Speaking about banishing the inner critic to unleash creativity, hacking the creative brain, encouraging creative collaboration; and ways in which we can do our best work is Denise’s love and passion.

If you would like Denise to keynote your event, get in touch to discuss availability, topics, and speaking fees.

Upcoming Engagements

2024

• TBD

Past Appearances

2023

• 27 July 2023:”Banish Your Inner Critic: Transform Self-Talk to Elevate Performance” keynote/workshop at Dance Studio Owner’s Association Inner Circle Conference in Las Vegas,  NV

2022

• 22 September 2022: “Cultivating Confidence for the Stage” workshop for Women Talk Design [Online]
• 23 June 2022:”Wild Creativity” keynote/workshop at the Goodr corporate retreat in Los Angeles,  CA
• 17 May 2022:”Banish Your Inner Critic: Transform Self-Talk to Elevate Performance” guest lecture at the Design for Play course at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA
• 17 May 2022:”Banish Your Inner Critic: Cultivate Creative Confidence” guest lecture at the Product Design Senior Capstone course at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA
• 27-28 April 2022: “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” 2-day workshop for private client [Online]
• 7 February 2022: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Transform Self-Talk to Elevate Performance” at The Self-Employed Summit [Online]

2021

• 8 November 2021:”Co-Create: Creating Better Together” workshop for the Cocomattic ERG at Automattic [Online]
• 28 October 2021: “Banish Your Inner Critic” guest workshop for the Design To Be program [Online]
• 11 October 2021: “Banish Your Inner Critic” workshop for the Cocomattic ERG at Automattic [Online]
• 30 September  & 6 October 2021: “Banish Your Inner Critic” workshops for the Loyalty Program at Atlassian [Online]
• 20-23 September 2021: Filming videos for the “Unique Ways to Generate Creative Ideas” online course for LinkedIn Learning
• June-August:”Cultivating Career Confidence” and “Banish Your Inner Critic” masterclasses for Guidea [Online]
• 28-30 June 2021: Filming videos for the “Productive Creativity” online course for LinkedIn Learning
• Spring Quarter 2021: “Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Productivity” online course for the Stanford Continuing Studies Program [Online]
• 26 May 2021:  “Banish Your Inner Critic: Transform Self-Talk to Elevate Performance” keynote at Conestoga College Career Readiness Week [Online]
• 22 April 2021:”Banish Your Inner Critic: Cultivate Creative Confidence” guest lecture at the Product Design Senior Capstone course at Stanford University [Online]
• Winter Quarter 2021: “Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Productivity” online course for the Stanford Continuing Studies Program [Online]
• 8-11 February 2021: Filming videos for the “Developing Your Creativity as a Leader” online course for LinkedIn Learning
• 25 February 2021: Banish Your Inner Critic VIP Bonus Session for the Small Shop Strategies Executive Directors Group [Online]
• 10 February 2021: “Lead With Confidence” masterclass for UXLX Masters [Online]
• 17 January 2021: “Amplify-U: Cultivate Career Confidence Through Banishing Your Inner Critic” at Photography Professionals Association Imaging Conference [Online]

