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SPEAKING AND TALKS

Inspire new ways of meeting and collaborating in one hour


Changing how you work together is not straightforward. 

(If it was, you would have done it already)

My profoundly relatable and hugely actionable talks are often all it takes to create the mindset shift and momentum you need.

An inspiring, relatable talk can start a movement...

 

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âś‹ Hands up if you are:

 

✔️   Looking develop faster, more agile and less bureaucratic ways of working to your organisation?

✔️   Struggling to get your arms round it all - too big, too messy, where to start?

✔️   Needing to work faster and smarter together but there's no headspace for a New Thing.

✔️   Trying to find ways to shift mindsets that have got stuck in old ways of working?

✔️   Looking for techniques that are so obviously helpful that people use them straight away.

✔️   Needing change to happen top to bottom - and quickly (but without disrupting crucial work and projects)

✔️   Looking for the simplest, quickest way to ignite real, positive change and get people hopeful.

 

Invite me to speak and I will get everyone hopeful, skilled up and headed in the same direction.

Hi, I'm Dr Carrie Goucher 👋


✅  Creator of the FewerFasterBolder collaboration approach

✅  Facilitated 6,000+ sessions

✅  18 years pioneering new ways to collaborate

✅  PhD in meeting culture from Cambridge University

✅  Background in: Agile, Unconference and self-organising teams

I help people understand how to collaborate together faster, with more precision and trust. My talks activate everyone to take action.

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One talk, a profound impact

“That one talk was the start of it all. The shared language, the hopefulness, the new techniques - all traced back to that shared experience we had with you on a Monday lunchtime.”
“We’d been trying to make changes for over a year - but after you spoke at our [leaders] event, suddenly we starting seeing the improvements we were looking for.” 
“It was all so messy and hard to know where to start. In one hour, you cut through and created the momentum we needed.”

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My two best loved talks


Though I ALWAYS create a custom talk for each organisation I work with so it focuses on their specific drivers of collaboration and culture, there are two flavours of talk that I deliver over and again.

TALK 1
Inspire and upskill EVERYONE who goes to meetings


This is a great talk for a inspiring series or a lunch and learn session. Examples of what I typically cover:

  • How did we get here? (Once you understand that we inherited meetings from the industrial era, everything makes sense…)
  • Rethinking collaboration -the six principles that transform how we can meet and communicate better at work.
  • Simple ways to transform your meetings and get more done with others.
  • Breaking out of meeting gridlock - reduce sheer volume of meetings and make time for deep work
  • Normalise these: simple collaboration scaffolds that get the best of everyone
  • Exactly how to encourage candour, give everyone a voice and get to what matters quickly 

TALK 2
Activate leaders to create a fast, agile organisation 


This talk is for your top 100 leaders, helping them get to grips with new ways of working and exactly how they can set this change alight. Examples of what I typically cover:

  • WTAF is going on with meetings culture in this otherwise brilliant company?! What is it really costing us? And is there anything we can do about it?
  • The secret life of how we meet and collaborate, and why it resists change
  • Establish the culture you need - through meetings
  • The science bit: how does shifting norms, behaviours and systems work in real life?
  • How great leaders like you can change mindsets at scale
  • Generating change without resistance (it’s possible!)
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What I know that others don't 

  • I'm one of the most experienced and innovative designers of new ways of working in the UK, with 18 years experience reducing the friction of collaboration for organisations - including meetings and asynchronous collaboration like email and group chat.
  • So obsessed with improving meetings and collaboration culture, I did a PhD at Cambridge, researching meetings as part of complex systems.
  • My PhD thesis was described as 'game-changing' for Meeting Science because it exposes the huge extent of factors which influence meeting culture and explains why introducing meeting rules so often fails.
  • My approach works because it works with your people and the constraints and drivers they are faced with every day. I can show you how to design new ways of working that release time and effort in your specific organisation - ways that everyone welcomes!
  • I'm easy to work with and bring a lightness and optimism to the sometimes 'heavy' work of meetings. Get ready to feel hopeful and inspired.

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What people say about working with me

 

Highlights from two decades of speaking


I've been speaking at major events for over 20 years, inspiring in-person and virtual audiences in more than 25 countries. Here are some highlights.

 

TEDxSevenMileBeach

I was one of the early TEDx speakers over ten years ago, delivering the anchor talk at TEDxSevenMileBottom. I spoke candidly about my experience as a business leader and proposed a new model for making organisations the lean, purposeful, human-centric systems they deserve to be. 

Keynote at Spark Action conference

I hosted and provided the keynote talk at the Onefish Twofish "Spark Action: How to activate change in your organisation" conference, alongside our client speakers from Mondelez, BBCWorldwide, Pfizer and MyHomeMove for our 200 delegates. I spoke on developing an Adult-To-Adult culture at work.

Medical Research Council

I delivered the keynote talk at the MRC Leadership day in Cambridge, exploring new ways of working so some of the brightest medical minds in the UK could deliver more impact, more quickly.

Global pharma company

I was invited to join a major talk series for a global pharmaceutical, to help break their incredibly busy teams out of meeting gridlock - breaking profound concepts into actionable techniques.

Ricoh Europe

I've spoken twice at Ricoh Europe's Women's forum in the last two years delivering talks on 'How to be a woman in meetings: a fieldguide' and 'Staying whole under pressure, uncertainy and intense collaboration' 

Ready to spark change? 

 

Tell me more about your collaboration challenges and the change you'd like to set in motion.

I'll help you think through the options and opportunities available to you and we can explore if a talk from me is the right fit.

👉   Book an exploratory call with me