What is a Good Life? The Keynote
For the past five years I have been asking one question:
What is a good life?
It has led to more than 300 long-form conversations, leadership work inside organisations, a public exhibition, and countless moments that have changed how I think about success, relationships and the lives we are trying to build.
Across these conversations, I have heard people return to the same fundamental questions.
What does success actually mean?
How do we know when we are living in alignment with what matters?
What are we willing to sacrifice in pursuit of achievement?
What kind of work, relationships and contribution make a life feel worthwhile?
The answers are always different but he deeper questions are often shared.
Along the way, I realised something surprising. I wasn’t only learning from people’s answers, I was learning from the quality of the them and what became possible when people had the space to explore these questions honestly.
Over time, I began to see the relevance beyond individual lives.The same conditions that allow people to discover what matters to them also shape how teams think, decide and work together.
What allows people to move beyond rehearsed opinions? What helps groups discover what they actually think, rather than simply repeat what they already know how to say?
I am now bringing this work into organisations through a keynote:
What is a Good Life?
I have spent years exploring meaning without trying to define it for people. Instead, I have become interested in what allows people to discover what matters to them, together.
This keynote is not about another framework or a definition of meaning.
It creates the conditions for leaders and teams to explore what genuinely matters, surface what often remains unspoken, notice where words and actions are out of alignment, and consider how they want to work together.
Before deciding where to go, understand what is actually here.
If this connects with questions you are exploring in your organisation, I would be glad to continue the conversation.