Zakiyyah Hill

There is a version of every leader that existed before the approvals, before the compromises, before they learned to make themselves smaller so other people could feel larger. For more than twenty years, Zakiyyah Hill has built her life's work around helping women, men, and organizations find their way back to who they actually are.

Zakiyyah is a pastor, author, John Maxwell Certified Leader, and nationally recognized keynote speaker whose work confronts one of the most underdiagnosed crises facing leaders in both the Church and the corporate world: identity displacement. Over two decades, she has spoken to women and men in prison ministry and corporate leadership, to congregations of thousands and boardrooms of ten, at women's empowerment conferences and leadership summits, at church revivals and nonprofit gatherings, and the message lands the same way in every room, because the wound is the same in every room.

Her keynotes are not motivational speeches. They are surgical. She Refused to Go Back, drawn from Ruth 1:16, examines the decision to walk toward your own life when everything around you is walking away. What Changed, drawn from 2 Samuel 13, confronts the silence, survival, and eventual reckoning of a woman who was wronged, overlooked, and underestimated, and what her story demands from every leader in the room.

Her debut book, Stop Throwing Yourself Away, releases Summer 2026. Her second book, Descendants of Tamar: You Were Not Made to Live in Desolation, follows December 2026.

Zakiyyah is the founder of EdifyAlwayz and creator of The Uncovering, a proprietary seven-stage framework for leaders recovering their identity after years of displacement. She speaks nationally and internationally for keynotes, leadership summits, women's conferences, corporate engagements, nonprofit events, prison ministry, and faith communities.

The question she brings to every room: Who were you before you started throwing yourself away, and are you brave enough to go back and get that person?