Speaking
The talk your energy company
doesn't want you to hear.
Why your bill is high. Who benefits. What communities can actually do about it.
Why your bill is high. Who benefits. What communities can actually do about it.
Always. No exceptions. No invoice.
The energy crisis didn't end. It was rebranded.
Wholesale prices fell. Household bills didn't — not by nearly as much, not nearly as fast. The gap between what energy costs to produce and what you pay for it is not an accident. It is architecture.
This talk unpacks that architecture. Not with policy language. Not with net-zero targets. With the actual numbers, the actual mechanism, and the actual names of who benefits when you overpay.
I'm an organisational psychologist. For twenty-five years I have diagnosed systems that look functional but are broken by design. In 2022, I turned those skills on my own energy bill — and on my neighbour's, which barely moved while mine tripled.
What I found wasn't a broken system. It was one working exactly as designed.
The flagship talk. Why renewables are the cheapest energy ever built — and why your bill is the highest it's ever been. Who owns the meter matters more than who owns the turbine. Built for community groups, town halls, tenants organisations, and anyone who got a bill they couldn't explain.
Denmark didn't wait for the government. Neither did parts of rural Australia. This talk is about what community ownership of energy looks like in practice — the economics, the governance, the obstacles — and why the multiplier stays local when the decision stays local.
From the first book. How organisations mistake the absence of conflict for the presence of safety — and why that distinction costs them when things get hard. Built for non-profit leadership teams, boards, and community organisations navigating change.
"I didn't write this book because I'm an energy expert. I wrote it because I got tired of being lied to — politely, systemically, and at scale. The talk is the short version."
The room pays attention when the numbers don't add up.
Tell me who you are, where you are, and roughly when.
I'll get back to you within a few days.
Non-profits and community organisations: always free. No form. Just an email.