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Tania Katan

2020 Speaker

TANIA KATAN is the CEO of Creative Trespassing, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, and co-creator of the globally viral campaign #ItWasNeverADress; a social movement that has inspired over 60 million people to see, hear and celebrate women for the superheroes they are. Her visionary way of formulating ideas led to the groundbreaking bestseller, Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life (Penguin Random House, 2019), winner of the 2019: Best Business Book of the Year: Creativity & Innovation, Porchlight Books. As an inspirational speaker, Katan is highly sought after to teach people and companies of all stripes how to kick limiting beliefs to the curb and generate unlimited creative breakthroughs. Some of the organizations and major conferences impacted by her talks include: CiscoLive!, Expedia, Amazon, Google, Humana, Etsy, TED, American Express, Wonder Women Tech, World Domination Summit, Uber, Inbound, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Comedy Central Stage. Katan’s transformative work has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, HuffPost, Time, BuzzFeed, CNN, GLAMOUR, Adweek, Mashable, Forbes, Money Magazine, and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. She’s been a guest on the Good Life Project, Amy Jo Martin’s Why Not Now, and I Want Her Job. @theunrealtaniakatan (IG)