Speaking & Event Enquiries

Talk to us about curating or speaking at your next incredible event.

Strategic insight for businesses building what comes next.

We speak at events where strategy, experience, and real life intersect.
From boardrooms to founder communities. From conferences to intimate workshops.

Our talks are designed to help people make better business decisions, not just feel inspired for an afternoon.

Where strategy meets story, and business meets being human

We bring a rare blend of senior marketing strategy, consumer psychology, and a deep understanding of how people actually think, feel, and decide.

Our work sits at the intersection of:

  • Commercial decision-making

  • Brand and customer experience

  • Technology and AI adoption

  • Human wellbeing, capacity, and trust

This allows us to speak credibly to corporate teams navigating scale and complexity, and to founders and small businesses building with limited resources and real-life constraints.

Different contexts but the same underlying challenge:
How to grow without losing coherence, care, or direction.

Why us

Before founding Marketing for Small Businesses in 2015, Francesca McGarey spent over a decade in corporate roles, including at Google, working inside large-scale digital systems and transformation programmes.

Today, we translate that experience into clear, grounded, human-first strategy for organisations and founder-led businesses who don’t have infinite time, teams, or tolerance for noise.

We understand how decisions are made at scale, and we understand what it feels like to build without a safety net.

That dual perspective is what audiences value most.

Our approach on stage:

We don’t deliver hype.
We don’t simplify complexity into soundbites.

Instead, we create space for:

  • Better questions

  • More thoughtful decisions

  • Conversations that continue long after the event

Our sessions blend:

  • Strategic frameworks that leaders can apply immediately

  • Research and pattern recognition from across industries

  • Emotional intelligence and lived experience

  • Practical reframes that reduce overwhelm and increase clarity

Whether speaking to senior teams, start ups or founder communities, we aim to leave people thinking differently, feeling steadier, and ready to act with intention.

Topics we love speaking about:

  • AI for small businesses. Calm, considered adoption without the noise

A grounded approach to AI that cuts through hype and fear. Focused on clarity, boundaries, and real use cases that genuinely reduce cognitive load, protect quality, and support sustainable growth.

  • Digital marketing transformation for real humans

    Marketing systems built for real life, not ideal conditions. How to create marketing that is ethical, emotionally intelligent, and effective, while working alongside care, seasonality, and fluctuating capacity.

  • Women-centred brand experience design

    How women actually experience brands, emotionally, relationally, and cognitively. Practical insight into designing journeys and touch-points that women trust, return to, and recommend.

A note on fit:

Our speaking work is best suited to audiences who value:

  • Thoughtful strategy over quick wins

  • Nuance over noise

  • Long-term thinking over short-term tactics

If you’re looking for clarity, credibility, and conversations that genuinely shift how people build and lead, we’d love to explore working together.

Enquiries:

If you’re curating an event, programme, or off-site and would like to explore a collaboration, please complete the form below and we’ll be in touch shortly.