Clare's
Speaking
Clare brings humour, vulnerability and sharp psychological insight to difficult questions, offering seriousness without heaviness and complexity without defensiveness.
- How Technology Governs Inner Life
- AI as Companion, Confessor, and Authority
- Love and Power in the Digital Age
- Why Burnout Isn’t Personal: Designed Environments
- When Care Becomes Automated
- Neurodivergence in a Designed World
- Evolutionary Mismatch: Ancient Minds in Designed Environments
She is a writer, historian and psychologist with doctoral-level training. She has studied and taught at the Universities of Cambridge, St Andrews and Edinburgh. Her work examines how technology and contemporary systems of power shape attention, relationships, identity and mental health.
Clare speaks to corporate and leadership teams as well as academic, cultural and policy audiences, helping organisations understand the human consequences of AI, anticipate emerging risks, and make more psychologically informed decisions.
Her talks begin from a simple proposition: what feels personal is often structural. Anxiety, burnout, distraction and relational strain cannot be understood apart from the environments in which they arise.
Rather than offering quick fixes, Clare helps audiences recognise the systems beneath familiar narratives of wellbeing, progress and innovation—and think more clearly about their shared responsibility for what those systems produce.
Talks are adapted to the audience, context and format, from keynote presentations and leadership sessions to festivals, policy forums, panels and closed conversations.
Approach
- Clare’s talks are responsive to audience, context, and format, allowing ideas to emerge in relation to the space rather than being delivered as a closed performance.
- Oriented toward conversation, not conclusion. Sessions are designed to open dialogue rather than settle debate, inviting reflection instead of certainty.
- Attentive to tone as well as content. Care is taken to create conditions where difficult ideas can be explored without simplification, defensiveness, or polarisation.
- Focused on patterns rather than prescriptions. Rather than offering answers, Clare surfaces the assumptions, tensions, and structures that quietly shape experience.
- Grounded in shared responsibility. Audiences are supported to think together about care, power, and the conditions shaping contemporary life. “What feels personal is often structural.”
Keeping it authentic, fearless and compassionate
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