Speaking & future workshops
Make room for the harder conversation.
Career transitions are often discussed as reinvention. In alcohol-centered work, the questions are more specific: how do people leave a profession without dismissing the skill, community, and livelihood they built in it?
The conversation
A grounded lens on work, identity, and what comes next.
Keynote conversations can explore the tension between loving a craft and needing to leave its culture, the practical stakes of a career change, and what it takes to build a next chapter that is financially and personally viable.
Workshops are a future direction, intended to make these ideas more hands-on for teams and communities. Format, availability, and topics can be discussed in an inquiry.
No speaker credentials or past engagements are claimed here. Please share your event context so the right conversation can begin.
Keynote topics
Talks on sobriety, work, and reinvention.
Leaving the career that defined you
What happens when skill, community, and income are tied to an industry you can no longer stay in—and how to move forward without erasing it.
Alcohol-centered workplace culture
Tastings, client entertainment, and after-shift drinking: where the norms come from, who they leave out, and how leaders can create healthier defaults.
Career reinvention after starting over
Bridge jobs, lost status, transferable skills, and rebuilding professional confidence from a lower rung.
Leadership after personal and professional collapse
What a hard reset can teach about operations, accountability, and leading people.
Who it’s for
Audiences
- Wine, beer, spirits, and hospitality businesses
- Industry associations and trade events
- Recovery-focused and wellness organizations
- Corporate teams and HR leaders
- Career-change and professional development programs
For event organizers
What your audience takes away
- A candid, non-preachy way to talk about alcohol at work
- Practical language for career change and transferable skills
- Ideas leaders can use to make drinking optional, not expected
- Workshops can be shaped around your team or members
Inquiries
Start a conversation.
Tell us a little about your audience, your event, and what you’re hoping to explore.