2020

• November 2020 – January 2021: “Amplify-U: Cultivating Career Confidence” masterclass [Online]
• 11 November 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Transform Self-Talk to Elevate Performance” keynote at the IABC Southern Regional Conference [Online]
• 14 October 2020: “Boost your confidence and unblock your creativity” fireside chat with Sara Wachter-Boettcher for Collective Strength [Online]
• 8 October 2020: guest speaker in Mighty Minds Salon with Stephen Anderson [Online]
• 8 October 2020: expert panelist for “Business on the Brink” show pilot with Jamie Cohen [Online]
• 25 September 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Transform Self-Talk to Elevate Performance” keynote at UX Hustle Summit [Online]
• 15 September 2020: guest speaker in Jamie Broderick’s Women’s Entrepreneurial Group [Online]
• 3 September 2020: “Designing for Change” keynote for Rosenfeld Media’s Enterprise Experience Conference [Online]
• 31 August to 2 September 2020: Filming videos for the “The Business Case for Creativity” online course for LinkedIn Learning
• 22 July 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic” virtual deep-dive workshop for Jimdo in Hamburg, Germany [Online]
• 14 July 2020: “How to Have Difficult Conversations With Confidence” session at the Mind The Product Digital Conference [Online]
• 11 June 2023: “Overcome Self-Doubt, Amplify Your Impact, and Create a Better World” guest lecture at the Global Success Leadership Academy [Online]
• 5 June 2020: “Getting creative during (or post?) COVID” facilitating at the National Speaker Association Fresh Talk Fridays [Online]
• 2 June 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Manage Anxiety and Boost Creativity” at NPSC Trainings [Online]
• 27 May 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: How to Reduce Anxiety, Unblock Creativity, and Amplify Your Impact” keynote at ProductTank Tbilisi (World Product Day) [Online]
• 22 May 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: How to Reduce Anxiety, Unblock Creativity, and Amplify Your Impact” keynote at the Speaker Branding Summit [Online]
• 15 May 2020: “Managing Anxiety and Self-Doubt Right Now” facilitating at the National Speaker Association Fresh Talk Fridays [Online]
• 13 May 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Transform Self-Talk to Manage Anxiety and Elevate Performance” Guest Lecture at Stanford University School of Human Computer Interaction [Online]
• 7 May 2020: Women Talk Design “Speaking With Confidence” workshop facilitation for Private Client [Online]
• 30 April 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: How to Reduce Anxiety, Unblock Creativity, and Up-Level Leadership” at the Emergent Leadership Summit [Online]
• 20 April 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: How to Reduce Anxiety, Unblock Creativity, and Up-Level Leadership” at SpeakAid 2020 Online Conference [Online]
• 16 April 2020: Guest on Women Talk Design #CouchConvo “Getting Paid to Speak” [Online]
• 25 March 2020: Guest on Women Talk Design #CouchConvo “Going Virtual With Your Speaking Engagements” [Online]
• 20 March 2020: “Banish Your Inner Critic: How to Reduce Anxiety and Boost Creativity and Credibility” at the Forbes8 Live Summit [Online]
• 22 January 2020: “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” keynote/mini-workshop at the Computrition annual company event in Woodland Hills, CA
• 23-31 January 2020: Filming videos for the “Creativity For All” and “Creative Collaboration” online courses for LinkedIn Learning in Carpinteria, CA

2019

• 13 November 2019: “7 Ways to Overcome Your Inner Critic” Facebook Live with PPA Bridging the Gap series
• 28-30 October 2019: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Unblock Creativity and Amplify Your Impact” keynote at the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference in San Diego, CA
• 16-25 October 2019: Filming videos for the “Creativity For All” and “Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity” online courses for LinkedIn Learning in Carpinteria, CA
• 18 September 2019: “Empower, Amplify, and Elevate” keynote at a Facebook internal corporate event in Menlo Park, CA
• 17 September 2019: “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” keynote/mini-workshop at Private Corporate event in San Diego, CA
• 12 September 2019: “Books, Bauhaus, and Basketball” presentation at The Little Art’s YS Homecoming Series in Yellow Springs, OH
• 3-6 September 2019: “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” talk at Inbound 2019 in Boston, MA
• 19-21 August 2019: “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” talk at Clarity Conference 2019 in San Francisco, CA
• 15-17 July 2019: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Unblock Creativity and Amplify Your Impact” keynote at Mind The Product San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
• 7-8 June 2019: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Hack Your Creativity!” keynote at Voxxed Days Athens in Athens, Greece
• 13-18 May 2019: Filming videos for the “Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity” online course for LinkedIn Learning in Carpinteria, CA
• 9 May 2019: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Unleash Creativity and Amplify Your Impact” keynote at Brand Minds 2019 in Bucharest, Romania
• 24-27 April 2019: “Banish Your Inner Critic: Up-Level Leadership” opening session at The EPIC Community Conference in Vancouver, BC
• 4-5 April 2019: “Step-up: Unleash Your Creative (Super) Power” opening session at The D3 Art+Design Conference and Expo in Miami, FL

