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.

01

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

02

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

03

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

Formats

Ways to engage.

Keynote

45–60 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, U.S. Senate — on the maternal mortality crisis

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.

Armand Kadima — headshot

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