The Human Advantage in an Era of Infinite Disruption
Geoff McDonald
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Geoff is a global advocate, campaigner and consultant in addressing the stigma of mental ill-health in the workplace. He inspires and provokes organisations globally to put purpose and wellbeing at the centre of everything they do by motivating people to take action in creating workplaces that enhance the lives of everyone. He brings his own experience of addressing the stigma of mental ill-health within Unilever, helping to archetype the transformation of this company with purpose at its core. Geoff provides a real practitioner’s perspective on how to address the stigma linked to depression and anxiety within workplaces today, and on how to elevate wellbeing to a strategic priority in the boardroom.
All sessions by Geoff →A session for leaders. The pressure on leaders to do more, know more and be more is constant. When the ground shifts daily, geopolitically, technologically and culturally, resilience is not a luxury; it is the only way to lead.
Most conversations about resilience miss the point: they treat it as a box-ticking exercise in self-care. Geoff McDonald cuts through the noise. He offers no academic theory but the lived experience of a leader who navigated the collapse of the boundary between the personal and the professional, and he challenges leaders to shift their focus from surviving the disruption to harnessing the human advantage that no AI can replicate.
During the session, Geoff McDonald engages participants through live polls, reflection questions and Q&A using Mentimeter, an interactive engagement tool.
1. Busy is not effective
A clear distinction between being busy and being effective, and what that asks of a leader's own calendar and boundaries.
2. Psychological safety in practice
Actionable tools to foster psychological safety in your teams: the bedrock of innovation and your primary defence against uncertainty.
3. Leading through the next horizon
A renewed sense of hope and clarity on how to lead through the next wave of technological change, with AI as augmentation rather than replacement.
Geoff's session is built on two non-negotiable imperatives for the modern leader.
The human foundation: individual resilience. We start by stripping away the stigma. Geoff confronts the reality of burnout, not as a weakness but as a systemic failure to protect our most valuable asset: our people.
He shares his own story of burnout and shows why leaders must model the boundaries they set for others. He clarifies the difference between fatigue and clinical conditions. And he makes the case that radical self-care is a leadership discipline, not a perk.
The new rules: organisational resilience. AI is not coming; it is here. But the organisations that thrive are not simply the ones that adopt the latest technology. They are the ones that double down on their humanity.
Geoff shows why psychological safety is the bedrock of innovation and your primary defence against uncertainty, busts the myths around automation (it is about augmentation, not replacement) and distils the pillars of organisational health into a playbook leaders can apply on Monday morning.
Why Geoff? He brings no slides to hide behind, but the warts-and-all lessons from a career spent in the arena. He speaks with the candour of someone who has actually led, which makes him the choice for organisers who want more than a keynote: an experience that sticks.
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: A session for leaders. The pressure on leaders to do more, know more and be more is constant.
Geoff McDonald is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.3 out of 5, across 301 responses, and rate Geoff personally 4.5 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Geoff, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
Geoff shares his own very powerful story of mental ill health and provides practical learnings and insights on how to address the…
Geoff shares his own powerful story of mental ill health and provides a very practical and simple approach to caring for ones…
Geoff shares his own powerful story of mental ill health and makes the link between wellbeing and organisational performance.