Speaking And Workshops
Keynotes, webinars, workshops, and training tailored to your audience and needs
Jess works with educators, healthcare professionals, parents, and organisational leaders across the UK. If it's a keynote for 500 people, an intimate workshop for a school team, or a facilitated conversation with healthcare professionals, she brings the same approach - research-backed insight, real-world experience, practical strategies, and honest conversation about what works when systems are under pressure. Learn more about speaking opportunities for your event:
Education
What She Offers
Jess helps educators and school leaders translate complex neurodevelopmental research into clear, accessible language they can apply immediately in their classrooms. She works across professional boundaries with teachers, SENCOs, and school leaders, encouraging collaborative approaches. She strengthens relationships with families by supporting professionals to build trusting partnerships, particularly when conversations are complex or emotionally charged. She offers practical strategies teachers can use immediately.
Delivery
Conference keynotes, webinars, INSET training, staff meetings, workshops for school teams
Topics
- Understanding neurodevelopment and how young people's brains work
- Navigating puberty, new sensory experiences, and unwritten social rules
- Supporting young people with big feelings and anxious thoughts
- Building inclusive classrooms where all young people belong
- Understanding masking
- Effective communication with families
- Behaviour as communication
- Practical sensory and emotional regulation strategies
Example Work
Jess has worked with local authorities to support teachers, headteachers, and SENCOs to better understand the needs of young people navigating puberty. She translates complex physiology and research into language that is easy to digest, then applies this to real classroom scenarios. Whether it's supporting sensory experiences, navigating social confusion, or managing big feelings, she leans into the conversations that are often left unspoken with compassion, practical strategies, and effective communication tools.
Event Feedback
“The feedback was so overwhelmingly positive! Jess’ talk was the most mentioned webinar of the day. It was so informative, engaging and powerful and was exactly what I had hoped for from the brief – if not more!”
Healthcare
What She Offers
Jess works with healthcare professionals, team leaders, and organisational systems to create environments where both patients and staff can thrive. She brings a perspective shaped by medicine and education to understand different ways of thinking and communicating. She helps build psychologically safer interactions through language that fosters trust, curiosity, and collaboration. She recognises that compassionate systems benefit everyone, and that looking after yourself is essential infrastructure.
Delivery
Keynote conferences (national and international), webinars, workshops, facilitated team sessions, articles, podcasts
Topics
- Physician and healthcare professional wellbeing
- Burnout, compassion fatigue, and mental health in healthcare
- Creating psychologically safer teams
- Compassionate leadership
- Authentic and vulnerable leadership
- Understanding trauma and its impact on teams
- Inclusive culture
- Why language matters
Example Work
Jess has two strands to her work in healthcare. She collaborates with primary care providers, medical education departments and deaneries to improve the care offered to children and young people. Her talks including 'What can I realistically do in 10 minutes?' and 'When school becomes impossible' encourage people to view behaviour through an alternative lens and lean into the small things that make a big difference to families. Jess also delivers keynotes and workshops on healthcare worker wellbeing, blending lived experience with professional expertise. Her talk ‘Beyond the Hero Narrative’ has received high praise, reconnecting audiences with humanity in healthcare.
Event Feedback
“Jess was a show-stopper, bringing utter, raw honesty mixed with genuine lived and living experience of mental ill-health to challenge her audience (which she held spell-bound for an hour) to reframe our cultural language in order to avoid stigmatization, to find genuine reflective space, and make real and lasting change.”
Families
What She Offers
Jess helps parents and carers make sense of complex information, feel less alone, and find practical guidance grounded in both evidence and real life. Her talks are relatable because they're rooted in lived experience and real stories. She creates spaces where people feel heard and understood. She helps reduce shame and isolation by sharing honest conversations about common challenges.
Delivery
Webinar series, peer support groups, parent forums, charity events, podcasts, facilitated conversations
Topics
- Understanding your child and making sense of complex information
- Navigating puberty and big changes
- Supporting anxious and dysregulated young people
- Feeling less alone and finding community
- Practical strategies for home
- Building partnerships with schools and healthcare professionals
- Looking after yourself as a parent or carer
Example Work
Parents and carers frequently describe feeling seen after working with Jess. Whether through peer support groups, parent forums, or charity collaborations, she merges professional expertise with warmth and empathy. She addresses common challenges families face including navigating puberty, masking, and emotional distress by combining her clinical background with real-life stories that help people recognise themselves without judgment.
Event Feedback
“We are so pleased to be continuing to collaborate with Jess in our expert webinar series as part of the support we offer to parents and professionals supporting children and young people facing additional challenges. Her unique perspective as a trained paediatrician, teacher and parent, combined with her wisdom, warmth and fantastic delivery has been so appreciated by all attendees including parents, healthcare professionals and teachers. The feedback we get is consistently excellent and we cannot recommend her highly enough.”
Let's Talk About Your Event
Jess is happy to discuss your event, audience, and what you're hoping to achieve. Whether you need a keynote, a half-day workshop, a webinar, or something bespoke, you can co-create something that fits.