Entrepreneurship and Business Ownership
What nearly three decades of entrepreneurship teaches about opportunity, survival, reinvention and building for the long term.
Business Strategist · Entrepreneur · Global Speaker
Big ideas. Business truth.A clear next move.
Sharifah Hardie brings nearly three decades of entrepreneurship, technology, media and business strategy to stages, boardrooms and leadership conversations.
Her audiences get candid insight, practical perspective and ideas they can use long after the applause ends.
Invite Sharifah to SpeakA Builder on the Stage
Her perspective was built in business, not just on a stage.
Sharifah built her first website in the 1990s and has spent nearly three decades launching businesses, creating media platforms, advising organizations and adapting through constant change.
She speaks from lived experience. Her conversations connect entrepreneurship, technology, funding, visibility and leadership to the decisions real people face while building something that matters.
Business rarely follows the perfect plan. Strong leaders know how to recognize the next opportunity and move.
Signature Conversations
Business conversations grounded in experience.
Artificial Intelligence and Business
What the rise of the internet can teach leaders navigating artificial intelligence today.
Business Strategy and Growth
How leaders can identify what is preventing growth and determine the next strategic move.
Funding and Access to Capital
A practical conversation about grants, sponsorships, investment, relationships and the realities of finding money.
Visibility, Marketing and Authority
Why excellence is not enough when the people who need you do not know you exist.
Leadership and Reinvention
How to keep moving when the plan changes, the opportunity disappears or the market shifts.
For Event Leaders
A relevant voice for ambitious audiences.
Sharifah is available for keynotes, executive conversations, fireside chats, panels, workshops and moderated discussions.
Business, technology, AI, leadership, marketing and economic development audiences.
Leaders and organizations navigating growth, innovation and change.
Chambers, nonprofits, universities and entrepreneurial programs.
Discussions that need a direct voice connecting strategy with real business experience.
Speaking Request
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