Speaker Profile
About Metaclusive LLC
Employees are your not-so-secret-weapon. They hold your trade secrets and are your most expensive line item. You are fully invested in them. Are you sure they are fully invested in you? Employees bring only the parts of themselves they feel are safe to share into work. If that is anything less than 100%, then your employees are focused on protecting a secret identity. At Metaclusive, we are anti-secret identity. We are about removing every obstacle to your employees bringing their best and whole selves to work. Employees who are fully present are more productive, innovative, happier, and more committed. Make your employees feel represented, valued, and accepted and you will move your organization forward. A metaclusive team is like a league of superheroes.
About Tristan Higgins
Tristan is a highly trained and practiced speaker. She speaks with humor and sincerity, which allows her to reach audiences of any age, nationality, and profession. Whether you need a keynote or smaller training, Tristan will engage and enlighten your audience with her disarming and approachable style.
TOPICS
Topics can be customized to meet your needs, including all diversity, equity, inclusion, and intersectionality topics, for example: race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, familial status, and veteran status.
Just How Many Genders Are There?
- Get familiarized with the types of gender identities that exist and get comfortable working with people who identify differently than you do
What Your Business Has To Gain By Focusing On Belonging
- Dollars and cents about diversity, equity, inclusion and intersectionality, and what you have to gain
How to Become Metaclusive
- Becoming Metaclusive means focusing on belonging which encourages your whole team to bring their best selves to work
Yes, All White People
- Identify the unearned privileges that come with whiteness, educate yourself about the antiracist movement, and understand steps that you as an individual and a business can take to address the inequity.
TESTIMONIAL
“I originally met Tristan when she was suggested to me as a potential speaker for a breakout session for our national conference. Tristan ended up doing such a phenomenal job at the conference that we had overwhelmingly positive feedback from our attendees, and I knew that we needed to invite her back as a keynote the following year. The following year, Tristan did in fact return as keynote and unsurprisingly, did an excellent job. She was one of our highest-rated speakers. Our attendees are sophisticated business leaders and in-house counsel that come from a wide range of industries across the country. They have high expectations. Tristan has a way of delivering high-level content in a very relatable, novel, and engaging way that is truly special. I won’t hesitate to keep enlisting Tristan’s help with future programs.”
- Danielle Moore, Fisher & Phillips LLP
TESTIMONIALS
With the gift of levity and the stroke of a smile, Tristan creates a safe space for uncomfortable conversations. She utilizes this space in an authentic way that allows her audience to gain understanding, explore common ground, and begin a pathway of discussion towards a solution.
Tristan’s input, contributions, and relationships were invaluable to Sony in building an inclusive environment, not only for LGBTQ employees but for all employees. She was called on numerous times to present to the community, the business and Sony Corporate Headquarters in Tokyo on the development and advancement of women and LGBTQ inclusive environments. I have a deep respect and admiration for the work Tristan has done and the person she is. I feel honored to know her and to have had the opportunity to work with her to make the advancements we have in Inclusion not only at Sony but in educating and motivating those she has contact with.
Tristan is a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional who is as knowledgeable as she is curious! She listens to people when they talk, encourages and challenges ideas, and TEACHES from a place of confident experience. She has particular expertise in the area of sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression and has taught me so much more than I knew I needed to learn in this sector.
She’s well versed in all the silos of DEI work and collaborates with others actively to round out a presentation or training program that is unique and outcome-driven. I have benefited from knowing her, and I intend to continue our collaboration.
Our organization is grateful for Tristan’s expertise on such a timely topic. She is the consummate professional, with a wealth of information while still being personable and approachable. We asked Tristan to participate in our national conference and to our excitement, she agreed. She impressed our audience with a fascinating training. Highly recommend Metaclusive’s training and consultation in a corporate setting!
I have seen Tristan give presentations to my clients and I have presented with her. She is funny, insightful, sensitive, and approachable. She handles discussions about sexuality, gender, religion, disability and race adeptly. I would not hesitate to refer any of my clients looking for diversity, inclusion and equity training and guidance to her.
Tristan has such an authentic presence is extremely passionate about change. You can feel it the moment you meet her. She championed the Bring Your Whole Self to Work campaign which spread throughout Sony. I highly recommend you hire Tristan to work with your company to facilitate meaningful change.
