Talks That Change the Conversation.
I speak to law firms, bar and law associations, law schools, legal departments, regulators and corporations across Canada and the United States. Each talk begins with my story and leaves the room thinking differently about the work, and about one another. No slides. No jargon. No anodyne reminders to drink more water.
Signature Talks
At Fifty, I Had It All
The keynote. A candid, often funny account of how a successful trial lawyer hid a mental health and substance use crisis behind a record of wins, and what finally broke the silence.
Well Enough to Speak Up
Mental health and professional responsibility for legal, compliance and ethics professionals. An ethical culture depends on people well enough to raise their hands.
Burnout Is a Management Problem
Lawyers do not leave because they are weak. They leave because of how the work is built. A talk for the people who build it: firm leaders and managers.
Burnout 2.0: AI and the Lawyer’s Mind
The tools got faster. The people did not. What AI-armed clients and constant availability are doing to lawyers’ attention, sleep and sense of worth.
The Wound We Keep Calling Burnout
Some of what wears lawyers down is not the hours. Moral injury, explained in plain language, and why naming it correctly changes what helps.
Young Lawyers Are Speaking Out. Is Anyone Listening?
For students, new lawyers and the firms hoping to keep them: what the next generation is asking for, and why it matters to everyone else.
Conference keynotes, summit sessions, annual general meetings, panels and special presentations. In person or virtual, typically 45 minutes to two hours.
Where I’ve Spoken
Canadian Legal Summit | Law Society of Ontario | Middlesex Law Association | Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | Ontario Onsite Wastewater Association | Western University Faculty of Law | Peel Halton Collaborative | Collaborative Practice Hamilton Halton | Probus Club, Kawartha Lakes | Canadian Bar Association, New Brunswick Branch | Ontario Bar Association | Durham Region Law Association | Lindsay Men’s Probus Club | Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers | Young Bar of Montreal | Montreal Lawyers’ Association | Young Women in the Law | New York County Lawyers Association
Planning an Event?
I would love to hear about it. Here is how it works.
Tell Me About Your Audience
Who will be in the room, what they carry, and what you hope they leave with.
We Shape the Talk Together
Every session is tailored: the length, the emphasis and the tone.
I Arrive Ready
Prepared, but never scripted. An honest conversation the room will remember.