SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Facilitation in VERSE: When Storytelling Builds Connection
Facilitation in VERSE: When Storytelling Builds Connection
Facilitation in VERSE: When Storytelling Builds Connection
The best facilitators know that facts inform, but stories transform. This keynote focuses on the Reveal element of the VERSE™ Framework, showing leaders and facilitators how to use vulnerability and storytelling to build the kind of connection that makes learning stick. Drawing on hip-hop's mastery of narrative and grounded in adult learn
The best facilitators know that facts inform, but stories transform. This keynote focuses on the Reveal element of the VERSE™ Framework, showing leaders and facilitators how to use vulnerability and storytelling to build the kind of connection that makes learning stick. Drawing on hip-hop's mastery of narrative and grounded in adult learning science, you'll learn when to reveal, what to share, and how to bridge your story to the lesson that matters.
Audiences leave knowing how to turn moments into meaning.
Facilitation in VERSE: How to Hook Your Room
Facilitation in VERSE: When Storytelling Builds Connection
Facilitation in VERSE: When Storytelling Builds Connection
You have 60 seconds to earn attention, establish credibility, and signal value, or you lose the room before you've even started. This keynote focuses on the Engage element of the VERSE™ Framework, showing leaders and facilitators how hip-hop artists master the art of the hook to capture and hold an audience. Drawing on performance discipl
You have 60 seconds to earn attention, establish credibility, and signal value, or you lose the room before you've even started. This keynote focuses on the Engage element of the VERSE™ Framework, showing leaders and facilitators how hip-hop artists master the art of the hook to capture and hold an audience. Drawing on performance discipline and adult learning science, you'll learn how to open with intention, build trust in seconds, and set the tone for transformational learning.
Audiences leave with techniques they can use in their very next session.
Say His Name Anyway
Facilitation in VERSE: When Storytelling Builds Connection
Say His Name Anyway
Grief does not stay home when people come to work. Whether your team is navigating personal loss, the trauma of layoffs, or the weight of organizational change, leaders need language to hold that space without making it harder. This keynote gives you the framework and the words to show up during loss in ways that actually help. Drawing on
Grief does not stay home when people come to work. Whether your team is navigating personal loss, the trauma of layoffs, or the weight of organizational change, leaders need language to hold that space without making it harder. This keynote gives you the framework and the words to show up during loss in ways that actually help. Drawing on research, lived experience, and the stories we often leave unsaid, you'll learn how to lead with both clarity and compassion when your people need it most.
Audiences leave with tools to lead through disruption.
UPCOMING BOOKS
Facilitation in VERSE
The VERSE Framework is a practical guide for facilitators who want their sessions to truly land and last. Drawing inspiration from the performance discipline of hip-hop and grounded in adult learning science, the book shows how to design learning experiences that build connection, hold attention, and drive real behavior change. More than a read, it is a hands-on practice. Each chapter includes tools you can apply immediately, and the experience is extended through an AI companion that allows you to rehearse, refine, and strengthen your storytelling and facilitation decisions in real time. This is not about adding more content. It is about making every moment of your session count.
COMING FROM ATD PRESS IN SUMMER 2027
SAY HIS NAME ANYWAY
Say His Name Anyway is a deeply personal and unflinching reflection on the kind of grief the world does not always know how to hold. When a child is lost to addiction, gun violence, or complex life circumstances, mothers are often left navigating not only loss, but silence, judgment, and misunderstanding. This book creates space to speak their children’s names without apology and to honor lives that deserve to be remembered in full. Through story, reflection, and truth, it offers language for what is often left unsaid and connection for those who feel alone in their grief. This is not about closure or moving on. It is about carrying love forward, reclaiming voice, and making meaning in the midst of loss that does not neatly resolve.
COMING SPRING 2028
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