Public Speaking Engagements

Liam is available for speaking engagements. To check his availability please send a message via the contact form on this website.

At first shy of the spotlight, a good friend sparked Liam’s career as a public speaker by quoting Spiderman. “With great power comes great responsibility.”

Liam realized he had the power of extensive life experiences, the power of authenticity, understanding, and compassion. Soon, he discovered he also had a talent for speaking publicly. A talent for building bridges.

Liam has embraced the responsibility and has, since 2016, given presentations for many corporations and events. He has been invited as keynote and panel speaker around the globe.

In his presentations, Liam aims to give his audiences an authentic, personal glimpse into what it means to be transgender in our world today. He aims to dispel myths, labels, and stereotypes and aims to promote mutual respect, acceptance, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

To date, Liam has spoken in front of audiences of a few to several hundred participants. As well as to 1 million viewers when he was invited to the Swiss talk show Aeschbacher in 2018.

Speaking engagements to date:

2025

  • Panel, Ally is a Verb: Taking Action for TGNC Inclusion, at BCG, Berlin, Germany
  • Presentation, A Conversation with Liam Klenk on Identity, Courage, and Inclusive Leadership, for all offices of the BCG LATAM region, virtual
  • Presentation, Working Around the World as a Trans Man – Challenges and Surprises, at Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland
  • Presentation and workshop, in collaboration with ‘Gender Box’, for group of 60 students on Understanding Gender Identity, at Gymnasium Langenthal, Switzerland
  • Panel, Diversity & Inclusion in Turbulent Times, organized by Swiss LGBTI Label, at ZKB, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Presentation on Gender Identity, at BCG, for the whole Iberia region, virtual

2024

  • Panel, Unboxing Gender – beyond the binary and within, virtual for all EMEA and APAC staff at Boston Consulting Group
  • Presentation, Working Across the Globe as a Trans Man – Challenges and Surprises, at UNPINKED Conference by UHLALA Group, Berlin, Germany
  • Presentation and fireside chat, Gender Identity – Coming out and challenges in the workplace, at Boston Consulting Group, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Podcast, Unboxing Women, Episode 71, Exposing the Reality of What it Means to Be Transgender
  • Presentation, Being Transgender and the Importance of DE&I in the Workplace. In celebration of new diversity network Queer@AXA, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Panel, Inclusivity in the Workplace, for HEC Business School, at their Pride event Beyond Boundaries, Paris, France
  • Presentation, My Life as a Transgender Man, for Network Gay Leadership, Basel, Switzerland
  • Keynote speaker at 7th St. Gallen New Work Forum, Around the (working-) world a a transgender man: about the importance of open communication and safe spaces in our working life, Metaverse conference, Switzerland

2023

  • Panel, How Companies are Failing Trans/Queer Employees, at EUROUT conference in London, UK
  • Workshop for transgender children and their parents, at the TINAV-Joy-Day, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Panel, Together with Pride: Breaking Barriers for Transgender, at SwissRe, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Panel Together for Gender, at Boston Consulting Group, Brussels
  • Presentation Working Around the Globe as a Transgender Man, at Boston Consulting Group, Vienna, Austria
  • Guest live on stage at Sunday Guests with talk show host Kurt Aeschbacher at Cultural Center Haebse, Basel, Switzerland

2022

  • My Journey as a Transgender Man at Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), Switzerland and Germany 
  • EMESA Accelerate Inclusion Series at BCG: Trans Awareness and Inclusion. Virtual panel together with Caroline Farberger.
  • Panel, When is it Safe to be You, at EUROUT conference in London
  • Presentation and Workshop on optimal care and inclusion of trans, non-binary, and non-conforming patients and residents, at Pflegeheim (care home) Sennhof, Vordemwald, Switzerland
  • Workshop, Beyond the T, at BCG EMEA LGBTQIA+ conference, Berlin, Germany

2019

  • Presentation, My Life as a Trans Man, at UBS, in Hong Kong

2018

  • Podcast Episode of Mis Coming Out (My Coming Out)
  • Guest at Swiss TV SRF Talk Show Aeschbacher, to the theme Born Again. Please watch the recording (in Swiss German) here.
  • Keynote speaker, Transgender and the Sum of our Experiences, at Sticks & Stones conference, Berlin, Germany
  • Panel, LGBT+ Issues of the Lesser Known Letters, at the LGBT Talents conference, Paris, France
  • Writers Resist – authors read for human rights on Martin Luther King Day, at Spheres, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Presentation, Working Life as a Trans Man, at UBS, Zurich, Switzerland

2017

  • Presentations at Zurich Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Presentation at McKinsey & Company’s GLAM Friday Bar, Berlin, Germany
  • Presentation, at Boston Consulting Group Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Keynote Speaker, at LGBTQI Book Fair, Southampton, UK
  • Writers Resist – authors read for human rights on Martin Luther King Day, at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland

2016

  • Presentations at Boston Consulting Group, in Zurich, London, Dusseldorf
  • Keynote Speaker, at Global LGBTQI+ Conference, Boston Consulting Group, in San Francisco, USA
  • Keynote speaker, at LiterallyPR event in London, UK

2015

  • Panel on Trans Identity, at Karl der Grosse, Zurich, Switzerland
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