Keynote speaking
Story-led talks for workplaces, conferences and professional audiences, connecting one family’s experience to the choices institutions make now.
Keynote speaking · Facilitated conversations · Advisory work
Bring the conversationinto the room.
I work with employers, local authorities, safeguarding teams and specialist organisations. Drawing on lived experience, I help audiences recognise coercive control, understand its impact on children and consider what their own institutions can do.
60+engagements
5,000+people reached directly
40+organisations
Selected speaking audiences
Also heard at the Global Summit on Economic Abuse.
How I work
A personal story.
A professional conversation.
Each engagement is shaped around the room, the audience and the responsibility they carry beyond it.
Facilitated conversations
Focused discussions for organisations that want to move beyond awareness and consider how colleagues, leaders and services recognise and respond to domestic abuse.
Commissioned resources and advisory work
Lived-experience insight translated into filmed resources, policy conversations and work that organisations can continue using after the event.
Core speaking themes
The patterns beneath the incident.
- 01Recognising coercive control
- 02The hidden harms experienced by children
- 03Men’s role in ending violence against women
- 04Why employers and colleagues matter
- 05Justice, language and institutional change
26organisations
250+staff and volunteers
Impact in practice
Turning lived experience into practice.
I created a bespoke filmed resource exploring coercive control, lived experience and the impact on children for Fermanagh & Omagh Women’s Aid.
Designed for use alongside their local Ending Violence Against Women and Girls toolkit.
Activity reported by the organisation following the project
- Safe Leave introduced with employers
- Stronger support for disclosure and referrals
- Anti-misogyny work with young men
- Council and wider public-awareness activity
What audiences take away
What stays afterthe room empties.
“The conference was incredibly well received, and we had overwhelmingly positive feedback. Everyone is still talking about your amazing, touching and thought-provoking presentation.”
Conference organiser · Redbridge Council x Reach Out Domestic Abuse Service
“I found your talk profoundly moving and it is often something I think back to.”
Metropolitan Police sergeant
“Those reflections were like a window for us as social workers. Anything that develops our insight into the world of children experiencing domestic abuse is invaluable.”
Hub Service Manager · Cafcass
“A brilliant keynote presentation. We had so much positive feedback about everything you shared with us.”
European Regional Manager · Safe & Together Institute
Speaking · Advisory · Media
Bring this conversation to your organisation.
For keynotes, facilitated conversations, commissioned resources, panels and advisory enquiries, get in touch directly.
Email David davidchallen.work@gmail.com