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Keynotes can be adapted for panels, workshops, and facilitated discussions depending on audience and context.
Narcissism, Power, and Relational Harm
Moving beyond labels to understand control, emotional manipulation, and relational imbalance
This keynote explores narcissistic patterns as relational dynamics rather than diagnoses. Petra examines how power, control, and emotional manipulation operate in relationships and organisations, why these dynamics are so destabilising, and what helps people regain clarity without oversimplification or blame.
Why Insight Isn’t Enough
Why understanding your patterns doesn’t automatically change them
Many people know why they behave the way they do — yet remain stuck. This talk explores the limits of insight-based change and the psychological conditions required for understanding to translate into different choices, responses, and outcomes over time.
Adaptation, Not Defect
How early environments shape adult behaviour
Rather than framing behaviour as pathology, this keynote reframes many adult struggles as adaptations to earlier conditions. Petra explores how these patterns develop, why they persist, and how re-contextualising them can reduce shame and open space for change.
Leadership, Power, and Psychological Safety
How unmet psychological needs drive disengagement and burnout
This talk examines how leadership style, organisational culture, and power dynamics shape motivation, trust, and engagement at work. Drawing on applied psychology, Petra explores why well-intentioned leadership often misses the mark — particularly in times of uncertainty and change.
Understanding Gen Z at Work
Psychological need frustration, disengagement, and what this generation is responding to
Moving beyond stereotypes, this keynote explores Gen Z disengagement through the lens of psychological need frustration. Petra examines how leadership, structure, and culture influence motivation — and what organisations often misunderstand about this generation.
Meaning-Making Under Pressure
How people make sense of themselves and the world in times of constraint
Rather than framing behaviour as pathology, this keynote reframes many adult struggles as adaptations to earlier conditions. Petra explores how these patterns develop, why they persist, and how re-contextualising them can reduce shame and open space for change.