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PUBLIC WORK
TIKA is an Executive Artist, keynote speaker, facilitator, and strategic advisor whose work explores the relationship between creativity, culture, leadership, and human flourishing.
Working across music, film, education, public scholarship, and institutional design, she creates experiences that help individuals and organizations navigate complexity with greater imagination, emotional intelligence, and care. Her work bridges artistic practice with systems thinking, inviting audiences to rethink leadership not as authority, but as the capacity to cultivate the conditions in which people, communities, and ideas can thrive.
Whether speaking to artists, educators, executives, policymakers, or community leaders, TIKA's work is guided by a single question:
How do we design the cultural conditions that allow people to flourish?
Her keynote presentations, workshops, advisory engagements, and facilitated conversations are intellectually rigorous, emotionally resonant, and deeply practical—offering audiences new ways of thinking about creativity, belonging, institutional change, and the future of leadership.
Areas of Practice
Human-Centred Leadership
Exploring leadership through emotional intelligence, nervous system literacy, relational trust, and sustainable cultures of care.
Featured Frameworks:
The Nervous System Knows First™
Emotional Technology™
Rest as Resistance™
Creativity, Culture & Belonging
Examining how creativity, storytelling, and cultural practice can strengthen communities, expand belonging, and shape more equitable futures.
Featured Frameworks:
Creative Sovereignty™
The Cost of Silence™
Sound, Sovereignty & Access™
Music, Memory & Cultural Futures
Investigating the relationship between sound, identity, speculative imagination, and the future of creative practice.
Featured Frameworks:
Beyond Notation™
The Sonic Afterlife™
Decoding Feel™
The Frequency of Joy™
Selected Engagements
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity — Keynote Speaker, Performer & Facilitator
ACCUTE Conference (Concordia University) — Opening Keynote
Berklee College of Music — Featured Workshop Facilitator
University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health — Guest Lecturer
Global Leaders Institute — Faculty Lecturer & Executive Leadership Panels
Canadian Film Centre — Speaker, Film & Creative Leadership
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) — Celebrity Host
Universities, conferences, cultural institutions, and leadership forums across Canada, Ireland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Strategic Advisory
TIKA partners with founders, executives, institutions, cultural organizations, universities, and public leaders navigating moments of growth, transformation, complexity, or change.
Her advisory practice combines systems thinking, cultural intelligence, creative strategy, and institutional design to help organizations imagine what comes next—and build the conditions to make it possible.
Rather than offering prescriptive solutions, she works collaboratively with leaders to uncover deeper questions, strengthen strategic clarity, and develop approaches that are both visionary and grounded in human experience.
Areas of Advisory
Executive Strategy & Vision
Institutional Design
Cultural Intelligence
Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Creative Leadership
Public Narrative & Positioning
Partnership Development
Innovation Strategy
Organizational Transformation
Artist & Founder Development
A Philosophy
The most meaningful transformation rarely begins with a new program or a new strategy.
It begins with a new way of seeing.
Across every keynote, workshop, consultation, and creative collaboration, TIKA invites individuals and institutions to imagine what becomes possible when leadership is rooted in curiosity, culture, and care—and when creativity is understood not simply as artistic expression, but as a powerful way of designing more connected, courageous, and deeply human futures.
Booking & Media Inquiries:
📩 info@withlovetika.com
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