Andre Simms

Andre Simms Speaking Topics

• Resilient Leadership: Navigating Burnout, Pressure & Change With Emotional Intelligence

  What If Resilience Isn’t About Pushing Through, But Tuning In?

  In today’s world, leaders are asking:

  • How do I keep going when I feel like I’m running on empty?
  • What does it mean to lead with both strength and softness?
  • How do I create spaces where others can thrive—without losing myself in the process?

  Whether you lead a team, a movement, or a mission, it’s time to rethink resilience as more than just endurance. In this talk, Andre Simms challenges the cultural myths around leadership, masculinity, and productivity—and reframes emotional intelligence as a necessary tool for sustainable impact.

  This session explores how self-awareness, vulnerability, and emotional discipline can transform your leadership style and the environments you shape. Attendees will walk away with practical strategies to show up whole, lead relationally, and build teams that don’t just survive pressure—but grow stronger because of it.

  When we redefine resilience, we reclaim our humanity—and build organizations that thrive from the inside out.

• Beyond Buzzwords: Building Equity-Driven Organizations That Actually Work

  How Do We Move From Talk to Transformation?

  As equity, inclusion, and justice take center stage, professionals across sectors are asking:

  • Are we really building cultures of belonging, or just checking boxes?
  • How do we make sure our values show up in how we lead and hire?
  • What systems are we unintentionally replicating within our own organizations?

  In this eye-opening session, Andre Simms unpacks how to move beyond performative DEI efforts and into practices that actually shift culture. Drawing from his experience training leaders and organizing communities, Andre offers an actionable framework for equity work that is relational, results-driven, and rooted in accountability.

  This talk is for organizations ready to go deeper—leaders who want to build ecosystems of care, trust, and shared power from the inside out.

  When we stop managing optics and start building equity at every level, we don’t just improve performance—we transform the future of work.

• Next-Gen Leadership: Preparing Youth to Shape the Future of Work, Culture & Power

  What If the Next Generation Isn’t the Future—But the Present?

  As the world changes rapidly, leaders across industries are asking:

  • How do we nurture youth to lead with vision and purpose?
  • What skills will actually matter in the future of work?
  • Are we preparing young people to fit into systems—or to reshape them?

  In this forward-looking session, Andre Simms explores how youth—especially those often left out of opportunity—are already building the future through creativity, entrepreneurship, and cultural leadership. He shares a blueprint for intergenerational leadership that elevates young people as collaborators, not just recipients.

  This talk empowers educators, employers, and movement builders to support youth with the tools, trust, and space they need to lead boldly and authentically.

  When we make room for the revolutionary imagination of young people, we don’t just invest in the future—we redefine what leadership looks like now.

• The Cost of Silence: How Avoiding Hard Conversations Destroys Team Culture

  Are We Building Culture—Or Just Keeping the Peace?

  Every team has its unspoken truths. And many leaders are asking:

  • Why do we keep avoiding the same conflicts?
  • How do we speak truth without tearing people down?
  • What does real accountability look like beyond the surface?

  This session confronts the real price of avoiding difficult conversations—resentment, disconnection, lost innovation—and offers a roadmap for building cultures where truth can be spoken with care, clarity, and courage. Andre Simms walks audiences through tools for conflict transformation, feedback rooted in dignity, and building trust where silence used to live.

  When teams stop avoiding the truth and start embracing it, they become more connected, courageous, and aligned with the mission that brought them together in the first place.

• When Winning Isn’t Healing: Rethinking Success in the Age of Overachievement

  What If the Hustle Is Hiding Our Hurt?

  In a culture obsessed with productivity and performance, many high-achievers are privately wondering:

  • Why do I still feel empty, even when I’m hitting all my goals?
  • Am I building success or just escaping from what I haven’t healed?
  • What would it mean to succeed in a way that actually feels good?

  This session invites leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers to confront the shadow side of success—where achievement becomes a mask for unresolved pain, disconnection, or avoidance. Andre Simms draws from his personal journey and work with impact-driven communities to unpack how true success requires emotional clarity, internal alignment, and intentional rest.

  Audiences will learn how to redefine success on their own terms—where legacy isn’t built through burnout, but through authenticity, purpose, and healing.

  When organizations value wholeness over hustle, they don’t just retain great talent—they unlock generational impact.