Media + booking kit

A speaker package built to hold the whole room.

Use this extended kit to brief your planning team, explore program fit, and begin a clear, well-contextualized booking conversation with Chanda Santana.

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Chanda Santana smiling in a green and pink jacket — TEDxUGA Speaker · 2025 · Athens Church speaker

Speaker positioning

Joy-led. Grounded. Built for real rooms.

Point of view

Joy is a resource for relationship, agency, imagination, and shared purpose—especially where people are carrying a lot.

Executive bio

Chanda Santana brings a joy-led perspective to the places where people are being asked to carry a great deal: workplaces, campuses, community spaces, faith communities, and mission-driven gatherings. Her approach makes room for the seriousness of the work without treating depletion, disconnection, or forced positivity as inevitable.

Across two decades of joy-centered leadership, community impact, and stage experience, Chanda has developed a clear invitation: joy can be a resource for relationship, agency, imagination, and shared purpose. Her sessions are thoughtful rather than generic, participatory in spirit, and shaped to respect the people and context in the room.

Her speaking credentials include TEDxUGA in 2025 and a speaking engagement at Athens Church. Chanda works with organizers to create a useful moment—not simply a memorable one—so people can leave with language, reflection, and a clearer way to move forward together.

Signature topics

The big idea, paced for the room.

This is a framework, not a canned program. Chanda’s team works with organizers to shape a useful moment around the people and purpose in front of them.

Thoughtful, participatory, and shaped to respect the people in the room.

01 · Signature topic

Joy as a resource

A grounded reframing of joy as a leadership and sustainability practice—not forced fun or a bypass around difficult realities. Audiences leave with a language for making room for restoration, agency, and possibility while honoring the work in front of them.

02 · Signature topic

Belonging and care

An invitation to strengthen the relationships that hold meaningful work. Audiences reflect on what helps people feel seen, connected, and able to contribute to a shared purpose.

03 · Signature topic

Courageous leadership

A practical reflection for leaders and communities navigating the weight of responsibility. Audiences leave with a more humane frame for leading with honesty, care, and courage.

Selected speaking experience

Built for rooms where people and purpose meet.

The verified speaking credentials represented in this kit are intentionally specific. Testimonials are available on request.

Chanda Santana at TEDxUGA — 2025
TEDxUGA Speaker

Chanda Santana speaking at Athens Church — Community + faith
Athens Church

Audience + use cases

Designed around the people in the room.

HR and people leaders building more human, sustainable workplace culture.
Conference producers seeking a thoughtful opening, keynote, or closing voice.
Universities and student communities making room for reflection, belonging, and leadership.
Women’s organizations and foundations convening people around care, courage, and collective purpose.
Faith and community gatherings that value a grounded, relational approach.

Useful for

Leadership retreats, staff gatherings, and culture-building moments.
Conferences, summits, and convenings that need more than a generic motivational talk.
Campus programs and university events focused on belonging, purpose, or leadership.
Women’s gatherings, foundation events, and community conversations.
Faith-community gatherings and moments of reflection.

Audience outcomes

What participants can carry forward.

A shared place to begin, reflect, and reconnect.

A joy-led frame for dignity, belonging, care, and sustainable leadership.

Language participants can use to name what their people are carrying and what care can make possible.

A more human way to think about courage, connection, and shared purpose.

Formats + booking process

Begin with your people, purpose, and moment.

01 · 10–15 minutes

Spark

A catalytic opening or closing moment that centers the room, names the stakes, and gives people a shared place to begin or return.

02 · 15–30 minutes

Featured Talk

A focused talk with room for a fuller idea, reflection, and concrete language that can travel with participants after the gathering.

03 · 45–55 minutes

Keynote

A deeper signature experience shaped around the spirit, purpose, and people of the event, with room to build connection and meaningful takeaways.