Cool Places Where Magogodi’s Spoken:
Get Gutsy Innards
Upgrade From Comfort To Courage
Stop Performing Self-Confidence. Start Tapping into Self-Worth. This talk helps you do hard things—from leading a tough conversation, to asking for a raise or pitching a new idea after failing at your last shot. Magogodi powerfully connects your courage journey with the science behind fear in the body so you leave with actionable tools to choose courage over comfort.
Courtesy: Center for Fiction
ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS
How to Choose Courage over Comfort
How to Charge up during Change instead of Tapping Out
How to Face your Fear (what Boogeyman?!?)
How to Use The Science of Failure to Get Gutsier at Failing Forward
GOOD FIT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION?
This is an energetic and engaging talk with an emphasis on application to real life. Side effects include uncontrollable Dance Breaks and clutching your pearls as you get big (and sometimes hairy and/or scary things) shit done. All talks are customized to meet your specific needs and WOW your audience. All talks can be expanded to integrate team assessments, interactive workshops and individualized coaching.
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Unplug to Play
From Burnout to Boundless
Courtesy: University of Hong Kong, Morningside College
Less Doing. More Being = Purposeful Action. Hard work pays off? Nope! Not when it crashes in burnout. Which stifles your creativity. Which bombs your competitive edge. This talk debunks the myth of hustle culture as a highway to productivity and presents you with the science of being to break any addiction you may have to busy/busy/busy so you can get still enough to move with purpose.
ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS
How to Create + Bake Boundless Energy into Every Workday
How to Stop the Busy Addiction for More Meaningful Action
How to Turn Pleasure & Play into Un-hackable Creative Results
GOOD FIT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION?
This talk is for you if your organization depends on innovation to beat the herd. Expect best results if you pair this keynote with Unplug & Play workshops specifically designed to get folks out of their monkey minds and into a state of flow. Workshops are excellent for team building, deepening trust, boosting communication and navigating change.
“Wise. Brilliant. Fabulous” - Krista Tippett
“Wise. Brilliant. Fabulous” - Krista Tippett
No Story, No Glory
Exit Shame Tower. Enter Your Superpower
Courtesy: Center for Fiction
Best believe the woman named Ma-go-godi can share a thing or two about being different! 🤣 This masterclass taps your untold superpower by digging into you. What makes you stand out—and maybe sometimes stand in shame? Magogodi shows you how to sprinkle that ingredient as your secret sauce in everything you do. Leave understanding the power of your story—something nobody can copy or buy—and the magnetism of using your story to connect and lead with purpose.
ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS
How to Unpack and Understand the Why Behind You
How Vulnerability—Shame’s Winning Twin—Really Is Gold #ThanksAuntieBrene
How To Connect Powerfully Through Story
How To Sell Anything—And Beat Attention Competition in a world of AI
GOOD FIT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION?
In a world of AI, the real flex is making sure everyone on your team shares Magogodi’s superpower: storytelling. Robots cannot mimic our battle scars and the deep connection and compassion they foster when we share them with truth. Your leaders need to own this skill inside out and understand how critical it is to at every stage of your organization. And how to model storytelling for those they lead. his is an energetic and engaging talk with an emphasis on application to real life. Side effects include uncontrollable Dance Breaks and clutching your pearls as you get big (and sometimes hairy and/or scary things) done. All talks are customized to meet your specific needs and WOW your audience. All talks can be expanded to integrate team assessments, interactive workshops and individualized coaching.
From multi-Billion dollar brands like Mastercard and Unilever to universities like the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Georgetown, Magogodi (👉🏾Ma-ho-do-di) helps folks Lead with Love through transformational training on Belonging, Burnout & Storytelling.
Magogodi’s spoken worldwide, from Accra and New York to Wellington and London. She’s shared the stage (and dance moves! 💃🏽⚡️) with Nobel Peace Prize laureates like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel and fellow writers like Arundhati Roy, Nikki Giovanni, Krista Tippett and Joy Harjo.
An NYU and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum, she’s the author of Innards, which The New York Times calls, “a gut punch of a collection...that astonishes.” The Guardian named Innards a 2023 Best Book of The Year, describing it as “an extraordinary accomplishment.”
