SEKOU ANDREWS
A world renowned wordsmith who performs dynamic, custom spoken word pieces for internal corporate presentation, meetings, pitches, conferences, and videos.

Motivational Poet / Strategic Presenter
 
Your corporate presentation is all set up. You've got your PowerPoint presentation perfected, the executives are all rehearsed and your teleprompter is locked and loaded. However, this is a very important meeting and you can't help but feel you're still missing that one element that will set it apart from every other internal presentation your audience regularly sits through.

You need your message to be an anthem. Not a song that your audience will be singing all day but an inspiration they'll be feeling all year - a call-to-action that will motivate and bring them together as a team to achieve your company's goals. You need The Sekou Effect.

Sekou does not inspire you with his story. He inspires you with YOUR story. As an award-winning and internationally acclaimed spoken word artist, Sekou has mastered the art of creating original, custom-written spoken word pieces that illuminate the core of your message and transform the audience from simply receivers into energized responders.
In even the best sales presentations, analyst meetings, marketing pitches, corporate retreats and employee conferences, the executive team spends hours delivering the specifics of the information and the details of the message. Sekou takes the core of that message and seals it in the listeners' hearts and minds through a powerful, engaging and entertaining delivery that synthesizes and communicates in a short period of time what it is you want your team to take away from the gathering.

All you have to do is tell Sekou your story. He will spend a short period gathering insight, interviewing executives, absorbing your strategies, distilling talking points and listening to your objectives. He will then go away, muses in tow, and return with a spoken word presentation that elucidates and energizes your message so that it will get under the skin and into the blood of the audience.

Take your company message, add the inspiration of motivational speaking, the impassioned fire of slam poetry, the emotional engagement of theater, the levity of stand up comedy, the human journey of storytelling and you've got yourself an original anthem that will make you the hero of your event.

As event producers looking to stay ahead of the curve know, it is often difficult to describe the work of presenters on the cutting edge of worldwide trends. So here are some capacities in which Sekou has added the "WOW" factor to company presentations.

-        A Global PR Firm is presenting awards to its top 12 projects at the annual business meeting. Sekou is commissioned to write and perform a 6-minute piece that celebrates the story of each project in a impactful video presentation.

-        A Fortune 500 Company is having its annual store managers meeting and seeks to motivate the managers with the company's new direction. Sekou interrupts the executive's presentation with a fun, energetic piece that surprises the audience and gets them so fired up they are eager to share the video of the live performance with their own staff to achieve the same affect.

-        An athletic apparel company wants to create unique digital content for its online message campaigns for various athletes.  Sekou writes, performs, and films a simple but dynamic series of short poems that celebrate the legacy and potential, and athletic majesty of LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and other NBA stars.

-        A company is frantically trying to find a unique exciting way to transform a typically stuffy and jaded audience environment at their annual analyst meeting.  Sekou appears from behind the audience and delivers a 3 minute piece that challenges the audience, reminds them why the company is still on the cutting edge of innovation, and leaves them applauding ... the first time in the history of the company's analyst meetings that this has happened.

-        A major corporation, nonprofit, or entertainment mogul is planning the end of year party of all parties and wants to impress an audience that has seen it all. Sekou is hired to perform a set of emotional, hilarious, and inspirational pieces that turn a typical night of music, mingling, and cocktails into a unique night of memories, motivation ... and cocktails.

Who are these companies and producers that have experienced The Sekou Effect? They include Kraft Foods, Nike, Health 2.0, Barack Obama, Time Warner, Ebay, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Oprah Winfrey, Microsoft, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Wieden-Kennedy, Quincy Jones, HBO, Sierra Club, NBA, Norman Lear, NCAA, Eliza Corp, Global Green and Ferrazzi Greenlight to name but a few.
Their secret weapon is Sekou Andrews - a powerful storyteller waiting to tell your story. From stadium sales meetings to intimate new client pitches, from Battery Park to Oprah's backyard, Sekou is ready to put the inspiration in your information and add goose bumps to your presentation.