Keynotes and custom workshops for conferences, newsrooms, and leadership teams running on empty in the V.O.I.D.: Volatility, Overwhelm, Isolation, and Distraction.
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Whether it's a leadership team, an offsite, a founder community, a conference stage, or a newsroom, the work is the same: I name what the room is actually carrying, then guide people through the tools to steward it.
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WORKSHOPS
Lead Yourself First
You can’t lead a team to success from a dysregulated nervous system. This session is the inside job of leadership. How to steady yourself under pressure so you can lead from something other than survival mode and fear. Practical, approachable, and immediately usable.
Leading In Place
For the people who shape culture without a title that says so. Every hallway conversation, every meeting, every time you ask how someone’s really doing, you’re already leading. This workshop makes it deliberate: a working trust equation (consistency plus transparency plus follow-through), a map of where your influence already lives, and the 5 C’s as daily practice with the people around you.
Leading Through The V.O.I.D.
For high performers leading teams through disruption they didn’t choose. Layoffs, reorgs, and doing more with less open the door to Volatility, Overwhelm, Isolation, and Distraction. How to hold steady, tell the truth, and keep people human when you can’t promise certainty.
You’ll practice asking your team what’s making this hard, then keeping your mouth shut long enough to hear the answer. And you’ll plan how to give your people room to test where AI belongs in their work, then trust what they bring back.
GUIDED SESSIONS
Arrive Together
Live awareness and grounding practice for offsites and team development events. Twenty minutes or a longer session, tuned to what the room needs: opening a hard conversation, resetting after a brutal quarter, or closing a day so the work actually lands. Your team walks back in regulated and present.
You Have Arrived
Guided nature-based mindfulness practice for people who spend every day getting somewhere but feel lost along the way. Breath, ground, light, and the living world around us, used as what they actually are: the oldest nervous system regulation tools we have. You’ll leave settled, present, and actually here. No experience needed. Just arrive with curiosity.
Wild Rebellion Retreats
Quarter-day, half-day, and multi-day retreats on the land along the Colorado Front Range and beyond. Silence, movement, guided practice, and enough unstructured wild for a nervous system to remember its baseline. Hosted through Wild Rebellion and customized to your event needs.
LIGHTNING COACHING SESSIONS
Lightning coaching sessions for conferences, offsites, and leadership events. People carry a lot above the neck, and in their bodies: the decision sitting on the back burner, the dynamic costing more than it should, the version of themselves they keep almost stepping into. They bring one real thing into the room. We shift it.
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Keynotes
30 to 45 minutes. One idea the room keeps.
Workshops
60 to 120 minutes. Hands on the tools.
Events
Panels, summits, interviews hosted with care.
Retreats
Guided mindfulness, gentle restorative movement and capacity work, outdoors.
Upcoming
Past
City of Boulder
“Tending the Fire,” a wellness artist talk (August 2026)
Conscious Entrepreneur Off-Grid / On-Purpose
October 9, 2026 · Chautauqua Park, Boulder, Colorado
Small group coaching in a stone shelter above town, co-facilitated with Quentin Finney.
Conscious Entrepreneur Deepening
October 8, 2026 · Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
Coaching on demand with a panel of coaches, working live with founders in front of the room.
Maynard 200 Journalism Fellowship
Faculty; plenaries on resilience, mental wellbeing, and mindfulness for newsroom-leader cohorts.
Overland Expo Mountain West
August 21 to 23, 2026 · The Ranch, Loveland, Colorado
Nature-based mindfulness for overlanders, back for a third Expo: a guided practice on arrival for people whose whole life is the road, using breath, body, and the ground itself to arrive in the place they drove all that way to reach.
Arizona State Parks and Trails Bi-Annual Leadership Retreat
September 22 to 24, 2026 · Prescott, Arizona
Three days embedded with the people who steward Arizona’s wild places. Wild Rebellion brought capacity and regulation work to park managers and central office staff alike, grounded in the landscapes they protect. Co-led with Bex Burton.
The Coca-Cola Company
Compassion Lab partnership, coordinating 24 live sessions and a CMO Summit talk.
IRE 2026 (Investigative Reporters & Editors)
Newsroom-resilience training and 1:1 coaching for newsroom leaders (June 2026).
SABEW Annual Conference 2026
Session “Running on Empty,” Philadelphia (May 2026).
Boulder Startup Week 2026
Three sessions: a sunrise meditation, a mid-day reset, and a mindfulness for founders workshop (May 2026).
Santa Fe College Professional Development Day
Keynote “Discovering What Matters: Cultivating Human-Centered Culture in an Uncertain World,” plus two workshops, Gainesville, FL (March 2026).
Mental Health in Journalism Summit 2025
Moderated the closing keynote panel with newsroom leaders, union advocates, and funders (October 2025).
RTDNA25
Newsroom-leadership workshops and coaching, New Orleans (June 2025).
International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)
Speaker (2019)
Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri
“Immersive Storytelling” presentation (2016).
International Journalism Festival, Perugia
Google Masterclasses for journalists (2014).
Wild Rebellion Autumn Retreat
October 25, 2026 · Bear Creek Lake State Park, Lakewood, Colorado
A one-day nature retreat of mindfulness and accessible movement, open to the public. Guided practice, restful stillness, and enough unstructured wild for a nervous system to remember its baseline. Co-led with Bex Burton.
On the talk
“I really appreciated the intentional pacing of the keynote’s speaking.”
“I enjoyed and learned from the keynote lecture: motivated, optimistic, and a real life-learning lesson.”
“Your presentation was appreciated and actionable.”
“Self-awareness through the keynote session and the session that followed.”
What people took away
“I discovered that I have a voice.”
“One person has the power to do great things.”
“The importance of grounding and mindfulness, putting down the phone.”
“Taking time to check in with yourself is important.”
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Beyond the event
For organizations ready to go deeper than a day, I lead embedded work: leadership development, offsites, and culture programs.
