Move the Room.

Change What Happens After It.

Aleya Harris is a TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and award-winning strategic storytelling consultant known for making audiences laugh, think, tell the truth, and leave with a plan.

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What If Your Identity Is a Script You’ve Rehearsed Too Many Times?

Aleya brings soulful truth-telling, strategic depth, delicious humor, and the kind of energy that makes an entire room sit up and lean in.

Her keynotes combine magnetic storytelling, sharp business strategy, meaningful audience participation, and practical tools people can immediately use.

Watch her transform big ideas into clear, memorable moments that audiences can carry into their next decision, conversation, and workday.

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A beautiful story can open a heart. A clear strategy can move a person. Aleya brings both to the stage.

Every engagement is designed to deliver:

  • A message shaped around your event goals and audience

  • Relevant research, examples, and case studies

  • Purposeful participation that feels natural in the room

  • Proprietary tools attendees can use immediately

  • A clear next move that helps the learning survive the applause

Your audience will feel seen, challenged, energized, and equipped.

Your event team will have a speaker who understands the assignment.

Your Audience Deserves a Keynote They Can Use

Aleya Harris helps leaders and experts use strategic storytelling to turn ideas into action, change into momentum, and expertise into revenue.

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Aleya's Signature Talks 🎤

Aleya's Signature Talks 🎤

What Does Your Room Need to Move?

Strategy into shared behavior. Change into trust and agency. Expertise into revenue.

Choose the keynote that meets your audience at the pressure point they are navigating right now. Every presentation is customized for the room while preserving the core message, framework, and transformation that make the experience memorable.

Signature Talk

For Leaders and Organizations

Your Strategy Is Losing the Plot

How Hidden Narratives Derail Execution and How Leaders Turn Strategy Into Shared Action

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Session overview

Your strategy can be brilliant in the leadership meeting and dead by Monday morning.

Once strategy enters an organization, people interpret it through past experiences, manager behavior, competing priorities, incentives, and the stories they already believe. Those hidden narratives create Strategy Drag™, the friction between leadership intent and employee action.

In this provocative and highly practical keynote, award-winning speaker and strategic storytelling expert Aleya Harris reveals why every strategy becomes a story before it becomes behavior. Through surprising client cases, live audience diagnosis, and her proprietary Narrative Design approach, Aleya helps leaders uncover the real story operating beneath stalled execution.

Attendees will learn how to translate strategy into meaning, belief, and action so people understand what is changing, what it means for them, and exactly how to move it forward.

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Key Takeaways

  • Find where strategy is losing momentum. Use the Official Story and Operating Story diagnostic to expose conflicting messages, hidden beliefs, and organizational signals that make the desired behavior feel confusing, unsafe, or unrewarded.

  • Turn strategic priorities into observable behavior. Build a Strategy Movement Map connecting the desired result to the decisions, beliefs, meaning, and leadership story required to produce it.

  • Create a narrative intervention people can act on. Replace vague messaging with a clear story, a defined role, and an immediate next move that leaders and managers can reinforce.

Attendee Take-Home

A Strategy Drag Quick Check and one-page Strategy Movement Map they can immediately apply to a real initiative.

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Best For

Executive and leadership conferences, management meetings, transformation initiatives, HR and L&D events, association conferences, and sales or revenue enablement teams.

Popular Applications

Strategy adoption, change communication, cross-functional alignment, manager consistency, culture initiatives, GTM execution, and organizational transformation.

Available Formats

Keynote, Live Keynote Activation, Strategy Movement Lab, and executive roundtable.

Revenue Enablement Edition

For sales and revenue audiences, this keynote explores how GTM strategy, enablement messages, manager signals, and buyer-facing stories either reinforce one another or quietly slow seller adoption.

