Speaking Engagements

Founder and CEO Fatimah Gilliam speaks to both large and small audiences each year at conferences, corporate events, and training workshops. She has spoken to senior executives, athletes, industry associations, university administrators, and students.

Fatimah always leaves her audience with actionable takeaways that can be implemented immediately. Her philosophy is to share insightful and candid advice so individuals can be more effective leaders and skilled drivers of their business and professional success.

She is a gifted and engaging speaker whose expertise in purpose-driven leadership empowers people and organizations to increase cultural intelligence and improve cross-racial business relationships. Fatimah’s interactive talks merge powerful candid storytelling, historical context, and data to offer straightforward advice and actionable takeaways.

 

 

 

 

While her presentations are customized and tailored for each audience, Fatimah specializes in five primary topics:

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (including 3-step framework for equitable decision-making)
• Negotiation & Influencing Skills
• Leadership Development & Career Advancement
• Career Transitioning (for Athletes)
• Female & Minority Professionals

Fatimah has written the groundbreaking book Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You.  This book is a pragmatic response to this moment in American history – seeking to drive equity and behavioral change while helping people navigate polarizing issues.  Introducing a straightforward, universal 3-step framework to unlearn racism, drive equity, and challenge misconceptions, Race Rules provides tips and tools on cross-racial interactions in people’s personal and professional lives.  It explains the unvarnished truth about racist and offensive behaviors to shift mindsets.  It is especially helpful in offering advice on effective allyship and tangible tools with action steps to disrupt racism.

For organizations and leaders committed to creating inclusive workplaces, retaining diverse talent, and promoting thriving modernized cultures with positive cross-racial relationships with clients, employees, key stakeholders, and customers, Fatimah, a leadership development and diversity expert, can deliver dynamic content to transition from ally to Racism Disruptor.

Fatimah can deliver compelling and engaging speaking engagements to drive equity. 

• Bedrock Race Rule – 3 Step Process to Making Equitable Decisions
• Effective Allyship & Unlearning Racism
• Racism Hurts Everyone & Disrupting Racism
• Negotiating & Influencing Across Race
• Leveraging History to Drive Equity & Transition Beyond Allyship
• Intersectionality for Inclusive Leaders

Fatimah can offer powerful and informative talks in a variety of formats.

• Keynote 
• Customized Workshop
• Fireside Chat or Book Reading
• Moderated Conversation (as Discussion Facilitator)
• Thought Leader Panelist 
• Book Signing

For organizations interested in recognizing cultural heritage months, identity recognition days, awareness months, federal holidays, and employee resource groups sponsoring leadership development events, Fatimah can draw from Race Rules to deliver compelling content helpful for all groups or tailored for specific populations to strengthen cross-cultural understanding and allyship.

Fatimah is also available for TV, radio, podcast, and print news interviews.

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Amina Hassan

Amina Hassan is available to discuss her recently published book Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist.

Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the fields of housing and education. With co-counsel Thurgood Marshall, he argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions effectively abolished racially-restrictive housing covenants. One of these cases, Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), is taught in nearly every American law school today. Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist recovers this remarkable figure from the margins of history. For the first time, this book fully reveals his life for what it was – an extraordinary story of an American hero who fought for racial justice for everyone.