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Your Next Keynote Speaker: Maliha Khan

Teaching audiences how to bridge the gap between strategy and execution

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Maliha Khan

Maliha Khan is a marketing strategist, educator, and founder of Khanect the Dots LLC and Khancepts Studio, through which she helps brands bridge the gap between strategy and execution.

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Maliha is known for her warm, story-driven delivery that blends humor, honesty, and hard-won lessons from entrepreneurship. Her talks connect strategy to real-world action—helping audiences walk away inspired and equipped with practical frameworks they can apply right away.

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She’s been featured on stages from Content Marketing World, Content Entrepreneur Expo to Digital Women KC, Central Exchange, and Global Entrepreneurship Week. She continues to lead the conversation on what she calls The Messy Middle of modern marketing and leadership.

 

She’s especially passionate about the intersection of AI and marketing, and is known for sharing approachable, forward-thinking insights that help leaders design smarter, work faster, and stay authentic in the age of AI.

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Signature Talks

Owning the Messy Middle: Finding Your Voice

Every great idea hits turbulence between vision and reality. In this powerful keynote, Maliha explores what it means to lead through uncertainty and how the courage to be more audacious can guide you through the messy middle and find your voice.

Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution

Most great ideas don’t fail from lack of vision, but rather fail in the Messy Middle. In this talk, Maliha introduces her framework to help teams diagnose where they’re stuck, caught in strategic paralysis or tactical chaos, and find the clarity and focus to turn ideas into impact.

Take the Wheel: Using AI Without Losing Your Voice

AI may be moving fast, but that doesn’t mean it gets to decide the direction. In this talk, Maliha puts people back in the driver’s seat—challenging them to decide where AI belongs, where it doesn’t, and how much influence it should have. Through concepts such as Brand Identity Weight, she shows why some work can be handed to AI while other work requires more of our judgment, experience, and voice. AI can help us move forward, but we still choose the destination and how we get there.

Your Leadership Signature in
the Age of AI

AI is changing how leaders communicate, make decisions, and guide their teams. But the technology does not decide what kind of leader you will be. In this talk, Maliha asks audiences to consider what their choices reveal, what AI may reinforce, and what impact they want to leave behind. The audience will learn how to approach AI with greater awareness, make more thoughtful decisions, and lead in a way that reflects who they truly are.

What Audiences Are Saying...

It's like you have a Ferrari and you're driving it at 35mph – not knowing it's a Ferrari. That's how I felt about Canva after Maliha's workshop on AI and Content Creation at CEX.

Shane W.

Your session was so informative and helpful! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful insights on Canva and for making me laugh out loud several times during your presentation!

Jamie R.

Maliha's impact extends far beyond marketing. Her teachings have changed how I work, how I think, and how I lead.

Juandalynn H.

Workshops & Trainings

Start Smart with AI
Curious about AI but not sure where to begin? This jargon-free introduction explains what AI does well, where it falls short, and how to use it responsibly. Participants leave with practical ways to get started—without the hype, hustle, or headaches.

Apply AI: A Practical Roadmap

Move beyond experimenting with AI and build a practical path forward. Participants identify where AI can make a meaningful difference, practice stronger prompting, and apply it to real tasks, challenges, and workflows. They leave with clear priorities and next steps—not just a longer list of tools to try.

 

Designing Smarter with Canva 

Spend less time staring at a blank canvas and more time creating work you’re proud to share. Participants explore practical design principles, time-saving Canva features, reusable templates, and AI-powered tools for creating polished visual content more efficiently.


Content Creation with AI Workshop

Create stronger content without losing the human behind it. Participants learn how to turn ideas into useful drafts, improve generic AI output, maintain an authentic brand voice, and build a repeatable process for creating and repurposing content.

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Claude for Business

Move beyond basic chats and learn how to use Claude more effectively in your business. Participants will use Projects to organize work and provide helpful context, explore Skills for completing specific tasks more consistently, and get a simple introduction to connecting Claude with other apps.

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Brand Identity in the AI Era

AI makes it easier than ever to create, but also easier for your brand to become generic, inconsistent, or unrecognizable. Participants learn how to define the essential elements of their brand, maintain a distinct voice, and use AI without losing the identity and human perspective that make their work stand out.

Her content on AI-powered workflows and practical marketing solutions is both cutting edge and immediately applicable. I left with tools I could implement right away.
 
Maliha teaches with warmth, clarity, and authenticity. If you have the opportunity to learn from her, do not hesitate!

LeeAnn F.

Central Exchange

Notable Speaking Engagements

  • Tomorrow Lab: Innovating for Impact in the Next 250 Years – Closing Keynote
    (J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative | Supported by the U.S. Department of State)

  • MarketingProfs - "From Idea to Post in 15 Minutes: Building a Repeatable AI Social Media System"

  • Content Marketing World – Facilitated and Presented at the Nonprofit Forum

  • MAICON – Moderator, Applied AI Track

  • Content Entrepreneur Expo – Co-led “Leveraging AI for Content Creation” with Rich Brooks

  • Global Entrepreneurship Week – “Authentic AI: How to Stay Human in the Age of Automation”

  • Digital Women of Kansas City MiniCon – “Designing Smarter, Not Harder: Unlocking the Potential of Canva AI”

  • Social Media Club of Kansas City - "Building a Social Media Content System in Canva"

  • Kansas Agritourism Conference – Closing Keynote

  • Give to Gain Women’s Leadership Retreat – Closing Keynote

  • SCORE Acce$$ to Money Small Business Conference – Featured AI Speaker

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Podcasts & Featured Media Appearances

  • Social Media News Live with Jeff Sieh – Guest Speaker

  • Small Business Miracles (EAG Advertising) – Guest Speaker

  • #ContentChat with Erika Heald – Guest Speaker

  • Glow for Hope Podcast – Guest Speaker

  • Agents of Change with Rich Brooks – Guest Speaker

UPCOMING EVENTS & APPEARANCES 

Where You Can Find Me

  • September 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2026 — Marketing Series: Canva AI for Nonprofits | Nonprofit Connect

  • September 16, 2026 — Digital Women Kansas City MiniCon

  • October 1, 2026 — Women Applying AI KC Launch Party

  • October 5–7, 2026 — Content Marketing World 

  • October 13–15, 2026 — MAICON

  • October 20, 2026 — Content Creation with AI | Missouri SBDC at UMKC

  • October 21, 2026 — Ask Me Anything | MarketingProfs

  • October 27, 2026 — Apply AI: A Practical Seminar for Business | Khanect the Dots

  • November 2–4, 2026 — MarketingProfs B2B Forum

  • November 10, 2026 — Marketing Essentials Roundtable | Square One at Mid-Continent Public Library

  • November 16–20, 2026 — Global Entrepreneurship Week–Kansas City

  • December 1, 2026 — Missouri Women’s Business Center

  • December 3, 2026 — Design Smarter with Canva  | Khanect the Dots

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