Ambitious Things

Everyone has an idea they can’t quite shake. The project, career shift, or change that keeps resurfacing. Exciting. Uncomfortable. Unfinished.

Ambitious Things is a talk about how ideas actually move forward when clarity, confidence, and permission aren’t available yet.

Drawing from real projects across film, culture, and technology, writer and director Hal Kirkland shares a repeatable approach for turning ambition into action. Not through planning or certainty, but by starting small, building momentum, and learning by making.

This talk is for creatives, founders, teams, and leaders who feel stuck between intention and action — and are ready to move before everything feels figured out.