Shakira M. Brown

Booking the right keynote speaker is one of the highest-leverage decisions an event planner makes. Shakira M. Brown earns her place on the program by doing two things most speakers do not. First, she treats human skills as the real competitive advantage in an AI-driven workplace, not as soft extras by tailoring her presentation to your exact needs. Second, she shows leaders exactly how to communicate with both people and AI tools so technology amplifies their judgment instead of replacing it. Her background runs from major broadcast newsrooms to the boardrooms of publicly-traded corporations to national conference stages. She launched programs and campaigns for brands like Microsoft and Comcast during her years at a Madison Avenue publicity firm, then led internal and external communication for international professional services firms and corporations. That range is why audiences across information technology, health care, real estate, construction, financial services, professional services and health care industries as well as industry associations trust her to meet them where they are and send their stakeholder audiences home with tools they can use the next morning. What makes Shakira Different from Other Philadelphia keynote Speakers and Beyond Most leadership speakers talk about communication in the abstract. Shakira gives audiences a replicable framework. Her signature programs, including Master the Message, Lead the Room, and Speak with Intent, turn capable managers into compelling leaders who influence, inspire, and engage with credibility. Her newest work helps teams build human-AI collaboration habits so they get more value from AI without losing the human judgment that makes leaders worth following.