For Government & Public Sector
Keynotes for government & public sector.
Public-sector leaders carry a uniquely hard communication burden: many stakeholders, intense scrutiny, and limited room for error. David Watts helps them lead, negotiate and resolve conflict with clarity and integrity.
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Three talks that consistently move the room.
Cracking The Influence Code
The Signature Keynote, Built on the Book
Most leaders rely on authority, logic, or repetition to get buy-in. When those fail — and they do, constantly — teams stagnate, deals collapse, and change initiatives die. The problem isn't the message. It's the missing understanding of how the human brain actually processes influence.
From Friction to Fusion
Resolving High-Stakes Corporate Conflict with Integrity
Unresolved conflict — between departments, between leaders, between teams — is one of the most expensive silent costs in any organisation. Productivity drops. Innovation stalls. Talent walks. And most leaders have been given no tools to address it beyond 'have a conversation' or bringing in an external mediator at crisis point.
Beyond the Bargaining Table
The Hidden Psychology of Win-Win Negotiation
Multi-million-rand deals stall, collapse, or settle for less than they should — not because of poor strategy, but because of hidden human emotions, identity concerns, and loss aversion that neither party knows how to navigate. Logic alone has never closed a hard deal.
Communication under public scrutiny
From national departments and state-owned enterprises to municipalities, public-sector leaders must build consensus across competing interests, communicate change to a watching public, and resolve conflict without escalation. David's frameworks give government and SOE leaders the tools to do exactly that — ethically, and under pressure. Every keynote is tailored to the accountability and complexity the public sector operates within.
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