Speaking & Facilitation

Talks and Workshops

The Institute offers keynotes, executive briefings, panels, university sessions and tailored workshops on civilisational diagnostics, parallax and interoperability.

Available Sessions

  • Reading the World Below the Rhetoric

    An introduction to ICOS for general audiences. How to look below ideology and media narratives to the operating logics actually shaping behaviour.

  • Civilisational Operating Systems in a Multipolar World

    Why the post-Cold-War assumption of convergence has ended, and what replaces it. A framework for understanding multiple modernities without ranking them.

  • Why Cross-Cultural Negotiations Fail

    The handshake errors, legitimacy mismatches and protocol collisions that derail deals, treaties and partnerships. With practical diagnostic tools.

  • The Material Floor of Geopolitics

    Geography, resources, demographics and infrastructure as the hardware layer beneath political argument. Why material constraints reassert themselves.

  • Parallax: How Different Systems Read the Same Event

    A workshop on identifying when two parties are looking at the same facts through incompatible frameworks — and what to do about it.

  • Interoperability Without Ideological Conversion

    How to make different systems work together without requiring one side to adopt the other's values. Practical frameworks for coexistence and cooperation.

  • ICOS for Boards, Policy Teams and International Operators

    A tailored executive session applying the framework to the specific decisions, risks and relationships your organisation faces.

  • Incompatible Code — Author Talk

    A forthcoming session based on Lucas Hainsworth's book Incompatible Code. Available for advance discussions, interviews and early-bird events.

Formats

Keynotes

45–60 minute presentations for conferences, leadership offsites and public events. Tailored to the audience and the questions they are grappling with.

Private Executive Briefings

Condensed, high-signal sessions for boards, C-suites and senior policy teams. Chatham House rules. No recording without agreement.

Panels

Participation in moderated discussions on geopolitics, institutional design, cross-cultural negotiation and civilisational interoperability.

University Sessions

Lectures, seminars and workshop sessions for graduate and advanced undergraduate audiences in international relations, policy and related fields.

Tailored Workshops

Half-day or full-day facilitated sessions built around a specific decision, negotiation or institutional challenge your team is facing.

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