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