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Speaking, Workshops, + Facilitated Conversations

I bring a lifelong commitment to human rights and a decade of intentional study, mentorship, and practice in intersectional anti-oppression, trauma-informed, 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.

Let’s Work Together

Speaking Topics

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.

All offerings can be tailored as:

  • Keynotes

  • Interactive workshops

  • Guest lectures

  • Multi-session training series

  • Facilitated conversations or panels

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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.

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 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, 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 social change lens.

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

Building a Marketing Ecosystem, Beyond Instagram: Creating a web of connection that doesn’t rely on algorithms.

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.

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. Their work is rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression, and trauma-informed lens that integrates decades of study into culturally competent marketing and business and LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).

Tristan offers strategic consulting, equity-centered trainings, and keynotes that move audiences from awareness to action—with clarity, depth, and care.

Tristan has had the honor of presenting and facilitating for programs with Stanford University, HubSpot, Portland Public Schools, the Port of Portland, and Williston Northampton School, among others, and they regularly consult with authors, educators, movement leaders, and change-makers—folks whose work is often featured in NPR, NBC, The New York Times, and USA Today.

A longtime student—and occasional teacher—of yoga, Tristan has completed over 1,000 hours of training and was named one of fifteen game-changers by Yoga Journal in 2021. They served on the Board of Directors for Accessible Yoga until its closure in 2024 and continue to serve on the faculty of the Accessible Yoga School, alongside many other industry-recognized certification programs in yoga and beyond. Across all these spaces, Tristan advocates for liberatory, inclusive approaches to practice, pedagogy, and access—especially for those most often left out of mainstream wellness narratives.

Tristan is not here to help people perform their values—they’re here to support them in embodying them, exploring marketing and messaging strategies that center relationship over transaction, truth over polish, and impact over performance. Tristan’s work meets the moment by offering practical, principled tools for building culture, strategy, and systems that reflect a world we’re not just dreaming of, but actively co-creating.

short bio.

Tristan Katz (they/he) is a nationally recognized speaker, facilitator, and consultant with a lifelong commitment to human rights and justice. Their work is rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression, and trauma-informed lens that integrates decades of study into culturally competent marketing and business and LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). Tristan has had the honor of presenting and facilitating for programs with Stanford University, HubSpot, Portland Public Schools, the Port of Portland, and Williston Northampton School, among others, and they regularly consult with authors, educators, movement leaders, and change-makers—folks whose work is often featured in NPR, NBC, The New York Times, and USA Today. Tristan is also a longtime yoga student and occasional yoga teacher, a Yoga Journal game-changer (2021), former board member of Accessible Yoga, and frequent guest speaker in industry-recognized certification programs in yoga and beyond. 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/