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Disruptor

Speaker

Advocate

Disruptor • Speaker • Advocate •

KIA IS NOT YOUR LEADER’S LEADER. 
AND THAT’S THE POINT.

Kia Weatherspoon is redefining leadership, creativity, and space—with radical honesty and embodied truth.

Creative professionals deserve leaders who get it. Kia helps you embrace your whole humanity and dismantle performative leadership, so you can design futures where everyone feels seen, valued, and empowered.

From boardrooms to classrooms, she challenges outdated norms, centers humanity, and creates space for people to show up fully as themselves. Her voice is unfiltered. Her story is lived. Her impact is generational.

ways to partner: Offerings rooted in purpose

Whether you need to spark truth in a keynote, shift culture in a workshop, or confront what's been left unsaid—these offerings are designed to meet your moment. Every engagement is grounded in purpose, built on honesty, and made to move people from performance to presence.

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keynote speaking

Dismantle performance. Reclaim presence.
Soul-shaking keynotes that challenge, affirm, and awaken—because leadership without humanity isn't leadership at all.

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Workshop Facilitation

Transformative spaces for real talk and realignment.These workshops turn discomfort into clarity—and teach people how to lead, speak, and create from wholeness.

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A DETERMINED STEP

Mentorship focused on whole-person growth for emerging creative leaders. Authentic career guidance and real-world frameworks.

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custom engagements

Built for your people, your pulse, your now.
Creative workshops, strategic facilitation, and the hard conversations your team keeps avoiding—customized to meet your challenges, culture, and goals.

“A captivating speaker, Kia knows how to rock a room! Her dynamic format of making her way around the room engages the audience. Stories put the imagination to work. Authenticity speaks to the heart of the audience and she nails it! A gifted speaker she is!”

— Amy Eisenberg