Decolonize the Sacred Feminine and learn to Lead Like a Goddess with this critically-acclaimed actress, singer, Fire Goddess, and leader in Feminine Leadership.
TEDx Talk (22 min)
Talk & Teaching on Land Acknowledgements (8 min)
11-minute Presentation
Workshop Presentation
The Speaker
As seen in USA Today, Andrea Menard is an influencer in Feminine leadership and trains individuals to Lead Like Goddesses. As her Anishinaabemowin name, Skooteah Equahh, suggests, Andrea is a genuine Fire Woman.
She helps women, men and all-gendered people to reclaim and embody the qualities of the Sacred Feminine by developing skills in listening, receptivity, ferocity, creative expansion, and emotional expression.
As an accomplished Métis singer, who has released five cds, and an award-winning actress, who starred in the Netflix series, "Blackstone," Andrea helps women own their voice, express their creativity, enhance their mental health, and become the Goddesses they were always meant to be.
Andrea has been a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) for five years. Her TEDx talk, entitled "Silent No More" has reached over 128,000 views.
Andrea uses her life as a Métis celebrity, a TEDx speaker, and an advocate for ending violence, to entertain and inspire audiences from all walks of life. Whether she is addressing a hall of businesswomen, a high security room full of NATO Generals, or a stadium of Indigenous youth, Andrea's uplifting musical keynotes land exactly where they need to – in the heart.
“Andrea Menard kicked off the virtual YouMeWe Social Impact Group - International Women’s day event, themed “Choose to Express Your Feminine Power.” Her keynote grabbed the audience by the heart. She took us on a journey that moved us from linear thinking to realizing the power we can bring if we look at the world from a different perspective. Many attendees had an aha moment. Andrea inspired the audience with Sacred Feminine Wisdom’s arrival; healing starts with your heart; And how indigenous wisdom is our guide. The music, the message and the meaning was genuinely moving, leaving me speechless. ”
Keynote Topics
Keynote Topics
Decolonizing Wellness through Sacred Feminine Wisdom
Finding the Intersection of us All
Leading Like a Goddess
Decolonizing Wellness through Sacred Feminine Wisdom
Format: 60 minute Keynote
This program is perfect for:
Multi-racial teams looking to amplify Indigenous wellness practises and develop lasting, land-based skills for self-care
Multi-gendered teams and individuals struggling to end the cycle of burnout, exhaustion, and stress
Professionals and business owners searching to find meaning in their careers and their everyday lives
If you’ve been struggling to recover from the pandemic, transform the systems around you and create equality in your workspaces, chances are your rituals of self-care have deteriorated.
The Decolonizing Wellness through Sacred Feminine Wisdom is a 60-minute keynote that helps you unravel the training that upholds oppressive self-care practises and brings you into right relationship with your self, others, and with the land itself.
Most human beings have been taught, through learned and inherited trauma, to over-consume, ignore their feelings, and practise domination. But most of us are not aware of this training.
Being dominant over the land seems normal.
Being valued for your proximity to whiteness seems normal.
Viewing feminine aspects as weaker than masculine aspects seems normal.
These beliefs are not normal.
They are false premises that make up the foundation of colonized thinking that teaches you to reject your gentle, emotional, cyclical, and connective nature. By decolonizing wellness and embodying the gifts hidden within the realm of the Sacred Feminine, you will enhance your well-being, end the cycle of domination, and learn to walk gentler on this planet.
Finding the Intersection of Us All
Format: 45-60 minute Keynote
This program is perfect for:
Non-Indigenous teams looking to understand Indigenous worldviews and take steps towards reconciliation
All-gendered professionals and business owners
Individuals or teams struggling with fear of the future, exhaustion, and stress
Has Covid-19 upset everything about your life, your business, and your future? Let Andrea Menard, an Indigenous speaker and teacher in Feminine leadership, navigate the wisdom to be found in the chaos.
Professionals from all walks of life are struggling to find meaning in the changes seen in the local, national and international landscape. With teachings based in Indigneous knowledge and Sacred Feminine wisdom, Andrea helps translate the meaning behind these changes and offers positive tools to create a better future for her clients. Her four teachings will help professionals find a new equilibrium and balance.
According to Andrea’s Indigneous Elders, now is the time of the Rise of the Sacred Feminine. By developing awareness of, and practising the gifts hidden within the realm of the Sacred Feminine and Indigenous knowledge, individuals and teams will learn techniques to get in alignment with the global changes, unravel outdated habits, enhance their leadership style and embody an improved sense of well-being.
Leading Like a Goddess
Format: 45-60 minute Keynote
This program is perfect for:
Business women, Women entrepreneurs, Women leaders, Indigenous women, Women of colour
Heart-centred business leaders (all genders)
Individuals struggling with invisibility, lack of voice, and the glass ceiling
Teams struggling with conflict, overwhelm, and burnout
Organizations concerned with mental health
Are you doing too much? Are you feeling exhausted and frustrated?