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Why Great Enablement Dies in Translation: How Revenue Leaders Turn GTM Strategy Into Seller Behavior

Signature Talk

For Leaders and Organizations

Lead Through the Plot Twist

How Leaders Create Trust, Meaning, and Momentum When AI Rewrites Work

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Session overview

The next plot twist is already here.

AI is rewriting roles, workflows, expectations, and entire industries faster than most people can make sense of the change. Employees are carrying questions about their value, identity, security, and future into every meeting. During that uncertainty, they look to leaders for truth, meaning, and a clear role in what happens next.

In this timely and deeply human keynote, Aleya Harris equips leaders to communicate through change with candor, credibility, and radically authentic leadership. Attendees will discover how to address the unofficial stories spreading throughout the organization, communicate what is known without manufacturing certainty, and help people move from anxiety to agency.

This session combines real-world cases, audience interaction, and a practical leadership communication tool that can be used during AI adoption, restructuring, transformation, rapid growth, or any moment when the old script no longer applies.

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Key Takeaways

  • Read the human story surrounding change. Separate facts, fears, assumptions, and organizational history so leaders can address what employees are genuinely trying to understand.

  • Communicate the plot twist with credibility. Use the Plot Twist Leadership Brief to explain what changed, why it matters, what remains uncertain, and what people can expect next.

  • Turn uncertainty into agency and action. Give employees a meaningful role, a clear decision, an immediate next move, and a feedback loop that protects trust while the strategy continues to evolve.

Attendee Take-Home

A Plot Twist Leadership Brief and Next-Conversation Plan they can use for an upcoming change message, team meeting, or difficult conversation.

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Best For

Leadership, future-of-work, AI, HR, talent, culture, change-management, women’s leadership, and association conferences.

Popular Applications

AI adoption, restructuring, rapid growth, role changes, manager development, trust during uncertainty, and human-centered leadership.

Available Formats

Keynote, Live Keynote Activation, leadership workshop, and executive roundtable.

Revenue Enablement Edition

For sales and revenue audiences, this session helps leaders address the human questions surrounding AI adoption while building seller confidence, role clarity, and meaningful action.

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Lead Through the AI Plot Twist: How Revenue Leaders Build Trust, Adoption, and Seller Confidence as AI Rewrites Selling

Signature Talk

For Speakers and Expert Communities

How to Make More Money as a Speaker

Build a Bookable Talk, Choose Rooms That Can Lead to Revenue, and Create Income Beyond the Speaking Fee

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Session overview

A standing ovation is lovely. It will not pay your invoice.

Too many smart experts are collecting compliments, content clips, and unpaid exposure while the business surrounding their talk remains undefined. They have something valuable to say. They simply lack the buyer-facing message, room strategy, and commercial pathway that turns speaking into sustainable revenue.

In this candid, funny, and highly actionable keynote, bestselling author and award-winning speaker Aleya Harris pulls back the curtain on what actually makes a talk bookable and commercially valuable. Using real client cases and lessons from her own speaking business, she shows attendees how to connect their expertise to problems buyers will pay to solve, evaluate opportunities more strategically, and build revenue before, during, and after the stage.

Because every talk needs a business model.

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Key Takeaways

  • Build a talk buyers can confidently book. Use the Bookable Talk Test to clarify the buyer, business problem, audience promise, proof, and proprietary approach behind their topic.

  • Choose stages that support their revenue goals. Evaluate speaking opportunities with the Room Revenue Scorecard, including audience fit, buyer access, authority, lead potential, fees, and downstream value.

  • Create a commercial pathway behind the applause. Build a Stage-to-Sale Map connecting the keynote to an ethical call to action, useful lead magnet, intentional follow-up, and aligned paid offer.

Attendee Take-Home

A Bookable Talk Test, Room Revenue Scorecard, and Stage-to-Sale Map they can immediately use to strengthen their next pitch or speaking opportunity.

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Best For

Professional speaker associations, author and creator conferences, entrepreneurial events, business masterminds, coaching and consulting communities, publishing organizations, and personal-brand events.

