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Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan helps organisations talk honestly about power, silence, and speaking up at work. The actor and author of Brave was among the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein and one of TIME's 2017 Silence Breakers.
Rose McGowan is an actor, director, and author who speaks about power, silence, and speaking up, drawing on three decades spent working under intense public scrutiny.
Rose was among the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein, and TIME named her one of the Silence Breakers, its 2017 Person of the Year. Her memoir, Brave, became a New York Times bestseller, and in 2018 she became the first woman to win GQ's Inspiration Award. In 2026, she wrote the foreword to The Marilyn Monroe Century.
Raised in the Children of God commune in Italy before a career spanning Scream, Charmed, and independent film, Rose has lived inside closed systems with strong unwritten rules. She shows how conformity takes hold in organisations, why people stay quiet when something is wrong, and what it takes to change a culture from the inside.
Audiences leave with a clearer picture of how silence and pressure to conform work in practice, a first-hand account of what speaking out costs and what it makes possible, and an example of rebuilding a career and identity on her own terms.
Book Rose for conferences, leadership events, and culture programmes where courage and accountability need an honest, first-hand voice.
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Rose McGowan draws on first-hand experience — from childhood in the Children of God commune through three decades in the film industry — to trace how closed systems enforce silence and conformity. She uses her own trajectory, including the public accusation against Harvey Weinstein and the subsequent rebuilding of her career, as a case study in how institutional pressure operates and what it takes to break from it.
Rose McGowan speaks on speaking out, organisational silence, conformity, workplace culture, and rebuilding identity after public scrutiny. She was named one of TIME's Silence Breakers as part of its 2017 Person of the Year recognition, following her role as one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein, and her memoir Brave became a New York Times bestseller.
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