And become about being Human.

Growing up visibly different meant learning early how it feels to be stared at, judged, misunderstood and noticed before being known.

But it also became an unexpected education.

In people.

In perception.

In belonging.

In the stories we build about ourselves.

And in what can happen when our relationship with those stories begins to change.

Kris shares those experiences openly — not to tell an audience how they should live, but to create the kind of conversation that allows people to recognise something in themselves.

Conferences & Events

Keynotes, panels and conversations exploring difference, identity, resilience, belonging and being seen.

Schools & Young People

Age-appropriate conversations about difference, bullying, empathy, confidence and how we respond to people who don't look, think or live exactly as we do.

Support Groups & Communities

Lived-experience talks for people with visible differences, their families and the organisations that support them.

Companies & Organisations

Human conversations around difference, perception, belonging, inclusion and the assumptions we make about one another.

Podcasts & Media

Interviews and conversations about Kris's story, VISIBLE, Born Different and the wider ideas behind the work.

Every audience is different, so talks can be shaped around the people in the room.

Themes include:

• Growing up visibly different

• What it feels like when the world reacts before it knows you

• The hidden habit of bracing for other people's reactions

• Bullying, belonging and being seen

• Confidence as a relationship with yourself

• Difference as a teacher

• From reaction to response

• The assumptions we make about one another

• What lived experience can teach us about empathy

• Understanding ourselves more deeply

Kris has spoken with communities including the Birthmark Support Group UK, The Avrum Rosenseig Podcast, Karibu Anawim - Dr. Zali Podcast, sharing his lived experience and opening conversations around growing up with a visible difference, identity, confidence and acceptance.

Kris is the author of VISIBLE — A Memoir of Difference & Being Seen and host of the Born Different — The Unpolished Podcast.

His work began with one very personal experience — living for more than four decades with a large facial port-wine stain birthmark.

But the conversations it has created have become much broader.

Because most of us know what it's like, in one form or another, to carry something that affects how we see ourselves or how comfortable we feel being seen.

That's where Kris likes the conversation to begin.