An office is a strange place to be lonely in.
People sit within a metre of each other all day and go home without having had a real conversation. Wellbeing budgets get spent on apps and webinars that often go unopened.
Everybody questions if it’s working and nobody quite says so.
We do something simpler and more physical. We get people outside, moving and talking, and then we keep it going after we leave.
It is simple, that’s the point.
What it looks like
A panel, a fireside, or a talk
In July 2026 I ran 135 miles across Death Valley as one of 100 people invited to race Badwater 135. I am not a professional athlete. I work in technology, I have three children, I train before the house wakes up, and I have spent the last month unable to run at all. That last part turns out to be the useful bit.
What I talk about is not really the race. Three things come up every time.
Nobody finishes alone.
Badwater has a tradition that you cross the line with your crew. That is not sentiment, it is accurate. Four people stood in 50°C heat for 39 hours and made every decision about what I ate, drank and did next. I handed over complete control for a day and a half, and the compliment I was paid afterwards was that I never interfered. For anyone who finds it hard to let go of something, that is a less comfortable story than it first sounds.
What happens after the goal.
Everybody plans the push and nobody plans the week after it. I came home on the biggest high of my life and then quietly came apart for a month. Companies do exactly the same thing after a launch, a deal or a reorganisation, and nobody has language for it.
It feels doable.
The distance between most people and the thing they have been putting off is smaller than they think. I am the evidence for that, not because I am exceptional but precisely because I am not.
It works as a panel, a fireside, a Q&A or a straight talk, in person or remote. I would always rather answer questions than lecture.
An employee session
The race, honestly told. The heat, the crew, the dark hours, the bit afterwards where it all fell apart for a while. What people take from it is not that they should run 135 miles. It is that the distance between them and the thing they have been putting off is smaller than they think.
Walk+Talk, from your building
This is the part that outlasts the visit. Free, community-based walking groups run by The Allegr Foundation, set up from your offices and open to your people. No pace, no kit, no sign up.
We launch it, train your internal leads to run it, and hand it over. It is designed to survive without us, because a programme that depends on me showing up is not a programme.
Where the money goes
Every penny of any speaking or panel fee goes to The Allegr Foundation. Nothing comes to me.
The Foundation is a charity that exists to tackle loneliness and isolation by getting people outside, moving and talking together. Walk+Talk is its main programme, and it includes groups for military veterans across the South West and South East.
Corporate run clubs
The direction this is heading. Same principle as Walk+Talk, a step further on, for companies whose people want to move properly rather than walk. It is not a packaged product yet and I would rather say so than pretend otherwise. If it sounds like something your company would want, tell me and we will work out what it should be - this is delivered alongside OneTrack Club - the experts.
Get in touch
There is no menu and no pricing table. Tell me about your company and what you are trying to fix, and I will tell you honestly whether this is the right thing for it.