Alisha Fernandez Miranda Keynote Speaker

• Make this your What If Year

Motivational speech or workshop on how to craft a what if year, using the story from my memoir as a framing narrative.

• Motherhood, Midlife and The Ambition Wave

Parents, but mothers in particular often experience ambition as a wave - it may ebb and flow as your motherhood journey changes. This talk is a personal discussion about how ambition can change with time and parenthood, based on my experiences, and how to ride the tide, not let it overtake you.

• Want a better world? Think beyond scale.

While scale matters when trying to create a positive social impact with your business, it’s not the only thing that’s needed. Alisha offers practical, refreshing speech about why entrepreneurs need to be thinking about scale, sustainability and stakeholders to create meaningful social change both with their companies and personal lives.

• From CEO to intern: Go back to the bottom to thrive at the top

As CEO of the UK’s leading social impact advisory firm, Alisha has consulted to everyone from the UN and the Gates Foundation to the royal family and A-list celebrities on their philanthropy and social impact. But in 2019, with a thriving career, she felt she needed a change. She spent 2020 navigating the pandemic while taking on unpaid internships at the dream jobs of her childhood. Working on Broadway, for a retro fitness company, as a contemporary art dealer and in an upscale rural hotel in Scotland, Alisha realized the benefits for leaders of going back to the very beginning of an industry to inspire and explore what’s next.

• Intention vs. impact: When meaning well isn’t enough

This talk offers truth to those who feel like having good intentions is enough to create a positive impact: it’s not. Creating social impact and business impact require similar approaches and skills, yet the former is often treated as an afterthought. In this talk, Alisha will explain what tools entrepreneurs who want to have a positive impact on the world really need, why stakeholder engagement as as important as knowing your customer and offers practical solutions on how leaders can use their business and personal power to create a better world.

• Clean Money: Can Philanthropy Ever be Ethical?

In either a pure speech or interactive workshop format, a discussion of ethical fundraising or philanthropy. In the wake of donations being declined, this topic will dive into the tradeoffs and sacrifices we make when engaging in fundraising or philanthropy, the success of boycotting, and which factors - and people - matter most when deciding when to keep or turn down money.