Clare's
Speaking
Clare brings historical perspective, psychological insight and a sharp eye for the systems beneath everyday experience — making difficult ideas accessible without flattening their complexity.
- How Technology Governs Inner Life
- AI as Companion, Confessor, and Authority
- Love and Power in the Digital Age
- Why Burnout Isn’t Personal: Designed Environments
- When Care Becomes Automated
- Neurodivergence in a Designed World
- Evolutionary Mismatch: Ancient Minds in Designed Environments
Drawing on historical and psychological research at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge spanning fascist propaganda, intercultural competence, cognition and neuroscience, Clare helps leaders anticipate AI’s human consequences and make wiser decisions.
Clare speaks to leadership teams and corporate, academic, cultural and policy audiences, helping organisations understand the human consequences of AI, anticipate emerging risks and make more psychologically informed decisions.
Her talks begin from a simple proposition: what feels personal is often structural — and increasingly designed. Anxiety, burnout, distraction and relational strain cannot be understood apart from the environments in which they arise.
Rather than offering quick fixes, Clare looks beneath familiar narratives of wellbeing, progress and innovation to the incentives, assumptions and structures shaping behaviour — and asks what more responsible design, policy and leadership might require.
Talks are adapted to audience and context, from keynotes and leadership sessions to policy forums, festivals, panels and private briefings.
Approach
- Intellectually rigorous, accessible in delivery. Complex ideas are translated without being simplified away.
- Built around the audience. Talks are adapted for leadership teams, policymakers, professional audiences, universities and public events.
- Designed to challenge assumptions. Clare looks beneath familiar explanations to the systems, incentives and structures shaping behaviour.
- Oriented towards better judgement. The aim is not simply to diagnose problems, but to help audiences think more clearly about responsibility, risk and the choices ahead.
- “What feels personal is often structural.”
What feels personal is often designed
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