Speaking
Keynotes drawn from a life rebuilt more than once.
Armand speaks on resilience, grief, leadership, and maternal health. Each keynote is tailored to the room, never a canned deck.
Keynotes
Three talks, each adaptable.
Survival Is Not Our Basic Instinct
The case that human beings are built for something beyond endurance, and what changes when leaders, teams, and communities act on it.
- A reframed understanding of what human beings are actually built for.
- A language for resilience that moves beyond mere endurance.
- A charge to lead from the deeper instinct the talk names.
General audiences, leadership convenings, conferences
The Delivery Room
A husband's account and a leader's charge, drawn from the death of Armand's wife three days after their second set of twins, his seventh and eighth children, were born.
- A firsthand account of where maternal care meets human consequence.
- A clear-eyed view of the maternal mortality crisis from inside it.
- A leader's charge to the people and institutions who can change it.
Healthcare and maternal health audiences
The Ledger
A CFO's guide to building wealth after losing everything. The discipline of starting over, told by someone who has done it.
- A practical framework for rebuilding financial life from zero.
- The discipline and decisions that compound after total loss.
- A CFO's perspective on wealth as something you reconstruct, not receive.
Financial services, wealth and advisory audiences
What people say
There are many people who can motivate an audience. Armand transforms them. His voice, his story, and his presence belong on stages everywhere.
Armand's heartfelt tribute to his wife and family was deeply moving and resonated strongly with the audience, bringing home the true human impact of maternal mortality from a husband's perspective. He is an exceptional speaker.
Armand's story resonated with our chapter members and was one of the highest-rated keynotes of the series.
Armand's session was the one people were still talking about at the end of the day. He walked a room full of founders through loss and rebuilding without a single wasted word.
Formats
Ways to engage.
Keynote
45 to 60 minute talks for conference main stages and large audiences.
Fireside & Q&A
Moderated conversations tailored to the audience and theme.
Private session
Closed-door working sessions with leadership teams and convenings.
Maternal health briefings
Remarks and briefings for institutions and policymakers addressing maternal mortality.
Selected stages
Rooms where the work has landed.
Congressional briefings on maternal health at the U.S. Capitol, 2024, 2025 and 2026, sponsored by congressional offices and the Black Maternal Health Caucus
- 01Morehouse School of Medicine
- 02Entrepreneurs' Organization
- 03Atlanta Medical Association
- 04100 Black Men of Atlanta
- 07Mela AI's Peak Day ATL
Press & Downloads
Speaker one-sheet & headshots.
Everything needed for a program, a stage intro, or a press listing. The one-sheet is a print-ready page. Open it and use your browser's Save as PDF. Headshots are high-resolution and free to use with attribution.
Speaker One-Sheet
A single-page brief: biography, the three keynotes, formats, and selected stages. Print-ready.
Headshots
High-resolution portrait, free to use for programs and press with attribution to Armand Kadima.