2018

• November 2018: Opening keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0: Swipe Left!” at BuildStuff Conference Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania
• October 2018: “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0: Swipe Left!” presentation at Adobe Max in Los Angeles, CA
• October 2018: Opening keynote “Creativity (R)Evolution” at CMX Summit in Portland, OR
• September 2018: Opening keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0: Swipe Left!” at private corporate event in Chicago, IL
• August 2018: Opening keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0: Swipe Left!” at IIBA Columbus Annual Conference in Columbus, OH
• August 2018: “Unfold Your Brain” half-day workshop at UX Week in San Francisco, CA
• 10 August 2018: Opening keynote “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” at DevCamp Brazil in Campinas, Brazil
• May 2018: “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0: Swipe Left!” keynote at BuildStuff Conference Spain in Mallorca, Spain
• April 2018: Opening keynote “The Torchbearer’s Opportunity” and “Unfold Your Brain” workshop at Miles Camp in Bergen, Norway
• April 2018: “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0: Swipe Left!” opening keynote  at the University of Illinois WebCon, Urbana, IL

2017

• November 2017: “Swipe Left! Banish Your Inner Critic” presentation at the Pinecrest Business Association Networking Luncheon in Miami, FL
• November 2017: Opening keynote “Swipe Left! Banish Your Inner Critic” at FIU Online’s Faculty Conference in Miami, FL
• October 2017: “Speak Up! And Make Your Message Stick” Workshop + Closing Keynote “Swipe Left! Banish Your Inner Critic” at the NDC Lightening Talk Event in Oslo, Norway
• October 2017: “Unfold Your Brain” Full Day Workshop + second day opening keynote “Swipe Left! Banish Your Inner Critic”  at AmuseConf in Budapest, Hungary
• October 2017: Opening keynote “Infinite Possibilities” at FIU Online’s InnovEd Con in Miami, FL
• September 2017: Opening keynote “How to Unblock and Enhance Creativity” and workshops “Unblock Creativity” and “Master Creative Collaboration” at UX Salon Squares in Tel Aviv, Israel
• August 2017: Closing Keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0” at Agile 2017 in Orlando, FL
• July 2017: “From Honorable Mentions to Authors: Shuly Cawood & Denise Jacobs, a Conversation about Life Choices” at The Little Art Theater in Yellow Springs, OH.
• June 2017: “Banish Your Inner Critic, Level 1: Overcome Self-Doubt and Do Your Best Work” Full Day Workshop with the Build Right Maker Series in Dayton, OH
• June 2017:  “Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0” Presentation + “Speak Up! And Make Your Message Stick” Mini-Workshop at NDC Oslo in Oslo, Norway.
• June 2017: Second Day Opening Keynote “Creativity (R)Evolution” at IABC World Conference in Washington, DC.
• June 2017: Banish Your Inner Critic book launch event at Books and Books, Miami, FL

