Keynotes That Reconnect Us

Recharge Your Connection to What Matters

Through masterful storytelling, evocative songs, heartfelt reflection, and skillful conversation facilitation, a keynote with Erica Wheeler will reconnect you with yourself, your work, and your purpose.

Through song, story, and conversation, she offers a uplifting and inspirational journey, grounded in the power of place she offers a vision of the places where you live, work and play that will help you:

✓See the familiar through new eyes
✓Deepen your appreciation for what you have
✓Inspire narratives that connect people and places
✓Increase your sense of well-being, place, and belonging

Whether you’re gathering to re-imagine tourism, deepen stewardship, strengthen communities, or simply recharge and reconnect, Erica’s message meets the moment.

Customized to Resonate.

  • For Tourism: A powerful way to deepen visitor engagement, spark sustainable growth, and bring your region’s true story to life.

  • For Conservation, Parks, and Natural Areas: A call to care that is rooted in personal connection—because people protect what they feel a part of.

  • For Museums and Heritage Organizations: A bridge between artifacts and the present moment—a way to make history human, emotional, and real.

  • For Wellness and Belonging: A reawakening of memories and stories rooted in the power of place as tools for resilience, vitality, and belonging.

Experience a keynote that blends song, story, and conversation into a meaningful journey of discovery.

Leave with ideas, inspiration and a clear direction forward. Gain practical tools you can use in your life, your work, and your community right away.

ATTENDEES GAIN:

  • A fresh, creative lens on stories, places, and challenges, and a way to see the familiar with new eyes.

  • Tools and ideas to deepen connections between people and place.

  • A powerful way to ground in the deeper why for the work you do.

  • A soulful invitation to reconnect with values, purpose, and belonging.

When you work with Erica you’ll get more than another speaker. You’ll get a collaborative partner committed to making the meaning behind your work known.

Erica customizes her content to enrich your event's sense of place and provide an experience that is meaningful, memorable, and mission-aligned.

Elevate Tourism

Inspiration and tools to create narratives that harness the power of place, helping you fully engage visitors and drive sustainable growth.

  • Bring the unique character of your destination to life.

  • Tap into the demand for authentic and unique travel experiences.

  • Boost tourism by designing offerings that provide a personal journey of meaning-making and connection.

Inspire Caring and Belonging

Spark caring, connection, and action for natural and cultural heritage sites to inspire appreciation and engage in conservation,planning and preservation

  • Strengthen site engagement for visitors and communities

  • Create meaningful personal and collective connections

  • Gain a renewed sense of purpose

Increase Wellbeing

Uncover personal stories of place and belonging and see the familiar through new eyes

  • Be inspired to find your “place medicine” narratives

  • Recharge and realign with what matters

  • Bring Erica to your site to train your staff, join an online training or seminar.

"You are missing out if you aren't trying to book Erica for your upcoming workshop or training event. Her work with the ‘sense of place’ concept through her Soulful Landscape workshop provides excellent hands-on exercises in an area that is so often perceived as intangible, while her keynote was just the dose of inspiration we needed.”

— Chief of Interpretation, Arkansas State Parks and Tourism

Why Work with Erica?

Erica Wheeler is a TEDx speaker, visitor experience specialist, and creative mentor with decades of experience performing and evoking stories and connections between people and places.

Known for her warmth, humor, songs and stories, and her ability to customize her programs and bring your sense of place and mission to life, Erica is a powerful, uplifting, and transformative keynote presenter.

Her background includes her work as an award-winning songwriter and touring artist, expertise in sense of place narratives and the creative process to help you craft stories for yourself your work professional work, Her experience keynoting includes presenting at Governor’s Conferences on Tourism to many national conferences and events. Her experience facilitating includes decades of workshops and seminars and offering her training to the interpretive rangers and guides for the National Park Service (45 sites to date) and other sites across the country.

Prior Keynotes Include :

American Horticultural Society Youth and Garden Symposium
Arkansas Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Arkansas State Parks Spring Training
Association of National Park Rangers Rendezvous (ANPR)
BioBliz, National Geographic, National Mall
Festival of the Cranes, Wheeler Wildlife Refuge
Idaho State Parks and Recreation Conference
Partners in the Parks Celebration, Howard County Parks and Recreation
Maryland Land Trust Alliance
Montana State Parks and Recreation Conference
National Association for Interpretation Annual Workshop (NAI)
National Association for Interpretation Region 2
National Association of State Park Directors Conference (NASPD)
National Association of State Park Volunteer Coordinators
National Park Service Founders Day, National Mall
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
New Mexico Governor’s Conference on Tourism
New Mexico Council on Aging Conference
Parks Ontario Spring Training
Social Venture Network Conference
TEDx, Shelburne Falls
Wisconsin Governor's Conference on Tourism

Let’s Work Together

We can schedule a call to learn more about each other, discuss your priorities, and explore what might be the best fit for your keynote needs. Reach out and we can find a good time to set up a call or Zoom.