Speaking

Not another talk about sleep hygiene.

I speak about what sits beneath sleep: the load capable people carry, how the system adapts to it, and why recovery stops being reliable. Audiences leave with the pattern named, not a list of tips.

Approach

Why this lands differently

Most talks about sleep hand out advice. Advice doesn’t reach a system that never comes off duty. My talks do something else: they make the pattern visible, so people recognise it in themselves. Recognition is where change starts.

The people I speak to are usually functioning well on the outside and running on effort underneath: leadership teams, founders, people in high-pressure work.

Recognition is where change starts.

What I speak on

Talks

01

Stability comes before sleep.

Why a sleep problem in high-functioning people is rarely a sleep problem, and what the nervous system is reporting when nights become unreliable.

02

Running on effort, not reserve.

What happens when capable people keep performing on compensation, how to recognise the cost before it surfaces, and what rebuilds reserve.

03

The breath beneath performance.

Breath as the most direct read of the nervous system: how pressure changes it, and why that shapes sleep, focus and judgement. It draws on my book Breathe Better, Sleep Better.

How it runs

Formats

  • Keynotes. Conferences and company events.
  • Leadership team sessions. Smaller, deeper work with senior teams.
  • Online talks. Live sessions for teams spread across locations.
  • Podcasts and media. Interviews and expert comment on sleep, breath and the nervous system.
Track record

Previously

I’ve spoken at the Mindful Living Show, Best You and Head Talks, and for organisations including Captify and Perkbox.

“Alison spoke at the Perkbox Live webinar on Principles of Sleep. The audience absolutely loved her! We had more than 1200 registrations! Everyone was super engaged…”

Perkbox Live

2018Mindful Living Show, London

2019Best You

2019Head Talks

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