Speaking & Facilitation

Adrian Howard is available for paid facilitation & speaking events at your organisation — bringing his 25+ years of experience to internal professional development events and company retreats.

Adrian has been presenting at international events for more than ten years. He talks on the overlap of Agile, UX, and Product — with a focus on outcomes, strategy, failure, and cross-functional teamwork. His talks are actionable — giving attendees ideas and practices they can takeaway immediately and experiment with.

We do free talks for non-profit community events and organisations supporting non-represented groups in design, product, and development.

We are currently only accepting virtual appearances.

Recent Public Talks

The Evolution of Pace Layer Mapping

We’ll tell the story of several different attempts at helping teams integrate research work effectively. We’ll talk about what worked, what didn't, and how those attempts eventually evolved into the practice of Pace Layer Mapping.

An already excellent talk from @adrianh - "disagreements on who the end user was", love that one picture is of Cat Stevens 😂

Loving your talk for @TheLeadDev Live, you've got such a great story-telling voice and style that I could listen to your insights all day long!.

Sturgeon's Biases

As a technical leader do you have problems with different disciplines and communities of practice within your organisation? Do you find misconceptions about what different groups can do getting in the way of achieving your objectives?

How to Write OKRs That Don’t Suck

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are awesome! So why do they work so badly for some companies? Why do they often end up as another stick to beat teams with?

Adrian is one of the most practical and wisest people I know in the world of product, design, and development.

I played @adrianh's "How to Talk to Earthlings" at a brownbag this week for my team. Inspired great conversations!

How to talk to Earthlings

To build great teams you need to understand people. A core leadership skill is the ability to have effective conversations with your team and your customers.

Experimenting with Experimental Ethics

Adrian examines different approaches to experimental ethics and explains how a more team- and values-oriented approach can make product experiments safer and more effective.

Very excited to learn more about experimental ethics with @adrianh at the @justeat_tech product guild today.

LOVED LOVED LOVED @adrianh's session on celebrating failure - awesome!

Failure Swapshop

Failure Swapshop helps people share and reflect on failure in a safe way. We’ve found it a fun and effective tool for project managers to use with peers, in retrospectives, and with stakeholders.

Restarting the Enterprise

We all love working on great teams — building innovative products that people want to use. Why does this feeling so often disappear whenever “enterprise” is mentioned?

@adrianh just delivered one of the best #custdev talks that I've heard

Excellent, practical advice from @adrianh. No fluff, straight value, thanks Adrian!

We want to say a huge thank you to @adrianh for all his mentor-ship yesterday. Hugely valuable

@adrianh has delivered a serious deep-dive on #LeanUX personas.

Love how interactive this session is - you just jump right into DOING STUFF. Nice.

Really useful lessons, took a lot away. You really should write a book!

This guy gets making the UX style of management user driven!

Really nice work, free of magic, and practical

Wow! @adrianh knows all about interviews, all the details and traps.

Eye-opening & easily digestible

Organisational culture vs. A/B testing strategies: @adrianh dropping knowledge like Galileo dropped the orange.

Going to try using lean persona soon thanks to @adrianh. Got some 'set-and-forget persona' going mouldy in the office

I feel empowered to try out more experimentation. Needed the path from users stories to hypothesis.

Loved your session so much, can't wait to go back to work and tell everyone about it. Really practical session

I like @adrianh doesn’t use too much jargon or pre-formated tables to share knowledge. We learn in a #lean way

[An] excellent presenter and teacher!

Really enjoyed the talk on Lean Personas by @adrianh … definitely going to try this out!

Fantastic presentation about Lean personas

Good stuff from @adrianh on the myths of estimation and project planning

I love @adrianh talks, so great at presenting ideas in a compelling way

Thanks, @adrianh for the great talk on 'Intersection of UX, Product and Agile', it was very well received by over 50 attendees. Great to have you on board.

Adrian is always an insightful and inspirational speaker, I love his talks and am especially looking forward to this one!