Imogen Hale

Author · Keynote speaker · 62 stages

Nobody breaks in the crisis. They break in the long middle.

Imogen Hale gives leadership rooms the language for the year after the emergency — and sends them out able to use it on Monday.

4.9 / 5 organiser rating

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11 countries

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4 books

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2026 dates open

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Figures fictional

Stages & press

The Pellinore Review
Northline Broadcasting
Harbourline Health
Meridian Leadership Forum
Working Hours podcast network
Lowry School of Management
Cover of The Steady Middle by Imogen Hale

New book · March 2026

The Steady Middle

Leading after the emergency stops being news

The applause arrives for the rescue. The damage arrives eighteen months later — in turnover, in silence, in the good people who quietly stop offering ideas.

240 interviews. Four sectors. One very tired newsroom.

45 minutes that change how the room talks on Monday

One slide. A closing exercise the exec team does live. Every talk rebuilt from your own staff survey before she writes a word.

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Keynote

45–60 min, main stage, up to 4,000. Optional moderated Q&A and signing.

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Workshop

Half or full day, up to 40 leaders. Pre-read, two live exercises, written summary.

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Virtual

30–75 min from a broadcast studio, two cameras, 12-month internal rights.

“We booked a morale talk. We got a vocabulary for the year we had just survived — and nobody got blamed.”

Renata Ossei · CPO, Harbourline Health (fictional)

Portrait of Renata Ossei, Chief People Officer, in a dark suit against a dark background

Free chapter + Sunday letter

Take chapter one with you

One page most Sundays on leading through long stretches. 34,000 readers. No courses, no funnel.

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