Saying the hard thing
The high-stakes conversations we avoid, like the pitch, the price and the feedback, and how to have them without freezing.
They leave able toName and have the one conversation they've been dodging.
Keynote speaker · AI, sales and leadership
Get your team to say it when it counts.
Keynotes on high-stakes conversations, grounded leadership and the self-talk behind both, from a CPA who spent twenty years in boardrooms across forty countries.
TEDxformer host and speaker coach
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Meet Simone
She's sat where your audience sits.
Simone spent twenty years advising businesses on their financials across forty countries, inside PwC, Fox, Capgemini and Fortune 500 boardrooms. And the hardest conversation she ever had was with herself.
That's what she speaks on now: the conversations with your team, your clients and yourself that everything else is built on. She pairs boardroom credibility with the human side most speakers skip: why capable people freeze, and how to lead the room anyway.
She also teaches teams how to sell with AI without losing the voice that made people trust them, and she's taught that work live at Lisbon AI Week and at Google DevFest. She hosts TEDx and coaches its speakers too, so she knows what it takes to get a talk ready as well as what it takes to give one.
Audiences leave with tools they use on Monday, not just a nice feeling.
PwCFoxCapgemini
Lisbon AI WeekGoogle DevFest
Signature talks
Conversations that drive results. Each keynote is tailored to your audience and the outcome you want.
The leader within
Leading yourself and others through change and uncertainty in a grounded, calm, effective way, even when it's hard.
They leave able toSteady themselves first, then lead the room.
Mastering yourself
The beliefs and self-talk quietly running the show, and how to rewrite the patterns holding your best people back.
They leave able toCatch the story in their head and change it.
Selling authentically in the age of AI
How teams can use AI to move faster on outreach, proposals and sales pages without sounding like everyone else, or losing the trust that wins clients.
They leave able toUse AI for the draft and keep their own voice in the final.
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After the talk
When a team wants to act on it, there's a next step.
A keynote changes how a room thinks for an afternoon. The AI Roadmap Sprint is what happens when a team wants to do something about it, with a half-day workshop where they learn the tools on their own real work, pick the three places AI will help most, put a number on each one, and leave with a one-page roadmap and somebody who owns it.
What others say
★★★★★
"Every conversation with Simone leaves you inspired and equipped with a clearer roadmap. Her enthusiasm is contagious."
★★★★★
"Her insights on how to scale a business and simplify its processes helped me see my services from a whole new perspective."
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Tell me about your event and audience, and I'll tailor the talk to the outcome you're after.