Keynote Speaking

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“If you’re looking for a speaker who can move hearts, shift mindsets, and spark real action, Sal Naseem is someone we wholeheartedly recommend.”

Paul Modley, AMS

Keynote Speaking

Sal offers a range of keynote options that are connected to the theme of following your True North, through embracing your values and developing the moral courage to make change.

Sal uses storytelling from his remarkable career of national changemaking in the UK in policing and public life.

His approach will move hearts, shift mindsets, and inspire your audience. This, alongside practical tools to take away, so that everyone can start their journey to change and understand the destination of their own True North

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1. Finding, Following, and Holding onto Your True North.

Understanding and leaning into your values, and then how to stay true to them, can be transformational personally and professionally. This talk will help bring to life for your audience what values-led leadership actually looks like.


2. How to be a Changemaker Every Day.

What does it take to drive change? And how do we unlock the changemaking potential inside all of us? This keynote will explore exactly how we can do this, each and every day.


3. Moral Courage- Your Passport to an Inclusive Culture.

If we are looking to build inclusive cultures in our organisations, then the role of moral courage needs to be understood, nurtured, and harnessed. This keynote explores a framework for how we can do this in our organisations and how this can lead to true inclusion.


4. Becoming a Male Ally.

Using his experience of tackling institutional misogyny in policing and the fire service, Sal explores the vital role of men in driving change here. This keynote explores the why, and the road men need to take in discovering how they can become true allies to women.


5. Understanding and Recognising Islamophobia.

This keynote explores how to understand and recognise what Islamophobia currently looks like, societally and in the workplace. It delves into the latest research and uses powerful lived experience and storytelling to offer a way forward.


6. A Story of Racism, Resilience, and Resisting Systems of Denial.

A keynote talk on Sal’s best-selling book, True North: A Story of Racism, Resilience, and Resisting Systems of Denial. This book has been described by Desi-Blitz asa landmark contribution to anti-racist literature”. This keynote offers an opportunity for audiences to engage with the key themes of the book and a Q&A session with the Sal

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