Keynotes & speaking
Put curiosity on your stage
The authors of The Curious Advantage speak at conferences, leadership offsites and internal summits — for chief learning officers, technology leaders, founders and executive teams navigating what AI does to how their people work.
Formats
Four ways to work together
All four draw on the same research: the 7Cs of Curiosity from The Curious Advantage, and the new frameworks from The Curious Imperative — curiosity debt, productive versus unproductive curiosity, and the five futures. Whatever people hear on stage is something they can keep using afterward.
Keynote
A talk that reframes curiosity as a business capability rather than a personality trait, built around your industry and the change you are actually in.
Workshop
Designed around the outcome you have in mind and tailored to your organization. A team goes through the 7Cs and comes out the other side with a plan they wrote themselves and are willing to own.
Curious experience
Think-tank formats, including the Curiosity Forum — a designed session that produces something, contextualized in the flow of your work.
Fireside & podcast
A hosted conversation for your internal audience, or a guest appearance on your show. Also: be a guest on ours.
The talks
What they speak about
Each of these is a starting point. The final talk is shaped around your audience, your sector and the decision you want people to walk out ready to make.
The Curious Imperative
Why the skill that used to be an advantage has become a requirement — what AI changes about expertise, and what only people can still do. Introduces the five futures, and a test for which one your organization is already budgeting for.
Sailing the 7Cs of Curiosity
The framework itself, made practical: seven behaviors leaders can name, measure and build into how a team works — rebuilt for a world where answers are free.
The curiosity culture
For CLOs and people leaders — what it actually takes to make an organization curious, and how to tell productive curiosity from the unproductive kind.
Curiosity debt
The capability that quietly erodes every time the machine does the thinking — why it stays invisible until it matters, and what to do before it does.
Workshops
Built around your idea of a workshop
There is no standard deck. We start from the outcome you want in the room and design backward — using your language, your sector and the decision your team is actually facing.
Half a day, a full day, or a series across a quarter. Delivered live, virtually, or blended with the learning program and the diagnostic so the thinking carries on after everyone goes back to their inbox.
Start with the outcome
What has to be different on Monday? That answer sets the format, not the other way round.
Design it for your room
Your sector, your examples, your constraints — and the 7Cs as the spine that holds it together.
Leave with a plan they own
Not our recommendations. Theirs, written in the session, in language they will actually repeat.
No two rooms need the same talk. Which is why the first thing we do is ask about yours.
How it works
From inquiry to stage
Tell us the shape of it
Audience, date, format, and what you want people to leave with. A sentence is enough to start.
A call to find the real question
Twenty minutes with whichever author fits best, to work out what the talk is actually for.
A talk built for your room
You get an outline before the event, with the examples and language matched to your sector.
Something to keep
Books, the diagnostic, a workshop or a full program — so the ideas outlive the applause.
Practical questions
Before you ask
Can we book all three authors?
Yes — and for larger events a three-hander works well, because the perspectives are genuinely different: a consultancy founder, a chief learning officer and an academic. That mix lands particularly well with mixed rooms — CLOs and heads of L&D who need a story about capability the business will fund, alongside technology and transformation leads whose problem is rarely the technology and almost always the people around it. Most single-slot keynotes are delivered by one of them.
Do you travel?
They are based in London and Switzerland and speak internationally. Travel and accommodation are billed at cost on top of the fee.
Will you tailor the talk?
Always. Every booking includes a preparation call and a written outline before the event. The framework stays the same; the examples, language and provocation are yours.
Can you do it remotely?
Yes. Designing for online audiences is something the team has done for two decades, so a virtual session is a designed format rather than a talk pointed at a webcam.
What does it cost?
Fees depend on format, location and whether the session is part of a wider program. Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with a straight answer.
Tell us about your event
Audience, date, format — and what you want people to leave with.