Speaking & workshops
Decide under pressure. Count what matters. Don't panic.
I spent ten years in Air Force bomb disposal and five finding the money businesses are losing. The talks are the part underneath both: how to decide when the information never arrives, how to count what actually moves money, and what running an autonomous system in production for two years really teaches you.
The talks
The Physics of Agency
The world is loud, the macro is out of your hands, and everyone is selling you a way to feel in control. What you can actually steer comes down to three things: your unit economics, your systems, and your head. A talk about taking those three apart and putting them back together so they work for you, with real numbers the whole way through.
Read the essay it grew from →Red Wire, Blue Wire
Ten years in bomb disposal teaches you that perfect information never arrives. You assess, you make the best call available, and you act, because hesitation has a cost too. What explosive ordnance disposal work actually involves, and how the same process discipline applies to launching, pricing, and the decisions businesses sit on for too long.
Read the essay it grew from →Two years of running an autonomous system
I've run a fully autonomous system in production for two years and published the failures alongside the wins. What two years of AI in production actually looks like, which parts of a business are worth automating, which parts never are, and how to tell the difference before it costs you.
Read the research →The workshops
Working sessions, not seminars. The room works on its own numbers in the same engines published in the research and free tools, so you can check the method before you book anything.
The Margin Workshop
Owners + leadership teamsHalf a day with your real numbers in the live margin engine. Contribution by product, break-even CPA, the maximum you can pay for a customer, and the three highest-leverage changes, decided in the room with owners assigned.
Should You Run Ads Yet?
Accelerators · incubators · cohortsA two-hour session for founder cohorts. Each founder runs their business through the same readiness gates a consultant would check, and leaves with a clear verdict and the first gate to fix before spending on acquisition.
Why put me on your stage.
My last job was to walk towards the thing everyone else ran from, decide with half the information, and not let the fear make the call. Then I spent five doing the quieter version of it for businesses: the unit economics nobody wants to open, the systems holding the whole thing up, the decisions owners sit on until they cost real money.
The talks come from both. They're somewhere between cold water, motivation, and a useful antidote to the ground moving underfoot.
Cold water because math is hard to argue with, motivational because they end with something a room can actually use on Monday. And useful, because you're not crazy. The ground is moving.
What I'm like in a room.
Working with Chris is a breath of fresh air. It truly feels like a partnership. We challenge each other on thoughts, ideas, and concepts.
Common questions
- What do you speak about?
- Decision-making under uncertainty, drawn from ten years in RAAF bomb disposal; unit economics and the maths most businesses ignore; and systems thinking, including what two years of running an autonomous system in production actually teaches you.
- What formats do you offer?
- Keynotes and conference talks, half-day working workshops, two-hour accelerator and cohort sessions, exec briefings, and podcast appearances. In person in Melbourne and across Australia, or remote.
- What does it cost?
- The workshops are priced on this page. Keynotes and podcasts are by arrangement, and while I am building the speaking side they are priced to be easy to say yes to. Email and ask.
- How do you book me?
- Email hello@christopherwhite.com.au with the event, audience, and date. I answer quickly. If I am not the right speaker for your room, I will say so.