Bring somatic intelligence into the room.
Keynotes, workshops, and consulting that give teams a shared language for stress, safety, and performance, grounded in trauma science and the lived reality of high-pressure work.
What Deborah speaks on
Every talk can be shaped for your audience, from a 20-minute keynote to a half-day experiential session.
Trauma-informed leadership and psychological safety
How trauma responses show up at work, including the less familiar ones like fawn and collapse, and what leaders can do to create environments where people feel safe enough to do their best work.
Embodied leadership
Leadership is not about never losing your center. It is about noticing when you have left it and knowing how to come back. A practical, body-based session on presence under pressure.
Somatic paths to healing
An accessible introduction to how trauma lives in the body and how somatic practices support regulation and recovery, for survivors, caregivers, and service providers.
Empathetic AI and the loneliness epidemic
Deborah's research on how responsibly designed AI can act as a relational mirror, supporting regulation and helping people reach toward others with more capacity for connection.
Trauma-informed systems design
For organizations and designers who want to build environments, processes, and products that prioritize safety, accessibility, and wellbeing. Engagements are custom-scoped and can include culture assessments, leadership training, and trauma-informed review of policies, services, or UI/UX.
Past audiences and hosts include Culture Amp's Culture First New York chapter, the China Institute in America, the Asia Institute of Mentoring, and community mental wellness programs in Singapore.
Planning an event or initiative?
Share your audience, format, and timing, and Deborah will follow up to shape the right session.