Keynotes & Speaking
For rooms that need the conversation nobody is starting.
Keynotes, executive sessions, fireside conversations and panel contributions built around the questions leaders recognise but do not always name.
The core Ahqenza speaking platform focuses on leadership, judgement, truth, culture, opportunity and the organisational conditions that shape how people perform and succeed.
Signature organisational keynotes
Who Gets to Succeed?
Talent and effort matter. But nobody succeeds in a vacuum. How do organisations shape the conditions in which potential is recognised, developed and given room to succeed?
The Price of Truth
What does it cost to tell the truth inside your organisation, and who can afford to pay that price?
Culture Is the Memory of Consequences
Culture is not simply what an organisation says it values. It is what people remember happened when somebody acted on those values.
The Possibility Problem
Before asking people to change, what has the organisation taught them is possible?
Judgement Under Pressure
How do senior leaders make sound decisions when information is incomplete and the consequences are real?
Leadership Before Permission
What does it take to step forward before the title, confidence or certainty arrives?
Specialist Finance & Transformation Speaking
Amna also brings more than 20 years of finance and transformation experience to specialist audiences of CFOs, finance leaders, fintech organisations and financial-software providers.
Specialist finance topics may include
- Finance Transformation That Delivers Value
- The Evolving Role of Finance
- Leading Finance Transformation
- Trust, Control & the Modern Finance Function
- The Future of Finance
- Finance Leadership Under Pressure
- Negotiation & Influence for Finance Leaders
Speaking for financial technology and software providers
Independent thought leadership for CFO and finance audiences
Financial technology and software providers can engage Amna for independent, vendor-neutral keynotes, panel discussions, fireside chats and thought-leadership sessions designed to engage CFOs and senior finance leaders.
Rather than delivering a product pitch, Amna brings a practitioner's perspective on the issues surrounding the technology: finance transformation, governance, control, investment value, adoption, leadership and organisational change.
The objective is to help providers create credible conversations with finance decision-makers while keeping the content useful and commercially relevant to the audience.
Formats may include
Keynotes, fireside conversations, panels, executive roundtables, client events and executive education sessions.
Plays from YouTube when selected.
Amna was very easy to work with and really understood the audience. She brought a different perspective to the topic and gave people plenty to talk about afterwards, which is exactly what we wanted from the session.
Amna struck the right balance for a senior audience. She was engaging and thought-provoking, but also grounded in real experience. The discussion continued well beyond the session.
Typical buyers
- Corporates and Executive Teams
- Conference organisers and professional bodies
- Business schools and executive education providers
- CFO and senior finance networks
- Financial technology and software providers
- Professional services firms
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