I've delivered keynotes for EMAAR and SEMA. My keynote topics include Applied AI, Strategic Urgency, and customer loyalty, with each program tailored to the audience and event brief.
Every keynote is tailored to your audience, your industry, and the specific challenge your organization is facing.
The practical playbook for leaders who are done dabbling. Built on the 3-P Model (People, Process, Personalization) with a 90-day roadmap to real ROI.
Annual kickoffs, leadership summits, conferences where attendees need to leave with an executable plan.
How to spot where opportunities are forming, filter out the noise, and act while windows are still open.
Organizations feeling pressure to move faster, teams stuck between panic and paralysis.
The intersection of AI, experience, and growth — how to deliver personalized experiences at scale that turn customers into advocates.
Customer-facing teams, CX conferences, organizations focused on retention and revenue growth.
Explore keynote themes for the business challenge your audience is facing.
AI, trust, customer loyalty, and timing for financial-services leaders.
A practical urgency framework for teams facing fast-changing markets.
Growth, decision-making, and opportunity spotting for leadership audiences.
Revenue kickoffs focused on AI-enabled selling, customer loyalty, and Monday-morning action.
Applied AI without the hype: workflows, adoption, and real operating leverage.
For teams that need readiness, implementation sequencing, workforce confidence, and a shared adoption language.
For HR, CHRO, talent, reskilling, role-redesign, and AI-at-work audiences.
For transformation agendas where AI, workflows, adoption, and market timing all connect.
Industry-specific AI keynotes are available for audiences with specialized operating or regulatory needs.
For conventions and field-leader events where AI, growth, trust, and personal brand scale matter.
For university, professional education, and institutional leadership audiences navigating AI and change.
For guest-experience, tourism, hotel, restaurant, and travel audiences adapting to AI-era expectations.
For utilities, grid, renewables, and energy-transition audiences focused on AI, workforce, and customer experience.
If the planning starts with geography, begin with the closest market resource, then narrow by topic, format, and availability.
For Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Palm Beach, and regional leadership events.
For DFW and Texas corporate, technology, financial services, and sales kickoff audiences.
Texas energy, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and Gulf Coast conference option.
Wall Street, marketing, technology, association, and Fortune 500 leadership event option.
Midwest finance, manufacturing, association, customer experience, and executive-event option.
Mountain West, financial services, technology, and executive leadership option.
Convention, trade show, sales meeting, association, and national-conference option.
Southwest healthcare, financial services, corporate, association, and leadership-event option.
Bay Area technology, AI, innovation, growth, and Silicon Valley executive-event option.
If the event team is not ready to check availability, these resources help clarify fees, format, proof, and planning details first.
For events where a committee needs to confirm audience, scope, AV, recording rights, stakeholder proof, and availability details.
For events with known basics where the team needs a speaker-ready brief for customization and prep.
A guide to speaker selection, vetting, fees, contracts, and the booking process.
For events where the next decision is budget, travel, format, recording rights, workshop add-ons, or quote scope.
For events where the committee needs the current PDF and HTML speaker packet with bio, keynote topics, testimonials, videos, fees, and booking details.
“Shama was THE BEST Closing Speaker. We heard nothing but fantastic things from attendees.”
“Her commitment to our event, streamlining her presentation to ensure it was appropriate for our audience — we couldn't have asked for more.”
This isn't a lecture. It's a hands-on workshop built around your team's real workflows, with guided implementation and practical guardrails.
Based on the Rewired workshop series in Miami, this session is designed for teams that are done talking about AI and ready to implement it.
Half-day or full-day. In-person. Max 20 participants.
Guided work on practical AI workflows using participants’ actual processes and priorities.
Keynote add-on for leadership teams, executive offsites, or companies ready to go from AI curiosity to AI implementation in a single day.
I serve as a GTM advisor to select private equity and venture capital funds, helping portfolio companies identify growth opportunities and move on them with precision.
Advisory engagements are selective and typically focus on Applied AI implementation, go-to-market strategy, and customer experience as a growth lever.
For organizations that need focused strategic guidance on Applied AI, customer experience, or growth strategy — without a full keynote event.
Ideal for board meetings, leadership retreats, or executive offsites where your team needs clarity on where to focus and how to move.
I built and led Zen Media for 17 years before selling the company. That operating experience informs my work on Applied AI, growth strategy, and customer experience.
Named to the 2026 TIME100 Creators list in the Leaders category. Professor of Practice at Link School of Business.
I have delivered keynotes for EMAAR and SEMA on topics including Applied AI, customer loyalty, and Strategic Urgency.
Each engagement is adapted to the audience, industry, and specific challenge described in the event brief.
FAQ
Organizations book Shama for keynotes, Rewired AI workshops, executive briefings, and strategic advisory.
For large conferences, a 45- or 60-minute keynote is usually best. For leadership teams that need implementation, a Rewired workshop or executive briefing can be paired with the keynote.
Yes. Each engagement includes discovery so the examples, strategic context, and takeaways match the audience and business priorities.
Use the check-availability form or email team@shamahyder.com with the date, location, audience, and format you are considering.
