Presentations
Keynote decks and speaking presentations from D.A. Abrams — proof-of-authority frameworks you can view, share, and bring to your own stage or team.
New-School Leadership: The LEADERSHIP Framework
Making a Difference in the 21st Century
D.A. Abrams’ flagship keynote maps the shift from old-school command-and-control management to new-school, purpose-driven leadership. Built around the proprietary LEADERSHIP model — ten traits that spell the word itself, from Lifelong Learner to the Platinum Rule — the presentation gives leaders a practical roadmap for influence, empathy, and enrollment-based leadership in a remote, AI-accelerated, human-centered era.
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The Big Six Formula for Success
Diversity & Inclusion as a Disciplined Business Strategy
This keynote reframes diversity and inclusion as a disciplined business process — not an aspiration, an HR program, or a compliance exercise. Anchored in D.A. Abrams’ proprietary Big Six Formula, it walks leaders through the business case, real-world cases and evidence, measurement that replaces good intentions with goals, owners, timelines and metrics, and how it all connects to the WHY Ecosystem for building genuinely inclusive organizations.
The Inclusion Solution
My Big Six Formula for Success
Drawn from D.A. Abrams’ book The Inclusion Solution, this keynote makes the case for treating diversity and inclusion as a measurable business strategy rather than a stand-alone aspiration or an HR initiative. It moves leaders from the “new normal” of visible and invisible difference, through the business and human case for inclusion, into the Big Six Formula — and shows how broad commitment becomes real only when it is managed with goals, accountable owners, resources, timelines, and metrics, the same discipline any revenue priority receives.
Inside the Keynote: The LEADERSHIP Model
Ten traits of the new-school leader — spelling the word itself. Each trait becomes a practical, actionable discipline for leading people rather than simply managing tasks.
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