Speaking and workshops

I speak and run workshops about curiosity, learning, creativity and conversation – particularly the human skills that help people navigate uncertainty, make better judgements and understand each other.

Benjamin Verrall speaking at an event in front of a colourful stage backdrop.

Speaking

Talks can be adapted for conferences, leadership events, organisations and education.

Still Learning
How curiosity helps us remain adaptable, make sense of change and keep learning when there isn’t an obvious answer.

Showing the workings-out
You’re taught at school to show your workings. At work, particularly as you become more senior, the pressure is often to hide them. What changes when leaders make more of their learning visible?

Human judgement in an age of AI
Generating plausible answers is becoming cheap. Judging them isn’t. What becomes more important because AI exists?

Podcast and guest features

I’m available as a guest, panellist or interviewee on curiosity, learning, creativity, conversation, AI and human judgement – as well as writing, filmmaking and the ideas behind Still Learning.

Workshops

My workshops are practical, participative and built around real situations rather than abstract models.

These draw on ALIVE – Ask, Listen, Interpret, Validate, Explore: five familiar skills for staying curious, testing assumptions and having better conversations.

AI + ALIVE
Human skills for an AI-enabled workplace: using AI confidently while strengthening the judgement, curiosity and conversation needed around it.

Motivating conversations
How to move beyond pressure and persuasion to understand what helps another person want, choose and act.

Sessions can be designed around a particular audience, challenge or event.

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