| Talal Balaa – Full Speaking Availability

Talal Balaa – Full Speaking Availability

Inspire, break barriers, and help the environment

Talal has given over 100 speeches, key note speeches for organizations such Caltech, LAUSD, Riordan Leadership Institute, Los Angeles County of Education, ASCE and CASH (coalition of adequate school housing). His speeches aim to inspire, break barriers, and help the environment. He holds a dual masters in engineering and public administration and offers both the technical and soft skills to help your team progress.

Talal Balaa’s Professional Topics

1. Electric Vehicles Can they charge your world?

Talal drove a Nissan Leaf for several years and delivered several speeches on his “Leaf of Faith” Electric Cars are fast, quiet, overall inexpensive, and can spark quite a bit of debate. What is it like to get energized, recharged and ready to electrify the road. Invite Talal to speak about whether electric will reduce your carbon footprint, save you money, and get you going.

2. Leadership Lessons

Leadership is about bringing out the best in others. In the last year Talal went through the Riordan Leadership Institute (run by the LA Chamber of Commerce) and served on two non profit boards. He also completed two years of LAUSD’s LEAD training for managers, where he learned about Harrison assessments, Crucial Conversations and Franklin Covey programs. He was mentored by the Police Chief and practiced the principles of WestPoint Leadership. Learn about the latest leadership trends, and have your questions answered.

3. Story of a 500 year old tree

At the heart of the famous Caltech Campus there once stood a mighty oak tree, believed to be close to 500 years old. We all have reverence for this trees that stood the test of time. What lessons does that tree have to tell us? Who planted it? And how can we continue its legend.

4. Earthquake Preparation : are you close to the fault?

What can we do to prepare better as people, organizations, or government entities. Talal gave a research paper at CSUN school of Public Administration on this timely topic with practical steps that we can all take.

5. Water

As we all know; in many areas the drought is not over. Talal share pictures form his visit to the LA aqueduct, its history and how to plan for the future: the One Water LA initiative.

6. Reclaimed Water

Especially in the inland empire, more and more areas are converting to purple pipe or reclaimed water: what are the benefits and costs? Is it safe? And what about the long term effects.

7. Diabetes, is there a cure?

About one in four Americans are facing this deadly disease and silent killer. What can you do to protect yourself and loved ones?

8. Building Bridges and breaking Barriers: overcoming stigma of disability

As part of the Riordan Leadership Institute, Talal served on the Board of Shane’s Inspiration, a non profit dedicated to building and promoting universally accessible play structures. They are well on their way to completing a project on every continent.