Speaking · Training · Consulting
Bring Dr. Dina McMillan to Your Organization
Lectures, seminars, keynotes and workshops on healthy relationships, manipulation and coercive control. Delivered online and in person, for groups of any size, since 2007.
Stanford-educated social psychologist · TEDx: Unmasking the Abuser, nearly 500,000 views · Courts, law enforcement, government and professional audiences
Trusted by NSW Police · Judicial Commission of New South Wales · CatholicCare · The Benevolent Society
Keynotes from $5,000 · Workshops, training and private webinars quoted to your audience and goals · Reduced rates for nonprofits and community organizations
Ways to Work Together
Education Tailored to Your Audience
Keynotes & Lectures
Memorable, research-based talks for conferences, leadership events, campuses and awareness campaigns.
Seminars & Workshops
Interactive sessions for teams, managers and professionals, designed around your sector and goals.
Train-the-Trainer
Equip your own staff to deliver McMillan Method education throughout your organization.
Original Materials
Custom training materials and resources developed for your audience on request.
One-on-One Consulting Limited
Private, confidential guidance for individuals and professionals. Availability is limited.
Webinars Now Booking
Private live webinars tailored to your group: a family, friends, a parent group, a team or a class. Public webinars coming soon to accompany the Unmasking the Abuser™ Clarity Assessments and the new eBook, A Quick Reference Guide to Abusers’ Strategies and Tactics.
In person · Live online · Groups of any size
Signature Topics
What Organizations Book Dr. McMillan to Speak About
The Unmasking the Abuser™ series draws on more than 4,500 interviews with survivors and 700+ in-depth interviews with abusers.
- Unmasking the Abuser: Early DetectionHow to recognize the warning signs of manipulation and control early in a new relationship, before emotional, financial and practical ties make leaving harder.
- Unmasking the Abuser: Inside the RelationshipHow coercive control takes hold and continues, why it is so hard to see from the inside, and how to gain the clarity to decide what comes next.
- Unmasking the Abuser: After the RelationshipAdvice for survivors. Making sense of what happened, trusting your own judgment again, and recognizing the tactics that often continue after leaving.
- Unmasking the Abuser: Outside the RelationshipSupport for professionals and loved ones. How to recognize what is happening, respond without pushing someone away, and offer help that truly helps.
- How It’s Done CourseHow abusers choose who to target, and the ploys and tactics they use to gain and keep control, laid out step by step from A Quick Reference Guide to Abusers’ Strategies and Tactics. Available in person and online, and tailored to your participants and how they will use the material: professionally, personally or both.
- Why Do I Feel So Bad?For relationships with serious problems that are not abusive: how to tell the difference between difficult and damaging, and what to do about it.
- It Clocks In: When Domestic Abuse Comes to WorkWhat managers see, what may be underneath, and how to respond without overstepping.
- When the Complainant Becomes the AccusedRecognizing DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) in workplace investigations.
- Love Me, Love Me Not?What makes relationships healthy, mutual and lasting, and how to tell the difference.
- Why We WaitWhy people hesitate to act even when they know a problem will get worse, and how to move from knowing to doing.
Every program can be tailored to your audience, sector and goals. Have a topic in mind? Dr. McMillan will build a program around it.
Results
What Your People Leave With
- A clear way to recognize patterns, not just isolated incidents
- Language to describe concerns without labels or accusations
- Practical next steps that respect their role and safety
Experience
Why Dr. McMillan
- 11 years designing and delivering training for NSW Police prosecutors
- More than 15 years developing education for judges, magistrates and lawyers with the Judicial Commission of New South Wales
- Former Commissioner, Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation
- Senior Policy and Projects Officer, Queensland Government, leading public education on gambling harm and domestic abuse
- Author of four books, with But He Says He Loves Me published in 14 countries and 4 languages
- Published in LexisNexis Child Custody and Visitation Law and Practice and the Judicial Officers’ Bulletin
- TEDx speaker: Unmasking the Abuser, nearly 500,000 views
- Audiences from small executive teams to conferences of thousands, online and in person
How Booking Works
Three Simple Steps
Tell us about your audience
Who they are, your date, audience size, format and goals.
We tailor the program
Dr. McMillan recommends a topic and format, and you receive a written quote.
Your people see more clearly
Delivered online or in person, with optional Clarity Tools for participants.
Plan Your Event
Tell us about your organization, audience, preferred date, group size, format (online or in person) and the topic you have in mind.
Request Availability Download Speaker One-SheetClarity Tools
Private. Instant. Yours to Keep.
Each Clarity Tool is your own private, interactive tool, with scoring and basic results built right in.
Complete It Privately
Your answers stay with you. There’s nothing to submit, and no one at The McMillan Method needs to see them.
Get Your Score Instantly
The tool calculates your results, so you don’t have to send anything in or wait for an answer.
Keep It and Use It Again
It’s yours to keep. Revisit it whenever you choose to see whether circumstances, patterns or relationships have changed.
Works on Any Device
Open it on your phone, tablet or computer, right in your web browser. Nothing to install.
♥ Your privacy is fully protected. You’re in control, always.
Everyday Relationships
Love Me, Love Me Not?™ Is this relationship as healthy and mutual as it should be?
Why Do I Feel So Bad?™ Is this relationship just difficult, or damaging?
Does This Work?™ Is this workplace relationship working, or working against you?
Unmasking the Abuser™
Early Detection for a new relationship
Inside the Relationship for a current relationship
After the Relationship for survivors after leaving
Outside the Relationship for concerned friends, family and professionals
Go Deeper
Clarity Tools from $59
Score Guides explain your results and next steps
Insight Editions offer the fullest analysis
Complete Clarity Systems bundle all three and save