Crowned Bowman

Scottsdale, AZ

$700 – $5,000 per event

Travels up to 120 miles

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Bringing the African Perspective to the Western Experience

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Overview

If you ever thought there was more to life, you were right. To this end, Ishmael, author of The God Experiment: The Art of Developing Your Destiny," shares thought-provoking insights to help people turn their crises into opportunities, engage in ongoing transformation, and make sense of their transitions so that they can find and live out their purpose. For over 12 years, he gave up comforts and lived on faith with the goal of understanding the blueprint for taking risks and living faith-filled and purpose-driven lives in their spheres of influence. And yes, he found it. He is a vulnerable storyteller, bringing a multi-cultured perspective to the western experience with an African flavor.


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Booking information

Price range: $700 – $5,000 per event

Languages: English

Gig length: 30 - 90 minutes

What to expect

Depending on what Samuel speaks on, attendees get different results:

Personal Leadership, Reinvention & Life Architecture
- Shift from reacting to circumstances toward intentionally architecting their response and direction.
- Recognize how rejection, uncertainty, and disruption can reveal previously unseen capacity.
- Identify where fear or outdated identity may be limiting their next chapter.
- Develop greater agency in the face of circumstances they cannot control.
- Reconnect achievement with meaning, identity, relationships, and the life they actually want to build.
- Leave with a powerful question: What if the next surprise isn't what happens to me — but who I become because of it?
- Reframe rejection, setbacks, and closed doors as potential sources of information and advantage.

Resilience, Reinvention & Competitive Advantage
- Learn the Rejection Gift Finder framework for identifying what a difficult experience may be revealing or developing.
- Separate personal identity from external acceptance, titles, opportunities, and outcomes.
- Turn disappointment into greater self-awareness, adaptability, and strategic clarity.
- Build the resilience to move forward without becoming defined by what happened.
- Recognize strengths and possibilities that may only become visible when the original plan fails.

The God Experiment: What Happens When You Put Faith on Trial?
- Explore a practical framework for examining faith, purpose, and deeply held assumptions.
- Learn how experimentation and curiosity can replace passive belief or automatic skepticism.
- Identify beliefs inherited from family, culture, success, failure, or circumstance that may never have been consciously examined.
- Develop greater clarity around purpose, values, and the principles guiding important decisions.
- Become more comfortable asking difficult questions without demanding immediate answers.
Leave with a personal experiment for testing what you believe through lived experience.

Courage, Action & Performance Under Uncertainty
- Recognize the less obvious ways fear appears as overthinking, perfectionism, procrastination, and avoidance.
- Distinguish legitimate risk analysis from fear-driven hesitation.
- Develop practical strategies for taking action before certainty arrives.
- Build greater tolerance for ambiguity, change, and uncomfortable decisions.
- Replace the pursuit of fearlessness with the practice of courage.
- Identify one meaningful action you have been postponing and create a path toward taking it.

Executive Performance, Whole-Life Alignment & Sustainable Success
- Use the 5 F's diagnostic to evaluate the major domains influencing life and performance.
- Identify hidden misalignment before it becomes burnout, relationship strain, poor decisions, or loss of direction.
- Understand the difference between life balance and life alignment.
- Recognize how problems in one domain can quietly affect leadership and performance in another.
- Create greater coherence between achievement, relationships, health, finances, values, and future direction.
- Leave with a practical framework for making better whole-life decisions.

About

Samuel Ngu is an African immigrant who arrived in the U.S. with nothing but a suitcase of dreams. With no family or safety net. After a decade of navigating culture, rejection, depression, suicidal thoughts, working multiple jobs, living across 7 states, living with multiple families from diverse backgrounds, and working in different industries, he emerged from the crisis with a philosophy that defines his existence: Life is not full of surprises; you are. Today he speaks and mentors on resilience, adaptability, communication, challenging paradigms, and talent development.

Samuel is the founder of Align360, an AI organizational intelligence platform that helps visionary leaders build in alignment with who they are and what they are called to build. He also serves as a Fund Product Manager at a Fortune 500 company. He also helps families and businesses build wealth architecture to protect and multiply wealth. He's the author of 7+ books, including The God Experiment, Live Fearless, and The Gifts of Rejection, as well as meditations on focus, discipline, productivity, and relationships.

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