Imad El Atiki Ghennouni Mohammed
Imad El Atiki Ghennouni Mohammed is originally from Bahrain and moved to Detroit, Michigan, with his family at the age of three, where he remains to this day. For the past 15 years Imad has been a professional motivational speaker with the aim of helping others in both their personal and professional development.
As a motivational speaker, Imad helps his audience members to live their best lives by inspiring and motivating them to overcome challenges and make positive changes to achieve their full potential. Prior to embarking on this career, Imad worked in a corporate setting in the fields of sales, financial services, and business, and he continues to use the experiences he had in these sectors to inform the content of the speeches he delivers today.
Motivational Speaking
Becoming a motivational speaker takes a substantial amount of time and practice and requires skills such as communication, confidence, leadership, passion, adaptability, authenticity, empathy, and time management. The ability to clearly articulate, tell a story, and consistently keep an audience engaged is vital, too. Speakers like Imad learn how to measure an audience’s interest and adapt and to keep their messages concise by effectively managing the time they have on stage.
Hobbies & Interests
When he’s not working, Imad enjoys a diverse range of hobbies and interests, including reading, writing, playing chess, gardening, playing guitar, walking, and cycling. He appreciates the opportunities his profession gives him to travel around the US and Europe, and he frequently travels to Bahrain with his wife, children, and parents to visit family remaining in the country. Imad loves to cook, having learned from his mother how to prepare traditional Bahraini food such as his favorite, the national dish of machboos.
Professional Interests
Imad cites some of his key professional skills as motivational speaking, life coaching, business mentoring, skills development, working as part of a team, and helping others to optimize their work-life balance.
