Conferences, corporate events, leadership days, parenting gatherings — any room where an honest conversation is overdue.
I didn't come to speaking through a speaking school. I came through music, yoga teaching, running retreats, MC work for live events, long honest conversations on a podcast, and years of coaching people one-to-one through some of the most significant periods of their lives.
In each of those spaces, the question was the same: can I actually be present with the people in front of me? Can I say something true enough that it lands? That question is still what I show up with.
Most speakers have a straight line on their CV. I don't. I spent years performing music, then teaching yoga, then facilitating retreats, then hosting a podcast, then coaching, then occasionally being asked to stand in front of a room and say something useful.
At the time it felt like a winding path. Looking back, it was the same education over and over: how do you hold a room? How do you earn trust quickly? How do you say something true without making people feel exposed?
I've done that in very different rooms — a yoga studio with twelve people, a retreat with thirty, a podcast with two, a live event with several hundred. The format changes. What makes it work doesn't.
I speak on the things that are actually affecting the people sitting in front of me — not the sanitised version of those things.
The gap between how you present and how you're actually doing. The pressure of leadership when you're quietly not okay. The way the rest of life doesn't stay at the door. The slow drift away from yourself that most people don't notice until something forces them to.
I'm not trying to inspire people. I'm trying to say something true enough that they feel less alone in it.
When that happens — when the room goes quiet in a different way — things shift. Not because of a technique. Because something landed.
Here's a sample of what I speak on. Most sessions are adapted to the audience rather than delivered off the shelf.
Who are you when no one's watching?
On identity, performance and the gap between the two — and why that gap is costing the people in your room more than they realise.
The pressure underneath the pressure.
What's really driving stress, disconnection and disengagement — and what actually helps. Not a framework. An honest conversation about what's going on underneath the surface.
How to have the conversation you've been avoiding.
Practical, honest, and a lot less terrifying than it sounds. For rooms where communication is the thing nobody wants to name.
Showing up when you don't feel like it.
Not a pep talk. An honest look at what sustains people through hard periods — and what quietly destroys them. For leaders, teams and anyone navigating something difficult.
The identity you didn't see coming.
Parenthood, career pivots, relationship change, loss — any major shift does the same thing. It exposes who you were and demands to know who you're going to be. A session for rooms where that question is already in the air.
Conference organisers who want a speaker that holds a room with substance instead of spectacle.
Leaders who want their teams to leave with something that sticks — not just a good feeling that fades by Thursday.
Personal development and leadership events where the audience wants the conversation everyone's been avoiding, not a polished keynote about it.
Parenting and family events that want a grounded, specific take on identity, relationships and what it actually takes to show up for the people who matter.
Organisations serious about the human side of performance — and willing to go somewhere real to get there.
"Tommy has a gift for holding a room. He combines humour, honesty and depth in a way that keeps people engaged from beginning to end. The conversations he creates don't end when the event finishes."
— Shane
Tell me about your audience and what you want them to walk away with. We'll figure out whether it's a fit.
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