Speaking
“A very impactful insight into leadership during adversity, focusing on the lived experience, reactions and perceptions.”
Johanna started her speaking career informally while a management consultant for PA Consulting. She was invited to present to thinktanks like the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) as well as various events that her firm ran for their clients. Johanna’s credentials as a speaker were cemented when she was selected from over 100 applicants to be one of the speakers at TEDx Southampton in 2021.
Johanna’s specialist topics are around leadership. She is a Chartered Manager with the CMI with over 25 years of leadership experience. As a leadership development specialist, Johanna focuses on helping small and medium size businesses build and maintain high-performing teams.
Johanna’s early career started in the Royal Navy where she became a leader of people at the tender age of 24.
Following 23 years in the Navy, Johanna then went on to hone her leadership capability in the world of management consultancy.
Since setting up her business in 2019, Johanna has taught leadership and management modules on Level 5 and Level 7 Degree Apprenticeships on behalf of the University of Portsmouth.
She has also led dozens of small businesses through the national Help To Grow: Management programme which aims to build leadership capacity and capability in the small business sector.
Feedback from her speaking events indicate that Johanna’s qualities as a speaker are that she is: expert; engaging; humorous; an excellent storyteller; informative; inspirational; and relatable.
The topics Johanna speaks about include:
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How to Build Personalised Resilience
Avoiding the hackneyed “top 10 tips” and instead helping diagnose and address sources of stress.
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Lessons in Leadership from a Sinking Ship
Using an experience Johanna encountered while in the Navy to draw out how leadership changes when under duress.
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Lessons in Risk Management from a Sinking Ship
Using the same experience, Johanna draws out how our approach to risk management changes when the &%$@ hits the fan.
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Building and Maintaining High Performing Teams
Helping leaders understand what it takes to build, and destroy, high performing teams.
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So You Want to Be a Dragon
Inspired by the women on Dragon’s Den, helping female leaders find their authentic and successful leadership style, particularly in male dominated industries.
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Strengths-Based Leadership
Helping leaders understand how to work with their strengths including perceived challenges such as introversion and neurodiversity.
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Your Leadership Shadow
Helping leaders understand the shadow they cast over their team with their style and if its helping or hindering them.
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The Future of Work
Helping leaders explore how their talent strategies may need to change to incorporate the demographic, societal and technological changes of the future workforce.
Watch Johanna’s TEDx Talk
What people say…
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"One of the highlights of the day, the passion in delivery focused the mind around management of situations and team building in extreme circumstances."
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"Excellent presentation, interesting and relevant. Very inspirational, delivered with passion and kept everyone interested."
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"Session very good and resonated with me. Particularly interested in how actions changed subconsciously when dealing with a stressful situation."