Be ready to be awakened by a high powered and transformational experience in our opening session with the world’s leading poetic voice, Sekou Andrews. With performances to audiences ranging from President Obama in Oprah Winfrey’s backyard to the world’s biggest and most important companies, Sekou delivers. A schoolteacher turned actor, musician, two-time national poetry slam champion, entrepreneur, and award-winning poetic voice, on any given day you may now find Sekou keynoting at a leadership conference, helping a Fortune 500 company with brand messaging, or coaching executives and leaders on storytelling and speaking.
Forbes has called Sekou “the de facto poet laureate of corporate America.” His “wow-factor” is in high demand with the world’s most successful organizations, including Google, Toyota, Nike, Cisco, LinkedIn, Global Green, Paypal, ASAE, The Gap, TEDx, Capital One, L’Oreal, Intuit, and the NBA to name but a few. Sekou’s work has also been featured on such diverse national media outlets as ABC World News, MSNBC, HBO, Good Morning America, Showtime, MTV and BET, and he has given private performances for such prominent individuals as Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Larry King, Hillary Clinton, Norman Lear, and Coretta Scott King and family.
Sekou has now returned to the classroom, teaching his rockstar secrets to public speakers through his highly effective Stage Might™ speaker training system, which helps executives, influencers and leaders become more dynamic communicators.