SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
Ideas That Help Audiences Recognize Friction, Challenge Assumptions and Move Toward Action
Dr. Eugene Manley Jr. combines research, lived experience, organizational insight and storytelling with practical frameworks for understanding people and systems.
ENGAGEMENT FORMATS
More Than a Talk
The format follows the audience and the conversation. Engagements may combine a shared starting point with room to reflect, discuss and apply ideas.
Keynotes
A shared starting point for examining the assumptions and systems shaping an audience’s experience.
Interactive Workshops
Facilitated exploration that gives participants time to work with ideas and discuss practical next steps.
Fireside Chats
A conversational format for exploring lived experience, research and complex questions.
Facilitated Conversations
Structured dialogue around the questions a group needs to examine together.
Panels
An evidence-informed perspective within a wider exchange of expertise and experience.
Multi-Session Programs
Connected sessions with space for reflection, discussion and application between meetings.
SIGNATURE TOPICS
Recognizing the Friction. Opening the Conversation.
These themes can be discussed in relation to the audience, setting and purpose of an engagement.
01
Too Much and Not Enough
Neurodivergence, race, masking, ambition, leadership and institutional misreading.
Suggested audience: Professional associations, leadership teams and audiences exploring neurodivergence and race.
Possible format: Keynote, workshop or fireside chat.
02
The Mask Is a Tax
The individual and organizational costs of code-switching, masking and constant self-monitoring.
Suggested audience: People leaders, employee groups and workforce teams.
Possible format: Keynote, workshop or facilitated conversation.
03
High Potential, High Friction
How ADHD, race, hierarchy and organizational assumptions shape talented professionals.
Suggested audience: Leadership teams, professional development programs and neurodivergent professionals.
Possible format: Keynote, workshop or panel.
04
Stay, Advocate, Pivot, or Leave
A structured approach to deciding whether an environment can improve or whether a different move is needed.
Suggested audience: Professionals navigating workplace friction or career transitions.
Possible format: Interactive workshop or facilitated conversation.
05
The Degree Did Not Save Me
Medical bias, documentation, power, trust and patient advocacy.
Suggested audience: Healthcare professionals, patient advocates and health-related organizations.
Possible format: Keynote, fireside chat or panel.
06
Microscopes, Barriers, and Belonging
Stronger pathways for first-generation, neurodivergent and historically excluded STEMM talent.
Suggested audience: Universities, STEMM organizations and workforce-development teams.
Possible format: Keynote, workshop or multi-session program.
NEW OFFER
STEMM Career Navigation & Career Transitions
Helping students and early-career professionals understand what they can do with their degree, navigate transitions, and build careers that do not follow a single prescribed path.
A new offer for campuses and training programs, with proposed engagement formats that can be discussed around the needs of students and trainees.
Campus Keynote
From Degree to Direction: Navigating STEMM Careers and Career Transitions.
Interactive Workshop
Skills mapping, career options, transferable experience, hidden curriculum, networking, mentorship and career pivots.
Career Transition Session
Eugene’s path through engineering, research, nonprofit and healthcare work, and entrepreneurship offers an example of a non-linear career.
Multi-Session Program
STEMM Career Navigation Series: a proposed 2–3-session format for students or trainees.
For Students, Trainees and the Teams Supporting Them
- Undergraduate and graduate students; postdocs
- First-generation students and STEMM student organizations
- Career centers, graduate schools, and engineering and science colleges
- Professional development programs
WHO EUGENE SPEAKS TO
Different Settings. Connected Questions.
Conferences & Associations
Universities & Graduate Schools
Healthcare Systems
STEMM Organizations
Nonprofits
Leadership & Workforce Teams
Professional Development Programs
FROM INSIGHT TO ACTION
What Audiences Leave With
Engagements are designed to help participants develop useful ways to understand a situation and decide what comes next. Specific learning goals can be shaped with the organizer.
- New ways to recognize friction in everyday interactions and organizational systems
- Clearer frameworks for decision-making
- Language for discussing systems, assumptions and institutional interpretation
- Practical next steps relevant to the audience and setting
- A deeper understanding of individual and organizational dynamics
SELECTED EXISTING WORK
Experience in the Room, Perspective in the Conversation
Selected media and organization references supplied in the existing site: Milken Institute, Entrepreneur UK, The Village Voice, BlackDoctor.org, Authority Magazine, AACR and NCCN.
“Talking with Eugene was an incredibly valuable experience that helped me clarify my goals for the future… Thanks to his guidance, I feel more confident in the direction I want to pursue and more prepared to make decisions about my future.”
Ephraim Baksh
High school student
“This has been the event where I have had the most fun, while being all day hearing presentations… The presenters, the group dynamic, the passion of everyone attending just made it unique. Eugene did an excellent job selecting the presenters. GOOD JOB GOOD JOB clap clap.”
Gloria Arroyo
Patient, on the 2024 Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit
COMING SOON
Too Much and Not Enough
Neurodivergence, Race, and Broken Systems
The book connects neurodivergence, race, healthcare, leadership and institutional power—and introduces the MISREAD Framework.
START A CONVERSATION
Bring Eugene Into the Conversation
Connect about a keynote, workshop or facilitated conversation for a conference, university, association, healthcare organization or organizational team.