Gillian Tett Speaking Fee: $30,000 to $50,000

Most leaders treat markets as numbers and processes — until cultural blind spots trigger strategic failure. Anthro‑Vision reframes that false confidence: the patterns that shape decisions, risk and innovation are social, not merely technical, and they can be mapped and managed. Gillian Tett brings three decades of reporting and a PhD in social anthropology to show how ethnographic insight illuminates markets, workplaces, and policymaking. Drawing on her book Anthro‑Vision and decades at the Financial Times, she demonstrates how simple fieldwork — listening, participant observation, and cultural mapping — surfaces the informal rules, rituals and assumptions that drive outcomes. Her approach is practical, evidence‑based, and illustrated with concrete case studies from finance, corporate life, and geopolitics. PERFECT FOR TEAMS & LEADERS WHO ARE: • Building new products or entering unfamiliar markets and need to spot cultural frictions before launch, avoiding wasted investment and reputational risk • Managing integration, M&A or cross‑functional programs where implicit assumptions are causing coordination breakdowns and missed synergies • Responsible for risk, compliance or strategy and seeking early warning signals that quantitative models miss • Tasked with translating broad societal trends (populism, tech shift, ESG) into operational choices for teams and boards YOUR AUDIENCE WILL WALK AWAY WITH: • A clear ethnographic checklist to reveal hidden behaviours, incentives and taboos that undermine strategy • Practical techniques to run low‑cost field work and convert qualitative insight into board‑level decisions • Case studies showing how cultural misreads produced major financial and political surprises — and how they could have been prevented • A new mental model for integrating social data with financial metrics so teams make smarter, earlier decisions Bring Anthro‑Vision to your organization and learn to see the human patterns that determine long‑term success.

Many organizations assume information flows freely — until projects stall, rivals outpace them, or risk accumulates behind closed doors. The Silo Effect exposes how specialized expertise, rigid structures and unspoken incentives create invisible walls that erode agility and decision quality. Gillian Tett uses the reporting and research behind her book The Silo Effect to diagnose why silos form, how they persist, and what leaders can do to dismantle them. She combines real world corporate episodes with anthropological methods to show that silos are cultural phenomena with practical fixes: redesigning conversations, realigning incentives, and creating translation mechanisms between groups. Her prescriptions are tactical and tailored to organizational complexity — from startups to global corporations. PERFECT FOR TEAMS & LEADERS WHO ARE: • Facing chronic coordination failures across departments, geographies, or product lines that slow delivery and confuse customers • Preparing for scale, merger, or transformation and needing to preserve expertise while enabling collaboration • Responsible for improving R&D, product development, or innovation pipelines where knowledge hoarding is stalling progress • Seeking concrete ways to convert cross‑functional meetings and committees into operational advantage rather than ceremony YOUR AUDIENCE WILL WALK AWAY WITH: • Diagnostic tools to map where silos exist, how they form, and which ones pose existential versus tactical threats • Concrete changes — from conversation design to role adjustments — that immediately improve cross‑team collaboration • Examples of translation roles and rituals that preserve deep expertise while enabling shared problem solving • Measurable ways to track progress so leaders can sustain collaboration beyond one‑off initiatives The Silo Effect helps organizations build bridges that unlock innovation without sacrificing specialist rigor.

Financial markets repeatedly show that plausible models can mask profound fragility. Fool’s Gold argues that many crises begin not with bad math, but with collective stories and technical habits that obscure real risk. Drawing on her bestselling Fool’s Gold and reporting on the 2008 crisis, Gillian Tett explains how cultural practices inside markets — belief systems, local jargon, and group incentives — enabled shadow banking and other systemic failures. She outlines how the same dynamics are reappearing in fintech, crypto, and complex product design, and shows how journalists, regulators and firms can use social‑science methods to detect early warning signs before they metastasize into shocks. PERFECT FOR TEAMS & LEADERS WHO ARE: • Regulators, risk officers and compliance teams trying to understand non‑quantitative drivers of systemic risk in modern finance and tech • Executives and board members evaluating novel financial products, platforms or partnerships that sit outside traditional oversight • Policymakers and think tanks tasked with designing resilient frameworks for rapidly evolving markets and technologies • Senior journalists and communicators aiming to translate latent market narratives into actionable public insight YOUR AUDIENCE WILL WALK AWAY WITH: • A playbook for identifying social and narrative drivers of risk that standard models overlook • Practical red flags and interview techniques for extracting truth from marketing, jargon and friendly insiders • Case studies linking everyday workplace behaviours to large‑scale financial outcomes, with lessons for contemporary fintech and crypto • Guidance on structuring monitoring and governance so that novel products are tested against both technical and cultural vulnerabilities Fool’s Gold equips audiences to catch the telling human signs of instability before they cascade into crisis.