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Speaking pathway
Keynotes, panels, workshops, and conversations that carry The Cordless Leadership Model into rooms where leaders need clarity, courage, and movement.
Clara's talks are positioned around honest, grounded insight from lived executive responsibility, practical frameworks, and questions audiences can keep working with after the room changes.
What to expect: clarity, warmth, directness, lived experience, and practical takeaways that audiences can apply immediately.
Speaking lives under The Model as a dedicated pathway for public orientation.
Speaking formats
This subpage keeps Speaking connected to The Model. It introduces the pathway without opening booking, an event proof gallery, or response collection.
This Speaking pathway keeps the introduction, topics, live CrossRoads orientation, and text credentials informational. Contact details, forms, saved responses, booking, CRM, newsletter capture, and active CrossRoads behavior are not available here.
Signature topics
These topics are starting points, with each engagement tailored. This page renders them as static programme content only.
Programme topics
What happens when you step into a role, an industry, or a season you are not prepared for - and discover that not knowing forces you to lead better? This keynote introduces The Cordless Leadership Model and the five capacities that determine how leaders navigate crossroads.
Fearless, tenacious, grounded, and thick-skinned, this talk explores what it means to lead with honey badger energy: showing up fully, holding your ground, and acting with conviction when the room wants you to play it safe.
The hardest leadership decision is not what to do when things go wrong. It is knowing when to leave when things are going right. This talk explores the discipline of departure, reframing leaving as an act of leadership, not abandonment.
Too many boards meet without governing. This session explores what effective governance actually looks like - beyond compliance, beyond ceremony, and into the territory of institutional impact.
Named after the final chapter of Clara's memoir, this reflective talk explores what leadership looks like from the balcony: the patterns you only see with distance, the habits that endure when everything else changes, and what comes after you have achieved what you set out to achieve.
Speaking style
Clara's talks are described as lived experience rather than imported frameworks: real stories from real boardrooms, real transitions, and real crossroads, with practical takeaways audiences can apply immediately.
What the room receives
Speaking proof
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Credentials and affiliations