Keynotes · Workshops · Board sessions
The room already has a network. I help you see it.
Every board, every leadership team, every conference room runs on relationships that no org chart shows. I use social network analysis to make them visible: who actually decides, where influence concentrates, and where a network is brittle enough to fail under pressure. You leave with a clearer picture of how your organisation really works, and a few specific things to do about it.
Keynote topics
What Does Your Network Actually Look Like?
The hidden map of influence inside any board or organisation, and why the official structure rarely matches it.
Drawn from my published SNA research →Tracing the Signal
How to find what matters in a noisy organisation, and how to tell a real pattern from a story you wanted to be true.
See the tools that do this →The Hidden Architecture of Water Governance
Social network analysis applied to who actually decides when water, land, and competing interests meet. Drawn from a fifty-year study of one region.
Built on a fifty-year study →Weak Ties, Strong Decisions
Why the informal connections between people, the ones no policy accounts for, so often drive or stall the formal outcome.
Grounded in network research →Formats
- Keynote (30 to 60 minutes)
- Half-day workshop
- Board or leadership working session
What you get
Not just a talk. Depending on the format, you can leave with a map of your own decision network, a read on where influence is concentrated, and a short list of the relationships worth strengthening before they are tested.
On stage
Selected speaking engagements
- 2026 Canadian Water Resources Association National Conference Winnipeg, Manitoba From hydrometric monitoring networks to watershed management tools: An operational stream-temperature forecast for the Okanagan Basin
- 2026 Canadian Water Resources Association National Conference Winnipeg, Manitoba Networks of water (mis)information in the 2026 Okanagan drought
- 2024 Environmental Flows Conference: Co-Creating Futures
- 2023 Mission Creek Workshop
- 2020 The Okanagan Flood Story GIS Day in Canada, Esri Canada
- 2020 Raven Hydrology Model Workshop
- 2018 Joint Conference on Forests and Water Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia, Valdivia, Chile Water governance networks' influence on water ecological systems over time: An Okanagan valley, Canada case study
- 2018 Environmental Flow: Science, Policy and Practice
- 2012 Okanagan Invitational Drought Tournament
- 2012 Waterlution Okanagan
- 2008 One Watershed, One Water
- 2006 Global Competitiveness Summit Okanagan Partnership Society Chair and host; Premier Gordon Campbell, keynote speaker
- 2005 Water: Our Limiting Resource
- 2004 Okanagan Leadership Meeting: Running on Empty
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