2016

• November 2016: “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” at AdobeMax 2016 in San Diego, CA.
• September 2016: Opening Keynote “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” at AMA Houston Conference in Houston, Texas.
• September 2016: Keynote “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” and Workshop “Create Better Together: Amplifying Creative Collaboration” with Jessie Shternshus at Delight Conference 2016 in Portland, Oregon.
• September 2016: Opening Keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic” at MakingWeb.no in Oslo, Norway.
• September 2016: Keynote at Frontend Conference in Zurich, Switzerland
• August 2016: Opening Keynote “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” and Half-Day Workshop “Unfold Your Brain: Skyrocket Your Creative Productivity” at UX Australia in Melbourne, Australia
• June 2016: Workshop “Speak Up! And Make Your Message Stick” at NDC Oslo in Oslo, Norway
• May 2016: Opening Keynote “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” and “Unfold Your Brain” Workshop at UXLX (User Experience Lisbon) in Lisbon, Portugal
• April 2016: Opening Keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic” at MinneWebCon in Minneapolis, MN
• March 2016: “Unfold Your Brain” workshop and “Creativity (R)Evolution” keynote at High Five Conference in Raleigh, NC
• March 2016: Keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic” at BCAMA Vision Conference in Vancouver, BC

2015

• December 2015: “Co-Create: Creating Better Together” talk at Twinkle Tampere Conference in Tampere, Finland
• November 2015: Opening Keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity” at edUI 2015 in Charlottesville, VA
• November 2015: Opening Keynote “Banish Your Inner Critic” at HOW Interactive Conference in Boston, MA
• October 2015: “Hacking The Creative Brain” talk at Web Directions in Sydney, Australia
• October 2015: “Unfold Your Brain” workshop at Web Directions in Sydney, Australia
• October 2015: Closing Keynote “Get Unblocked” at The Digital Shift 2015: Libraries Connecting Communities at Virtual Event
• October 2015: Keynote “Creativity Imperative” at Work-Life Congress in New York, NY
• October 2015: Closing Keynote “Infinite Possibilities” at Digital PM Summit in Philadelphia, PA
• October 2015: “Unleash Your Creativity: Banish Your Inner Critic” at Adobe Max 2015 in Los Angeles, CA
• September 2015: Keynote “Authentic Body Transformation” at Pure Body Love Retreat in Ft Lauderdale, FL
• September 2015: Opening Keynote “Infinite Possibilities” at HOW Interactive Conference in San Francisco, CA
• September 2015: “Banish Your Inner Critic” talk for the Facebook Design Team in San Francisco, CA
• September 2015: “Unleash Your Creativity: Banish Your Inner Critic” talk at Inbound 2015 in Boston, MA
• August 2015: “Collaboration and the Inner Critic” at Female Founders Happy Hour in San Francisco, CA
• August 2015: “Banish Your Inner Critic” talk at Cascade SF‘s UXNight in San Francisco, CA
• August 2015: “Think Like Them: Solving UX Problems” workshop at UX Week in San Francisco, CA
• August 2015: “Banish Your Inner Critic” talk at Design/Content Conf 2015 in Vancouver, BC
• August 2015: “Creativity Imperative” talk at Prototypes, Process & Play in Chicago, IL
• July 2015: Closing Keynote “Infinite Possibilities” at Groupon’s GEEKon Hackathon internal event in Chicago, IL
• July 2015: “Unstuck and Inspired” creativity workshop at Antioch Writer’s Workshop in Yellow Springs, OH
• June 2015: Closing Keynote “Infinite Possibilities” at Society for Technical Communications (STC) Summit in Columbus, OH
• June 2015: Speaking and Workshop at NDC Oslo (People Day) in Oslo, Norway
• June 2015: “Get Unblocked” half-day workshop,  “Infinite Possibilities” keynote, and “Let’s Rawk the Web” presentation at Giant Conf in Charleston, SC
• June 2015: “Banish Your Inner Critic” opening talk at Web Design Day in Pittsburgh, PA
• June 2015: Opening Keynote “Creativity (R)Evolution” at CREATE Festival in Pittsburgh, PA
• May 2015: talk to students at North Miami Beach High School in Miami, FL
• March 2015: Opening keynote “Infinite Possibilities” at EclipseCon in San Francisco, CA
• March 2015: “Banish Your Inner Critic” presentation at UX Munich in Munich, Germany
• March 2015: “Unlocking Creativity” talk at Think Apps Developers Event at Google EMEA in Dublin, Ireland

