I didn't start in communication. I spent my early career in startup operations, accounting and finance, surrounded by smart people with strong ideas that changed nothing, because they never moved the people who mattered. That gap is what I've worked on ever since.
Building TEDxUNYP in Prague taught me how ideas travel. Over a decade, I've helped speakers turn their thinking into talks that stay with people, and five of them became TED Editor's Picks. Hosting stages at SXSW London, South Summit and Bits & Pretzels taught me the other side: what holds a room's attention, and what loses it.
Today I coach leaders at Deloitte, NVIDIA and Rolls-Royce for the moments when their ideas need to win people over. My keynotes bring that to whole audiences, at Microsoft, Google, DisruptHR, TechWiserX and Digital Enterprise Show, and on conference line-ups alongside Michelle Obama, Steven Bartlett and Trevor Noah.
One conviction runs through all of it. The talks people remember don't give them more information. They change how they see something, and what they do next.