Naeemah Elias is a speaker, coach and founder of Elias Presence Ventures, where she helps professionals thrive as outsiders, grow into confident leaders and show up like experts when it matters most. She blends corporate insight, performance skills and a whole lot of heart to lead public speaking and leadership workshops for teams, companies and conferences. Elias speaks on presence, inclusive leadership and how to thrive when you don’t quite fit the mold. She is an Innovation Women Classic member who uses her speaker profile to attract event managers and show off her extensive speaking engagement history, spends time in our online community and uses the Green Room resources to improve her speaking business.
What challenges led you to us?
I was starting my business, and entering the professional speaking world. I needed everything!
Tell us about your best speaking success story! How have you used the Innovation Women educational resources, network, database and/or services to help you drive business, book talks, make key connections, or land new opportunities?
The Green Room has been a huge value-add for me. Guidance on creating my speaker reel, as well as ways to ask for alternate compensation when an organization cannot pay speakers. I’ve been able to get an enormous amount of value from non-paying engagements because of the guidance here.
Has Innovation Women helped you find speaking engagements, talks, events, conferences or networking opportunities?
Yes, I have applied to a lot of conferences found on IW. I have booked a few, and events have reached out to me after finding my profile on IW.
Has your business grown through your affiliation with Innovation Women, our online community, Lioness Magazine events and services, Speaker Friend Fridays, BrightTALK webinars, or any other resources shared by our community?
My Innovation Women profile review was extremely helpful in how I write about myself. Speaker Friends Live provided amazing marketing assets.
What is the most significant impact that Innovation Women has had on your career or business?
What to request when a conference does not have funds to pay speakers; how to make it a value-add for me anyway.
What specific results or achievements are you most proud of?
Speaking at the TX Conference for Women in front of 9,000 women!
What do you like best about our approach/support?
Access to opportunities and information.
What is one thing you learned from Innovation Women that you will carry forward?
Speaking is an art which requires practice and due diligence as well as being willing to cultivate relationships rather than a one-and-done.
What would you tell someone considering our services, but on the fence about joining?
There is enormous value in the community and the resources, and the price is 100 percent worth it!
