Speaking

A story with independent verification, data with a human face.

Every program is customized to your audience, industry, or campus after a pre-event call. Rooms should expect to feel something and leave with something usable.

Signature topics
Higher education · student success, first-gen, orientation

The Student You Can't See

Five million U.S. students are caregivers; most hide it, and over half leave without a degree. What campuses can change in policy, faculty practice, and culture to keep them.

Takeaways: identification pathways students will actually use · faculty flexibility that protects rigor · the retention economics of caregiver support
Employers · HR, benefits, wellbeing, ERGs

The Leak You Can't See

One in six employees is a family caregiver — costing an estimated $35K each per year and leaving at twice the rate, for a reason no exit interview names.

Takeaways: recognizing the hidden caregiver population · the retention and productivity math · three moves leadership can make this quarter
Caregiver communities · nonprofits, advocacy, conferences

It's a Job, and a Tough One

The talk for caregivers themselves — the grief that starts early, advocating in medical settings, and finding the beauty in what this offers.

Takeaways: the Slow Down to Decide framework · advocating for a non-verbal person · protecting your person's dignity, and your own
Formats & fees
Campus keynoteFrom $2,500
ERG / community sessionFrom $2,500
Leadership Intensive (half-day)From $3,500
Keynote + workshopFrom $5,000
Corporate keynoteFrom $7,500
Full engagement bundle$15,000+

Mission-aligned pricing available for caregiver-serving nonprofits. Economy travel and lodging for engagements beyond Southern California; no travel fees within greater Los Angeles. All programs available virtually.

Formats

30–60 minute keynote · 90-minute workshop · half-day intensive · panels and fireside chats · media and podcast interviews.

A/V requirements

Wireless lavalier or headset mic preferred · slides in 16:9 · confidence monitor appreciated for rooms over 200 · recording permitted with advance agreement, clips shared back with the host.

For event planners
Andrew Rahal
Andrew Rahal. High-resolution headshots supplied on booking.
Full speaker reel — in production

A full-length reel is currently in production. Interview footage below; podcast audio and additional samples available on request.

Watch

"You've become their anchor."

The first film in documentary photographer Isadora Kosofsky’s series on dementia and Alzheimer's disease — centered on Andrew and his grandmother, Elo Voskian, in Granada Hills, California.

Produced through a fellowship on new media in global health with TED Fellows and Gates Ventures. Photography: Isadora Kosofsky. Video: Isadora Kosofsky, Andrew Rahal. Edit: Kaitlyn Mullin. Sound: Keegan Duncan. Published June 2025.

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