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Conference Keynote
Hamza Khan
Future of Work and People-First Leadership Expert | Bestselling Author
Rehumanizing Workplaces: The Wellness Champion’s Guide To Co-Creating A Thriving People-First Culture
Alberta’s workplaces can no longer ignore the profound impact of employee disengagement—a challenge costing the world $9 trillion annually. This is a rousing call to action for the region’s people leaders and front-line staff alike. Globally renowned leadership expert Hamza Khan knows firsthand the stakes of neglecting team trust and loyalty, having survived near-fatal burnout under an avoidant manager. Now, he’s on a mission to help people “rehumanize” workplaces by helping leaders at all levels to adopt a more values-driven, human-centered approach to teamwork that prioritizes well-being and sustainable growth. In this eye-opening keynote address, Hamza will share actionable insights on why an unapologetically people-first approach isn’t just idealistic but essential to thrive in the future of work. Drawing from the CMHA’s mandate to build holistically healthier workplaces, he will reveal—from pixels to pictures—how wellness champions can align team culture with purpose, empower performance, and elevate relationships through a reimagined leadership paradigm.
In this dynamic and heartfelt session, Working Stronger attendees will:
- Champion People-First Leadership: Discover the importance of human-centered leadership in fostering loyalty, trust, and satisfaction, even in the face of counterintuitive organizational challenges.
- Generate Positive-Sum Outcomes: Learn strategies for creating results that benefit not only employees but also clients, citizens, communities, and the environment, ensuring that success is sustainable and inclusive.
- Enhance Engagement Through Universal Skills: Acquire a practical toolkit of “universal skills” designed to boost engagement, resilience, and thriving within teams, empowering leaders at all levels.
- Align Purpose with Performance: Understand how to harmonize personal motivations with organizational goals, fostering a culture of empowered followership and elevating collective achievement.
- Strengthen Client Relationships: Embrace a transformational approach to interactions, fostering deeper trust, loyalty, and value in every relationship.
- Inspire Through Example: Embody CMHA’s mandate to cultivate a thriving, people-first culture, establishing the Alberta region as a national leader in rehumanizing workplaces.
Speaker Biography
Hamza Khan believes the future of work is more human, not less. He’s on a mission to help
organizations achieve inclusive and sustainable growth by rehumanizing the workplace. Rather
than be reactive to rapidly changing external conditions, Khan shows leaders how to embrace a
bold “people first” approach to better support diverse, engaged, and connected teams in a
hybrid environment. In doing so, they’ll unlock the tremendous upside of a loyal, thriving, and
innovative workforce. Rehumanizing workplaces is the winning strategy of the future.
Khan is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and world-renowned keynote
speaker whose TEDx talk “Stop Managing, Start Leading” has been viewed over two million
times. He has spoken on various global stages, including the World Youth Forum, and his clients
have included some of the world’s most dynamic companies and organizations, such as
Microsoft, PepsiCo, LinkedIn, Deloitte, Salesforce, TikTok, and hundreds of colleges and
universities. These leading organizations trust Khan to inspire modern leadership, unleash
purposeful productivity, transcend burnout culture, and embrace constant change.
As a trusted thought leader, Khan’s insights have been featured by notable media outlets such
as Inc., Bloomberg, and Business Insider. He is also the bestselling author of The Burnout
Gamble: Achieve More by Beating Burnout and Building Resilience and Leadership, Reinvented.
Through his writing, speaking, teaching, and executive coaching, Khan empowers people to
evolve and thrive in the future of work.