Speaking
I've spoken at conferences, leadership gatherings, educational institutions, and community events. My talks connect lived experience to practical leadership, often drawing on Jewish tradition when it illuminates something others miss. I try to leave people with something specific to carry home.
Reconciling My Body With Tradition
My ELI Talk explores what living with Type 1 Diabetes revealed about the Jewish concept of holiness, the body as a site of meaning, and what it means to be responsible for something fragile and irreplaceable. It has been viewed more than 25,000 times.
Cultural Humility and Cross-Cultural Community Building
What it actually means to enter a community not your own and show up as a learner. Drawing on fifteen years of building programs across more than 70 countries, this talk is about the discipline of being curious rather than certain, and what that posture makes possible in a room.
Jewish Leadership and Global Responsibility
What it means to lead with an awareness of the whole Jewish world, not just the community in front of you. On the obligations that come with global connection, and what we owe to people we may never meet.
Belonging and Accountability
Why belonging without accountability is just comfort. How organizations build cultures where people are genuinely responsible for one another, not just professionally nice to each other.
Disability, the Body, and Jewish Thought
What chronic illness and the body reveal about holiness, dignity, and what we owe each other. A talk that draws on Jewish text in unexpected places and asks what it means to be responsible for something you can't fully control.
Building Community Across Difference
The theory and practice of building communities where people actually care about one another across lines of culture, background, and experience. What makes a room feel like a community, and how you build toward that deliberately.
Organizational Development and Program Design
For Jewish professional audiences: how to build programs that actually transform people, not just engage them. The difference between participation and formation. What it takes to design at scale without losing what makes the experience matter.
- Keynotes and plenary sessions
- Panel participation and moderation
- Shabbat and High Holiday d'var Torah
- Conference presentations
- Leadership retreats and team sessions
- Organizational seminars
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