Don't just move the room.
Move what happens next.
Research-driven, cinematic keynote experiences for institutions navigating leadership, culture, technology, health, and change. Built to challenge assumptions—and give audiences something meaningful to do with what they learn.
The Konquered Live experience
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Beyond a single topic · Speaking applications
Whatever your challenge, there is a bigger conversation to lead.
Leadership. AI. Organizational performance. Healthcare. Talent. Research. Justice. Konquered Live brings evidence, storytelling and practical insight to different industries—and shapes the experience around what your audience needs to do next.
Enterprise leadership & executive summits
Align senior leaders around decisions, accountability, organizational culture and performance under pressure.
Explore: Culture as a Performance Engine ↗Artificial intelligence & technology
Help leaders navigate responsible AI adoption, human judgment, governance and the changing architecture of work.
Explore: Own the Algorithm™ ↗Healthcare & behavioral health
Connect health systems, clinical leaders and public health professionals to the human and operational realities of better care.
Explore: The Science of Behavioral Health Innovation ↗Workforce, talent & mentorship
Make mentorship, development and succession more than aspirational language by examining the systems that shape opportunity.
Explore: The Performance Bond™ ↗Organizational change & resilience
Equip teams to confront uncertainty, institutional friction, high-stakes decisions and the gap between plans and execution.
Explore: Culture as a Performance Engine ↗Higher education & research
Engage scholars, academic leaders and research professionals on integrity, innovation, public impact and institutional pressure.
Explore: The Scholar Under Fire™ ↗Associations & professional conferences
Connect members across roles and industries with a shared framework they can carry into their own organizations.
Explore: Custom keynote experience ↗Public institutions & civic leadership
Explore institutional trust, ethical decision-making, systems design and the responsibilities of leadership in public-facing organizations.
Explore: Custom leadership experience ↗Justice, history & institutional responsibility
Create rigorous, constructive dialogue on historical context, accountability and the leadership decisions that shape institutions.
Explore: I Ain’t Woke, I Just Can’t Sleep ↗Corporate annual meetings · Board and executive retreats · Technology conferences · Health systems and hospital associations · Professional societies · University convocations · Research symposia · Government and public-sector convenings · Talent development programs · Leadership institutes · Foundation and nonprofit gatherings · Multi-sector summits
Selected organizations from the broader professional portfolio; engagement types vary and logos do not imply endorsement.
The difference
Not another inspirational hour. An institutional turning point.
A powerful keynote should create more than applause. It should change the language leaders use, the questions teams ask, and the decisions organizations are prepared to make.
Evidence with a pulse. Scholarship translated into language audiences can feel and use.
Stories with purpose. Narrative that creates connection without sacrificing intellectual rigor.
Clarity under pressure. Practical frameworks for complex organizational challenges.
Momentum beyond the stage. Options for facilitated discussion, workshops, and sustained learning.
How we tailor the experience
Different rooms. One standard of relevance.
Whether you are convening senior executives, frontline professionals, researchers, or an entire association, the experience should meet the moment.
Executive & corporate
Culture, accountability, performance, talent, ethical technology, and organizational resilience.
Healthcare & public health
Behavioral health, health policy, systems change, ethics, and the human consequences of institutional design.
Universities & associations
Research, academic leadership, justice, mentorship, professional identity, and public impact.
Featured flagship keynote
Culture is not the atmosphere. It's the architecture.
Culture as a Performance Engine
When performance breaks down, leaders often reach for motivation. But culture is not a poster on a wall: it is the operating system underneath the work. This flagship experience connects story, standards, structure, and behavioral norms to decision-making, trust, quality, and execution.
Designed for executive summits, transformation initiatives, leadership retreats, and institutions ready to move beyond slogans.
Signature keynote portfolio
Seven experiences. One standard of impact.
Choose a keynote by the challenge facing your audience—not simply by its title. Every engagement begins with a conversation about your event's purpose.
Choose the keynote for the decision your audience needs to make—not simply the topic they came to hear.
Culture as a Performance Engine
Culture is not the poster on the wall. It is the operating system underneath the work.
The Performance Bond™
Make mentorship measurable infrastructure for talent, advancement, and organizational culture.
Ethical AI, Designed for Humans
Build AI governance, transparency, trust, and decisions that serve people.
The Science of Behavioral Health Innovation
Connect mental health, community research, and systems design to improve how care works.
I Ain’t Woke, I Just Can’t Sleep
An evidence-led exploration of justice, history, institutional responsibility, and courageous leadership.
The Scholar Under Fire™
Sustain scholarly and clinical integrity when institutions, ethics, and public scrutiny collide.
Own the Algorithm™
Bring human judgment, governance, and trust into the age of agentic AI.
Konquered Live · LiveLabs
Don't just move the room. Move the organization.
