◆ Zach on stage ◆
Speaking & Keynotes
The room changes when he walks in, generally because he is dancing.
Zach has spoken to boardrooms, lecture theatres, conference stages and halls.
He doesn't deliver a presentation. He starts a conversation.
What I bring to the room.
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UN-PREPARED: The Skills Gap
Corporate · Education · Festivals
We have built education systems that turn out technically capable graduates who cannot handle a difficult conversation, read a room, or disagree with a client and keep the contract. This is the argument behind the book: honest, direct, and uncomfortable in exactly the right places.
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The Renaissance Polymath: On Refusing to Be One Thing
Keynote · Festivals · Leadership development
The most dangerous professional in any room is the one who refuses to be just one thing. A case for breadth, intellectual courage, and a career that will not be curated into something smaller than the person who owns it.
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The Dungeon Master's Chair: Leading a Room Nobody Controls
Leadership · Teams · Festivals
Years of running tables of strangers teach what management courses never do: how to read a group, how to improvise when the plan collapses, and how to give the quietest person in the room their moment. Leadership turns out to be mostly a matter of knowing when to roll the dice and when to hand them over.
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Fifteen Companies Later: What Failure Actually Teaches
Entrepreneurship · Universities · Founders
A first business at nineteen, fifteen companies, twenty-five boards, eight sectors. This is the honest ledger: what went wrong, what it cost, and what it bought. Not a victory lap, but the talk founders wish someone had given them before they signed the lease.
Let's talk about your event.
Available for keynotes, half-day workshops, panel appearances, lecture series and festival programming. Typically booked 6–12 weeks in advance.