Practical ways to stay grounded and move forward through change.
You don’t have to feel ready to take the next step. You just have to take it.
Most people don’t get the luxury of pressing pause when life gets difficult. They still have to lead, work, care for others — and keep moving while navigating uncertainty, pressure, grief, burnout, or major life changes. Fumbling Forward meets them there. Not where a tidy framework wishes they were.
Not a keynote about toxic positivity. Not a keynote about hustle culture. Therese doesn’t tell your people to sit with it. She stands next to them while they figure out what’s next.
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Permission to move forward before they feel ready — without abandoning what matters.
A practical approach to leading and working through transition, loss, and uncertainty — at the same time, in real life.
Language for the thing they’ve been feeling but couldn’t say out loud — and the relief of hearing someone say it first.
The difference between sitting with it and being stuck in it — and why one is so much easier to mistake for the other.
One concrete next action they can take before they leave the room. Not a life plan. One thing. That’s how it starts.
The felt experience of being in a room with someone who has deep thought, surface level humor, and means every word of both.
Keynote
Fumbling Forward in full. 45 to 60 minutes, customized to your audience, your event theme, and what your people are actually navigating — not what the brochure says they’re navigating.
Workshop
A longer, more interactive version. Teams stop listening and start working — on the real thing, not a hypothetical. They leave with a specific next step, not a list of takeaways.
Panel, Fireside, Virtual
Same voice, same specificity, different format. Therese brings the same room-reading instincts to a Zoom square as she does to a ballroom.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. No pitch deck, no pressure — just a real talk about whether this is the right fit. If it isn’t, she’ll say so. Start the conversation →
Start the Conversation
Tell Therese a bit about your audience and what they’re navigating. Every inquiry answered within 48 hours. No pitch deck, no pressure.
Thank you — Therese will be in touch within two business days.
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