Domanique Grant
Domanique Grant is a globally recognized storyteller, keynote speaker, and award-winning artist whose work sits at the intersection of creativity, mental health, and inclusive innovation. As a Cultural Architect of Creativity, Wellness & Social Change, she designs transformative experiences that empower individuals and organizations to unlock their fullest potential. Named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network and the recipient of the Black Canadian Humanitarian Award, Domanique brings together visionary thinking, lived experience, and a commitment to real-world impact.
Holding a double honours degree in International Development and Theatre, Domanique’s academic foundation uniquely informs her approach to leadership and storytelling. At just 20 years old, she completed immersive fieldwork in Uganda with Shanti Uganda, a maternal and child health NGO in the Luwero region. There, she used music and creative arts programming to support maternal health education and youth empowerment, developing a deep understanding of intersectionality, equity, and community-led change. These early experiences continue to shape her global perspective and her commitment to inclusion in every keynote she delivers.
Speaking topics
- The Power Within: Transforming Adversity into Innovation
In this powerful and deeply personal keynote, Domanique Grant shares her journey from being labeled learning-disabled at age six to becoming a global speaker, creative entrepreneur, and founder of one of Canada’s leading wellness summits. Through stories rooted in resilience, creativity, and lived experience, she reveals how traits once seen as limitations—such as neurodivergence, non-linear thinking, and emotional depth—can become superpowers in leadership and innovation.
Drawing from neuroscience, inclusive leadership frameworks, and her own work with creatives, changemakers, and executives, Domanique guides audiences to shift their mindset from “fixing” what makes them different to amplifying it. Her storytelling invites leaders, educators, and teams to explore how embracing diverse ways of thinking can unlock bold new solutions, improve mental wellness, and cultivate inclusive cultures of excellence.
Audience Takeaways:
- Reframe perceived limitations into leadership strengths using neuroscience-backed strategies and mindset shifts.
- Understand the value of neurodiversity and lived experience in driving innovation, empathy, and resilience in organizations.
- Gain practical tools to build inclusive and psychologically safe cultures that allow every team member to thrive.
- Learn how to transform past adversity into a source of creative power and authentic leadership.
- Discover how to tap into one’s creative intelligence to navigate uncertainty and unlock untapped potential.
- Born Tired: Rewriting the Narrative on Neurodiversity, Burnout & Resilient Leadership
What if exhaustion wasn’t a weakness, but a signal? In Born Tired, Domanique Grant delivers a transformative keynote that challenges outdated narratives around burnout, neurodiversity, and productivity—and offers a new framework for sustainable leadership rooted in creativity, mindfulness, and authenticity.
Domanique shares her personal journey from being labeled learning-disabled at the age of six to becoming a globally recognized artist, keynote speaker, and founder of The Imagine Summit—one of Canada’s leading mental health and creativity conferences. Along the way, she reveals how being “born tired” in a world designed for sameness became the catalyst for her greatest strengths: emotional intelligence, divergent thinking, and vision-driven leadership.
Drawing on neuroscience, inclusive leadership research, and the mindfulness-based methodology behind her Creative Visioning framework, Domanique empowers audiences to stop masking their differences and instead rewire how they approach work, wellness, and leadership. She introduces actionable practices that unlock breakthrough thinking in just 24 hours, offering tools to navigate bias-conscious environments and restore balance in high-performance spaces.
Blending storytelling, live performance, and science-backed insight, Born Tired is a powerful call to redefine what resilience, creativity, and leadership look like in the modern world—especially for those who have never quite fit in.
Audience Takeaways:
- Reframe neurodiversity, emotional sensitivity, and burnout as strategic leadership strengths, not personal flaws.
- Learn Domanique’s Creative Visioning framework—a mindfulness-based tool that can spark innovation and clarity within 24 hours.
- Identify hidden sources of burnout and gain strategies to balance performance with mental wellness and creativity.
- Understand how to build bias-conscious and neuro-inclusive environments that unlock team potential.
- Leave with science-backed tools to help you lead with authenticity, empathy, and purpose—especially in systems not originally built for you.
- Diversity & Inclusion - A New Lens
One of Domanique’s most impactful lessons in diversity training was when she first arrived in Uganda on a University Visa at the age of 20. She quickly realized that most of what she learned in Canada about being a black woman and navigating privilege, would be challenged by the realities of East African systems, that would put her in a position of socio-economic privilege, given her Canadian passport.
In this presentation, Domanique discusses the limitations of using a singular equity and diversity lens in our organizations and communities to discuss privilege. She discusses how understanding privilege, intersectionality, and compassion in new ways may be at the core of creating long-term impact in our workplaces, communities and homes.