Book me to wake up the room.

I speak about what actually moves people:
emotional intelligence, creative leadership, visibility, and what it takes to lead with your humanity intact.

My talks aren’t over-polished or fluffy. They’re real, rooted, and built so your audience leaves with language and practices they’ll actually use.

Keynotes, workshops, and retreat sessions for conferences, leadership teams, and organizations.

Signature Talks —>

  • The unprocessed experience your best people carry doesn’t disappear — it shows up as burnout, reactivity, and stalled decisions. What residue is, what it costs, and how to metabolize it into clarity and momentum. For: leadership teams, founders, high-performing cultures.

  • Visibility, risk, and exposure trigger the same protective wiring — and talented people mistake activation for incapacity. How to build teams and cultures where people can stay regulated under pressure. For: creative orgs, founders, anyone leading talent.

  • Most leadership problems are protection strategies in disguise. A practical, non-clinical look at how shame quietly drives avoidance, defensiveness, and control — and what changes when leaders understand it. For: executives, managers, clinical leaders.

  • How to be seen — onstage, online, in the room — as contact rather than performance, so it builds trust instead of draining you. For: founders, experts, and leaders who have to be public.

  • Creativity isn’t a department — it’s a capacity for navigating uncertainty. Why emotional processing is the unlock for innovation, and how to build it into how teams work. For: leadership offsites, innovation teams, conferences.

Book TJ to Speak.

If you want someone to walk into a room and wake people up (in the best way) book me to speak. I talk about the stuff that actually moves the needle: creativity, leadership, emotional intelligence, and what it really means to show up with your humanity intact. My talks aren’t fluffy or over-polished; they’re real, rooted, and built to get people thinking differently about how they lead, create, and connect. Whether it’s a keynote, workshop, or retreat session, I’ll help your group drop the masks, tap into what’s true, and walk away with language and practices they can actually use—not just nod along to.