KATIE SPEAKS ABOUT THE ROLE CRAFT & DESIGN PLAY IN CLIMATE RESILIANCE FOR PURPOSE-DRIVEN ORGANISATIONS
SPEAKING & TRAINING
Katie Treggiden speaks about design, making and ‘craft thinking’ and their role in innovation and climate resilience for purpose-driven organisations. With 25+ years’ experience in the creative industries, six books, a podcast and countless newspaper and magazine articles to her name, Katie is an engaging and thought-provoking speaker. She not only provides valuable insights into current trends, emerging talents, and innovative design solutions, but most importantly, takes complex topics and explores them in a way that inspires empowering clarity, defiant hope and aligned action; helping you to future-proof your business.
CONFERENCE CURATOR & HOST
If you’re planning an annual conference or a multi-day training event, Katie can help you decide on a theme and shape the cadence of the day to make it engaging and accessible. She will source a diverse line-up of speakers and even MC the entire event to bring it all together seamlessly. If it’s an online event, her team can handle all the tech, too.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Katie speaks about defiant hope and its role in tackling the environmental crisis for creative organisations that want to make a difference. She often uses craft as an exemplar for the circular economy and has two powerful keynotes (see below) that can be customised to your event, your goals and your audience.
CARBON LITERACY TRAINER
Katie is a certified Carbon Literacy Trainer, having created the first design-industry-specific course. She offers ‘Intro to Carbon Literacy’ workshops as well as the full Carbon Literacy Project course, after which you can achieve individual certification and then work towards organisational certification. Training is offered in-person and online.
PANEL CURATOR & CHAIR
As well as having subject expertise, Katie is one of the most engaging and professional panel chairs and ‘in-conversation-with’ hosts in the industry. She will help you decide on a theme, curate a diverse line-up of subject experts and get the best out of them on the day, no matter their public speaking experience.
LUNCH & LEARNS
Whether ‘lunch & learns’ are a regular feature on your team development calendar or you’re planning a specific training series for your company’s sustainability week or Earth Day on 22 April, Katie has a hands-on, interactive talk or workshop that will leave your people feeling inspired, empowered and ready to take action.
KEYNOTE
Image Credit: Granby Studio
WASTE: THE RAW MATERIAL OF THE FUTURE
Engaging the audience from the moment she steps onto the stage with a simple demonstration, Katie Treggiden will argue that waste is not a fact, but a category and that objects and materials become redefined as waste when they cross a series of ever- expanding boundaries.
Explaining that waste is created at the threshold of our skin, the walls of our homes, our city limits, state boundaries, the Brandt line, our coastlines, and finally the Earth’s atmosphere and into outer space, she will leave the audience in no doubt that we have run out of space for our waste.
But it’s not all bad news – if our boundaries can expand, they can also contract. If we can recategorise once-valuable materials as waste, we can also recategorise waste as a valuable new raw material.
Katie will share innovative examples of designers and makers using waste as their primary resource. From a swing made from human hair to glassware made from dumped domestic appliances – she will demonstrate our capacity for change and spark defiant hope.
PROCESS
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Katie Treggiden is more than happy to take a pre-booking call to discuss your ambitions for your event and how she can help you achieve them—in fact you can book that directly into her calendar now.
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Once booked (via Katie’s agent), she is keen to understand what success looks like for you and for this event and how she can adapt her talks to meet your goals, so she welcomes a detailed briefing call.
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Katie will promote your event by sharing it at least once via each of the following channels: Instagram, Linked and her newsletter.
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Katie will arrive in good time, make herself available for technical checks ahead of the event and engage in any networking opportunities you would like her to be present for. She is also happy to offer additional services such as workshops, breakout sessions, and Q&A/panel event participation.
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The length and content of Katie’s keynote can be tailored to your needs. She tends to present with PowerPoint slides, but is also happy with a more informal approach. See Organisers Kit below for more details.
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Katie will always seek feedback after an event and will be keen to continue the relationship through other services and future events.
ORGANISER’S KIT
This is where you will find Katie’s images, bios, intro scripts, and even her intro music suggestions for your event. If there’s something you need that you can’t see here, please do not hesitate to reach out.
PORTRAIT IMAGES OF KATIE
PHOTOS OF KATIE IN ACTION
SELECTED BOOK COVERS
INTRO SCRIPT
Please use this script (instead of her bio or copy from her About Page) to introduce Katie to the stage.
Friend, colleagues, and esteemed attendees – it is my great pleasure to introduce our first/next/final [*delete as appropriate] speaker for today’s [insert event name here].
This next person is an author, journalist and communications strategist on a mission to share true stories of imperfect progress towards genuine sustainability. She is the author of six books, countless newspaper and magazine articles and a podcast all exploring the role that craft, design and creativity can play in bringing about a better future for all of us.
And she signs off every email, ‘stay curious, imperfect and defiantly hopeful,’ so no doubt you’re in for a healthy dose of all three today!
Which is so important, because the dominant narrative at the moment seems hellbent on certainty, perfectionism and fear, so our next speaker brings a fresh perspective, which is actually more likely to bring about meaningful change and aligned action.
So, without further ado, please give a big, warm [Insert event name here] welcome to the defiantly hopeful, Katie Treggiden! [Pronounced: "Kay-tee Truh-GID-un"]
BIOGS
Please use these for promotional purposes instead of the copy on Katie’s About Page. NB Do not use these to introduce Katie to the stage – please use the separate intro script provided.
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Katie Treggiden is an author, journalist and communications strategist on a mission to share true stories of imperfect progress towards genuine sustainability.
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Katie Treggiden is an author, journalist and communications strategist on a mission to share true stories of imperfect progress towards genuine sustainability. With 25+ years’ experience, she has written six books on craft, design and sustainability and countless articles for newspapers and magazines from The Guardian to Dezeen. She is a qualified marketeer with a master’s in History of Design from Oxford University. She is a Design Council Expert, BioLeadership Fellow and Homes & Gardens’ ‘Eco-Champion Thought Leader.’
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Katie Treggiden is an author, journalist and communications strategist on a mission to share true stories of imperfect progress towards genuine sustainability. With 25+ years’ experience in communications within the creative industries, she has worked with Fortune 500 brands such as Emirates and Kia Motors and designer-founders such as Bethan Gray.
She has written six books on craft, design and sustainability and countless articles for newspapers and magazines from The Guardian to Dezeen. Homes & Gardens named her their ‘Eco-Champion Thought Leader’—the first non-designer to be recognised in their Design Awards.
She has a degree and two post-graduate qualifications in marketing and a master’s in history of design from the University of Oxford. And she is a Design Council Expert, a BioLeadership Fellow and a Change in Nature facilitator.
INTRO MUSIC SUGGESTIONS
A/V & TECH
Katie usually presents using PowerPoint/Keynote (with occasional video content), but is equally comfortable with a more informal style.
When using slides, her presentations are finely tuned to work alongside her voice.
While she can use any machine (Mac or PC), Katie prefers to use her own laptop for presentations—right now, that’s a 13” MacBook Air. This approach guarantees that fonts, transitions, and videos operate flawlessly, ensuring a smooth experience on the day.
Katie brings:
13” MacBook Air
Power adaptor for her laptop
Travel adaptor for local power source
Desktop presentation with embedded locally playable video files, optimised for 16×9 screen
Katie needs:
USB and HDMI adaptor
Wireless presentation clicker
Wireless, lapel microphone
Screen/projector (with HDMI Connector/Dongle)
Speaker system that receives audio output from her laptop
Optional: external comfort monitor
Please allow at least 30 minutes for Katie to take part in a thorough tech check before the start of the event.