Speaking Services

​Jessica Ellis-Willson (she/they) and Garrett Olson (he/him) seek to educate and entertain audiences around the globe! They are available for speaking engagements on a range of topics. Whether you are searching for a dynamic keynote, engaging breakout, or a creative and informative workshop, please contact us for more info!
Speaking Topics Examples
Healthcare
  • ​The Power of Apology
  • Healing Healthcare
  • Confronting Bias in Healthcare
  • Good Healthcare is Anti-Racist
Jessica often speaks specifically about the impact of bias and preventable medical errors on the lives of patients, families, and providers.  They are a former executive leader with 20+ years in healthcare who survived preventable medical errors and experienced adverse outcomes due to provider bias. Jessica also speaks about their brother, David, who was killed by a preventable medical error in 2018.
Leadership
  • Leading Change: Resilience and Leadership
  • Authentic leadership
  • We Rise By Lifting Others: Service Leadership
  • Leading with Purpose
  • Choosing Kindness in an Unkind World
  • Improv Your Leadership
  • Improv Your Teams 
As a former executive leader, Jessica brings experience, wisdom, and insight to all of their speaking engagements. Jessica and Garrett also bring the unique perspective of being working actors, directors, authors, intimacy and fight choreographers, safety and accessibility consultants, and producers for stage and screen.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Cultural Competence and JEDI for Scaredy Cats
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion
  • Challenging Our Biases
  • Welcoming DEI
  • Ally is a Verb
  • Creating Inclusive Arts Organizations
​Jessica and Garrett have many years of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion work, which they view as necessary and vital to improving our world. 
And Much More!
Jessica also talks about mental health, PTSD, wellness, creating authenticity, welcoming stillness and rest (without guilt), overcoming adversity, and thriving after trauma.
Keynote speaker appearances include:
  • Improv Your Leadership; Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Development Services Regional Leadership meeting, Wareham, MA, Mar 2025.
  • Advocacy for the Performing Arts; Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 1 Conference, Jan 2025.
  • Breaking the Bias; North Carolina MGMA Triangle Chapter; North Carolina, Oct 2023; Ocean Spray PRIDE ERG celebrates Pride, Massachusetts, June 2023; and Driven Cape Cod's International Women's Day Celebration, Mar 2022.
  • Improv Your Leadership; New York MGMA Annual Conference; June 2022
  • Leading Change: Ally is a Verb; New England Regional MGMA Annual Conference, May 2022; and California MGMA Annual Conference, Apr 2022.
  • Pandemic Leadership and Beyond: Learn, Adapt, Evolve; MA/RI MGMA Networking Event, Apr 2022.

Recent speaking engagements include:

  • Healing Healthcare; plenary speaker, American Medical Technologists Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2025.
  • Lead Without Limits (How Improv Helps Us Connect, Influence, and Inspire), featured speaker, as above.
  • LGBTQIA+ Leadership in Healthcare; plenary speaker, MGMA ERG monthly meeting, April 2025.
  • Seven Habits of Highly Effective Communicators; plenary speaker, Small Business Conference, Bourne, MA, April 2025.
  • Improv Your Leadership; keynote speaker, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Development Services Regional Leadership meeting, Wareham, MA, Mar 2025.
  • Basics of DEI&B; plenary speaker, as above.
  • Corporate Combat; plenary speaker, as above.
  • Basics of Inclusive Intimacy; invited speaker, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 1 Conference, Jan 2025.
  • Rethinking Theatre; invited speaker, as above.
  • All In Improv; invited speaker, as above.
  • Community Conversations: Embracing Inclusion, Accessibility, and Consent-Based Practices; invited speaker, as above.
  • Mirrored Illusions: Intimacy and Violence in the Performing Arts; invited speaker, as above.
  • The ROI of Organizational DEI Initiatives; featured speaker, MGMA Finance Conference; California, Apr 2024.
  • Basics of Inclusive Consent-Based Practices; invited speaker, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival; R1, Jan 2024.
  • Inclusion and Accessibility in Theater; invited speaker, as above.
  • Improv Your Inclusion; featured speaker, MGMA Leaders Conference; Tennessee, Oct 2023.
  • Identifying and Eliminating Bias in Research; plenary speaker, Research Impact Global Summit, virtual, Sept 2023.
  • Leading Change: Resilience and Authenticity; plenary presenter, SOMSA 2023; Florida, Apr 2023.
  • Leadership Essentials: DEI&B, Teambuilding, & Mentoring; featured presenter, CORE MGMA; Mar 2023.
  • Breaking The Bias; featured speaker, Cranberry County Chamber Elements of Excellence Conference; MA. Oct 2022.
  • Improv Your Leadership; preconference workshop, MGMA Medical Practice Excellence:Leaders; Boston, MA, Oct 2022.
  • DEI for Scaredy Cats; featured extended session speaker, MGMA MPE:Leaders; as above.
  • Cultural Competence and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion; featured speaker, Mensa Annual Gathering; Nevada, July 2022.
  • Healing Healthcare; featured speaker, Maryland MGMA Annual Conference; Maryland, May 2022.
  • Ask the Inclusion Experts; featured speaker, New England Regional MGMA Conference; as above.
  • ​Improv Your Leadership; preconference workshop, Nevada MGMA Annual Conference; Mar 2022

Contact us today to discuss your challenges!