Carissa Halton
Keynote Speaker | Edmonton, Alberta
Strategic Advisor
Leadership Coach | Facilitator | Writer
Carissa Halton Expertise Business & Corporate, Business Growth, Customer Service & Experience, Business Management, Alliances & Partnerships, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Humour in the Workplace and Influence & Negotiation.
About Carissa Halton
Carissa Halton is an award-winning writer, speaker, and facilitator who helps organizations and communities collaborate, find focus and build hope. Carissa Halton's non-fiction and fiction writing has appeared in many publications and anthologies. She is a consultant to many non-profit leaders, as well as a sought-after facilitator for strategic planning and communications plans that support organizations to move forward together. She brings insight and energy to every stage, exploring themes of leadership, consensus-building, strategic planning, communications, and more. Whether you need a keynote, workshop or moderator, Carissa’s engaging stories, sharp analysis, and practical takeaways captures audiences. Every keynote and workshop is customized to meet the goals of the event and needs of the audience.
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CARISSA HALTON BIOGRAPHY
Carissa Halto is a strategic advisor, facilitator, writer, and leadership coach. She helps leaders and teams focus, collaborate, and move from talk to action. Her consulting clients are looking for effective meetings, energizing retreats and conferences, as well as meaningful professional development and leadership support.
Her workshops and keynotes are a culmination of over the past two decades of leadership in non-profit organizations and government teams. Carissa has built and led incredible teams, advised political leaders, and consulted on communications and public relations campaigns. As Managing Director of The Mustard Seed Edmonton, she worked at the intersection of service, advocacy, and community-building. As an advisor to Alberta’s Premier and Minister of Seniors and Housing, she helped frame policy and funding priorities, while crafting and advising on a breadth of communications. Trained in IAP2 public engagement, facilitation through ICA Associates, and mediation with Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution, she runs her own consulting company called Halton Strategic.
An award-winning writer, Carissa is the author of Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood (a finalist for the 2019 Edmonton Book Prize). Her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She has won both National and Alberta Magazine Awards. Translating her writing to the stage, her keynotes and workshops make audiences laugh, connect, think and leave with more compassion and curiosity.
Carissa Halton Topic Presentations
Carissa Halton Edmonton, Alberta, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
Tried and True Writer Hacks for Better Business Writing
Building Bridges in a Polarized World
The Power of Storytelling in Leadership
The Real Value of Strategic Planning — Process Beats the Pdf
Beyond Agreement: Facilitating Meaningful Consensus
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