Keynote Speakers

Berwick Mahdi Davenport
(aka Brother “M”)

I am a Black creative, father, and human development strategist who was raised in a world that demanded I perform my way into belonging.
Instead, I chose to feel.

For over three decades, I’ve guided people through life’s inner terrain—working not just to change minds, but to restore hearts. My work lives at the intersection of spiritual transformation, cultural truth-telling, and nervous system liberation.

I’ve sat in silence with monks, protested in the streets with strangers who became family, and helped leaders in boardrooms remember how to be human again. My path has been shaped by conflict and connection, by grief and grace—and every lesson I carry, I carry in service to our collective remembering.

I’m not here to impress.
I’m here to touch something real.
Because healing doesn’t happen through performance—it happens through presence.

Whether I’m coaching, facilitating, or speaking, my work is a love letter to those who’ve ever felt out of place, too much, or not enough.
To those still carrying brilliance beneath their silence.
You’re not alone.
And you’re not too late.
You’re right on time.

Veronica King

Veronica King is a Black, South African woman of Zulu and Indian descent, shaped by a lineage of resilience, reverence, and relationship. Raised in a vibrant, working-class community during apartheid, she carries both the pain of exclusion and the pride of survival. She is a single mother to a wise, wholehearted young woman whose journey and healing mirror her own evolution.

Veronica is a traditional healer and family constellation practitioner, drawing spiritual strength from her Zulu ancestry and Eastern philosophical roots. She embraces rituals, food, and storytelling as sacred threads that bind generations. As a facilitator of racial healing and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, she moves between worlds—corporate boardrooms, ancestral spaces, and global learning communities—anchored by justice, compassion, and a belief in collective transformation.

For Veronica, truth is ancestral, healing is communal, and love—especially for her daughter, her lineage, and her people—is a revolutionary act.

Speakers

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