when we don't.
45-minute keynote. Workshop format available for wellness and corporate health audiences.
Comfortable Lies: The Politics of Denial
Democracies do not collapse overnight. They erode through small, deniable steps, each one easy to excuse on its own. Drawing on Weimar Germany, Pinochet's Chile, and Orbán's Hungary alongside the current American moment, the same pattern examined in Comfortable Lies, my essay collection on democratic erosion, this talk sets out the pattern and asks the harder question: who enables it, and why.
45-minute keynote. Suited to policy, civic and media audiences. Discussion/Q&A format available.