TURNING GOOD INTENTIONS INTO BOLD, INCLUSIVE ACTION

Good news - you can book Karen for your upcoming events!

Karen Craggs is a Certified Expert Speaker with 25 years experience as a global changemaker, speaking across the globe.

She is a natural and powerful storyteller who draws on her rich personal and professional life experience to consistently deliver high quality Keynote Addresses and Workshops, all designed to educate, engage and inspire audiences into meaningful action.

She regularly delivers sessions in person, virtually or in hybrid format (in person with remote engagement at the same time).

If you are looking for powerful, uplifting speaker to educate, engage and inspire them into meaningful personal and professional action, Karen is your ideal speaker.

What makes Karen the right speaker for you?

• Karen’s energy is uplifting and contagious.

• She has a fun, stylish and global vibe.

• She is passionate, authentic and real.

• She honors and makes room for complexity and differences of perspectives and experiences.

• She grounds all her talks in simple frameworks, tools and skills that the audience can take away and apply in work and life.

• She weaves in real life stories from her 25 years as a global changemaker (lived experience and work as a practitioner) and those stories keep this work alive for audiences, long after her talk was delivered.

• She is focused on actions we can all take to help create to promote progress and encourages audiences to identify at least ONE action they will take as a result of spending time with her.

• She takes the time to meet with client, understand what their objectives are, what success looks like for them and then builds her presentation to deliver on this.

• She is so impactful and engaging that many clients invite her back to deliver more sessions.

Sample Speaking Topics for Keynote Addresses and Workshops include:

• Anti-racism and anti-oppression

• Conscious Equality (a fresh take on DEIB)

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging - The Business Case

• Decolonization, Truth & Reconciliation in Action

• Future of work: Creating safety and belonging across multi-generational teams

• Gender Based Analysis Plus and Intersectionality

• Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment & engaging men and boys.

• Inclusive Leadership Fundamentals

• Inclusive design for programs and services

• Building an inclusive workplace culture that works for everyone

• Multiculturalism and the power of Cultural Intelligence

• Sexual Harassment & Workplace Bullying

• Women at work: The top 5 barriers women face and how we can address them

• Unconscious Bias & Microaggressions

Don’t see your preferred topic here?

• No problem! Contact Karen to explore your topic of choice - she has spoken on a diverse range of topics that are not listed here.

Planning a Diversity Day event for your organization? Karen frequently speaks on the following days / topics:

January
20 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
27 - International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust
29 - National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia

February
Black History Month
11 - International Day for Women and Girls in Science
20 - World Day of Social Justice
26 - Pink Day

March
Women’s History Month
Multiculturalism Month (Newfoundland and Labrador)
1 - Zero Discrimination Day
8 - International Women’s Day
3-9 Black Mental Health Week
21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

April
Celebrating Diversity Month

May
5 - National Day for Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
17 - LGBTQ+: International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

June
Pride Month
19 - Juneteenth (US)
21 - National Indigenous People’s Day
27 - Canadian Multiculturalism Day

August
Intersectionality Month
1 - Emancipation Day
9 - UN: International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
26 - Women’s Equality Day (US)

September
18 - UN: International Equal Pay Day
22-26 Gender Equality Week (Canada - 4th week of Sept)
30 - National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

October
Women’s History Month (Canada)
10 - World Inclusion Day
11 - International Day of the Girl Child
18 - Person’s Day (Canada)
19 - International Men’s Day
20 - LGBTQ+: Transgender Day of Remembrance
25 - UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

November
Nov 25-Dec 10 16 days of activism against Gender Violence

December
Universal Human Rights Month
3 - UN: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
6 - National Day of Rebalance and Action on Violence Against Women
10 - UN: International Human Rights Day