2014

• December 2014: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” closing keynote at User Experience Israel Studio 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel
• December 2014: “Get Unblocked” workshop at User Experience Israel Studio 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel
• December 2014: Opening keynote “The Creativity Imperative” at the Norwegian Developer’s Conference – London in London, UK
• November 2014: Miami Tech Leaders panel at The Miami International Book Fair in Miami, FL
• November 2014: Closing keynote “Infinite Possibilities” and “Hacking the Creative Brain” session at Devoxx in Antwerp, Belgium
• November 2014: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” keynote at Future of Web Design in New York, NY
• October 2014: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” closing keynote and “Hacking the Creative Brain” session at The Trondheim Developer’s Conference in Trondheim, Norway
• October 2014: Creativity masterclass at The Future of Storytelling Summit in New York City, NY
• September 2014: “White Space Creativity” opening keynote at Generate Conference – London in London, UK
• September 2014: “Find Your Shameless Spark” at Inspiring Women LIVE!
  in Bristol, UK
• September 2014: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” closing keynote at UX Week Conference in San Francisco, CA
• August 2014: “Hacking the Creative Brain” full-day workshop and “Whitespace Creativity” presentation at FrontEnd CH Conference in Zurich, Switzerland
• August 2014: Private corporate training in Washington, DC
• August 2014: Private corporate training in Las Vegas, NV
• June 2014: “Banishing Your Inner Critic and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome” discussion session at O’Reilly Media’s FOO Camp in Sebastopol, CA
• June 2014: “Get Unblocked” closing keynote at the 33rd Degree Developer’s Conference in Krakow, Poland
• June 2014: “Hacking the Creative Brain” workshop and “Banish Your Inner Critic” at the Norwegian Developer’s Conference in Oslo, Norway
• May 2014: “Banish Your Inner Critic” at Port80 in Newport, South Wales, UK
• May 2014: Mistress of Ceremonies for the Innovation Stage at eMerge Americas Tech Week in Miami, FL
• April 2014: “Hacking the Creative Brain” workshop and “The Art of Disciplined Creativity” at AngleBrackets Developer Conference in Orlando, FL
• March 2014: “Transmuting Fear” presentation and “Get Unblocked” workshop at private corporate event in Milan, Italy
• March 2014: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, TX
• February 2014: “Let’s Rawk The Web” at GitHub’s Public Speaking Workshop for Women in San Francisco, CA
• February 2014: “Get Unblocked” at Mind the Bridge Startup School Feb 2014 Graduation in San Francisco, CA
• January 2014: “Get Unblocked” full-day workshop at Inspire925: Creativity at Work in Zurich, Switzerland
• January 2014: “Reviving Creativity” talk at Inspire925: Creativity Goes to Work in Zurich, Switzerland
• January 2014: “Your Brain on Creativity” at Google Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland

