Speaking, workshops, advisory and writing on what to do when your people switch off

Four ways to work with me beyond the books, each one shaped around your audience, your team, and the questions you are sitting with. Pick the shape that fits what you need.

Rebecca Longman speaking to an audience

Topics I speak on

Three signature talks. Each one is tailored to the audience and the context, whether that is a global conference, an internal leadership event, a university lecture, or a webinar for a specialist community.

01

Agency at Work

The advice to "do what you love" has failed a generation. Careers no longer come pre-designed, and no employer will build one for you. Rebecca shows what the people who genuinely love their work have in common, and how anyone can build the same kind of agency into theirs. Delivered globally for ADP and adapted for the ADHD community.

02

Building Workplaces People Love

Employee engagement has been flat for two decades, despite billions spent on culture, benefits and perks. Now AI is forcing a harder question about what humans are for at work. Rebecca argues the missing ingredient is agency, and shows leaders what has to change in the system for it to grow. Based on her forthcoming book.

03

What Great Leaders Do Differently

Most leaders say they want their people to think for themselves, take ownership, and grow. Then, without meaning to, they lead in ways that make all three harder. Rebecca introduces the AgencyBACkbone® framework, and gives every leader in the room something to change on Monday morning.

When you want the topic to effect change, not just be heard

Any of the three topics can be run as a workshop. The group works with the ideas, not just hears them, and each session is built around the questions they've come with.

Half day

Focused session

Three to four hours with a leadership team or working group. One topic, taken deeper, with room for the group to apply it to their own context.

Good for leadership offsites, team away-days, and away-mornings where a talk alone would leave the ideas floating.

Full day

Immersive workshop

A full day of exploration, discussion, and application. Deeper diagnostic work, more time for the group to test the ideas against their own reality, and a follow-on plan for what changes after the day itself.

Suited to leadership team development, cross-functional teams working through change, or manager cohorts building shared language.

When the question needs more than one session

Advisory, which is working one to one with a leader or small team on a specific people issue they want to think through properly, usually around motivation, engagement, team dynamics or culture.

How it works

We start with a scoping conversation to work out what you are trying to shift, and whether advisory is the right shape for the question in front of you.

From there, engagements run across however many focused conversations are useful, rather than running to a fixed length. Some clients come once a fortnight for a few months. Others come for one or two deeper sessions to unlock a decision they have been circling.

All of it is grounded in two decades of change and engagement work, the research behind the two books, and the AgencyBACkbone framework.

Where it tends to help

  • A leader whose team has started to go quiet, and who is not yet sure why.
  • An HR or people team wanting to think through engagement, culture or team dynamics with someone outside the organisation.
  • A leadership team working through a people-side change where the right answer is not yet obvious.
  • A founder or senior leader wanting a sounding board before taking a people decision to the exec.

When you want the thinking on the page as well as in the room

Thought-leadership pieces, white papers and articles on engagement, culture and how people are showing up at work, written for a specific audience and signed off under your name or the organisation's. Shaped around what you already know and what you are trying to say to your market.

How it works

We start with a conversation about who the piece is for, what you want the reader to take away, and what you already know that is not yet on the page.

From there, I draft and refine the piece around your voice and your point of view, with the research and framing drawn from two decades of work on engagement, culture and the people side of change.

The finished piece goes out under your name or the organisation's, ready for your blog, your LinkedIn, your clients, or wherever it needs to land.

Where it tends to help

  • A consultancy or professional services firm wanting thought leadership that lands with the people who buy from them.
  • An HR or people function wanting a well-researched white paper on engagement, culture or ways of working to anchor a wider conversation.
  • A senior leader with a point of view they want to put into the market, who does not have the time to write the piece themselves.
  • A marketing or comms team wanting a credible, well-written article on the people side of the business for a specific campaign or audience.

What Clients and Audiences Say

"Over 70 virtual training sessions to global sales teams. Rebecca's average delegate score is over 90% positive, a formidable achievement when much of the audience was mandatory."

The Storytellers

Featured client: ADP

"Rebecca has a real talent for making complex ideas simple, relevant, and actionable. She successfully balanced inspiring people to think differently with providing practical tools they could apply immediately. I would highly recommend her to any organisation looking to create meaningful conversations around career development and employee engagement."

Liz Buckley

Head of Associate Engagement, ADP Global Payroll

"Rebecca delivers with aplomb and wins critical acclaim from the clients she works with. They engage with her at a personal level. Her skilled questioning and listening enable her to lead, facilitate, enthuse and encourage."

Richard Leech

Managing Partner, One Performance

"Rebecca built such strong rapport and understanding with the client, helped shape their thinking and delivered top quality work. You can tell how deeply she cares. It always shines through."

Dr Iain Smith

Head of Behavioral Science, Sunny

"Inspiring. Taking a different approach on career building is very motivating for those looking for value and joy at work."

67% of attendees rated the session 5/5.

ADP InspoTalks: Growth

Participant feedback, 2026

"Probing questions that enabled me to see things in a different light. I have now formally begun my journey to a career that will bring me more satisfaction. I'd highly recommend her."

Career Development Client

Mid-career professional

A rough guide

Every engagement is shaped around your audience, context and outcomes. Online talks and webinars start from £1,250, half and full-day workshops are quoted around scope, advisory engagements are quoted around the question you are bringing, and writing commissions are quoted around the piece and the audience. Travel and materials quoted separately.

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