Hamza Khan

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Reinventing Leadership: The People-First Playbook for Managing Tomorrow's Workforce

  As a result of the sudden and drastic changes over the past few years, organizations experienced plummeting morale, engagement, productivity, and retention. Now, emerging from chaos, they face yet another challenge — navigating a fast-approaching future of work, an always-on “new abnormal” characterized by hybrid work styles, labour shortages, persistent disruption, and shifting employee behaviours and expectations.

  To meet this series of challenges, future-friendly organizations require a renewed leadership ethos and a significant leap beyond the old management paradigms. Enter “modern leadership”, a system of action that is profoundly human-centric, change-friendly, self-disrupting, and value-driven.

  Drawing on recent examples of successful modern leaders, Hamza Khan will show audiences how to operationalize and maximize intertwined people-first values such as servitude, innovation, diversity, and empathy. In doing this, leaders can guarantee that the rate of change inside their organization will far exceed the rate of change outside.

  This talk is for leaders at all levels — newly minted leaders, leaders on the track to promotion, and senior leaders keen on shifting their perspectives. This talk will help modern leaders to navigate change with courage and wisdom. It’s time to stop managing and start leading.

  Attendees of this session will:

  • Familiarize themselves with the definitive reasons why organizations fail to navigate difficult change.
  • Understand how to operationalize and maximize modern leadership values to future-proof their leadership style and organization.
  • With the help of recent case studies, adopt a more human-centric and contemporary approach to leading through change.

  This session is ideal for the following:

  • Leaders seeking to produce a people-first culture that attracts and retains top talent.
  • Teams seeking to enhance their approach to managing tomorrow’s workforce.
  • People seeking a deep dive into the future of leadership.

• Brave New Work: The Change-Friendly Playbook for Navigating Non-Stop Transformation

  Volatility. Uncertainty. Complexity. Ambiguity. Four words that defined our lives over the past few years. Now, emerging from chaos, we face yet another challenge — navigating a fast-approaching future of work, an always-on “new abnormal” characterized by hybrid work, persistent technological disruption, and constantly shifting behaviours and expectations.

  Today’s organizations must compress their five-year plans to two years (or less) to thrive in tomorrow’s fast-paced world. In an age where everything that can be automated will be, it’s imperative that people change before it’s too late. To meet this challenge, attendees of this dynamic session require a bold new approach to navigating constant change; they must lean into an array of uniquely human qualities — such as attunement, (true) resilience, and creativity — that are difficult, if not impossible, to disrupt. The future of work belongs to those who can change before change is required.

  Attendees of this session will:

  • Familiarize themselves with the top reasons organizations fail to navigate constant change.
  • Understand how to operationalize and maximize change-friendly values to future-proof their career.
  • Become inspired to transition their organization to a change-friendly state of automatic and perpetual renewal.

  This session is ideal for the following:

  • Leaders seeking to create change-friendly workplace cultures.
  • Teams seeking to transition from reactive survival to proactive thriving.
  • People seeking to improve their ability to anticipate and respond to change.

• Beyond Burnout: The Overachiever's Playbook for Unlocking Sustainable Peak Performance

  Wellness is now a $4.2 trillion global industry. And yet somehow, levels of stress and burnout are at all-time highs across professions. In the face of persistent burnout, we must ask ourselves, is self-care still our best defense? It’s time to go beyond burnout by resisting the binary construction that is “work-life” and consider a new framework altogether.

  This thought-provoking talk explores the transition from chronic overwhelm to sustainable high performance. It will make attendees rethink conventional approaches to preserving and optimizing their productivity, and equip them with real-world best practices that promote lasting well-being and create a resilient and productive workplace. Let’s help each other to burn bright, not out.

  Attendees of this talk will:

  • Learn how to recognize and manage chronic stress proactively and constructively.
  • Appreciate the need to move beyond burnout toward sustainable high performance.
  • Discover how to achieve more by beating burnout and building (true) resilience.

  This session is ideal for the following:

  • Leaders seeking to create a high-performing and burnout-proof culture.
  • Teams seeking to accomplish more with less.
  • People seeking to transition from overachievement to sustainable high-performance.

• Purposeful Productivity: The High-Performer's Playbook for Getting (the Right) Things Done

  Disengaged employees cost the world $7.7 trillion annually in lost productivity. As it happens, the misalignment between an employee’s and an organization’s values accounts for the lion’s share of this disconnect. However, with a strong sense of shared purpose, employees are more likely to stay focused, energized, and committed to their work, even when challenging.

  This dynamic and engaging session is about strategically pairing purpose with productivity. It’s time to counter the chaos, anxiety, and stress that plagues modern organizations. It’s time to stop celebrating chaos and start celebrating calm. Attendees will receive action-oriented insights, highlighting real-world best practices for reclaiming and optimizing productivity for the long haul. They’ll learn to separate fatigue from depletion, reframe stress, and synchronize their personal and organizational objectives.

  Ideas are easy, and execution is hard. But with the right tools and methods, intentional professionals can consistently transform their ideas into action.

  Attendees of this session will:

  • Identify the foundational elements needed to transcend plateaus and unlock peak performance.
  • Receive practices to optimize and sustain breakthrough productivity.
  • Learn how to prioritize more effectively to drive objectives and key results.

  This session is perfect for:

  • Leaders seeking to align the needs of the organization with the needs of its people.
  • Teams seeking to take their productivity to the next level.
  • People seeking to overcome procrastination.

• Rehumanizing Workplaces: The Modern Leader's Playbook for Creating a Thriving People-First Culture

  Employee disengagement has reached an all-time high, costing the economy over $7.7 trillion annually. As it stands, the modern workplace needs to be fixed.

  In this timely session, attendees will learn that embracing a more human-centric approach to work can supercharge their engagement, sustain their productivity for the long haul, and ultimately help them thrive in an increasingly uncertain future of work. Hamza Khan will show how, by “rehumanizing” the workplace, inclusive and sustainable growth is not only possible — it’s a direct outcome.

  By recognizing that individual thriving is indelibly tied up with community thriving, it’s imperative to explore new ways of working and thinking. It’s time to move beyond conventional, individual interventions to optimize performance toward more sophisticated, community-focused, and seemingly counterintuitive approaches that require a profound human touch. Rehumanizing workplaces is the winning strategy of the future.

  Attendees of this session will:

  • Understand the imperative for unwaveringly putting people first.
  • Appreciate the need to create positive-sum results for employees, communities, and the planet.
  • Learn how to operationalize and maximize several human-centric values to build individual resilience and a culture of compassion.

  This session is ideal for the following:

  • Leaders seeking to create a thriving people-first workplace culture.
  • Teams seeking to connect with a higher purpose for their work.
  • People seeking to gain a fresh perspective on the future of work.