SERVICES
Keynotes & Speaking — Make an Impact To Engage Your Audiences
Waneek delivers keynotes customized for her clients and audiences on Indigenous health and wellness, and the power of collaborative action through reconciliation. Empowering communities and youth to proactively overcome adversity through compelling dialogue comes naturally to Waneek, as she focuses on justice, healing, and bridge-building.
Waneek has a unique ability to connect to a wide range of audiences of varying cultures and ages, motivating them to embrace athleticism, community fitness and wellness in their communities. Her highly impactful presentations leave audiences empowered and informed.
Speaking Topics
Leadership
Reconcilliation
Indigenous Health + Wellness
Diversity + Race
Motivational
Team Building
Community Engagement
Host
Waneek has made a name for herself as a competent dynamic leader in strategic planning, and event hosting in partnership with not only government and academic institutions, but in the world of television, fashion and business. She engages, educates and inspires organizations through her highly motivational and thoroughly researched presentations, strategy proposals and mediation services.
Her work has taken her from highly emotional and political environments like the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls to the energy filled and exciting.
Types of Hosting
Television:
CBC Sports Commentator, Athen 2004 Olympics, Beijing 2008 Olympics, Vancouver 2010 Olympics
APTN “First Music and Arts” 1996-1999
Working it Out Together” 2010-2013
Today’s Shopping Choice, Manitobah Mukluks Product Knowledge Specialist 2013-present
Roundtable / Conference Master of Ceremonies
Indigenous Leadership Workshops
Event Facilitation
As a catalyst for change, Waneek guarantees your conference or retreat runs seamlessly to maximize your goals as a pragmatic, highly communicative and objective influencer.
Brand Representation
Throughout Waneek’s athletic and professional career, she has represented and promoted well known brands such as Roots Canada, Complex 15 Skin Cream and Manitobah Mukluks. Waneek’s understanding of the importance of brand association with a strong, intelligent and well spoken ambassador, has enabled her to help brands become better recognized outside their normal sphere of influence.
Cross-cultural engagement
Throughout Waneek’s career, she has had to walk in have two eyed seeing. From an Indigenous Perspective this means she has been able to see the world from both a indigenous perspective and non-indigenous perspective and be able to translate important, sensitive and complex concepts and information to both worlds. She has used this unique ability to help engage organizations like the Canadian Olympic Committee and empower them with Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Empowerment. Waneek has always been an excellent communicator and more importantly an important listener, which makes her a powerful facilitator in cross-cultural engagement.
Indigenous Community engagement
With over 25 years of experience working in Indigenous Communities, Waneek has gain a solid reputation for her ability to engage with all kinds of people, organizations and associations. She has also been able to address a wide range of topics and enable community members to feel heard and respected. She is able to analyze and understand the diversity and sensitivity of the issues on the forefront of indigenous communities and is very proficient in report writing and presentation of findings. These skills have taken her from community engagement in the Mohawk community of Wahta to the position of Director of Community Engagement for the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous women and Girls.
