Keynote speaking
A new language for what happens to us when life changes
The most powerful thing a keynote can do is name something an audience already knows is true but has never been able to say out loud.
Formats
- 45 min
- Keynote
- 60 min
- Keynote and questions
- 90 min
- Keynote and facilitated discussion
- Delivery
- In person or virtual · UK and international
Signature keynote
The Hidden Cost of Invisible Loss
Divorce, infertility, estrangement, serious illness, caring, redundancy, identity loss, the end of a relationship. Losses without rituals or language, carried quietly into every workplace.
Invisible does not mean inconsequential.
For organisation-wide events · HR and People conferences · manager development · wellbeing programmes · professional services firms
Keynotes & workshops
Talks for organisations
Supporting Colleagues Through Loss and Grief
Most people return to work long before their grief is over. What helps, what harms, and how managers and teams can respond with confidence, compassion and the right words when a colleague is bereaved or living with loss.
Managers and team leaders · HR and People teams · all-staff sessions · bereavement and wellbeing policy launches
Understanding Baby Loss
Miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss and fertility loss are among the most silenced griefs in working life. A compassionate, evidence-informed talk on what parents carry, and how workplaces can recognise and support them.
Baby Loss Awareness Week · parent and family networks · HR and benefits teams · healthcare
Thresholds: Depletion, Depression and Anxiety
Life’s thresholds, the passages between one chapter and the next, often arrive with exhaustion, low mood and anxiety. How to recognise depletion early, understand what it is asking of us, and cross a threshold without losing ourselves.
Wellbeing programmes · high-pressure professions · women’s and parent networks · leadership transitions
Mental Fitness and Resilience
Mental fitness as a daily practice rather than a crisis response: regulating the nervous system, protecting energy and attention, and building the psychological flexibility to meet pressure, change and loss.
All-staff events · wellbeing weeks · World Mental Health Day · teams under sustained pressure
Beyond Resilience
What if the goal isn’t to bounce back? Resilience explored through loss, identity, meaning, limits and transformation rather than endurance alone.
Leadership conferences · executive teams · healthcare · high-performance cultures
The Human Cost of Change
The psychological experience of loss inside organisational transformation: restructuring, mergers, technological change, redundancy and leadership transitions.
Boards · senior leadership · HR and transformation teams · partner conferences
The Neuroscience of Grief & Loss
An accessible exploration of what grief does to the brain, and what that means for decision-making, focus, creativity and performance.
All-staff events · wellbeing weeks · managers
Grief, Meaning and the Stranger Within
Drawn from Dr Chloe’s forthcoming book: an existential and psychological exploration of loss, identity and how we become strangers to ourselves.
Festivals · academic audiences · leadership retreats
Academic & professional
Talks for clinicians, universities and training institutes
Grounded in the existential paradigm and 25 years of clinical practice with grief, trauma and loss. For psychotherapy and counselling programmes, doctoral seminars, clinical conferences and CPD events.
Existential Therapy and Traumatic Loss
How sudden and traumatic loss shatters our assumptions about time, safety, meaning and self, and how an existential approach helps clients face what cannot be undone.
Psychotherapy trainings · clinical conferences · doctoral programmes
Treating Trauma and Loss
Integrating trauma-informed, body-based and existential understanding in work with bereaved and traumatised clients, with attention to regulation, pacing and the therapeutic relationship.
Counselling and psychology courses · NHS and healthcare teams · CPD
The Existential Journey of Loss: Therapeutic Practice
Grief as a lived, embodied and meaning-making journey. Presence, authenticity and phenomenological enquiry in the consulting room, illustrated through clinical practice.
Existential and humanistic trainings · supervision groups · academic seminars
Professional training · coming soon
Training in the existential approach
Two programmes in development for therapists, counselling psychologists, psychotherapists and trainees. Register your interest to hear first when dates are announced.
Grief: The Existential Approach
A training in working with grief through the existential lens: loss as a disruption of our being-in-the-world, the search for meaning, and the therapist’s presence alongside the bereaved.
Qualified and trainee therapists · counselling psychologists · bereavement practitioners
Traumatic Grief: The Existential Approach
A specialist training on sudden, violent and traumatic bereavement: understanding the interplay of trauma and grief, and working existentially with shattered meaning, safety and identity.
Experienced therapists · clinical and counselling psychologists · trauma services
What audiences take away
Psychological depth in accessible language
Clinical experience with research, serious ideas with human stories.
- A different way of understanding mental health
- New language for loss, including the losses nobody names
- A deeper understanding of how people adapt to change
- More psychologically intelligent thinking about resilience and wellbeing
I wish every leadership team could hear what we heard.
Her webinar gave language to what so many of us had silently carried.
Dr Chloe offered insight and steadiness when we needed it most.
Speaking contexts
Where Dr Chloe speaks
Leadership conferences and partner days · HR and People summits · away days and staff events · Mental Health Awareness Week and World Mental Health Day · executive and C-suite forums · law firms and financial services · consultancy and professional services · universities · public sector and government. Previous engagements include the Cambridge University Executive MBA and the Australian Society for Existential Practice.
Booking
Bring Dr Chloe to your event
Share your date, audience and theme, and we will come back to you with availability and a tailored proposal.
Keynotes · Academic talks · Training
Speaker pack, biography and headshots available on request.