The Speaker's

THE SPEAKER’S BIO

Sekou Andrews is the world’s leading Norman Lear, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Poetic Voice – a presenter/performer Coretta Scott King and family. Sekou has who is disrupting the speaking industry also emerged as an inspiring voice for in unprecedented ways. A school health and wellness, routinely evoking teacher turned actor, musician, two- tears, cheers, and standing ovations time national poetry slam champion, at events for clients such as Johnson entrepreneur, and now award-winning & Johnson, United Healthcare, Mayo poetic voice, any given day may now Clinic, Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente, find Sekou keynoting at a leadership TEDMED, Roche, Genentech, and the conference, helping a Fortune 500 American Nurses Association. Sekou has company with brand messaging or even now returned to the classroom, teaching performing pieces for Barack Obama in his rockstar secrets to public speakers Oprah’s backyard. Sekou is the creator through his highly effective Stage of Poetic Voice – a new, cutting-edge Might™ speaker training system, that speaking category that seamlessly fuses helps executives, influencers and leaders inspirational speaking with spoken word become more dynamic communicators. poetry to make messages more moving and memorable. His dynamic blend of Puts the inspiration in strategic storytelling, business insight, information and adds goose spoken word, theater and comedy turns bumps to presentations events into experiences, and transforms audiences of informed receivers into Sekou is a multi-talented entertainer with enrolled responders. over 2 decades of experience rocking audiences across platforms and genres. Sekou does more than As a recording artist and producer, his inspire us with his story; he last album, “Poetic License,” made him inspires us with our story. the most awarded artist in the nation’s largest independent music organization. It is no surprise that Forbes has called Sekou has shared the stage with such Sekou “the de facto poet laureate of heavyweights as Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, corporate America.” His “wow-factor” is Carlos Santana, Kendrick Lamar, Maroon in high demand with the world’s most 5, Jill Scott and John Legend. He is also a successful organizations, including successful voiceover artist and actor with Google, Viacom, Toyota, Nike, Cisco, several national commercials, 3 feature Linkedin, Global Green, Paypal, ASAE, films, and an original, critically acclaimed The Gap, Paypal, General Mills, TEDx, two-man play on his resume. When YPO, Capital One, L’Oreal, Autodesk, teamed up with creative partner Steve ACLU, Intuit, and the NBA to name Connell, Sekou has inspired audiences but a few. Sekou’s work has also been from the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival featured on such diverse national to The Pasadena Pops Orchestra. With media outlets as ABC World News, all of the innovation and inspiration MSNBC, HBO, Good Morning America, that is poetic voice, Sekou Andrews is Showtime, MTV and BET, and he has accomplishing the seemingly impossible given private performances for such – bringing spoken word poetry to the prominent individuals as Maya Angelou, world’s largest stages, while redefining Quincy Jones, Larry King, Hillary Clinton, the notion of what a speaker is, and what a poet can be.

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