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Leadership Before the Title: Take Ownership of Who You’re Becoming
Abdul Kunateh, MBA, PMP, Leadership & Enterprise Transformation Strategist, Kunateh Impact
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechTalent alone does not build a career, create opportunities or prepare someone for leadership - which is not a job title; it’s a set of behaviors, disciplines, and decisions that anyone can practice long before they are formally recognized. Too often, people wait for someone else to see their potential before investing seriously in who they are becoming. In this presentation, Abdul Kunateh challenges students, professionals and emerging leaders to take greater ownership of their development before the title, position or opportunity arrives. MORE >
Drawing from lessons across education, career transitions, leadership, and business; he explores how continuous learning, initiative, accountability, understanding how organizations work and developing skills before they are required can shape long-term success. Leadership, in this context, begins before formal authority; it is reflected in how we learn, think, contribute and prepare. Audiences leave with practical frameworks for building the capabilities that make them effective, resilient and prepared for the opportunities they say they want - regardless of where they are starting. They’re prepared to ask a more important question: Are you becoming capable of the opportunities you say you want? -
The Five Pillars of High Performing Organizations – People. Clarity. Strategy. Systems. Scale.
Abdul Kunateh, MBA, PMP, Leadership & Enterprise Transformation Strategist, Kunateh Impact
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechWhy do some organizations consistently execute, adapt, and grow while others struggle despite having talented people, good ideas and significant resources? Every organization-whether a business, nonprofit, school, a club or community group-depends on five interconnected disciplines: People, Clarity, Strategy, Systems, and Scale. Drawing from real-world experience across leadership, operations, technology, and enterprise transformation. MORE >
Abdul Kunateh explores how these five pillars work together to shape performance, why strategy alone is rarely enough, and what causes execution to stall even when good ideas and capable people are present. Designed for executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and community audiences, this presentation provides a practical framework for understanding how organizations actually operate, strengthening alignment and decision-making, and building the leadership and systems required to turn good ideas into consistent, sustainable results regardless of size, industry, or mission. -
Identity Beyond the Profession: Nurturing Personal Growth Alongside Career Growth
Beverly Barr, Founder, Raise the BARR, Coaching & Consulting, LLC.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechIdentity Beyond the Profession: Nurturing Personal Growth Alongside Career Growth is a powerful, thought-provoking keynote that challenges audiences to look beyond their job titles and roles to rediscover their authentic selves. Drawing from her 30+ years of experience and deep expertise in leadership and personal development, Beverly Barr guides professionals on a journey of reflection and alignment. MORE >
She helps audiences explore the cost of defining themselves solely by their work, teaching practical strategies to cultivate identity coherence, integrate personal values with professional goals -
Emotional Intelligence in Real Life
Nakela Sutton, Director of Sales, Nakela Speaks, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechIn a world overwhelmed by so many distractions, division, Artificial Intelligence, and digital acceleration, emotional intelligence is no longer optional—it’s a critical skill for success. In this transformative keynote, Nakela Sutton shares her RESET method and real-life scenarios to help audiences make smarter decisions, build stronger relationships, earn well, and live happily—without burning out. MORE >
Drawing from her experience as a corporate director, emotional intelligence strategist, and founder of Nakela Speaks, Nakela invites professionals to stop performing resilience and start practicing it. This speech is a call to reclaim what makes us human and lead with clarity, joy, and emotional truth—in the workplace and beyond. -
The “Work-Work Balance”: Building a sustainable career with dual work-streams
Brooke LeBeau, Owner & Founder, Artfully Creative Studio
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechFor decades, we’ve been told to strive for work–life balance. But in today’s evolving economy, many professionals are discovering that the real key to career sustainability is something else entirely: work-work balance. This isn’t hustle culture, it’s a new era of symbiotic working. In this talk, creative marketing professional and agency founder Brooke LeBeau explores how cultivating multiple professional outlets can strengthen careers, increase financial stability, and fuel long-term growth. Rather than viewing side projects, freelance work, or alternative income streams as distractions from a “primary” career, Brooke reframes them as strategic tools for professional development. MORE >
Drawing from her experience building a multidisciplinary career and running a creative agency, Brooke will share practical ways professionals can diversify their skill sets, explore supplementary income streams, and bring new insights back to their primary roles. She will also discuss why organizations benefit when employees cultivate outside expertise and how managers can support healthy, transparent dual work-streams without sacrificing performance or focus.Whether you’re a designer with a freelance practice, a professional exploring creative pursuits, or a leader looking to foster more innovative teams, this session will provide a framework for rethinking career growth in a more dynamic and sustainable way.
