Founder of News Wellness Platform Goodable; Award-Winning Journalist & War Correspondent

Toronto, Canada
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Muhammad Lila Biography

Muhammad Lila is the founder of Goodable, one of the world’s fastest-growing news wellness platforms. Goodable delivers health and happiness on demand, with a mission to transform every screen in the world into a tool that improves your mental health.

His journey to building technology that helps millions began with a simple ‘what if?’ realization: “What if instead of covering all the bad things happening in the world—we journalists shared only the good news instead?”

Originally from Toronto, Lila spent over a decade as an international correspondent with CNN and ABC News, covering conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and other challenging locations around the world. But something shifted during his time reporting from war zones. He began experimenting with sharing stories of hope and resilience—and the response was extraordinary. His social media reach exploded from 200,000 to 3.9 million followers per month, proving what he suspected: people were hungry for positive content. That insight led to Goodable, a platform that has reached 100 million peak daily impressions and whose proprietary AI technology has been proven through clinical trials to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression by as much as 64%.

Drawing from his front-line journalism experience and his success Lila brings a unique perspective on authentic leadership, innovation under pressure, and the power of shifting narratives to create positive change. His story demonstrates how recognizing what the world truly needs can lead to building solutions that scale to help millions.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/31/2025.

Muhammad Lila Speaking Topics

  • Finding the Hero: Building Resilient Teams Through Reframing and Perspective

    Drawing from his war correspondent experience in high-stress environments and wellness platform insights, Muhammad Lila reveals how peak performers manage through challenging situations by shifting their focus from problems to possibilities. Learn the “find the hero” approach—how reframing difficult situations can transform team resilience, employee engagement, and organizational culture.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • Practical techniques for preventing negative information from overwhelming your team’s mental capacity
    • Strategies for staying calm and focused under pressure
    • Building cultures of gratitude and continuous learning
    • Leadership approaches for helping teams find growth opportunities in every situation

    Session Focus:

    This session provides practical tools for taking challenging news and finding opportunities within it, preventing negativity from weighing on your team’s psyche, and maintaining psychological resilience in fast-paced environments. Muhammad shares proven strategies developed both in war zones and boardrooms for shifting mindset and consistently asking “what can I learn from this?”

  • The Ripple Effect of Kindness: How a Single, Spontaneous Act Can Change Your Company - and the World

    We get it – life is tough and at times it can be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. During his extraordinary career, Muhammad Lila has seen the worst of humanity up close. As a global war correspondent, he is the only Canadian to lead global news coverage at both CNN and ABC, earning multiple Emmy/SAJA nominations in the process. He’s been shot at, held at gunpoint, and interviewed world leaders – all live on television.

    Then one day, everything changed. He found himself broke – and broken – questioning his purpose in life. What happened next is proof that the world is full of infinite possibilities. All it took was a small spontaneous act of kindness between two strangers on the opposite side of the country to ignite a movement that is now changing the world.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • How to approach any circumstance with curiosity and wonder
    • How to keep hope alive even when you feel like there isn’t any
    • Why kindness always wins
    • Why it’s important to do the right thing, even when others aren’t
    • Turning your losses into wins
    • How to identify and leverage your strengths and turn them into wins

    Session Focus:

    This session combines humor, emotion, and gripping edge-of-your seat storytelling – taking your audience from alleyways in Afghanistan to a surprise dinner with NHL legend Trevor Linden in Vancouver – showcasing how good things really do happen when you put good out in the world. Throughout the session, Muhammad weaves in the importance of believing in yourself, and the power of one person to change the world – no matter how small or insignificant you might feel – and creating a thriving community and culture where everyone feels like they belong.

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Muhammad Lila is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Finding the Hero: Building Resilient Teams Through Reframing and Perspective, The Ripple Effect of Kindness: How a Single, Spontaneous Act Can Change Your Company - and the World, From War Zones to Wellness: How One Question Changed Everything, Using AI to Solve One of the World's Greatest Problems, The Cure to Doomscrolling: Workplace Mental Health in the Digital Age and The Power of Goodness: How Positive Content Creates Viral Engagement. The estimated speaking fee range to book Muhammad Lila for your event is available upon request. Muhammad Lila generally travels from Toronto, Canada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Michael Time, Jim Axelrod, Diego Ugalde, Simon Sinek and Cassie Trujillo. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Muhammad Lila for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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