
Speaking & strategy sessions
I speak about who gets believed, who gets paid and who gets into the room.
Talent agent, cultural brand strategist and chief executive. Keynotes and panels when you need the argument made in public. Workshops, cultural insight sessions and facilitated strategy when you need a leadership team to leave with direction they can actually execute.
Keynotes · Panels · Workshops · Cultural Strategy · Facilitation
Previously worked with
Signature talks
Seven talks. One argument each.
Every talk is reframed for the room it is given in. Pick the closest fit and I will shape it around your audience on a pre-event call.
Culture & Power
Who gets believed, who gets paid and who gets into the room.
The Business of Culture
The economics of live entertainment, the African creative economy and culture as infrastructure.
The room leaves able to argue for culture in budget terms: what live entertainment returns, who it employs and where it fails without investment. Drawn from running a live entertainment company with 22 years of history and delivering festivals, arenas and diplomatic missions.
- The economics behind a cultural moment
- Where public money actually moves the needle
- What infrastructure looks like when it works
Authority & Influence
Brand, credibility and the strategy that makes names trusted, not just known.
Strategy sessions
Rooms I lead, not just speak in.
Leadership teams book these when cultural insight has to turn into a plan the room can act on the same week.



Doek & Slay
Cultural Brand Strategy Session · Nyaradzo House
I led an interactive strategy session exploring how Doek & Slay could reach and mobilise Zimbabwean women across the UK, working the room through culture, community and consumer behaviour until the team had direction they could act on.
- Audience Development
- Cultural Positioning
- Community Growth
- Group Sales
- Storytelling
- Partnerships
- Programming
- Experience
The question How do we turn 250 connected women into a movement of 5,000?
Role Cultural Brand Strategist · Strategy Facilitator · Audience Development
See the wider Doek & Slay work


The Executive Branch
Executive Brunch and Executive Branch Zimbabwe · Hellidon Lakes and Harare
I speak, host and shape the programme for The Executive Branch, the movement Ruth Kudzai built for career-driven Black women. That runs from the Executive Brunch in the UK through to the first Zimbabwe edition in Harare, where the room moved from panel conversation to a plan each woman could take back to her own career.
- Narrative Strategy
- Programme Design
- Speaker Booking
- Hosting
- Community Growth
- Partnerships
The question What turns a network of women into a room with real authority?
Role Narrative and Communications Strategist · Advisory Board · Host and Speaker
See the wider The Executive Branch workFormats and booking options
Five ways to put me in the room.
One list, not two. Each format is shaped around your audience on a pre-event call.
Keynote speeches
30 to 45 minutes
A researched, single-argument talk built for your room, on culture, influence and the strategy that turns relevance into revenue.
- Pre-event call
- Bespoke framing
- Q&A
- Slides supplied in advance
Panels
45 to 60 minutes
Panellist or chair. Real questions, no promotional drift, time kept and every voice used.
- Speaker briefing
- Question architecture
- Timekeeping
Workshops
60 to 120 minutes
Clarity to Connection run live. The room writes its own positioning and leaves with a dated next step.
- Worksheets
- Live facilitation
- Group exercises
- Follow-up summary
Event hosting
Half day to full day
Hosting and MC work for award nights, launches, festivals and conferences, with live comfort in front of thousands.
- Run of show input
- Script support
- On-stage hosting
Podcasts and interviews
30 to 90 minutes
Broadcast and podcast commentary on culture, marketing, the creative economy and displacement.
- Topic briefing
- Remote or in studio
- Clips cleared for use
Something else in mind?
Bespoke formats, half-day sessions and one-off briefs get shaped on a call.
EnquireOn stage
Rooms, recently.
Past stages
Rooms already delivered.
Universities, workshops, panels and creative industry evenings, most recently at the University of Cambridge.
Cam Africa Day
University of Cambridge · Panel
Culture, narrative and soft power at the Cambridge Africa Together Conference, Africa in the Age of Disruption, representing SMADE Group.
Influential Women, New Season
Marriott, UK · Live workshop
Delivered my Clarity to Connection framework as a working session to a room of 100 women, taking them through positioning, proof and the partnerships that follow.
Made in ZWE, Welcome to the Tribe
Zimbabwean-owned studio, London · Panel and host
A creative networking evening for around 100 attendees, with a panel of Zimbabwean creators and operators.
The Executive Branch
London · Speaker and host
Ongoing speaking, hosting and advisory across the community's events programme for founders and professionals.

Speaker pack
Everything your programme team needs, in one PDF.
Bios in three lengths, all seven talks with formats and running times, past stages, technical requirements and booking contact.
Download the speaker packBios and assets
Full and short bios, audience figures, headshots and logos live on the media kit, built for programme copy and press listings.
Open the media kitTechnical
- Radio mic, preferably headset, and a confidence monitor where possible
- 16:9 slides supplied 72 hours in advance
- Travel from London; international dates welcome with reasonable notice
- Recording and clip rights agreed in advance, happy to share
As seen in
The press record behind the booking.
Broadcast and print coverage programme teams can cite when they announce the date.

ELLE · 2022
Her Ukraine: the medical student who documented racism at the border

The Washington Post · 2022
African students in Ukraine and the story the coverage missed

Global Citizen · 2022
Racism in Ukraine, told by the people who lived it

Sky News · 2022
More than 50,000 pounds raised to help Black students flee amid racism reports

The Voice · 2022
I didn't think I'd make it out of Ukraine

Marie Claire · 2022
The student organising an evacuation from her phone
Proof
The receipts.
Every claim on this page is checkable. Here is where to check it.
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Date, audience and what you need them to leave with. I reply to every enquiry personally.