What you’ll learn:
• Why diversified income streams create career resilience in uncertain economic environments
• How side projects and freelance work can accelerate skill development faster than traditional roles
• Why professionals with multiple outlets often bring greater innovation and perspective to their primary jobs
• How pursuing multiple work streams can help prevent creative stagnation and burnout
• Practical ways to identify and test potential secondary income streams
• How managers and organizations can support dual work-streams without compromising productivity
• Why encouraging outside creative pursuits can lead to more engaged, entrepreneurial employees -
Leading Without All the Answers: Creating Environments Where Others Thrive
Matt Dickerson, MBA, PCC, Certified Coach and Founder, Coaching for Clarity
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechMatt Dickerson has spent much of his career not just leading teams, but developing people. He has extensive experience coaching other coaches on how to build trust and extract the best performance from their teams. By designing tools and training that make performance coaching straightforward and effective, Matt helps leaders move past the need to have all the answers. For Matt, true leadership is about creating an environment where others have the space to thrive. MORE >
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Men and Abortion Recovery
Gregory Mayo, Award Winning Author, Speaker
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement
Request This Free SpeechHealing after lost fatherhood via abortion is possible. With over 62,000,000 abortions in the US alone since 1973 the need for healing and recovery is great. This is not a political talk. This is not a discussion of right or wrong. Rather, it is designed to bring awareness those that are hurting that healing is available. MORE >
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Authentic Masculinity
Gregory Mayo, Award Winning Author, Speaker
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement
Request This Free SpeechIs there Toxic Masculinity? Of course. But masculinity isn't toxic. In this talk, Greg explores how the presence of a Father Wound impacts how men communicate, relate, heal and live and how lack of understanding of authentic masculinity can lead to toxic masculinity or lack of masculinity at all. MORE >
More and more men grew up in a home without their father or a right example of what being a man looks like. So they try to look like a man and act like a man... but with no one deliberately showing the way, how do we know if we’re doing it right?Well, we don’t.
We grow a beard
Shoot guns
Fight
Drink whiskey
Chase women and other mythsBut they’re all just behaviors... actions to cover up the little boy inside who is deeply confused and hurting. The world needs men to stand up, to lead and to train up the next generation of men.
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Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat, so What Did?
Alexandrea NeSmith, MSc., Founder & Strategist, Cancer Survivor, Patent Owner, Life Enthusiast!, Rocket Profit Group, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement
Request This Free SpeechEveryone has the same 24 hours in a day, understanding how you are using your time to create sustainable changes in your business is the first step to change management. So why do so many businesses fail and business owners experience burn out? Certainly not because of a lack of passion or effort, but because of a lack of clear messaging that drives their ideal client to them. The ones that succeed leverage the ability to remain curious about the environment them. MORE >
So, we won't talk about curiosity and cats! But we will talk about HOW to remain curious by asking the right questions to gather information and seek clarity in conversations. Knowledge can be a powerful tool, and gaining insight into how your client perceives your business, how you perceive your business and closing the gap on the variance will drive brand loyalty, revenue and profits.The art of being curious isn't just about asking a plethora of questions, it's about understanding how to interpret the information and apply it across your business verticals to impact change. Change Management & The Art of Being Curious aims to deliver a new way to look at yourself, your business, the impact you are making and how to sustain.
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Business Ideation, Strategy, Implementation
Alexandrea NeSmith, MSc., Founder & Strategist, Cancer Survivor, Patent Owner, Life Enthusiast!, Rocket Profit Group, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechLooking at your business objectively and finding ways to capitalize on more profitable revenue is a key opportunity for most business owners. Business owners started with a passion, and work hard and invest significant amounts of time into their business, only to be strapped for cash due to poor profit margins, but often these business owners don't have or don't know how to read their profit statements. MORE >
Learning how to deconstruct your business into specific profit verticals is one area Alexandrea will discuss. Followed by understanding your conversation equation which is where success is measured at your current strategy and implementation program.Bringing all of this together to understand your market dominating position is where change will happen.