Examples of what I speak about, shaped to the room.
Leadership teams and conferences get a keynote shaped for action. Clinicians get a working session shaped for their caseload. The talks below are examples, not a fixed menu. Most rooms can be met with an adapted version of one of these, or with something built for the brief. I deliver in Dutch, English, or French, in person globally, or online.
The brilliant minds your organization keeps losing.
Late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults are quietly leaving the organizations that could most use them. This session names the pattern, shows why standard retention tools often don’t catch it, and offers a concrete picture of what changes when leadership teams learn to read the signals earlier.
Generation Corporate Betrayal.
Most of what gets called burnout in high performers is something older. The clinical name is moral injury. This keynote makes the case that a generation of capable, values-driven people have been read as burnt out when they’re actually dealing with moral injury, and what leadership teams can do with that information, which doesn’t involve another wellness initiative.
The late-diagnosed high performer.
A portrait of the adult who has been running three operating systems at once for thirty years without anyone noticing, how the costs add up, and what shows up on the other side of a late diagnosis. For leadership teams, HR, and anyone who has been asked to manage a capable person they can’t quite make sense of.
When your best people go quiet.
A working session on the pattern of quiet disengagement that usually comes before a capable person resigns. We cover the four early signals, the conversations that tend to make it worse, the conversations that tend to land, and a framework leadership and people managers can use to catch it before the resignation letter arrives. Built for leadership teams and HR functions willing to look at this honestly.
Inclusive career growth: designing promotion paths that don’t filter out neurodivergent talent.
Most promotion ladders quietly select for neurotypical performance signals: visibility, real-time speech, surface confidence, the ability to perform under unstructured social pressure. Capable neurodivergent contributors get filtered out long before the ceiling, and the organization loses exactly the people it was hoping to keep. This session shows where the filters sit, what they cost, and what to change in evaluation, sponsorship, and progression criteria so the ladder works for the people you most want to retain.
Twice and thrice exceptional adults in clinical practice.
A practitioner-facing session on the 2e and 3e profiles that sit underneath a lot of adult caseloads without getting named. Why standard assessments often don’t catch the combined presentation, how to read the pattern across symptoms, and what the work tends to look like once the neurotype is part of the picture.
Moral injury, what we miss, and why it matters.
An introduction to the four-paths model of moral injury, including the coercive self-betrayal path I’ve added to the clinical frame, and why adult civilian caseloads carry far more of this than the literature has caught up with. For clinicians who have been reaching for burnout, attachment, or depression where moral injury would have done more of the work.
Why standard assessments often don’t reach the high-masking adult.
A practical session on where single-symptom testing runs into limits with adults who have combined presentations. Drawn from the Free Nervous System Scan validation work and related research, this session gives clinicians a structured way to test for mismatch patterns that static scoring tends to average out.
When the client’s problem is the system, not the client.
A session on what to do when the therapeutic frame meets a client whose difficulty is accurately located outside themselves. Covers the clinical ethics of naming system pathology, the kinds of harm that can build up when individual work tries to fix a systemic problem, and a practical approach to holding both without collapsing into either.
The neurodivergent nervous system, and what static assessments miss.
A practitioner-facing session on how the neurodivergent nervous system regulates, fatigues, and protects differently from the neurotypical baseline most assessment instruments were calibrated against. What this means for reading clinical signals across sensory load, social load, and recovery patterns. For clinicians who notice that what their tools say and what their clients are doing don’t always line up, and want a more accurate read.
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