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Sharing Knowledge & Meaning

Speaking Topics

If you're wanting to inject some future-focused thinking into your workforce/sector education program, challenge leaders to reimagine what sport can be, and spark momentum for meaningful change - you're in the right place. Anna Walker delivers thought-provoking keynotes and practical talks that disrupt outdated thinking, inspire inclusive design and place people back at the centre of sport. Talks or workshops are tailored to shift mindsets, ignite purpose and equip your audience with the tools to build a thriving, sustainable and human-centred future for sport. 

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Here are a list of popular topics. 

Family Soccer

Flip the Field

Build sports and cultures people want to stay with - for life. 

​It’s time to flip our approach—from making people love sport, to designing sport people actually love to play. This session challenges long-held beliefs about competition, tradition, and talent pipelines, and introduces a bold new mindset that centres participant joy, belonging, and long-term engagement. Essential for leaders ready to reimagine participation growth.

 

  • Discover why the traditional model of talent-first sport is limiting our potential.

  • Learn how to centre joy, connection, and inclusivity in program design.

  • Get inspired by real-world examples of redesigned, loved programs.

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Active Listening

The first step to inclusion and innovation

If you're not listening, you're guessing what people are feeling, wanting, fearing.

Learn how active listening can shift your culture, fuel innovation, and uncover barriers you didn’t know existed. This session explores how to integrate surveys, interviews, co-design, and lived experience into everyday practice—because the answers are already in the room.

 

  • Understand what radical listening really means in practice.

  • Discover tools to capture honest feedback from diverse voices.

  • Explore how listening leads to smarter, more inclusive decisions.

  

Double Tennis Players
Surfers

Lead From Within

Ditch the Top-Down Model

Culture change doesn’t trickle down—it bubbles up from within. Explore how to empower people at all levels of your organisation to lead inclusion, growth, and innovation. This session covers strategies to unlock intrinsic leadership and foster a shared sense of responsibility and pride across the workforce.

 

  • Learn how to foster internal leadership and ownership at all levels.

  • Identify and empower change agents within your workforce.

  • Shift culture through collaborative leadership, not just directives.

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Co-Design With Communities

- Not for them

Want to reach new audiences? Start by designing with them. This session offers a practical roadmap to meaningful community engagement and participatory design, showing how different sport can be reimagined to fit different lives, places and purposes - without losing its magic. 

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  • Learn how to foster internal leadrship and ownership at all levels. 

  • Identify and empower change agents within your workforce. 

  • Shift culture through collaborative leadership, not just directives. 

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Wheelchair Racers

The Social Impact Advantage

Why sport should capture - and lead with - its value

Sport is already changing lives—but are we capturing, communicating, and leveraging that story? This session shows how to lead with social impact, shifting the conversation from ‘fun and fitness’ to social cohesion, mental health, education, and community resilience. Because if we don’t show our value, we risk being overlooked.

 

  • Learn how to capture and communicate your impact effectively.

  • Reposition your organisation to attract social impact funding.

  • Shift from anecdotal to strategic storytelling with purpose.

Go Deep On Data

Become Radically Evidence-Based

Gut feelings aren’t good strategy. This session shows how to use data in ways that are timely, human-centred, and impact-focused - measuring what matters and using evidence to steer decisions, justify and attract funding, and drive transformation. Take the guess work out of strategy, and reclaim precious time, energy and resources. Learn how to make data your team’s secret weapon.

 

  • Discover which data to collect and how to interpret it meaningfully.

  • Learn to use data to improve outcomes and support funding bids.

  • Explore easy ways to bring data into everyday decisions.

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Senior Soccer Players

Measure What Matters

Redefining success in sport

Participation rates and medals are yesterday’s metrics. This session introduces new frameworks to measure user experience, inclusion, retention, and social impact. It’s about measuring how we succeed, not just if we did—and using that insight to shape a better future for sport.

 

  • Explore new metrics for measuring what really matters.

  • Understand how different outcomes drive long-term success.

  • Learn how to track participant experience and wellbeing.

From Inclusion Bolt-Ons to 'Baked In' Culture

Inclusion as a practice - not a project

This powerful session helps teams embed inclusive principles in everyday operations, moving beyond tokenism toward authentic integration. From comms to coaching to governance, learn what it takes to make inclusion a value that lives across your organisation.

 

  • Identify ways to weave inclusion into daily workflows.

  • Avoid common pitfalls of performative or token inclusion.

  • Create an organisation-wide strategy that sticks.

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