2013

• December 2013: “White Space Creativity” at Creative Mornings Miami in Miami, FL
• December 2013: “End-User Relationships in 2020” campfire spark discussion at SIME Miami in Miami, FL
• November 2013: “Get Unblocked” at the University of Miami Interactive+Media Department in Miami, FL
• November 2013: Private Creativity Workshop at Ekskaret in Stockholm, Sweden
• November 2013: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” keynote at Oredev Developer Conference in Malmo, Sweden
• November 2013: “White Space Creativity” at Skissernas Museum at Lund University in Lund, Sweden
• November 2013: “Hacking the Creative Brain” full-day workshop at Oredev Developer Conference in Malmo, Sweden
• October 2013: “Gamify Your Work” and “Hacking the Creative Brain” at AngleBrackets Conference in Las Vegas, NV
• September 2013: “Automattically Unblocked” keynote mini-workshop at the Automattic Annual Company Meetup in San Francisco, CA
• August 2013: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” keynote at FrontEnd Conference in Zurich, Switzerland
• August 2013: “Bored, but never Boring” session and “Unfold Your Brain” half-day workshop at The Conference, Media Evolution in Malmo, Sweden
• August 2013: “The Creativity (R)Evolution” keynote at That Conference in Wisconsin Dells, WI
• July 2013: “Getting Creatively Unblocked” discussion session at O’Reilly Media’s FOO Camp in Sebastopol, CA
• July 2013: “The Calm Creativity (R)Evolution” closing keynote at User Experience Professionals Association Conference in Washington, DC
• June 2013: Women in IT Panel at SQL Saturday at NOVA Southeastern University in Davie, FL
• June 2013: “Banish Your Inner Critic” at Coral Gables Women’s Club in Miami, FL
• May 2013: “Find Your (Shameless) Spark” at Women’s Success Summit in Miami, FL
• May 2013: “Unfolding Your Brain: Catapult Your Creative Productivity” and “The Importance of Storytelling in Web Design” at Adobe Max in Los Angeles, CA
• April 2013: “Hacking the Creative Brain” (full day workshop) and “Scalable and Modular CSS FTW!” at AngleBrackets Conference in Las Vegas, NV
• April 2013: “The Importance of Storytelling in Web Design” at WordCamp Miami in Miami, Florida
• March 2013: “Your Brain on Creativity” at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas
• March 2013: “Hacking the Creative Brain” and “Gamify Your Work” at Geek Meet Stockholm in Stockholm, Sweden
• March 2013: “The Art of Disciplined Creativity” and “Gamify Your Work” at Scandinavian Developer’s Conference in Gotëborg, Sweden
• February 2013: “Transmuting Fear” at TEDxRheinMain in Frankfurt, Germany
• February 2013: “Unfold Your Brain: Skyrocket Your Creative Productivity” (full day workshop), “Hacking the Creative Brain”, and “Scalable and Modular CSS FTW!” at FITC Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012

• November 2012: “Scalable and Modular CSS FTW!”, “The Importance of Storytelling in Web Design”, and “Gamify Your Work” at The Rich Web Experience Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• November 2012: “Scalable and Modular CSS FTW!” at FITC Vancouver in Vancouver, BC
• November 2012: “Scalable and Modular CSS FTW!” and “The Art of Disciplined Creativity” at Oredev Developer Conference in Malmo, Sweden
• October 2012: “Unfold Your Brain” at the Future of Web Design New York
• October 2012: “Web Design’s Lego: visual grammar and lexicon of the web” at Paris-Web in Paris, France
• September 2012: “The Journey of the Creative Brain” at From the Front Conference in Bologna, Italy
• May 2012: Moderator – “Selling Online” panel at Womens Success Summit in Miami, FL
• April 2012: “Advanced CSS Troubleshooting” and “On-Demand Inspiration” at FITC: Future. Innovation. Technology. Creativity. Conference in Toronto, Canada
• February 2012: “Let’s Rawk the Web!” at Young Women’s Leadership Symposium – South Florida in Coconut Creek Park (Broward County), FL
• February 2012: “The Art of Disciplined Creativity” at WordCamp Miami in Miami, FL
• February 2012: “Authentic Body Transformation” at HeartCamp in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• January 2012: “The Art of Disciplined Creativity” at Smashing Magazine Meet-up in Basel, Switzerland
• January 2012: Social time! at Multipack Leamington: Special Event in Leamington Spa, UK
• January 2012: “Let’s Rawk the Web!” at Birmingham Girl Geeks launch event in Birmingham, UK
• January 2012: “Your Brain on Creativity” at New Adventures in Web Design 2012 in Nottingham, UK