Popular Applications

Speaker commercialization, signature intellectual property, strategic stage selection, bookability, revenue beyond the speaking fee, and building a business around a message.

Available Formats

Keynote, interactive breakout, Stage-to-Sale Lab, and masterclass.

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Choose How Deeply You Want the Room to Work

Keynote

45 to 60 minutes

A high-energy, story-rich experience designed to create shared language, memorable insight, and immediate action across a large audience.

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Live Keynote Activation

75 to 90 minutes

An expanded keynote that adds a live case diagnosis, audience pulse, guided application, and an individual or team action map while preserving the pace and energy of a mainstage experience.

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Executive Roundtable

60 to 90 minutes

A candid, highly customized conversation for a smaller group of executives or senior leaders navigating a specific strategy, communication, leadership, or organizational-change challenge.

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Strategy Movement Lab

90 minutes to a half day

A facilitated working session where leaders and teams apply Aleya’s methodology to a real organizational initiative. Participants examine the stories, beliefs, behaviors, and signals affecting execution and leave with a working Strategy Movement Map.

Stage-to-Sale Lab

90 minutes to a half day

A hands-on experience for speakers and experts who want to evaluate their topic, strengthen its connection to a paying buyer, choose better rooms, and build a commercial pathway behind the stage.

Before Aleya steps onstage, she learns what your audience is navigating, what your organization needs to reinforce, and what success should look like after the session.

Select engagements can also include:

  • A pre-event audience or stakeholder pulse

  • Sponsor and leadership interviews

  • A live case study or audience diagnosis

  • A facilitated application session

  • Post-event tools and reinforcement

  • A sponsor findings and recommendations recap

The result is a keynote that feels created for the people in the room.

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The Room Remembers

  • “One session in, and Aleya Harris just paid for my trip. Amazing. #carnegieconf"

    Andrew Meyers

  • “Great talk! Took more notes than any presenter ever 😂😂”

    Rob Chapman

  • "You are something special Aleya! We are so fortunate to have you join us and kick us off with exactly what we needed to feel and hear. Thank you so much for being a part of this!"

    Meghan Dalesandro, Carnegie Conference Organizer

  • "One standout moment? Aleya Harris’s keynote on Story-Driven Leadership. 🔥 She broke down how storytelling can build trust, spark clarity, and help you lead with empathy. Safe to say we’ll never look at a team meeting the same way again."

    Senior Vice President, Growth & Strategy, Demand Local
    Women In Automotive Conference Attendee

  • "Last year I had the honor of watching Aleya speak at the Conversion Conference and she was amazing. As I get all the speaker evaluations Aleya had the highest scores. So if you are looking for an amazing speaker or someone who can help you to become an amazing speaker, look no further than Aleya Harris!"

    Martin Greif, Conversion Conference Owner

  • "Last year I had the honor of watching Aleya speak at the Conversion Conference and she was amazing. As I get all the speaker evaluations Aleya had the highest scores. So if you are looking for an amazing speaker or someone who can help you to become an amazing speaker, look no further than Aleya Harris!"

    Jamie Dykstra, Ghostwriter & Client

  • "Last year I had the honor of watching Aleya speak at the Conversion Conference and she was amazing. As I get all the speaker evaluations Aleya had the highest scores. So if you are looking for an amazing speaker or someone who can help you to become an amazing speaker, look no further than Aleya Harris!"st Item

    Amanda Wiss

  • "Starting off the week at Women In Automotive with a keynote that instantly set the tone. Aleya Harris challenged us to rethink leadership — not as performance under pressure, but as purpose-driven connection."

