Your audience deserves a keynote that resonates on a personal level, and Rashad delivers just that. He speaks directly to the hearts and minds of your team, blending spoken word poetry, storytelling, and actionable business insights to leave them captivated and energized.
With his unique ability to connect, Rashad tailors every presentation to your industry and company, ensuring his message aligns with your goals.
This isn’t just a speech it's a transformational experience that inspires action and drives lasting results.
Customizable keynotes not listed are also available
Catalogued Keynotes
The Sound of Leadership:
How Listening Fuels Innovation
(Leadership is Listening)
In a world where everyone’s vying to be heard, true leaders know that the most powerful tool in their arsenal isn’t their voice it’s their ability to listen. The Sound of Leadership: How Listening Fuels Innovation explores the often-overlooked art of listening and how it can transform not only the way leaders engage but how they inspire game-changing ideas.
This keynote dives deep into the connection between active listening, empathy, and innovation. Through engaging stories, actionable insights, and a touch of creative flair, I’ll show your team how tuning in to the voices around them can uncover hidden opportunities, build trust, and spark collaboration like never before. Whether it’s leading a team or pitching the next big idea, this talk will equip attendees with the tools to listen actively and lead boldly.
Because innovation doesn’t come from the loudest voices in the room, it comes from those who know how to truly hear.
Three valuable takeaways:
1. The Listening Advantage: Learn how active listening creates trust, fuels creativity, and builds stronger team dynamics, driving innovative solutions.
2. Transform Silence into Strategy: Discover how to leverage quiet moments and authentic dialogue to unearth new perspectives and opportunities for growth.
3. The Leadership Amplifier: Master techniques to foster a culture of listening in your organization, empowering teams to collaborate more effectively and innovate with confidence.
Lead with your story:
Crafting Narratives that inspire career growth
"Lead with Your Story" is all about the power of personal narratives. This keynote shows how crafting and sharing authentic stories can inspire not only individual career growth but also motivate teams and drive collective success. Rashad teaches how to tap into the power of storytelling to transform how professionals connect, communicate, and lead. Attendees will leave with practical tools to harness their own stories as powerful assets for growth and leadership.
Three Valuable Takeaways:
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The Impact of Personal Narrative: Attendees will understand how sharing their own authentic stories can foster deeper connections, trust, and influence within their professional network.
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Crafting Stories for Impact: Practical techniques for crafting compelling narratives that resonate with colleagues, clients, and leadership—transforming communication into a tool for inspiration.
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Storytelling as a Leadership Tool: Insights into how storytelling can be leveraged to inspire teams, align vision, and drive personal and professional growth.
InKNOWvation NOW!
Innovation NOW is positive disruption!
It's all about rethinking our approach to innovation.
While innovation itself isn't a new concept, the way we practice it needs to evolve. In this high-energy keynote, Rashad shows how innovation begins with the individual, how personal growth and self-innovation are the keys to achieving powerful breakthroughs at work.
Attendees will leave feeling inspired and ready to act, understanding that the time to innovate is now.
Three Valuable Takeaways:
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Self-Innovation as the Catalyst: Attendees will discover how personal transformation, adapting habits, mindsets, and approaches lays the groundwork for greater innovation within teams and organizations.
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Breaking Through Barriers: Techniques for identifying and overcoming personal and professional barriers that prevent true innovation, allowing individuals to unlock more creative solutions.
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Action-Oriented Innovation: Practical methods to ignite immediate action, encouraging attendees to stop waiting for the perfect moment and start innovating now, both personally and within their teams.
The Heartbeat of Belonging,
why we seek, why we stay
This talk uncovers the core reasons why employees decide to stay or leave their careers. Through powerful storytelling, Rashad delves into the critical themes of empathy, team building, and personal responsibility—revealing how each element plays a role in fostering a genuine sense of belonging at work. Attendees will gain deep insights into the human side of retention, learning how to create an environment that makes people feel seen, valued, and connected.
Three Valuable Takeaways:
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Understanding Empathy in Leadership: Leaders will learn how empathy can transform the work culture, making employees feel valued and understood, which directly impacts retention.
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The Role of Team Building: Practical approaches to strengthen team cohesion, build meaningful relationships, and foster a supportive work environment that encourages employees to stay.
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Personal Responsibility in Belonging: Insights on how both leaders and employees can take ownership in cultivating a sense of belonging—empowering everyone to contribute to a positive and enduring workplace culture.
Moments that Matter:
Transforming customer
engagement into loyalty
This talk is designed to ignite your sales meetings and conferences by diving into the moments that truly matter, those pivotal interactions that turn casual customers into devoted advocates. Rashad brings an engaging, informative approach that helps teams understand how to enhance customer experiences, building relationships that lead to loyalty and long-term success.
Three Valuable Takeaways:
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Identifying Key Customer Moments: Attendees will learn how to recognize and capitalize on critical customer interactions—those moments that define the difference between a one-time transaction and ongoing loyalty.
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Turning Engagement into Loyalty: Insights and strategies on how to elevate customer engagement by creating authentic connections, adding value at every step, and fostering an emotional bond with customers.
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Empowering Sales Teams: Practical techniques for sales professionals to enhance their approach, making each customer feel valued and understood, ultimately transforming satisfied customers into lifelong advocates.
I Pledge Allegiance to Healthcare
I Pledge Allegiance to Healthcare calls for a re-imagined approach to healthcare—one that treats people as individuals, not numbers.
Health-care is a daily topic of conversation, and our healthcare workers put themselves on the line every day. This talk emphasizes the power of empathy in healthcare, urging leaders and practitioners to keep lead with their hearts rather than their wallets.
Rashad delivers a passionate message about the human side of healthcare, inspiring a shift towards more compassionate, patient-centered care.
Three Valuable Takeaways:
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People Over Numbers: Attendees will understand the importance of seeing patients as individuals, not statistics—focusing on empathy and humanity to improve patient outcomes.
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Empathy as a Leadership Principle: Practical insights on leading with compassion within healthcare systems, inspiring teams to foster genuine human connections in patient care.
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Revitalizing Healthcare Culture: Specific strategies for healthcare leaders and workers to infuse more care, empathy, and patient respect into their daily practice, creating a culture that prioritizes humanity above all else.
Education Keynotes
Freshmen!
Don't freak out!
(College talk)
Brown Boys Been Bold
Elevate To Success
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