Keynote Speaking

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Cindu leans on her 20 years of teaching public speaking in Higher Education to execute impactful, engaging, and inspiring keynotes that spark transformation. She brings her extensive experience, authenticity, courageous story-telling, humor, and passion to the public speaking stage and always caters her message to each unique audience - incorporating industry-specific data and examples to create relevance and inspire action.

Her formal training in public speaking has equipped her with the knowledge and skills to captivate, engage, and inspire a wide range of audiences. Cindu brings her refined and engaging speaking skills to a variety of formats, including conference keynotes, company retreats, off-sites, luncheons, ERG events, roundtable discussions, and panel discussions.

Signature Talks 

  • Find Your Shakti: Lead Inclusively! '

  • Belonging Matters! Increasing Inclusion and Employee Retention

  • Cultivating a Culture of Inclusion and Belonging for Women of Color: Pathways to Success

  • Leading with Intercultural Intelligence

  • Allyship is a verb, not a noun!

  • Effective DEI Councils: Common Pitfalls and Strategies for Success

  • Towards Conscious Inclusion: Empowering and Elevating Women Leaders

  • Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Advancing Asian Americans in the Workplace

  • Rejecting the Model Minority Myth: Engaging in Cross Racial Solidarity

  • From Color-blindness to Color Conscious

  • BIPOC Leadership doesn’t always guarantee Inclusion or Liberation

  • Facing the Elephant in the Room: Disrupting Anti-Blackness in Communities of Color

“Cindu was a phenomenal keynote speaker for our bi-annual conference. She was able to fully engage participants and created a space in which people left feeling empowered, affirmed, and equipped to continue to think about how they as leaders can continue to shatter ceilings and be impactful within their organizations and the larger education field.”

-Julia Heck, Associate Director Eastern Michigan University

 

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