    Erica Lindo, Sr. Director of Agency Partnerships, Demand Local

    Women in Automotive Conference Attendee

  • “Aleya exemplifies what it means to be a quality professional speaker while uplifting fellow speakers and event producers in the industry! She is an authentic, clear, and engaging speaker with a vibrant personality! You can’t help but lean in and listen to what she has to say. These qualities make Aleya an amazing speaker, but they also reflect the kind of person I believe should be uplifted in our industry. ”

    Amber Swenor, Professional Speaker & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author

  • “Aleya’s energy is absolutely magnetic; she does not just speak about story-driven leadership, she embodies it. After six months of guiding this incredible group through our leadership journey, I could not have imagined a more powerful way to wrap things up. Aleya’s SPARK framework and storytelling strategies gave our participants tangible, meaningful tools to engage their teams, build belonging, and lead with authenticity. She reenergized our group and reminded us all why leadership rooted in purpose and story is so impactful.”

    Director, A National Sports Organization

  • “The difference between Aleya and other presenters is her energy and charisma. She is a total gem! Aleya has a panache for delivering nuggets of strategy layered in warmth, connection, and a dash of humor.”New List Item

    Courtney Wolf, Educate | Empower | Encourage

  • “Aleya takes time to research the audience and deliver content that is a match for their needs."

    Michelle Loretta, Be Sage Consulting

  • “Queen took it to church! She was thorough, happy, knowledgeable, pleasant, pretty, professional. You name it!”

    Sheree Norford, Tranquil Wedding Vows

  • You spoke about ways to "spark the stage" and keep people's attention, and you did that in spades! Thank you for being so direct and concrete about how to connect with our "crises" that could be helpful to share with others, how to structure a dynamic keynote, how to get paid, and more.

    Jennifer A. Perry, Women's Media Group

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Why Aleya Harris?

TEDx Speaker • Bestselling Author • Award-Winning Storytelling Strategist • Former Global Marketing Executive

Aleya Harris is a TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and award-winning strategic storytelling consultant who helps leaders and experts turn complex ideas into stories people can understand, trust, and act on.

Her background in global marketing and revenue leadership gives her a practitioner’s view of how messages travel through organizations, teams, and markets. She understands what happens when an exciting strategy meets competing priorities, mixed signals, tired managers, skeptical employees, and the beautiful chaos of real people.

Aleya’s delivery blends sharp strategy, soulful truth-telling, meaningful audience participation, and humor that makes hard truths easier to carry.

Audiences leave feeling seen, stretched, energized, and ready to use what they learned.

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Keep the Momentum Moving

Organizations ready to address deeper strategy adoption and leadership-alignment challenges can continue the work through the Strategy Adoption Risk Scan™ and Make Strategy Move™ with The Evolution Collective.

These enterprise experiences help leadership teams identify where strategy is losing meaning, align around one credible story, and reinforce the decisions and behaviors required to move it forward.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Every engagement begins with a strategic conversation about your audience, event goals, current challenges, and desired outcomes. Aleya then customizes her language, examples, case studies, interaction, and attendee tools for the room.

  • Absolutely. Organizations can pair a keynote with a Live Keynote Activation, Strategy Movement Lab, executive roundtable, or post-event reinforcement session. Aleya will recommend the format that best supports your audience and objectives.

  • Yes. Aleya offers Revenue Enablement Editions of her enterprise keynotes focused on GTM strategy translation, seller adoption, manager reinforcement, buyer-facing communication, and cross-functional alignment.

  • Aleya is available for select in-person and virtual keynotes, workshops, leadership sessions, and facilitated conversations.

  • Speaking fees vary based on the format, location, customization requirements, and any additional workshop or activation components. Share your event details to receive a tailored recommendation and proposal.

  • Bring whatever you currently know, including your event date, location, audience, expected attendance, preferred format, goals, and budget range. Aleya’s team will help you determine the strongest topic and engagement structure.

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Ready to Move the Room?

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Tell us about your audience, the stakes, and what you want to change after the event. We’ll help you choose the keynote and format that fit the moment.

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SPARK YOUR SPARK ⚡️

SPARK YOUR SPARK ⚡️