Speaking Engagements

LJS’s Founder, Nanci Luna Jiménez, offers dynamic and interactive keynote addresses that would be a powerful addition to any conference or event. Nanci’s warm, personal style engages her audience with memorable stories and vignettes. Her approach is intimate, playful, and compelling as she motivates on topics such as diversity and inclusion, leadership, relationships, women’s empowerment, and social justice.
Whether the size of your group is 100 or 1,000, Nanci speaks to each person as if it’s a personal conversation. She touches hearts and moves souls to insight and action.
Speaking Topics:
- Listening for Change: Relationships as Transformational Acts
- “Privilege”: What It Is, What It Is Not
- Internalized Oppression and the “Pink Hair” Phenomenon
- “Coming In Good”: Being An Effective Ally
- “I Treat Everyone the Same: Isn’t that Fair?”: The Role of Context in Inclusion
- Fear Trap: Learn to Stop Projecting from Your Own Experience
- You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Making Mistakes on the Way to Cultural Competence
- “Color Blind” or “Just Blind”: Seeing Differences on the Way to “Sameness”
- Personal Power, Institutional Power: Your Significance in Shifting Systems
- The Color Line: An Honest Conversation about Skin Color in the Latino Community
Leadership
- Transformational Leadership: Twelve Practices for Leaders as Change Agents
- Gotcha! Gotcha Back! Understanding and Handling Attacks on Leadership
- The Art of Appreciation: Recognizing Goodness in Yourself and Others
- How to Interrupt Gossip, Slurs and Other Toxic Workplace Communication
Women
- Putting Me First: Women Reclaiming Our Bodies and Minds
- Not Another Diet, Ever: How Every Woman Can Live a Health-full Life
- No More Limits from Sexism: Men and Women as Natural Allies
- Latinas Unidas: Working With Our Hermanas, Overcoming the Basura
- Women of Color: Authenticity in the Workplace
- African American Women and Latinas: Healing from What Divides Us, Growing from What Unites Us