Speaking
Signature Keynotes
Mastering Unmiscommunication™
Identify & Target the issue really blocking communication
Building Capacity for Non-Stop Stress
Equip yourself and your team with tools that make a difference
Trauma-Informed Leadership
Create the culture of safety required for your team members to be brave at work
Mastering Unmiscommunication™
Miscommunication is inevitable. Many try to avoid it by “being more clear” and are plagued to see that after all that trying, alas, it still happened.
There’s a faster way. Unmiscommunication is an advanced skillset of understanding why miscommunication might be happening – even outside of the words we use. When we identify the root cause of our miscommunication, we can quickly get back on the same page – and back to work.
Mastering unmiscommunication builds psychological safety in teams, lowers interpersonal conflict, and promotes productivity.
Audience Takeaways:
- Practical skills to Unmiscommunicate with team members, so they efficiently manage teams
- Reduced reactions to miscommunication, thus building psychological safety on teams
- Ability to identify a multitude of factors that inhibit communication, so they can solve the real problem
Building Capacity for Non-Stop Stress
Respectfully, life isn’t going to slow down. I’m 92% sure that you’re dealing with a major stressor right now, whether in your work or personal life, and I know you hope that next week is going to be easier so you can have a moment to breath.
But life isn’t going to slow down – which means you need skills to recover, reset, and build your capacity in the midst of the chaos. And your team needs these skills, too.
Learn the research-based tools to build capacity to lower the experience of stress, from debilitating to invigorating, and how to implement them for yourself and your team.
Audience Takeaways:
- Practical tools to implement the 4 RISE factors, so you can build capacity
- Skills in triaging stressful situations, so you can be responsive with the right support
- Awareness of how lack of factors can create traumatic stress, so you can build psychological safety
Trauma-Informed Leadership
There are people on your team who have experienced trauma. Often, this impacts their work. Many well-intending leaders don’t have the skills to create a supportive trauma-informed environment and also hold their team members accountable to their work.
To achieve this, we need to blend consideration of triggers with psychological safety and accountability, simultaneously.
Learn how to teams, holding them accountable and encouraging their growth & development, in a way that leaves them feeling safe & supported in the process.
Audience Takeaways:
- Skills to utilize the Trauma-Informed Leadership Toolbox, so they can manage effectively
- Ability to recognize trauma responses on the team, so they can respond appropriately
- Strategies to hold team members accountable, while building psychological safety
On Stage & On Screen
Building Capacity for When the Stress Doesn’t Stop: A Framework for Interpreters in High-Stress Systems (June 2026) Masterword. Virtual
Crisis Care Training (June 2026) TCK Training. Virtual
Expanding the Window of Tolerance in Organizations: Trauma-Informed Leadership for High-Stress Systems (June 2026) The Integrate Network · Signals & Systems Digital Health Summit. Virtual
Still Moving…Finding Resilience Through Lament (April 2026) Thrive Ministries · Gather Retreat. Virtual
Knowing Yourself as a Caregiver (February 2026) TCK Training · Pathways Certification. Virtual
Managing Crisis as a Family (November 2025) UNICEF Global. Virtual
Managing Crisis as a Family (October 2025) UNICEF ESAR. Virtual
Supporting Your Classroom Through Grief & Loss (October 2025) Grace International School · Staff Training. Chiang Mai, Thailand
Building Psychological Safety while Worldschooling (May 2025). Da Nang, Vietnam
TCKs and Anxiety · Cultivating Thriving for TCKs · Trauma-Informed Parenting · Unstacking the Grief Tower · Discipling Our Third Culture Kids · Beginning with the Future in Mind · Processing 101 · Navigating Transitions and Change with MKs (March 2025) Homeschool Conference. Bangkok, Thailand
Trauma-Informed Leadership (January 2025) Trauma-Informed Care Training Center. Virtual
Navigating Transitions and Change with MKs · Cultivating Thriving for TCKs · Unstacking the Grief Tower · TCKs and Anxiety · Discipling Our Third Culture Kids · Beginning with the Future in Mind · The Research: Homeschooled MKs · TCKs and Personality (March 2024) Homeschool Conference. Hua Hin, Thailand
Third Culture Kids: Where is Home? (June 2023) S&P Global. Virtual
Flourishing Families · How Flourishing Families Build Resilience · Repairing Relationships with TCKs · Trauma-Informed Leadership & Trauma-Informed Parenting (March 2023) Child Safety & Protection Network (CSPN) · 3-Day Conference. Orlando, FL
Healthy Home Assignments · Unstacking Your TCK’s Grief Tower · Laying an Emotional Foundation for TCKs · Research Based TCK Care 101 · Research Based TCK Care 201 (February 2023) TCK Conference · Co-sponsored by English Fellowship Church & Youth World. Quito, Ecuador