A different perspective
on time.
For conferences, leadership teams and organisations.
In person or online, shaped around your audience.
Ideas in the room.
Relevance to your business.
The Second Great Time Experiment
Time, technological change and the choices shaping the future of work.
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Why good rules don’t always create good behaviour.
View programme ↗Ibec HR Leadership Summit · 2025Time as Capital
Rethinking value across generations.
Read Dale’s Ibec perspective ↗These recent sessions sit alongside the keynotes below. Dale can adapt a talk or develop a new one around your event.
It’s About Time
Why do we never feel we have enough time?
An introduction to the forces making modern life feel faster—and the choices available to us as individuals, leaders and institutions.
Enquire about this talk ↗What your audience takes away
- Distinguish personal habits from the conditions creating time pressure.
- Recognise how pace and fragmentation affect attention and recovery.
- Identify changes you can make yourself and changes that require collective action.
For: Conferences, whole organisations and public audiences
Who Controls the Clock?
What do your decisions about time make possible for others?
A meeting, a deadline or an expectation of immediate response changes someone else’s working day. This keynote examines the cumulative effects of those decisions—and how leaders can design better conditions.
Enquire about this talk ↗What your audience takes away
- Identify unnecessary urgency and competing temporal demands.
- Protect the conditions for judgement, collaboration and recovery.
- Treat responsibility for other people’s time as a leadership practice.
For: Leadership teams, HR audiences and organisational offsites
The Time Dividend
What will we do with the time technology promises us?
Drawing on working-time reduction and the questions raised by AI, Dale explores why saving time does not automatically give people more of it—and what organisations can choose to do differently.
Enquire about this talk ↗What your audience takes away
- Question assumptions about hours, output and progress.
- Examine how the benefits of greater productivity are distributed.
- Explore changes to working time that fit your organisation’s context.
For: Business leaders, innovation teams and future-of-work events
Understand time.
Change its conditions.
A framework connecting our experience of time with how it is organised around us.
Everything is urgent.
Nothing has room.
A team is told to innovate, but every hour is booked and every message expects a reply.
What would make
good work possible?
Examine priorities and availability. Protect thinking time. Make recovery part of the design.
Temporal Intelligence connects awareness, regulation, sovereignty and stewardship with the way organisations coordinate work, design schedules and govern long-term decisions.
Business can be a force for good. Its decisions about time shape both the value it creates and the lives it makes possible.
Explore the framework at House of Time ↗