SPEAKING
The women in your audience are not struggling. They are divided.
They are competent, capable, and carrying more than anyone can see. They have been performing their way through rooms that no longer fit, maintaining versions of themselves across every role and relationship, and doing it so well that nobody, including them, has a name for what it is costing.
This talk gives them that name. And it changes everything.
THE KEYNOTE
I Thought I Was Broken. I Was Divided.
Most of the women in your audience have spent years assuming that the quiet wrongness they feel is a personal failing. Something to manage, work through, or push past. This talk offers a different frame entirely.
It is not a lecture. It is an experience.
And the women in your audience will leave it differently than they arrived.
WHAT THE AUDIENCE LEAVES WITH
A sense of belonging and a way out of something they've been navigating for years.
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A name for what they've been carrying.
Most people spend decades carrying a feeling they cannot articulate a low-frequency wrongness, an exhaustion that rest does not fix, a sense of going through the motions of a life that used to feel like theirs. This talk gives that feeling a name. And when something is named, it stops being a personal failing and becomes a solvable problem.
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A framework they can use immediately.
Not a concept to take home and think about. A structural map of exactly how division happens and where the work of reconnection begins. One concrete thing they can do differently before the week is out.
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The knowledge that they are not alone in this.
The most consistent thing women say after this talk is that they looked around the room and realized everyone was nodding. That recognition, that this is shared, that it is human, that it is not a flaw - is often the most significant thing they leave with.
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A free tool to take it further.
DONNA AS A SPEAKER
Bring 3 decades of lived experience, wisdom, + warmth into your room.
From launching an airline during apartheid in South Africa, leading human resources transformations across 19 countries, to navigating the kind of personal and organizational upheaval that forces you to either fragment or start gathering yourself back.
She chose to gather. And she's spent the years since teaching other women how to do the same.
Her talks are warm, direct, and research-grounded. She doesn't speak from theory. She speaks from the arena of her own life - and audiences feel the difference.
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+ EVERY ATTENDEE LEAVES WITH THIS
A customized assessment to take the lessons off the stage and into their life.
The "Am I Divided?" assessment identifies the specific divisions most active for them and points to where the work of reconnection begins. It is free. It takes fifteen minutes. And it extends the talk's impact long after the room clears.
Take the "Am I Divided?" AssessmentA NOTE ON AVAILABILITY: Donna takes a small number of speaking engagements each year. This is not a volume practice. Each engagement receives Donna's full attention, from the brief through to the room. If you are interested in bringing this talk to your audience, the earlier you make contact the better.
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The more we understand about the room - who will be in it, what they are carrying, what you want them to leave with - the better we can assess whether this is the right fit. Fill in the form below and we will be in touch within two business days.
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