SPEAKING + PRESS
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Speaking + Thought Leadership
TIKA Has Spoken At:
REKH Conference — University of Alberta (Healing-Centered Leadership & Creative Wellness Workshop) 2025
Calgary Women’s Impact Leadership Institute (Keynote + Somatic Leadership Integration Session) 2025
University of Toronto — Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Guest Speaker: Cultural Care & Leadership in Community Health) 2025
Global Leaders Institute (Lectures on Creative Leadership, 40 of 40 Panel Discussion) 2025
VIFF Catalyst Programme — Vancouver International Film Festival (Panel Speaker: Storytelling, Identity & Creative Futures) - 2024
TIFF - Host for The Hate U Give Film Premiere - Celebrity Host - Toronto International Film Festival - 2023
Canadian Film Centre (Panels on film, identity & artistic leadership) - 2022
Private Leadership Forums & Creative Wellness Circles across Canada, the U.S., and the Caribbean - 2020-2025
Through keynote talks, workshops, and curated panels, TIKA explores the intersections of sound, storytelling, emotional sovereignty, and technology. TIKA is an internationally emerging keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, known for transformative sessions on trauma, voice, nervous system literacy, Black disability, cultural healing, and creative sovereignty. Her signature sessions include:
Signature Keynotes & Workshops
🟣 Rest as Resistance™: Stillness, Liberation & the Energetics of Creative Power
🟣 Creative Sovereignty™: Reclaiming Your Inner Compass in a Noisy World
🟣 Emotional Technology™ for Leaders: Nervous System Literacy in High-Pressure Environments
🟣 Beyond Notation™: Decolonizing Music Systems for the 21st Century
🟣 The Sonic Afterlife™: Black Sacred Lineage, Memory, and Spiritual Technology
🟣 The Cost of Silence™: Voice, Trauma & the Human Need for Truth
🟣 Sound, Sovereignty & Access™: Creating Equitable Creative Spaces for Disabled & BIPOC Artists
🟣 Decoding Feel™: How Emotion, Culture & Data Will Shape the Future of Music & Tech
To book TIKA for speaking engagements, panels, or workshops, please contact info@withlovetika.com.
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