Pathway 04 · Speaking

High-Impact Keynotes on Ubuntu, Conflict Transformation, and AI's Relational Crisis.

I bring ancestral wisdom to corporate stages.

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For you if

  • Your audience includes leaders navigating AI transformation, DEI, or workplace culture

  • You want a speaker who challenges thinking, not one who confirms it

  • You have space for emotional resonance alongside frameworks and data

  • Your audience includes HR, People Operations, D&I leaders, LGBTQ+ ERGs, or Black professional networks

  • You value bilingual delivery (English / French) for international conferences

Not for you if

  • You need a celebrity name for brand recognition over substance

  • Your event is purely technical or product-focused

  • You need a speaker for a panel that hasn't been designed yet (Maylis co-designs)

The most urgent question facing every organisation right now is not how to implement AI. It is how to remain human while they do. That is what every keynote in this list addresses — from a different angle, for a different audience.

Featured topics

Three signature talks. Many rooms.

The AI Transformation Crisis No One Is Talking About

Corporate conferences · HR summits · Leadership events

Coverage. Trust erosion research · $154B workplace loneliness cost · Why AI resistance is relational, not technical · Ubuntu as the missing infrastructure

Format. 30–60 min keynote OR 90-min interactive workshop

Best for. HR leaders, People Ops, D&I professionals, executive teams

Ubuntu and the Future of Work

Innovation conferences · Future of work · DEI events

Coverage. Ubuntu for organisational design · Ancestral wisdom meets modern isolation · Case studies (JTI, Parsons Paris) · Collective intelligence over individual productivity

Format. 45–60 min keynote

Best for. Innovation leaders, future-of-work strategists, DEI heads

Who Am I Outside of What This Room Wants Me to Be?

conferences · Pride events · D&I summits

Coverage. Identity navigation · Code-switching and authenticity · Collective witnessing for leaders

Format. 45–60 min keynote OR panel moderation

Best for. ERG sponsors, Pride event programmers, identity-led summits

Track record

Stages. Awards. Rooms that mattered.

  • HR Superstar · Empower 2021 — keynote

  • ICAD — public conference, 3,000+ attendees

  • JTI · Burckhardt Compression · JP Morgan · Bloomberg · Coventry University · Parsons Paris

Speaker kit

Everything your team needs.

  • 60-sec speaker reel

  • High-resolution stage photography

  • Talk descriptions in EN / FR

  • Bio (short, medium, long)

  • Tech rider + AV requirements

  • Sample run-of-show