Speaking

Invite Atta to speak about rebuilding a life with dignity, responsibility, and purpose.

Atta brings the lived perspective of an Afghan immigrant, former banking executive, author, and mentor to conversations about self-sufficiency, Afghanistan, memory, work, and beginning again.

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Keynote Topics

Choose a talk for your audience.

Each topic can be shaped as a keynote, lecture, workshop, interview, or moderated conversation.

From Survival to Responsibility

How responsibility and practical choices can help immigrants build stability for themselves and the families that follow.

Immigrant Self-Sufficiency in the Age of AI

How newcomers can use modern tools while keeping human judgment, privacy, dignity, and clear priorities in charge.

Afghanistan, Memory, and Moral Loss

A personal account of Afghanistan, leadership failure, displacement, and the human cost of national rupture.

Dignity, Work, and Rebuilding a Life

Lessons from starting again, from a bank teller's chair to the Senior Vice President's office.

Leadership After Displacement

What leadership can look like after losing familiar structures and finding the courage to build again.

Event Formats

Choose the format that fits your event.

  • Keynote
  • Interview
  • Book conversation
  • Workshop
  • University lecture
  • Community event
  • Panel discussion

Audiences

Who these talks are for.

Atta speaks with universities, libraries, cultural and immigrant-serving organizations, community groups, and leadership audiences.

  • Universities
  • Immigrant-serving organizations
  • Libraries
  • Community groups
  • Cultural institutions
  • Leadership teams
  • Media organizations

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Tell us about your event.

Share the audience, date, format, and what you want people to take away.

Email atta@attamoves.com with the event date, audience size, format, and theme.

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