Hey!
I’m Edith.
Let’s make a room stop and listen.
Three formats, shaped around your programme.
What I bring to a room
45 min keynote
The First Two Minutes
On opening a room and keeping it, before the coffee break decides for you. Works as an opener or a closer, not a mid-afternoon filler.
90 min workshop
Say the Hard Thing
For teams that keep circling the conversation nobody wants to start. On your feet, no slides. Everyone speaks at least twice.
Half day intensive
Speak Without a Script
Build a talk that survives a dead mic, a late start and a distracted audience. You leave with the talk itself, not notes about it.
Clarity in your message.
The one idea the room needs to leave with, said so they can repeat it the next morning.
Presence that holds.
Opening a room and keeping it, through a dead mic, a late start and a distracted crowd.
A talk you can own.
You leave with the talk itself and the tools to deliver it, not lines to recite.
Let’s chat, it’s on me
Let’s talk. It’s on me.
Book a free discovery call and let’s see how I can help you land your next room.
Book now“How do I get a room to actually listen?”
Speaking a lot, but not landing the way you want?
You might be
- Writing a new talk from scratch every single time
- Leaning on slides to carry the room for you
- Saying everything, so nothing quite sticks
And still wondering what to actually focus on.
Grab a starting pointFrom noise to a clear line.
I help you:
- Find the one thing worth saying
- Shape it for the room in front of you
- Open strong and close on purpose
And turn it into:
- A talk that survives the real room
- A structure you can reuse
- Delivery that sounds like you
So you walk on ready, not rehearsing in the wings.
About Edith
Fifteen years of rooms, and the one thing that moves them.
I started in front of thirty people in a university lecture hall and spent the next fifteen years working out what actually moves a room. Boardrooms, church halls, conference centres, and a fair number of rooms where the audience had not chosen to be there.
The brief is usually a version of the same thing. People in this organisation are not saying what they mean, and it is costing us time, money or good staff. My work is finding the true thing and putting it in language people can repeat to someone else the next morning.
I write here most weeks, mainly about the craft and the sessions that did not go to plan.
On stage
A few rooms from the last while.
Enquiries
Tell me about the room.
The more of this you can include, the faster you get a straight answer on availability and fee. I reply to every enquiry within two working days.
Send an enquiry- The date, or the range you’re working within
- City and venue, or the platform if remote
- Roughly how many people, and who they are
- What you need them to walk out believing
Practical craft, from someone who has stood in the room.
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