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Speaker, educator, & founder

Learn about AI, leadership, and personal brand equity with clear economic and strategic framing

Talaya combines academic rigor, founder-level strategy, and real-world experience advising leaders across sectors. Her talks are clear, intellectually grounded, and designed to give audiences language they can use immediately.

SIGNATURE SPEAKER TOPICS

  • How AI is changing the way leaders are judged across communication, decision-making, and public trust. This talk helps organizations understand how speed, visibility, and misinformation pressure affect leadership credibility and performance.

    Best for: Executive teams, boards, leadership programs, universities.

  • Why personal brand equity is not just image, but a real driver of opportunity, influence, pricing power, and career mobility. This talk gives audiences a practical way to think about personal brand as business value.

    Best for: Executives, founders, entrepreneurs, MBA programs, professional associations.

  • How leadership dependency affects company value, succession planning, and long-term stability. This talk helps audiences identify where too much value sits in one person and what that means for growth, continuity, and investor confidence.

    Best for: Founders, executive teams, investors, private capital, boards.

  • As AI increases content volume and lowers the cost of production, authority and differentiation become more important. This talk explores how professionals and organizations can stay trusted, relevant, and competitive when output is easy but judgment is scarce.

    Best for: Companies, universities, workforce programs, leadership audiences. text goes here

BOOK SPEAKER

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In a post-AI, attention economy where innovation continues to disrupt the way we do business, corporations have turned to personal branding to help build consumer trust.

Who This Is For
Talaya speaks to boards, executive teams, universities, and professional audiences navigating AI, trust, and leadership risk in an attention economy.

Speaking Formats
Keynotes, executive sessions, and university or executive education lectures; tailored to your audience, goals, and time format.

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Teaching Experience

  • Duke University Corporate Education, Personal Brand Management Lecturer

  • Saint Peter’s University
    GB555-Personal Brand Management (3.0)

  • Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sol, Marketing and Personal Branding (1.0 credits)

    Maryland Institute College of Art
    Personal Brand Management (2.0 credits)

  • The University of Geneva, Switzerland

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    Georgetown University, United States

    Howard University, United States

    Hanyang University, Korea

    Inholland University, Netherlands

    Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile

    University of Cape Town, South Africa

    Kozminski University, Poland

Bring Talaya to your audience

Speaking engagements begin at $10,000. Final fees vary based on format, audience, location, and preparation requirements.