Eight signature talks. One throughline.

For: Corporates, employers, sector peers · Length: 30, 45 or 60 minute keynote, also a half-day workshop

The Italian hospitality tradition Rick grew up in (Casa Brusada) is the lens. Inclusive employment is not an HR programme; it is a hospitality stance. Three operating practices that change retention. Two stories from a Worthy Cause cafe shift. One thing every employer can do tomorrow.

• WISE in practice
• Food, heritage and impact

For: Lived-experience community, sector, founders · Length: 30 or 45 minute keynote

Specific lessons from time in psychiatric care that translated into operating decisions at Worthy Cause: the dignity of the small task, what real check-ins look like, how to design environments for people in distress. Grounding, not catastrophising.

• Lived experience
• Social enterprise craft

For: General public, philanthropy, media · Length: 20 or 30 minutes

Why Worthy Cause is in cafes and cookies, not white papers. The economics of food as a low-barrier-to-entry, dignity-rich, immediate-feedback work environment. The Casa Brusada lineage that taught Rick this.

• Food, heritage and impact
• Systems change

For: Corporates (procurement, CSR, ESG) · Length: 30 or 45 minute keynote, also a half-day workshop

Practical playbook for corporate decision makers: how to find, vet and partner with social enterprise suppliers in a way that creates real impact and is auditable for ESG reporting.

• WISE in practice

For: Policy makers, philanthropy, sector peers · Length: 30 or 45 minute keynote

Rick's lived experience of family violence and the mental health system, and what that taught him about which interventions actually shift outcomes. Names two specific policy reforms.

• Lived experience
• Systems change

For: Founders, sector peers, philanthropy · Length: 30 or 45 minute keynote

Operator-detail talk on running a DGR1 charity, two cafes and a cookie manufacturer. Founded with $17,000 in 2021. FY25 turnover ~$650,000. The math, the governance, and the December 2023 kitchen crisis.

• Social enterprise craft

For: Advocates, founders with stories, comms teams · Length: 20 or 30 minute keynote, also a fireside chat

Practical talk for people whose work depends on telling their own story. How to keep yourself well while doing it. What to share, what to keep, what to retire.

• Lived experience

For: General audiences, university students, business school panels · Length: Varies (intro talk format)

The personal narrative arc as introduction. Italian hospitality lineage, ANU, the 2017 psychiatric hospital fountain-pen moment, kitchen training in Melbourne, Worthy Cause founded with $17,000 in 2021, today's two cafes plus cookie kitchen.

• All five pillars