Speaking & Facilitation
Bring Engineering for Belonging™ to Your Stage.
Keynotes, workshops, and executive briefings on a counterintuitive idea backed by observation at global scale: belonging is not a feeling you hope for — it is an outcome you engineer.
Response within 48 hours · In-person and virtual
TEDx Speaker • Former Principal Engineering Technologist, Dell Technologies • Harvard ALM • Fortune Hero of the 500
The Signature Talk
Engineering For Belonging: Why Kindness Is a Design Problem
At FIRST Global, teenagers from more than 190 countries — different languages, different beliefs, direct competitors — consistently behave like family. Not because of training. Because of how the environment was engineered. This talk reveals the three structural conditions behind that outcome, and how any organization can build them.
What Your Audience Walks Away With
Adapted for your audience, industry, and time slot — from 18-minute TEDx format to 60-minute keynote with Q&A.
A reframe they won’t forget: why culture initiatives fail — the problem is not intent, it’s design.
The three-pillar framework: Engineer Interdependence, Reward Compassion, Celebrate Identity — each with a test they can run on their own team Monday morning.
A live diagnostic moment: the audience scores their own organization against the Engineering for Belonging™ Maturity Index during the talk.
Stories from a global experiment: first-hand accounts from the world’s largest annual proof that strangers can act like family — by design.
Formats
Three Ways to Bring the Framework In
Format 01
Keynote
18 – 60 minutes · conferences & summits
The signature talk, tailored to your theme and audience. High-energy opening or closing session that gives every attendee a framework they can apply immediately.
Format 02
Belonging Architecture Workshop
Half day or full day · leadership teams
Hands-on facilitation. Teams run the full diagnostic, map their weakest pillar to real systems and incentives, and leave with a 90-day redesign plan — not notes.
Format 03
Executive Briefing
90 minutes · C-suite & boards
A focused working session for senior leadership: the framework, the maturity model, and a facilitated discussion of where the organization stands and what it would take to move.
Who Books This
Built for Rooms Where Culture Is on the Agenda
Leadership Summits
HR & People Conferences
DEI & Belonging Programs
Corporate Offsites
Industry Associations
Universities & Higher Ed
STEM & Innovation Events
Every engagement includes audience access to the Engineering for Belonging™ Diagnostic — so the talk doesn’t end when the session does.
Availability
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Mohamed Kante · Belonging Labs · Advisory & Diagnostic
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