Speaker Services
✨ I create learning opportunities around innovation & neurodiversity. ✨
Talks & Workshops
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Neurodiversity Is What Makes Teams Strong
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Leveraging your team's abundance of perspectives.
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Creative Boundaries
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Supporting innovation by way of intentionality.
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This Is Not Precious
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Driving innovation by reducing the consequences of risks.
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Psychological Safety to Reduce Performance Barriers
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Building trust and eliminating distractions so everyone on your teams can show up as their best selves.
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Embracing Neurodiversity for Recruitment and Retention
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Attracting and retaining top talent by celebrating your team members' uniquely magnificent minds.
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Below, you'll find clips of me as a main-stage conference speaker. I'm a versatile and experienced workshop facilitator, too. Check out this sample half-day agenda.
Testimonials
"Frankie gives people the courage to do what they think may be hard or downright impossible." ~ Pradeep Suthram, Venture-Backed Startup Coach "Frankie brings creativity, groundedness, & joy to whatever spaces he's in." ~Caroline Durham, founder, Mindful Justice "He exposed me to human centered design, and it changed my professional life." ~Matt Brown, Director of Nursing Staff Development, VHC "He is definitely bilingual, meaning he can use both sides of his brain." ~ John Johnson, Verbal Gymnastics "His passion is contagious. Whatever he's working on, you want to work on it, too." ~ Nancy Eddy, Board Chair, The Good Listening Project
The Steward School
In January, 2025, I spoke about neurodiversity for 160 middle schoolers at the Steward School in Richmond, VA. Watch me facilitate a full auditorium audience playing my game, BrainSpin, in the clip below.
Talk title: Neurodiversity Is What Makes Teams Strong (8 min clip)
Service Experience Camp
I keynoted the Service Experience Camp conference in Berlin in 2018. I'd seen some of my experience design heroes on that stage in years past, so it felt like a huge honor. I talked about my own work as lead designer for Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital's Innovation Hub.
Talk title: Design for Implementation (25 min)
TEDxRiverOaks
In 2022, I was invited to give a TEDx talk. I spoke about my work as an artist. The recording studio was at the Department of Veterans Affairs, directly across the street from the White House here in Washington, D.C.
Talk title: A Frame Around the World (11 min)
Mayo Clinic
In 2019, the Mayo Clinic brought me to their headquarters in Rochester, MN to give a talk at their Transform conference. I spoke about my then-fledgling nonprofit, which helps fight burnout in healthcare. (photo courtesy Mayo)
Talk title: Listen Like a Poet (8 min)
Hire me to speak at your event or workplace on my workshops page.