Speaking & Media Kit for Event Partners and Planners
The purpose of this page is to provide helpful information and materials for event planners in one convenient place.
For those of you who have already decided to bring my work to your audience (thank you!), I’ve included my headshot, bios, and presentation descriptions and learning objectives for my most requested presentations to make marketing and/or professional credit applications a bit easier.
For those of you I haven’t met yet but would like to bring my work to your audience or to additional decision makers of your team, I’ve included a list of my upcoming projects, a downloadable list of my previous projects and credentials, and an introduction video about me and the work I do.
Last updated: January 29, 2026
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Presentation descriptions and learning objectives for my most requested presentations
Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Alternative name: Beyond Barriers: Inclusive Workplaces for All Brains and Neurotypes
Suggested description: This session is about neurodiversity in the workplace. In this presentation, participants will gain a foundational understanding of neurodiversity and its significance in the workplace, with an emphasis on how neurodiversity fits into a larger conversation about disability. We will begin with an interactive introduction, followed by a personal inspirational story, an exploration of neurodiversity, the role it plays in our professional lives, and strategies for fostering a more inclusive work environment. Participants will also discover (and rediscover) accommodation/adjustment techniques to support their well-being while advocating for themselves and/or neurodivergent colleagues and clients.
Suggested learning objectives:
- Define neurodiversity and explain how it fits within broader disability and inclusion frameworks in the workplace.
- Recognize how neurodivergent traits can impact work styles, communication, and well-being.
- Identify practical strategies to foster more inclusive, supportive work environments.
- Apply accommodation and adjustment techniques to support themselves and advocate for neurodivergent colleagues or clients.
Neurodiversity in the Legal Field: Enhance Your Understanding to Support Clients, Coworkers, and Yourself
Alternative name: Embracing Neurodiversity: Understanding, Adjusting, and Thriving in the Legal Profession
Suggested description: This session highlights the concept of neurodiversity, its relevance in the legal profession, and the unique ways neurodivergent individuals contribute to enriching the workplace. Through engaging discussions and real-world examples, participants will explore how ableism affects individuals with disabilities, including neurodivergent people, and learn why addressing these barriers is essential for a more inclusive legal field. In addition to understanding these systemic challenges, you’ll walk away with practical tools to navigate executive functioning demands, create self-accommodations, and foster empathy in your interactions. These strategies will help you better support yourself, your clients, and your colleagues, building a more collaborative and equitable legal community.
Suggested learning objectives:
- Participants will learn key definitions of neurodiversity, explore its relevance within the legal field, and understand how neurodivergent individuals contribute strengths to the workplace.
- Through discussion and relevant statistics, participants will start to recognize the need to talk about ableism within the legal profession, learning how it affects individuals with disabilities, including neurodivergent individuals, mental health conditions, and substance use disorders.
- Participants will gain practical skills for executive functioning and self-accommodation, as well as foster empathy through perspective-taking exercises to better support themselves, clients, and coworkers.
Mental Health Recovery: Leading From Lived Experience
Suggested description: This presentation explores the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration’s (SAMHSA) working definition of recovery: “a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.” And I emphasize the key dimensions of Health, Home, Purpose, and Community to explore the vital roles of both formal and informal support systems, illustrating how they can be integrated to create effective, creative, and individualized recovery plans that center on an individual’s experience while calling for more accessible and robust mental health care systems.
Suggested learning objectives:
- Highlight the critical role of personal stories, mental health lived experience, and advocacy in promoting mental health recovery.
- Equip attendees with an understanding of the SAMHSA recovery framework (working definition of recovery), focusing on the four major dimensions: Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.
- Educate attendees on the importance and interplay of formal (professional services) and informal (peer support, community networks) support.
Questify Your Life: Gamification and Positive Psychology for Enjoyable Self-Improvement
Suggested description: In this fun and interactive session, I share my passion for blending evidence-based techniques with gamification elements to add a sense of adventure, accomplishment, and fun to everyday life. This presentation is set up to briefly outline some foundations of gamification and positive psychology and how they can be applied to develop a flexible and personalized “Questify Your Life” system. The tone of this presentation is playful, courageous, and inspirational. You’ll learn my flexible three-step process for quest creation: mapping your journey, establishing your character, and designing fulfilling quests. I provide real-world examples from my own life to illustrate how to implement the system, and I will introduce your audience to some quests to do on their own. My stories are often directly tied to my mental health recovery and disability journey, as well as my disability advocacy work.
Suggested learning objectives:
- Learn the basics of gamification and positive psychology principles for self-improvement.
- Empower attendees to explore self-care options to create more self-satisfaction and fuel personal growth through gamification.
- Encourage participants to consider new ways to think about the systems they have in their lives as they relate to their well-being and goals.
Finding a Seat at the Table for Beginners: A Guide To Local Mental Health Advocacy
Alternative name: Fighting Dragons: A Conversation around Disability Inclusion and the Power of Storytelling
Suggested description: This presentation provides stories and tricks on how to reframe your advisory council, inclusion efforts, public interest, and/or pro bono work into a story about “Fighting Dragons.” There are so many issues in our world, and sometimes that can be quite overwhelming. Imagine staring up at the sky and seeing a bunch of dragons. Maybe you want to fight them all, but if you go out to fight a dragon alone, you will be burned. Maybe you want to run and hide, but that does not stop the dragons from hurting others or you. So, instead, you can learn skills related to taking care of yourself while also making a difference in your community.
Suggested learning objectives:
Reframe advisory council, inclusion, public interest, or pro bono work using the “Fighting Dragons” metaphor to clarify priorities and reduce overwhelm.
Identify strategies for choosing which “dragons” to fight collaboratively rather than alone, balancing impact with sustainability.
Apply practical self-care and boundary-setting skills that support long-term advocacy while continuing to make meaningful community change.
Upcoming Projects
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Questify Your Life
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An Introduction Video About Me And The Work I Do
Instead of a formal speaker’s reel, I have opted to create an introduction video about me and the work I do.
