SPEAKING

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

She is a natural 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.

If you are looking for powerful speaker to wake your audience up and get them excited about making a meaningful difference in the world, Karen is your ideal speaker.

Speaking Topics 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

  • Gender Based Analysis Plus and Intersectionality

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

  • Inclusive Leadership

  • Inclusive program design

  • Inclusive workplace culture

  • Multiculturalism and Cultural Intelligence

  • Unconscious Bias & Microaggressions

  • Sexual Harassment & Workplace Bullying

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

    Looking for a different topic? No problem! Connect with Karen to explore your topic of choice.

    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