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Fatima Zaidi

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Founder & CEO of Quill for Podcasters, Fast Growth Business Development & Sales Expert

Fatima Zaidi is the CEO and Founder of Quill Inc. a full-service podcasting hosting platform and production agency that supports brands in launching their podcasts. Leveraging her entrepreneurial experience and expertise in business development, she helps companies scale quickly, creating and executing strategies to meet the demands of a shifting business environment. As a speaker, Fatima addresses emerging sectors, personal branding, revenue generation, AI integration, and diversity & inclusion, for events focused on innovation, technology and sales development.

Keynote Speeches

Virtual Keynotes, Webinars & Masterclasses

Join Fatima Zaidi as she takes your audience through a high energy and informed virtual presentation on sales, marketing, podcasting, or personal branding.  Any of her topics below can be presented on screen or in person. 

Hacking Outbound Sales – NextGen Business Development

As one of Canada’s top brand marketers and developers, Fatima shares her tactical and actionable steps to identify and present your competitive strengths, craft a marketing plan, find new clients and avoid common sales mistakes. In this presentation, she takes the audience through the 10 steps from finding opportunities to converting them into sales. She explains how to avoid common mistakes made by salespeople and how to instantly develop a rapport with potential clients. Whether your sales team is full of newcomers or seasoned experts, this presentation will set your organization on a clear path to success.

 

Fix Your Diversity Problem By Creating a Culture of Inclusivity

You hear it all the time: “We need more women in tech and business. We need more minority engineers and more LGBTQ representation at the executive level.” Greater diversity results in cutting-edge ideas – so why are innovative industries still homogeneous? This session draws on Fatima’s experience working in large corporations and the tech sector, where she has witnessed firsthand a need for inclusivity. She challenges the audience to be part of the solution and shows how we can break barriers and navigate change together.

 

10 Steps to Revenue Growth through Sales

With more than 10 years of experience in sales and business development, Fatima has become a master at growing revenues. In this presentation, she takes the audience through the 10 steps from finding opportunities to converting them into sales. She explains how to avoid common mistakes made by salespeople and how to instantly develop a rapport with potential clients. Whether your sales team is full of newcomers or seasoned experts, this presentation will set your organization on a clear path to success.  

 

10 Keys to Killer Brand Development

Everyone – from entrepreneurs to employees in large companies – needs to establish a personal brand. But where do you start? Which networks should you use? And what are common personal branding mistakes? In this presentation, Fatima takes the audience through the 10 steps to building a killer brand. She outlines why you need one, how to make a plan, and why building a personal brand is similar to creating a marketing strategy for a company.

 

How to Change Marketing Mindsets in Innovative & Emerging Industries

Cannabis growers trading on the TSX? A booming industry based on virtual currencies? Until recently, both would have been unimaginable. New markets are developing quickly, with companies emerging on the fringes of society and with breakthrough technology. While many are poised for growth, they face common obstacles. How will they work with changing rules? How do they swim against the “noise” of negativity and convince a doubting public? In this presentation, Fatima will explain how companies in burgeoning fields can identify their competitive strengths, craft a marketing plan and increase sales.

Audience reviews:

  • Fatima Zaidi is a dynamic force within the AMA speaking community. As a prolific speaker and moderator at many AMA Toronto Events, Fatima has a way of bringing complex marketing and technology topics down to an accessible level. As a moderator, Fatima asks the tough questions that help bring out the deeper story behind each speaker's ideas. We will definitely continue working with Fatima on future speaking engagements.

    - President of American Marketing Association
  • Retail Council of Canada has had the pleasure of working with Fatima in a variety of facets from master of ceremonies, conference panelist, conference emcee and award judge. Fatima is a pleasure to work with and fills the room with ideas and energy. She’s able to deliver a great presentation and her message is well received by audiences.

    - Manager at Retail Council of Canada
  • Fatima is an exceptional speaker that always delivers a clear and concise message. She is captivating and wildly intelligent. Her speaking is engaging and definitely valuable to any audience. I highly recommend her as a speaker.

    - Leverage Events Inc.
  • Fatima spoke at our DYPB conference and demonstrated passion, a dynamic engagement, and great insights. We enjoyed her work so much that we invited her back to several other events around side hustles, personal branding, business development, women empowerment and more. I am grateful that we have collaborated on many projects. I would be delighted to work with her again and have her speak to our audiences. - CEO, DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand
  • Fatima is an exceptional speaker, not only is her presentation always well prepared and well delivered, but her insights are always valuable and well targeted to each audience. She is without a doubt one of the strongest speakers out there. - CEO of Haste and Hustle
 

Speaker Biography

Fatima Zaidi is the CEO and Founder of Quill Inc. a full service podcasting hosting platform and production agency which supports brands in launching their podcasts. As a member of the National Speakers Bureau, Fatima has spoken at various events around the world on media and tech trends leading her to keynote on world stages alongside speakers like Gary Vaynerchuk. In addition to being a commentator for BNN Bloomberg on the challenges that female and BIPOC founders face in entrepreneurship, she is a frequent contributor to publications including The Globe and Mail, and Huffington Post.

Over the past few years she has won two Top 30 under 30 awards, the Young Professional of the Year by Notable Life, Veuve Clicquot’s Bold Future Award, and one of Flare Magazine’s Top 100 Women.

Outside of entrepreneurship Fatima is Co-Chair of the #Tech4SickKids council for SickKids Hospital which is the second-largest pediatric research hospital in the world. She is on track to raise 25 million dollars to build a new emergency wing of the hospital, as well as fund some of the world’s biggest data and AI projects.