LGBTQ+ INCLUSION + CONSCIOUS MARKETING

Speaking, Workshops, + Facilitated Conversations

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Tristan brings the house down with their wisdom, love, earnest drive for change, modeling, and highly skilled facilitation and teaching. Their work is truly transformational.

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CASEY CARROLL
co-owner + creative director BWBrands

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I’m a nationally recognized speaker, facilitator, and consultant with a lifelong commitment to human rights and justice.

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

Let’s Work Together

Speaking Topics

We collaborate to ensure the content meets your needs—whether that means foundational knowledge, strategic application, or space for deeper integration.

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All offerings can be tailored as:

+ Keynotes

+ Interactive workshops

+ Guest lectures

+ Multi-session training series

+ Facilitated conversations or panels

Contact me to collaborate

→EQUITY + INCLUSION: Culture Shift in Action

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

CREATING SAFER SPACES

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

TRANS + NONBINARY 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 and daily actions, relationships, and communities.

UNPACKING PRIVILEGE + POSITIONALITY:

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

HARM, REPAIR, + ACCOUNTABILITY

For when intention doesn't match impact; navigating missteps with courage and relationality.

→CONSCIOUS MARKETING: Messaging That Serves, and Sells

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

MARKETING WITH INTEGRITY

Rethinking messaging, visibility, and strategy through a social change lens.

SUSTAINABLE CONTENT CREATION

Ways to market without burning out—or selling out.

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM BEYOND INSTAGRAM

Creating a web of connection that doesn’t rely on algorithms.

UNPACKING PRIVILEGE + POWER IN MARKETING

How whiteness, capitalism, and cisheteronormativity show up in your copy—and what to do about it.

CENTERING RELATIONSHIP OVER TRANSACTION

Using marketing as a tool for care, community-building, and consciousness.

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.

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 nationally recognized speaker, facilitator, and consultant with a lifelong commitment to human rights and justice. With a background in journalism, an MA in Human Rights and Latin American Studies, and two decades of marketing and business experience, their work is rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression, and trauma-informed lens—bridging culturally competent marketing with LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).

Tristan offers strategic consulting, equity-centered trainings, and business and marketing support that moves people from awareness to action—with clarity, depth, and care.

They have had the honor of presenting and facilitating for programs with Stanford University, HubSpot, Portland Public Schools, LoveYourBrain, and the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the U.S., among others. They regularly consult with authors, educators, movement leaders, and change-makers whose work has been featured by NPR, NBC, The New York Times, and USA Today.

Tristan's first book, We Are the Message: Rethinking Visibility, Marketing, & Power in the Digital Age, arrives in March 2027 from North Atlantic Books. It's not another guide to visibility or strategy—it's an invitation to see more clearly the systems shaping our digital lives, and to move through them with greater discernment, solidarity, and imagination.

Tristan's work offers practical, principled tools for building culture, strategy, and systems that reflect the world we're actively co-creating—not just dreaming of.

short bio.

Tristan Katz (they/he) is a nationally recognized speaker, facilitator, and consultant with a lifelong commitment to human rights and justice. With a background in journalism, an MA in Human Rights and Latin American Studies, and two decades of marketing and business experience, their work is rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression, and trauma-informed lens—bridging culturally competent marketing with LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).

Tristan has had the honor of presenting and facilitating for programs with Stanford University, HubSpot, LoveYourBrain, and the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the U.S., among others. Their first book, We Are the Message: Rethinking Visibility, Marketing, & Power in the Digital Age, will be available March 2027 from North Atlantic Books.

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.

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

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