2011

• December 2011: Advanced CSS Troubleshooting & Efficiency, or How to be a CSS Detective in 4 Easy Steps at The Rich Web Experience Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• October 2011: “The Art of Disciplined Creativity” at Web Afternoon in Atlanta, GA
• October 2011: “Immediate Inspiration” and “Simply Responsive CSS3” at ParisWeb in Paris, France
• October 2011: “CSS3: Ripe and Ready to Respond” at Web 2.0 Expo in New York, NY
• July 2011: “Rawk The Web – A Manifesto” at Girl Geek Dinners Miami in Miami, FL
• June 2011: “CSS3: Ripe and Ready to Respond” at Converge SE Conference in Columbia, SC
• June 2011: “On-Demand Inspiration” at Interlink Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada
• May 2011: “Introduction to CSS3” and “Advanced CSS Troubleshooting (or, How to be a Super CSS Detective)” at Code Boost Virtual Tech Summit
• May 2011: “The Art of Disciplined Creativity” at RefreshBoston, Boston, MA
• May 2011: Panelist: “Elevate Your Online Presence” at Empowered Woman Success Summit, Miami, FL
• April 2011: “Do What You Love (or your work life will suck)” at Get Back to WorkShop, Miami, FL
• April 2011: Moderator: “Linked In: Oh, What’s the Use?” at Social Media Club South Florida, Miramar, FL
• March 2011: Organizer: CSS/CSS3 Meetup at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas
• March 2011: Panelist: “Top WordPress Plugins” at WordCamp Miami in Miami, FL

2010

• December 2010: “Welcome to the Age of Emotional and Experience Design” Refresh Ft. Lauderdale in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• December 2010: Various CSS3 presentations and workshops at The Rich Web Experience Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• November 2010: “It’s Business Time: Gettin’ Down with the Graceful Degradation of CSS3” at The BBC London UK
• November 2010: “The Sankofa of CSS3: Moving Forward While Looking Back” at The Future of Web Design in New York, NY
• November 2010: “Unleash An Avalanche of Productivity” at The Empowered Woman Success Summit & Expo in Miami, FL
• November 2010: “The Sankofa of CSS3: Moving Forward While Looking Back” at edUI Conference in Charlottesville, VA
• October 2010: “Infinite Reasons Why It Can and Will” at The Women’s Empowerment Business Luncheon in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• October 2010: “Pimp Your Blog: Easy HTML and CSS for Bloggers” at The Blogalicious Weekend in Miami, FL
• September 2010: “Welcome to the Age of Emotional and Experience Design” at The AIGA Memphis in Memphis, TN
• July 2010: “Advanced CSS Troubleshooting, or How to be a CSS Detective in 4 Easy Steps” at CSS Summit (online) with Environments for Humans
• July 2010: “Towards An Agile Design Process” at Tampa Bay Ignite part of the FrontEnd Design Conference
• June 2010: “It’s Business Time: Givin’ CSS3 User Experience Love” at The Voices That Matter Web Design Conference in San Francisco, CA
• June 2010: “How I Got My Publishing Deal, or Beautiful Serendipity” at The Empowered Woman Business Summit in Miami, FL
• June 2010: “Learning Effectively with the Web: Preventing Information Overload” at InterAct Book Summit (online) with Environments for Humans
• May 2010: “It’s Business Time: Gettin’ Down with the Graceful Degradation of CSS3” at The Future of Web Design in London, UK
• March 2010: “How to Rawk SXSW” at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas (panelist)

2009

• June 2009: “Engaging Creative Communities and Creative Community Engagement” with Social Media Club South Florida (moderator)
• June 2009: “Do What You Love (or your work life will suck)” at LaidOffCamp Miami
• March 2009: “Will the Afrosphere Survive the Age of Obama?” at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas (moderator)
• January 2009: “Hands-on Microformats” at RefreshMiami
• January 2009: “How to Get Your Website into the 21st Century” for a local Miami Rotary club

2008

• June 2008: “Planning for Accessibility” and “Web 2.0 for Foundations, Higher Education and Non-profits” at TODCon in Orlando, Florida
• May 2008: “Open Your Mind to Accessibility” at RefreshMiami
• February 2008: “Planning for Accessibility” at dotCMS Open Minds Conference