Speaking

As an engaging and passionate speaker, I choose to share my lived experience, knowledge, and expertise with a wide range of audiences.

My goal is to challenge stigma, intolerance, and discrimination through humanity, humour, and honesty. I hope to give others insight into the vast diversity of human experience, balancing the harsh realities of marginalisation with positivity, nuance, and compassion.

Please see below for some of my favourite topics to speak about at keynotes, on panels, and at conferences or seminars, and remember - I also offer bespoke services.

Speaking topics

Allyship

  • Amplifying allyship: using your social power for good

  • 10 top tips for any good ally

  • Finding your allyship style

  • “Nothing about us without us”: the urgent need for disability allies

Neurodiversity

  • Supporting neurodivergence in the workplace

  • How the undiagnosed get left behind

  • Working with your brain, not against it: building a neurodivergence-friendly working style

Disability and chronic illness

  • Disabled power, joy, and community

  • Redefining disability: inspiring an attitude shift

  • Breaking down barriers: the Social Model of disability

  • Addressing inaccessibility: my life on wheels

  • Disability history and the fight for rights in the UK

  • Chronic illness: the hidden realities, and how to support us

  • You will become disabled (if you’re lucky): why disability rights are your problem

LGBTQ+

  • Being bisexual: exploring our unique experiences, erasures, and vulnerabilities - and what we can do about them

  • Being trans non-binary: insight into my own identity, and how allies can step up

  • “Femmes can be thems”: understanding the differences between gender expression and identity

  • Being “queer”: reclaiming language and identities

Intersectionality

  • The intersection of queerness and disability

  • The vital role of intersectionality in DEIA

  • Going above and beyond the Equality Act

  • Neurodivergence and gender: the role of sex bias in diagnosis and treatment

  • “Mind the gap”: a deeper dive into pay gaps in the UK

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Want more information?

Please use the contact form to request:

  • Detailed pricing

  • In-depth talk outlines

  • Bespoke talks tailored to your needs

  • Disability and/or neurodivergence support

  • A free discovery call

  • Answers to any of your questions 

If you’d rather email:

Go for it! I’m available at jo@amplify-inclusion.com.

I’d love to hear from you.

Accessibility

To enhance accessibility, I offer:

  • Talks both in-person and remote/virtually

  • Accessibility options, including:

    • Script in advance

    • Verbal and/or written image descriptions

    • Closed captions (virtual)

    • Spotlight speaker (virtual)

    • Slower pace of speech

    • A meeting with me before the talk

  • Options for disclosing your needs in advance

  NB: I require step-free access (in-person)

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Testimonial

“Jo manages to motivate and inspire everyone around them. They are tremendously creative and innovative, often coming up with novel solutions that others don’t see. They are highly committed and dedicated to delivering work, whilst remaining incredibly supportive and empathetic.”

Adam J.