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Harriet Tinka is a compelling storyteller, diversity, equity & inclusion trainer, relationship violence survivor, Toastmaster’s Top 28 World Champion of Public Speaking, Chartered Professional Accountant and a 4X International bestselling author. She doesn’t deliver a speech instead she effectively shares experiences with her audience.
With over two decades of experience, Harriet founded her Personal Development Company. Her story is compelling, inspiring her to build a leading company with the bold mission of “I Am Enough. Say it. Feel it. Be it.” A mission that serves audiences exponentially. Her grit and tenacity have inspired countless audiences to move from feeling overwhelmed to resilient, stuck to productive, uncertain to dependable, and exhausted to energized! The breakthroughs with audiences have been sustainable.
“When life weighs you down, turn up the music in you. Don’t stop believing.”
Harriet Tinka, Turning Point Expert
Her students know her as a “Powerhouse Role Model who makes being genuine the most powerful thing of all.” She has touched over 200,000 youths, encouraged high school dropouts to finish school and energized teens who felt they lacked a purpose in life.
Harriet shares the key lessons she has learned to help her audience find the infinite potential in their most significant challenges, make their lives fantastic, and accomplish unfathomable goals. She gives abused women hope by starting from where they are emotionally. Harriet helps them with forgiveness using her theme of “You are not your wounds.” The theme is a Kintsugi Japanese concept of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold. It is about embracing flaws and imperfections to create strength.
“I thought bitterness and hatred was hurting the person I was resenting. Once I found out it was me who was hurting, I got out of that prison and became an architect of my future.”
Harriet Tinka, Turning Point Expert
She is enthusiastic about changing lives and being a lighthouse for others. Her journey is her secret weapon. Her focus is to support individuals to let go of excuses and progress to achieve understanding in their domain.
“Don’t waste your time watching others become successful and wish for things to happen to you, take action and start working on your own dreams.”
Harriet Tinka, Turning Point Expert
KEYNOTE SPEECHES
BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, COMMUNITIES
STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS
Mental health well-being is not just the mere absence of illness at work. It is about the healthy and prosperous functioning of teachers at work. Don’t we all want to have a positive relationship with others? Well-being is linked to a positive relationship between students, teachers, and families.
Teachers are the link to students. They support students emotionally, socially, and academically. Harriet is an expert at redirecting audiences to focus on their happiness and well-being.
Teachers are the emotional piggy bank for students. They can see more than 40 students a day. They can face secondary trauma and compassion fatigue. Their souls get weighed down.
Teachers’ self-esteem impacts the student learning process. What happens when the link or chain is too weak to link the students? Teachers also need help holding that stapler.
Harriet will show the audience how motivated individuals build their self-esteem and happiness well. She will focus on the qualitative study and approaches to motivation for teachers and their students and optimize their teaching performance.
Educators always leave inspired with a powerful reminder of why education is a vocation of choice.
FROM TRAGIC TO MAGIC
While attending university, Harriet befriended a fellow student having no idea that his attraction to her was a psychological trap disguised as the “love” that would later turn deadly. As she got to know him, he became abusive, full of anger to the point where she got a restraining order against him. Angered by that, he one day kidnapped her, stabbed her, and left her for dead. It was during her physiotherapy appointment that she had a turning point. She describes her life as coming from tragic to magic. Harriet will share:
  • The four stages of domestic violence 
  • Rebuilding self-worth and self-confidence
  • A call to action
Harriet gives hope to women facing domestic violence. Audiences will leave with hope and a feeling of a new beginning.
MENTAL HEALTH: INVISIBLE BUT REAL
Harriet always thought of herself as the relentless, rigid, and resilient type. Then she went through a series of challenges. There were moments Harriet had no joy in her life. She lost interest in doing things she enjoyed and didn’t know why. She will share her experiences and how she got through the ordeal. Audiences will leave feeling hopeful and knowing they are not alone.
MINDSET & RESILIENCY
When you fail, find your new normal. Failure is an event.
If friends, relationships, or a job have betrayed you, you know that you must move beyond those emotional events. How do you stay standing when you get a pink slip? Your whole world changes with that piece of paper.
The litmus test for success is how you treat failure. When we fail, we often say, “oh well, I guess it wasn’t meant to be,” or “there is always next year.” Failure is a vehicle to your success. Just keep driving, hit a few bumps, and eventually, you will find your way. Harriet will share ways to embrace failure and move forward.
PLATFORM PLUS PRESENTATIONS
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Story Ideas for Media

  1. How To Transform Your Mindset From Victim To Victor
  2. The Top Three Challenges People Face When Forgiving Those That Hurt Us
  3. Shifting Mindset And Embracing Change
  4. Why It’s So Hard To Choose Hope Over Hate
  5. Why Adversity Poisons Some And Strengthens Others
  6. How Our Youths Can Elevate Their Self-Esteem
  7. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Unconscious Bias
  8. How To Use Your Message To Connect With Your Audience (Public Speaking)
  9. Peak Performance And Self-Leadership
  10. Mental Health: Invisible But Real
  11. Spreading Happiness with positive leadership
In the News
Harriet Tinka at Global Morning News , “Is your voice bullying you”
Harriet Tinka at Global News, Expert on Mental Health “Invisible but Real”
Harriet Tinka, is seen at the woman show with audience of over 200 people. Title of speech “ Lessons I learnt the morning after my terrible ordeals” Living the Life you were meant to have.

CLIENTS

SCHOOLS |COLLEGES|UNIVERSITIES
COMMUNITIES|ORGANIZATIONS|GOVERNMENTS|BUSINESSES