Speaking

I do not do inspiration.I bring the evidence, and a point of view.

Keynotes, panels, moderation, workshops and closed boardroom sessions. Most useful where an audience is willing to hear something uncomfortable about its own industry and how it might make positive changes.

Charlotte Constance speaking at the Movers and Shakers BTR Forum
Every talk starts from evidence: two rounds of primary research with industry leaders, and fifty thousand quality and satisfaction data points from homes inspected before and after handover.

What I speak about

01

Four and a half out of ten

What the industry says about itself when nobody is watching, and the zero per cent that should worry every board. Built from two rounds of primary research.

02

Quality arguments rarely win

Why the case for doing right by residents keeps losing in the boardroom, and how to make it in a currency an appraisal recognises.

03

What hospitality has always known

Why 75% of the industry names hotels as the people who do this well, and the three things residential can borrow immediately.

04

825,000 homes in one decade

Vision 2030, delivery at scale, and why experience at scale is a different discipline from construction at scale. For GCC and international audiences.

05

AI can predict. It cannot care.

Where technology genuinely changes customer experience in property, where it reaches its limit, and why that limit is structural rather than temporary.

06

Building the system

On designing an operating system for customer care: 250 repeatable processes, ten stages, and what it takes to make quality something a business does rather than something it hopes for.

On stagePanelPresenting the research

The record

Ongoing
Customer First Forum
Host and keynote. Four convened to date, each one preceded by primary research with the room.
2023-2026
RESI Awards
Judge, four consecutive years.
2024
Cityscape Global, Riyadh
Speaker. Data-driven tenant satisfaction.
2023
Bisnow Build-to-Rent Conference, London
Moderator.
2022
BPF Future of Living Summit, London
Keynote. How to create a lettings strategy.
2021
Scottish Property Federation
Speaker. The future of offices.
2019
BPF Residential and Build-to-Rent Conference, London
Speaker.
2019
The Class Awards, Milan
Judge, Best Operator of the Year.
2018-2022
Movers and Shakers BTR Forum, London
Moderator in 2018 and 2019. Panellist in 2022, alongside Grainger, Get Living, Quintain, Dolphin Living and the British Property Federation.
2018
Property Week RESI Trailblazers
Named one of the inaugural top 40, selected by an industry senate.
2017
The Class Conference, Lisbon
Moderator. The rise of co-living.

Formats

Keynote

Built on primary research, with a provocation the room has to answer. Slides carry data, not bullet points.

Panel and moderation

I prepare the panel beforehand and keep them honest, and I will ask the question the programme committee was too polite to put in the brief.

Closed boardroom session

Ninety minutes with a leadership team, working through the one question they most need to answer, facilitating towards clear outcomes.

Workshops

Half or full day with leadership teams, working groups or multi-stakeholder groups. Vision setting or problem solving, always with clear purpose and outcomes.

Enquiries

Speaker profile, headshots and topic outlines available on request. UK, Europe, the GCC and Australia.
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