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Conversations

Conversations that outlast the room.

Speaking and guided sessions designed to shift perspective — and to be acted on long after the event ends.

Karen Thorpe-Reid speaking on stage at UK Black Business Week

Signature topics

  • Leadership That Turns Strategy into Sustainable Change
  • The Human Side of Transformation
  • Leading Through Complexity
  • Culture Is a Leadership Decision
  • Executive Presence Beyond Position

Formats

  • Keynotes
  • Fireside Conversations
  • Panels
  • Workshops

What the room leaves with

A shared language

The Connection Bridge™ gives leaders one vocabulary for talking about how change is actually experienced — Clarity, Confidence, Capacity, Contribution, Continuity.

An honest read

People leave able to name which condition is carrying too much weight in their own organisation, rather than guessing at resistance.

One thing to do next

Every session ends on a practical commitment — a conversation to have, a decision to revisit, a signal to change — not a slide deck to circulate.

What I need from you

The audience, the moment the organisation is in, and the one thing you want people thinking about on the way home.

What you get from me

A briefing call, a session shaped around your context, and follow-up material the room can actually use.

Selected appearances

Selected conversations on leadership, ownership, entrepreneurship and the human experience of change.

Black in LeadershipGuest speaker, Black at Work
October 2024
Ownership & Black FuturesPanellist, McCaskatchi Saturday School
October 2022
Karen Thorpe-Reid speaking into a microphone during a live event.
Karen Thorpe-Reid leading a live conversation.

These appearances form part of Karen’s earlier work through Premier Change Consulting, before the creation of The Leadership & Transformation Studio.

Karen Thorpe-Reid hosting a fireside conversation on stage with a guest
A good keynote is remembered. A good conversation is acted on.

Karen Thorpe-Reid

Have a date in the diary and a room you want to shift?