Speaking
What you are actually booking.
Three distinct roles. Organizers usually need one of them badly and the other two not at all.
Speaking
Three distinct roles. Organizers usually need one of them badly and the other two not at all.
The part of the evening with a number attached, and the part most programs hand to whoever happens to be holding the microphone.
Doors to close. Someone has to own the clock, the transitions, and the moment the AV team is not ready.
Sessions built on having done the thing rather than having read about it.
Topics
How donor advised funds, appreciated securities, and tax-aware planning turn reactive annual giving into something deliberate. Built for Muslim families and the institutions they support.
What a DAF is, how it works, what it costs, and why donating appreciated stock usually beats selling first and writing a check.
Career risk, retirement accounts, index funds, compounding, and lifestyle inflation. Built for young professionals and student groups.
Building one e-commerce company from a startup to eight figures across multiple eras of the internet, and what the last few years of it actually looked like.
For nonprofit boards and development staff. How financially sophisticated donors hold and move charitable capital, and why your appeal may be asking for the wrong thing.
Identity, purpose, and time after an exit. Relevant to founder groups, executives, and anyone approaching a sale.
Sessions on giving, investing, and personal finance are educational and drawn from personal experience. They are not financial, tax, or legal advice, and nothing in them is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Attendees should talk to their own advisors.
On the mic
Every emcee describes themselves the same way. Thirty seconds settles it faster than a page of copy.
Young professionals and youth
Career risk, the first retirement account, index funds, compounding, and how quickly lifestyle inflation eats a raise. Built for people who are early enough that small decisions still compound.
Nobody in this age group needs a lecture about budgeting. What they usually have not seen is the arithmetic of starting early, the difference between investing and speculating dressed up as investing, and what it actually costs to wait five years before opening an account.
With younger audiences at camps and youth programs the shape changes completely. Less slide deck, more running the room. The financial content only lands once you have their attention, and getting a tent full of teenagers to pay attention is its own skill.
Booked by young professional groups, youth camps, student organizations, and community programs. Sessions run from a single talk to a ninety minute program with a half hour of questions, which is usually where the useful part happens.
Booking
Community and nonprofit. Islamic Centers, schools, clinics, relief organizations, and community programs. This is the majority of what I do and the reason the rest exists.
Corporate and conference. Associations, company events, professional groups, and estate planning or financial literacy programming.
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