Is your truth being stifled? Are your great ideas getting trapped in someone else’s pipeline?
Ignite your Feminine Power and learn to Lead Like a Goddess.
When smart, driven women gain positions of power within existing masculine systems, their feminine natures need more than a relaxing spa day. They need a full-on retreat with their inner Goddess to rest, renew and reclaim their Feminine Power. Let Andrea Menard, a critically acclaimed actress, singer, Fire Goddess, and influencer in Feminine Leadership, help you get in touch with your own inner Goddess.
By developing awareness of, and practising the gifts hidden within the realm of the Sacred Feminine, women in leadership will end the cycle of burnout and learn techniques to enhance their Feminine gifts, their leadership style, and their overall well-being.
It’s time to drop the stale “God Complex” and “Lead like a Goddess.”
“Andrea Menard did a keynote presentation for the Indigenous Women’s Leadership Summit in November 2018. Knowing that her beautiful energy and talents would inspire the audience, we asked Andrea to speak on the subject of “Lighting Your Creative Fire.” Not only did Andrea deliver a thought-provoking talk but she had participants roaring with laughter and connecting with one-another on a very personal level. Andrea uses her voice, humour and creative talents to connect with audiences and deliver messages of love, respect and positivity. We’re big fans, so we asked her to participate again this year..”
“The Canadian Parks Council hosted Andrea to speak at a national dinner event attended by key members of Canada’s conservation community.
Andrea spoke from the heart and presented a personal tribute and message to our collective contributions centred on changing the dialogue about the importance of nature to our health and well-being. Andrea has a beautiful spirit, an extraordinary voice, and an essential message for all to hear.
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Event Planners
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“Andrea Menard made an outstanding contribution to the virtual, Creative Convergence conference held on October 28, 2021, by the Canadian Network for Arts and Learning... Andrea’s keynote (which included some beautiful music) was rooted in a deep humanity and shone with insight into the healing powers of culture and the arts....Responses from attendees have been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. We thank Andrea for her powerful interventions, and we congratulate one another on our sagacity in inviting her to participate. ”
“Congratulations to our beautiful Andrea Menard for being named a Women’s Executive Network (WXN) 2020 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner. For as long as I have known Andrea, she has been a bright light and a calming soul in a world that is often demanding and frenetic. Andrea is an incredibly talented and fearless leader and a truly deserving recipient of this recognition and it is my honour to call her friend and fellow artist, thank you to the WXN organization.”
“On behalf of the Board and over 1,000 participants of the 2018 Vision Quest Conference & Trade Show, I would like to sincerely thank Andrea for sharing her time, talents, expertise, and experience as a keynote speaker at this year’s 22nd annual event. Andrea’s presentation, with her incredible energy, was a highlight for our delegates.”
“Andrea Menard’s presentation on “Reconciliation: A Journey Out of Us & Them” inspired our small business owners to seek meaningful ways to integrate reconciliation into their business. With the tools that Andrea provided during her session, businesses have the knowledge and insight to move closer towards reconciliation.”
History
Andrea has been hired as the keynote speaker for such varied organizations as:
IBM
Vancouver Board of Education
Senior Women Academic Administrators (S.W.A.A.C.) Conference
PwC
Indigenous Women in Leadership
Canadian Parks Council
Okanagan Nation Alliance Keynote – YES conference
Coralus
Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce
Metis Nation British Columbia
The Dalai Lama Centre for Peace & Education
RavenSPEAK 2019
YES 2018 (Young Entrepreneurs Symposium)
Vision Quest Conference
Positive Voices
Wiichihiwayshinawn Foundation’s Métis Awards
UNICEF (Stuttgart, Germany)
All Nations Hope AIDS Society
Partners FOR the Saskatchewan River Basin
Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI)
Aboriginal Housing
Saskatoon CHW (Hadassah-WIZO) and Congregation Agudas Israel sponsored Silver Spoon Dinner.
“Andrea Menard is not just a popular entertainer, but she is a powerful voice for social justice in our Canadian society. Yes she is very talented, but these talents are presented with strong instincts for social justice and with a big heart. Andrea’s acting has presented important issues, her singing/songwriting has given people hope and optimism in dealing with these issues, and her personal integrity has given her message credibility.
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“Let’s talk about goddesses! Goddesses share heart medicine, and that is exactly what Andrea Menard did at the RavenSpeak event. The evening was packed full of emotion and raw humanity, and Andrea was the perfect medicine for the evening. Andrea was able to take the spirit of the room, and rise to the needs by sharing goddess goodness. Andrea navigated the emotions of the room to bring people from a state of deep reflection, to a state of deep celebration of the evening and the women who spoke. Andrea brought the audience along with elegance, enthusiasm, and gentleness. Andrea is a “must” speaker at events with her innate goddess medicines!”