SPEAKING
TALKS THAT CHANGE WHAT LEADERS BELIEVE IS POSSIBLE.
Keynotes for organisations, boards, and institutions navigating the intersection of technology, leadership, and human intelligence. Ada does not predict the future. She helps rooms think differently about what is already here.
When the room needs to think differently, not just move faster.
The Ancestor Question™: Legacy thinking as a competitive strategy
Most leaders already know the answer is somewhere longer than the next quarter. This talk doesn't create that knowing; it gives it language, weight, and a room where it's taken seriously. Leaders leave not with a new framework but with a question they'll carry into every consequential decision.
Ideal for: Board retreats · FTSE 250/350 leadership · Impact investing conferences · Financial services under simultaneous AI and ESG pressure
Outcome: Audiences leave with shared language for long-term consequences, and a governing question that works as a strategic filter across AI governance, ESG accountability, and board-level legacy.
The Listening Crisis: When better data isn't the answer
Something is being left out. Most senior leaders feel it, a kind of sensing they've learned to override in professional settings. This talk doesn't teach a new skill. It legitimises the intelligence that was already there, and shows what becomes possible when it's no longer hidden.
Ideal for: AI transformation summits · C-suite conferences · Professional services leadership events · Any room where the AI conversation has stalled at governance
Outcome: Audiences leave with a new category for strategic decision-making, the four intelligences, and a concrete understanding of what happens when all four are in the room.
Eclipse Navigation: Leading when technology and geopolitics collide
The disorientation is real. The ground shifted, and the maps haven't caught up. This talk is for leaders who are already holding more complexity than their frameworks were built for, and who need not answers but a way to stand inside the uncertainty without it becoming paralysis.
Ideal for: CogX · London Tech Week · Sector AI conferences · Big 4 and Magic Circle client leadership events · Financial services AI implementation programmes
Outcome: Audiences leave with a method for navigating geopolitical-technological convergence before it arrives as policy failure, regulatory exposure, or reputational damage.
Power That Doesn't Exhaust Itself: A new model of authority for uncertain times
Something in the room relaxes when this talk begins. Leaders recognise, often with some relief, that the exhaustion isn't a personal failing. It's what performance-based authority costs. This talk doesn't add a new practice. It removes a requirement that was never sustainable.
Ideal for: Women's leadership conferences · NHS and health sector leadership · Premium executive retreats · Organisations where burnout has been named but not yet understood structurally
Outcome: Audiences leave understanding the structural cost of performance-based authority, and what regenerative leadership looks like as a governance argument, not a wellness intervention.
What Soil Knows: The intelligence algorithms can't replicate
There is a different quality of thinking available when intelligence is understood as something you participate in rather than possess. This talk doesn't argue against algorithms; it restores what surrounds them. Leaders leave thinking differently about what counts as evidence and what counts as knowing.
Ideal for: ESG and sustainability conferences · R&D and innovation leadership · Cultural institutions · Regenerative economy and impact investing rooms
Outcome: Audiences leave with a practical framework for both ecological and computational intelligence, and a set of questions that shape what gets built, measured, and trusted.
FORMATS
Keynote · 45–60 minutes Extended Session · 90 minutes (keynote + dialogue) Workshop · Half-day or full-day (interactive, applied) Immersive Experience · Multi-day (includes artistic/sound elements)
All keynotes tailored to your organisation's context. Combinations and bespoke programmes available.
“Ada has a remarkable ability to be simultaneously supportive and challenging, strategic and systems-focused, emotionally intelligent and practical, all underpinned by a commitment to equity, humanity, making a difference and creating legacy.”
BOOKING ENQUIRIES
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