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Parisa Khosravi Speaking Topics

• Finding Your Voice: Beyond the Newsroom

  Compassionate and thought provoking, Parisa Khosravi draws in audiences with personal and historic stories. She shares lessons and anecdotes drawn from her fascinating life and adventurous career as an award winning journalist, news executive and mother to a special son.

  Parisa authentically recounts a wealth of life experiences which have shaped her perspective throughout the years. Her passion and drive has centered around giving a voice to the voiceless. A natural storyteller, Parisa has built a life capturing and honoring people’s voices. Not only did she cover revolutions during her nearly three decades as a journalist and news executive at CNN, she lived through one personally when her life changed dramatically after the ’79 Revolution in Iran.

  Parisa has witnessed mankind at its best and at its worst and as an observer of humanity has an especially unique global perspective. She speaks about empathy and compassion and the power of finding your voice, be it sitting across a refugee, a Pope, in a boardroom, or advocating for children. With her genuine and down to earth style, Parisa is able to cover a variety of topics that will be riveting to your audiences as she shares countless stories and lessons from an eventful and fascinating life and career.

• Diversity and Team Performance

  It is vital to have a diverse workforce for many reasons. The key is to play to the strengths of each of your team member and look for opportunities to place them on the right assignments in order to be most effective.

  Having the “type A” personality on each task is not always the right answer. Some jobs require a low key but persistent determination and patience. If you have ever played the game Angry Birds, you know using the right bird against the right barrier is essential, and using the wrong one will result in a bust and a much diminished outcome. This is a good metaphor to think about when you are putting your teams together so that they can ensure maximum potential for delivery and leave no opportunity unexplored.

  Parisa built and promoted the most internationally diverse teams across the world and as a result made CNN the strongest international news organization.

  People’s different backgrounds, languages and perspectives in any team are essential to become relevant and not miss all kinds of opportunities in different markets.

• Cultural Competency

  One’s Emotional Quotient (EQ) is just as important if not more important than one’s IQ. Human beings are so much more alike than they are different. We all want safety and security, we want our family and friends around us, a roof over our heads and food on the table. These are basic human needs and nature. However, culturally we can be so different. From the Vatican to Japan, Saudi to Cuba, how you deal with officials, business partners and staff across the globe can be very different. It is important to know and respect the different cultures and traditions while staying true to your own values and standards. How you deal with people, how you handle yourself and read a room, these are all key factors in being successful.

  Parisa will share anecdotes which will personalize and clearly demonstrate the importance and necessity of such awareness and knowledge when you are operating in the global market.

• Crisis and Risk Management

  How do you keep a cool head while chaos breaks out, be as effective as possible, lead your teams and accomplish the task at hand?

  Resourcefulness, perseverance and hiring capable diverse teams is what will get you through some of the most demanding business situations and crises.

  Your staff does not have to be working in a war zone to end up in a risky and dangerous situation. How do you prepare for and handle life threatening situations in countries where you have positioned your teams?

  Some may remember the Mumbai terror attacks, where terrorists attacked and killed people in one of the most public and unsuspecting locations such as a five-star hotel in the middle of the city. What would you do if you had some of your staff staying there for a business meeting? That is exactly what Parisa had to deal with.

  Parisa is a recognized authority on crisis and risk management and safety/security matters for her meticulous and decisive management of her staff as they covered the world’s most demanding stories, dangerous hot spots, conflicts and natural disasters.

• Women in Leadership

  While not naive or in denial about some of the challenges women and minorities face, Parisa talks about how she focused her energy on what she could control. If some people she dealt with had a perception issue with a woman in charge, then that was their problem, not hers. Parisa talks about some of the most difficult challenges she dealt with as a leader at a global organization and how she tackled them.

Parisa Khosravi Speaker Videos

• Parisa Khosravi's Lessons on Inclusion, Zoroastrianism and Motherhood

  

  A soaring speech at the Opening Plenary of the 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions delivered by former CNN news director Parisa Khosravi addressed the theme "The Promise of Inclusion, the Power...
  Parisa Khosravi's Opening Speech at Tirgan Festival 2017

  

  At every festival, Tirgan honours a special guest; a note worthy Iranian, someone who has through hard work and dedication gained notoriety among his or her peers, someone we are proud to call a...
• Parisa Khosravi - 1st Iranian-Canadian Women's Leadership Conference

  

  Parisa Khosravi's Speech at 1st Iranian-Canadian Women's Leadership Conference.
  The Power of Finding Your Voice | Parisa Khosravi | TEDxBigSky

  

  At some point in our lives, most of us have silenced our own voice...Be it at home, at school, at work or in our communities. Why do we do that? With an inspiring and emotional story, Parisa...