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Speaking, Workshops, + Facilitated Conversations

I bring a lifelong commitment to human rights and nearly a decade of intentional study, mentorship, and practice in intersectional anti-oppression and equity-centered leadership.

Whether I’m facilitating a workshop, delivering a keynote, or holding space for hard conversations, I support teams, businesses, and communities in navigating the intersections of power, identity, marketing, and inclusion—with care, nuance, and accountability.

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Jivana Heyman, founder of Accessible Yoga

Tristan is always available with welcoming and comprehensive information and support for those of us who are still finding our way into accessibility and equity. 

Speaking Topics

All offerings can be tailored as:

  • Keynotes

  • Interactive workshops

  • Guest lectures

  • Multi-session training series

  • Facilitated conversations or panels

I collaborate with you to ensure the content meets your audience’s needs—whether that means foundational knowledge, strategic application, or space for deeper integration.

Equity & Inclusion: Culture Shift in Action

Designed for teams, classrooms, conferences, and organizations ready to move from performative allyship to transformative change.

Sessions include:

  • Creating Safer Spaces
    Why “safe space” isn’t enough—and what it looks like to move toward trauma-informed, accountable environments.

  • Trans & Non-Binary 101
    A foundational workshop on gender beyond the binary, pronouns, and inclusive practices.

  • The Spectrum of Allyship
    From intention to action: what solidarity can look like in real life.

  • Unpacking Privilege & Positionality
    A look at identity, power, and the social location wheel—and how they show up in our work and relationships.

  • Supporting Trans Youth & People in Transition
    What affirming support really looks like.

  • Language, Power, & Inclusion
    Beyond grammar—why our word choices matter and how to evolve them with care.

  • Harm, Repair, & Accountability
    For when intention doesn't match impact: navigating missteps with courage and relationality.

  • Creating Affirming Workplaces & Communities
    Shifting culture, not just policies.

Conscious Marketing: Messaging That Serves, Not Sells

Built for entrepreneurs, values-driven businesses, marketing teams, and creative communities.

Sessions include:

  • Marketing With Integrity
    Rethinking messaging, visibility, and strategy through a justice-informed lens.

  • Sustainable Content Creation
    Ways to market without burning out—or selling out.

  • Building a Relational Marketing Ecosystem
    Beyond Instagram: creating a web of connection that doesn’t rely on algorithms.

  • Centering Values in Your Messaging
    How to align your voice and visibility with what matters most.

  • Discovering Your Authentic Voice
    A workshop on unlearning scripts and showing up with presence and depth.

  • Unpacking Power & Privilege in Marketing
    How whiteness, capitalism, and cisheteronormativity show up in your copy—and what to do about it.

  • Being of Service Through Your Work
    Using marketing as a tool for care, community-building, and consciousness.

Listen to a recent interview:

Articles + Features

Yoga Journal

15 Influential Yogis You Need to Know

Yoga Journal

Want to be a True Ally? Do the Inner Work

Accessible Yoga

10 Marketing Tips I Wish I’d Learned in My Yoga Teacher Training

Accessible Yoga

5 tips for making your marketing easeful

Accessible Yoga

What is Conscious Marketing?

Short documentary interview:

Gender Affirming Care, it saves more lives than you would think.

Made by Ani Ceccacci in Royal Oak, Michigan as part of a CSPAN StudentCam Competition, in association with PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs. January 2025.

Want to have me on your podcast, speak to your community, facilitate a workshop or training, or participate in your event?

Media Assets

Headshots (click for high resolution download): photos by Blake Robertshaw

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Bios & Links

long bio.

Tristan Katz (they/he) is a business consultant, marketing strategist, and equity-inclusion facilitator with a lifelong commitment to human rights and justice. Their work is rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression lens that integrates decades of study into culturally competent marketing and LGBTQ+ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) consulting. Tristan supports individuals and organizations in aligning their values with their messaging, cultivating practices that prioritize authenticity, solidarity, and sustainability over performance and perfectionism.

Tristan has had the honor of collaborating with authors, educators, movement leaders, and culture-makers—folks whose work shapes consciousness and community. Their clients often lead the way in access and inclusion across industries, with audiences of 20k+ and features in outlets like NPR, The New York Times, NBC, and USA Today.

Beyond their work with individuals, Tristan has delivered talks and facilitated trainings for institutions such as Stanford University, HubSpot, Portland Public Schools, Port of Portland, and Williston Northampton School, supporting their efforts to build more affirming and values-aligned practices across departments and teams.

Tristan currently serves as COO and Director of Programming at Fruition Growth Network, a platform supporting solopreneurs and small businesses with accessible education, coaching, and community.

A longtime student—and occasional teacher—of yoga, Tristan has completed over 1,000 hours of training and was recognized by Yoga Journal as one of fifteen game-changers in 2021. He also served on the Board of Directors for Accessible Yoga until its dissolution in 2024, supporting its mission of expanding access to yoga for marginalized communities.

At the heart of their work is a commitment to conscious, justice-oriented marketing—centering relationship over transaction, storytelling over selling, and action over performance. Tristan believes our marketing can be a vehicle for cultural change when rooted in truth, care, and accountability.

short bio.

Tristan Katz (they/he) is a business consultant, conscious marketing strategist, and equity-inclusion facilitator with a lifelong commitment to human rights and justice. Tristan supports individuals and organizations in aligning their values with their messaging through an intersectional, anti-oppression lens. Tristan’s work centers authenticity, relationship, and accessibility, and they’ve collaborated with authors, educators, and cultural leaders as well as organizations like Stanford University, HubSpot, Portland Public Schools, and Port of Portland. Currently, Tristan serves as COO and Director of Programming at Fruition Growth Network. He is also a longtime yoga student, Yoga Journal game-changer (2021), and former board member of Accessible Yoga. At the core of everything Tristan offers is the belief that marketing can be a tool for connection, truth-telling, and cultural change—not just sales.

links.

EVENTS: https://www.katz-creative.com/events

ARTICLES: https://www.katz-creative.com/articles

FREE RESOURCES: https://www.katz-creative.com/free-resources

INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/tristankatzcreative

PODCAST: https://www.joinfruition.com/podcast

PLATFORM: https://www.joinfruition.com/