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Available for keynotes, podcasts & more
What I love to talk about
How to be a courageous leader
Effective communication and feedback
Creating high performing teams
Successfully navigating midlife transitions
Overcoming burnout and imposter syndrome
Past talks
DM the PM Podcast, Jan 2025, with Diana Matei
In the second half of this podcast, I explain why setting a personal vision and strategy is essential for career success, how understanding your values can guide meaningful career decisions, the role of feedback and coaching in navigating career transitions, and why career paths aren’t ladders—they’re a series of experiments.
From Product Manager to Product Leader: Your Growth Blueprint: Part 1
DM the PM Podcast, Jan 2025, with Diana Matei
What does it take to grow in product management? In the first half of my podcast with Diana Matei, we explore how I got into Product, transitioning to coaching, listening as a PM superpower, skills to develop as you progress in Product, and more.
Ricoh EMEA Women’s Leadership Forum, Oct 2023
Sharing my lived experience of being diagnosed with autism, plus an overview of what neurodiversity is, how embracing neurodiversity can benefit organisations, how neurodiversity intersects with gender, and how businesses can support neurodivergent employees.
Neurodiversity Awareness
Becoming an inclusive leader
Product Tank London, 27 September 2023, Rich Mix in Shoreditch
Speaking to more than 500 product managers about how to become an inclusive leader. We explored my relational model as it applies to leadership, with particular emphasis on developing your ‘self’ as a leader - understanding your values, limiting beliefs, cognitive biases, privilege and power.
Neurodiversity: Talent’s Final Frontier
Women in Travel CIC’s IWTTF conference, 22 June 2023, Google London
Panellist in discussion on neurodiversity in the workplace. Sharing my lived experiences of being late-diagnosed autistic in 2022, the benefits of creating a neuro-inclusive culture, and strategies on how to support neurodivergent people at work.
The Business Of Cambridge Podcast, 23 February 2020, with Sue Keogh
We know how crucial innovation is to the success of a business and the wider economy, but how does it work in practice? Is it simply about the core idea, or about getting the process right? We’re familiar with the phrase, ‘it’s good to fail’, but how do you fail well so there’s a good outcome at the end? And what happens if you run out of money! I joined host Sue Keogh and Cassandra Padbury from Cambridge Consultants to share my insights on how to innovate.
CRAPPY Hour podcast, 13 January 2020, with Bhav Patel
In this episode Bhav talks to Caroline Clark (technical product manager at Simprints) on the challenges of moving from digital product management to physical product management. This episode explores the kinds of things product managers need to think about when building physical products, measuring the success of those products and the skills that can be transferred from web.
CRAP Talks 13, June 2019, Busuu London
A talk on my personal experience of imposter syndrome: what it is, how it manifested and how I overcame it.
Geek Speak: How to become technical as a product manager
Women in Product London, August 2018, Adaptive Lab London
Sharing my personal experience of stepping into technical product management without a CS background.
Codeharbour, June 2018, Holiday Extras, Folkestone
Based on experience of working with other people’s APIs, this talk covered off five key areas to consider when integrating with an external API.