A keynote changes the conversation. A LiveLab puts that conversation to work. Facilitated simulations, guided participation, shared problem-solving and technology-supported synthesis help turn insight into a practical next move.
LiveLab Executive
For executive teams navigating consequential decisions, competing priorities and organizational friction.
- Scenario-based leadership exercises
- Structured discussion and prioritization
- Documented decisions and next steps
LiveLab Collective
For conferences and large-group experiences where audiences become active participants rather than spectators.
- Live participation and facilitated dialogue
- Anonymous input options when appropriate
- Shared themes and post-session synthesis
LiveLab Intensive
For teams that need a half-day or full-day working session designed around a specific organizational challenge.
- Custom session architecture
- Applied exercises and action planning
- Optional follow-up and implementation support
Facilitated by people. Supported by EQ ResearchOS.
Where appropriate, LiveLabs can use Research-enabled participation, facilitator views and structured analysis to help teams capture ideas, identify patterns and leave with useful outputs. Technology configuration and data practices are confirmed for each engagement.
Engagement investment
The investment in what happens next.
Choose the format that meets your moment. These published starting engagement fees reflect the prior Konquered speaking rate card; final scope, travel and licensing are confirmed in the proposal.
Signature Keynote
$25,00060–75 minutes with Q&A, content calibration and production alignment.
Request availability ↗Innovation Lab / LiveLab Intensive
$50,000Half- to full-day facilitated engagement with custom lab design and action-oriented outputs. Final LiveLab scope confirmed in discovery.
Discuss your LiveLab ↗Virtual Keynote
$15,00045–60-minute broadcast with live Q&A and coordinated production.
Request availability ↗Virtual Workshop
$20,00090–120-minute facilitated session with participant materials and recap.
Discuss a workshop ↗Travel and lodging, recording permissions, multi-event engagements and customization are scoped in the agreement. An inquiry does not reserve a date.
When the work extends beyond the event
From a powerful experience to a lasting capability.
Keynotes and LiveLabs create clarity and momentum. For institutions ready to redesign how work happens, Konquered Consulting offers diagnostics, systems architecture and implementation support. The I AM Research Institute anchors the wider research and public-scholarship ecosystem.
One ecosystem · distinct engagements
Live: keynotes, immersive experiences and LiveLabs.
Consulting: diagnosis, redesign and implementation.
Research: technology for inquiry and organizational intelligence.
The speaker
Scholar. Strategist. Storyteller.
Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, PhD, brings research, teaching, institutional consulting, and public scholarship into one speaking practice. His work connects the human experience of systems with the decisions leaders make inside them.
The promise
“Power is the distance between what an organization promises and what people can actually use under pressure.”
A lens for leadership, institutional design, and the responsibility to turn ideas into usable change.
How we work · More than the microphone
Your team owns the vision. Ours helps carry the execution.
A powerful keynote should not create more work for your planning team. Our engagement process is designed to coordinate the content, production requirements and audience experience before the event, support execution on the day, and identify useful next steps afterward. Specific services and deliverables are agreed during planning.
Build the moment.
Audience and stakeholder discovery, message calibration, planning coordination, AV and production needs, and a clear run of show aligned with your event goals.
Deliver with intention.
Onsite or virtual coordination with your event team, speaker and session readiness, timing alignment, and facilitated participation when included in the engagement.
Make it last.
Post-event debrief, discussion of audience takeaways and optional LiveLab, learning or consulting follow-through when your organization is ready to act.
For event planners
A thoughtful process. A stronger event.
Share the moment
Tell us about your audience, event date, location, goals, and the challenge you're addressing.
Shape the experience
We'll discuss keynote fit, format, audience context, and possible follow-through.
Confirm the details
Availability, scope, logistics, and fees are confirmed directly before an engagement is booked.
Begin the conversation
Your next event could change what happens next.
Start with the date, the audience, and the change you want the room to leave ready to make. We will help determine the right keynote or LiveLab experience.
- Executive and association conferences
- Healthcare and university convenings
- Leadership retreats and transformation events
- Keynotes, LiveLabs and executive intensives
Speaking inquiry
Request availability
Include your event date, city or virtual format, organization, estimated audience size, and the keynote or topic you are considering.
Start your speaking inquiry ↗Submitting an inquiry does not reserve a date. Engagements are confirmed after a direct conversation.
Let’s Design What’s Next
Whether you’re exploring a single module or scaling a full performance system, the first move is discovery. We’ll map what you need, clarify the “why,” and start turning performance into architecture.
Every organization’s equation is unique. Discovery helps align scope, security, and system design—so your launch is precise from day one.
Have Questions?
Explore the systems behind the story. Our FAQ breaks down how Konquered re-engineers leadership, performance, and human design — one decision at a time.
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