OneDine Case Study
Shama uses OneDine as a quick business case study for Strategic Urgency: seeing a market signal, interpreting the opportunity, and moving before the window closes.
Business Keynote Speaker
A Business Keynote Speaker for the Decisions
Your Audience Has to Make Now
Shama Hyder built and led Zen Media for 17 years before selling the company and now advises leaders at Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, and JPMorgan Chase.
Her business keynote brings Strategic Urgency, AI, customer behavior, growth, leadership, and timing into one discussion for business audiences.
2026
TIME100 Creators — Leaders
EMAAR + SEMA
Keynotes
17 yrs
Built and Led Zen Media
3
Published Books
Link School
Professor
Why Business Audiences Book Shama Hyder
Shama’s business keynote combines her operating background with her work as an author, advisor, and Professor at Link School of Business.
Her business perspective is grounded in operating experience.
Shama built and led Zen Media for 17 years before selling the company. Her keynote work draws on that founder and leadership background alongside her work advising leaders at Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, and JPMorgan Chase.
Strategic Urgency is a framework for discussing timing and decisions.
The keynote uses Strategic Urgency to examine how leaders read signals, choose where to focus, and consider when action is warranted as markets change.
She connects AI, customer change, and business strategy.
The keynote examines how AI changes customer expectations, team capacity, competitive timing, and the economics of growth, while keeping human judgment, trust, and leadership in view.
Her experience spans keynotes, books, and the classroom.
Shama has delivered keynotes for EMAAR and SEMA, is the author of The Applied AI Business Playbook, Momentum, and The Zen of Social Media Marketing, and serves as a Professor at Link School of Business.
Best Fit Audiences
- Annual conferences where business leaders need a strategic opening keynote
- Executive retreats and leadership summits
- Sales kickoffs, revenue kickoffs, and growth meetings
- Association conferences serving CEOs, founders, and operators
- Corporate events focused on AI, change, customer experience, or growth
- Boards and senior teams deciding where to place strategic bets
Audience Outcomes
- Strategic Urgency and decision timing
- Market signals and competing priorities
- AI, customer expectations, and competitive timing
- Growth decisions and leadership alignment
- A shared vocabulary for discussing action
Frequently Asked Questions
What experience informs Shama Hyder’s business keynotes?
Shama built and led Zen Media for 17 years before selling the company. She advises leaders at Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, and JPMorgan Chase, and has delivered keynotes for EMAAR and SEMA.
What business topics does Shama speak on?
Her business keynotes cover Strategic Urgency, AI adoption, customer experience, growth strategy, leadership timing, digital transformation, and the decision-making discipline required in fast-changing markets.
How do the business keynote speaker, corporate keynote speaker, and executive keynote speaker options differ?
The business keynote brings growth, AI, customer change, market timing, and Strategic Urgency together. It is positioned for enterprise annual meetings, company kickoffs, C-suite audiences, boards, CEO forums, and senior leadership teams.
Is this business keynote relevant to financial services or innovation audiences?
The topic covers timing, AI adoption, customer trust, and growth decisions for financial services events, innovation conferences, executive summits, and leadership meetings.
Which keynote option fits an event brief that mixes business growth, customer experience, and AI?
This business keynote brings executive decision-making, customer loyalty, revenue performance, and AI adoption into one topic. The booking brief can identify which areas matter most for the event.
What kinds of business events is this keynote designed for?
It is designed for business conferences, growth meetings, executive gatherings, and AI-focused events that need operator credibility across growth, customer change, Strategic Urgency, and decision-making.
Is this appropriate for senior executives?
Yes. The keynote is built for executive audiences, leadership teams, boards, association conferences, and corporate events where the audience needs strategic clarity and practical next moves.
How do we book Shama Hyder?
Submit an inquiry at shamahyder.com/check-availability or email team@shamahyder.com with the event date, location, audience size, and format.
Bring Shama Hyder to Your Stage
For conferences, leadership meetings, associations, and executive events where the audience needs more than inspiration — they need a decision framework they can use immediately.
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Strategic Urgency in the Real World
The OneDine example illustrates the signal framework through a business case study about market change and timing.
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