Bring Unspeakable into your organisation
Buy copies of Unspeakable for your team and I’ll contribute an author conversation and complimentary facilitated discussion at no fee.
Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Climate Catastrophe and its Consequences in Australia asks what happens when we take seriously the scale of climate disruption that Australia may face, including consequences that extend well beyond individual hazards into our economy, institutions, communities and everyday lives.
For organisations, those questions quickly become practical ones.
What assumptions about the future underpin your strategy? How prepared are your people and systems for sustained disruption? What responsibilities does your organisation have to the communities and places on which it depends? And what decisions being made today might look very different when viewed against the conditions we could face over the coming decades?
I am offering organisations and businesses an opportunity to use Unspeakable as the starting point for that conversation
Purchase 25 or more copies
Purchase 25 or more copies of Unspeakable for your staff, leadership team, board, partners or other participants and I will contribute a:
One-hour online author conversation and facilitated organisational discussion at no professional fee.
The session can explore the central arguments of the book, why Richard Hil and I wrote it, and what the future we describe could mean for your organisation and its people.
The offer
Purchase 50 or more copies
Purchase 50 or more copies of Unspeakable and I can instead contribute a:
90-minute in-person author conversation and facilitated organisational discussion at no professional fee.
For an in-person session, the organisation covers reasonable travel and accommodation costs, agreed in advance.
The session can include a short author talk, facilitated discussion, questions and book signing, with the precise format agreed beforehand.
What could we discuss?
The conversation will be shaped around your organisation and the people in the room.
Depending on what is most relevant, we might explore how escalating climate disruption intersects with organisational strategy and risk, business continuity and resilience, leadership under uncertainty, workforce and community impacts, or the assumptions your organisation is making about the conditions in which it will operate.
This is intended as a serious conversation arising from the book rather than a generic presentation.
Who is it for?
The offer is suitable for organisations that want to create a substantive internal conversation around Unspeakable, including:
Businesses and executive teams.
Boards and governance groups.
Local, state and federal government organisations.
Councils.
Universities and research institutions.
Health and human services organisations.
Infrastructure and essential service providers.
Professional associations and industry groups.
Copies can be provided to staff, executives, board members, clients, partners, conference participants or another audience relevant to your organisation.
Books
I can arrange the copies of Unspeakable directly with your organisation.
For in-person events, I can also sign or personalise copies as part of the session.
If you are considering a larger order or would like books distributed across several teams or locations, please contact me and we can work out the most practical arrangement.
If you want to go deeper
The sessions offered here are conversations built around Unspeakable. They are deliberately different from the more substantial organisational work I undertake through Safer Future.
If the discussion raises questions your organisation wants to explore in greater depth, including organisational resilience, crisis readiness, climate adaptation, governance, leadership under disruption or scenario exercises, we can discuss a separately commissioned engagement.
There is no expectation that participating in the Unspeakable offer leads to further work.
I encourage hosts to bring together people with different relationships to their community.
Depending on the place, that might include neighbourhood and community groups, local government, emergency services, health and social services, local businesses, environmental organisations, First Nations organisations and people who contribute to their community outside formal institutions.
There is no prescribed mix. What is useful is having people in the room who bring different experiences, relationships and forms of local knowledge.
If you would like to bring Unspeakable into your organisation, tell me a little about your organisation, who you would like to involve, how many copies you are considering, whether you are interested in the online or in-person format, and approximately when you would like to hold the conversation.
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