Speaking

Events and appearances.

WordCamps, workshops, and speaking appearances. A record of where this work has shown up in the world.

  • Microsoft Project Training at ES Fox, 2019

    Microsoft Project training at E.S. Fox in July 2019. Project is a less-common topic than Excel — the rooms are smaller, the learners arrive with a specific scheduling or resource problem, and the teaching is closer to consulting.

  • Microsoft Excel at DB Schenker, 2019

    The DB Schenker engagement expanded in 2019 — Excel 1, Intermediate cohorts, and a year that stretched from January into November. Multi-cohort repeat engagements at a logistics operation of this scale are the standard for delivery credibility.

  • Excel 1 – Intermediate at DB Schenker, 2018

    Excel training at DB Schenker — the global logistics arm of Deutsche Bahn — across multiple sessions in March and early April 2018. The first engagement in what became a two-year training relationship.

  • Microsoft Excel Workshops at CPA Ontario Members, 2019

    Microsoft Excel workshops for CPA Ontario members in February 2019 — accountants who use Excel every working day and know exactly where their gaps are. A technically literate room that arrives with real questions.

  • Microsoft Excel at City of Hamilton, 2018

    City of Hamilton returned in May 2018 for an expanded slate: Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word across several weeks. Return bookings from public-sector teams are the clearest measure of delivery quality.

  • Microsoft Office training at City of Hamilton, 2017

    The start of a multi-year relationship with City of Hamilton municipal staff — Microsoft Office training in late summer and early fall of 2017. The return bookings that followed confirmed the fit.

  • Excel 2016 Level 2 at Breville Canada, 2018

    Excel 2016 Level 2 delivered at Breville Canada across two sessions in September 2018. The audience builds product plans and cost models — the kind of Excel work where precision matters.

  • Microsoft Office training at Airbnb, 2017

    One-day Microsoft Office training at Airbnb in November 2017 — a focused engagement for a team that needed a specific set of skills without a longer commitment.

  • Pedigree of Oat Lines (POOL) keynote at AAFC Central Experimental Farm, 2008

    In 2008, I gave a keynote at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, to oat geneticists from around the world, about a database I had built for them. Unusual chain: built the platform, then explained it to the people who would use it, with both audiences in the room.