Give your attendees an unforgettable journey of
song, story, and conversation.
Erica’s keynotes awaken our sense of place and belonging. She helps to recharge our hearts and enliven our commitments to enjoying and protecting the power of place. Erica customizes each keynote to highlight the location and sense of place where your event is held. Attendees leave with a deeper connection to themselves, each other, and the places that matter.
Transform Your Tourism Narratives
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
—- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Research on tourism shows that visitors today are seeking more unique, authentic, and meaningful experiences. Every place is worth the trip when you create sense of placemaking experiences that link your place to wider and deeper stories.
Get inspired to make wherever you are a journey worth taking. Create meaningful narratives and experiences which go way beyond the bucket list and illuminate the power of place.
Inspire Stewardship
“We cannot save what we do not love.” Stephen Jay Gould
Organizations that work for conservation, preservation and stewardship know the power of story. While facts and data can change minds, stories can change hearts.
To engage more people to act on behalf of places we can awaken caring and connection through helping them find their personal connections to places.
Erica’s keynote will awaken the stories you have inside you, which will keep you inspired even in hard times, as well as give you practical tools to inspire others to care.
Increase Well-Being and Belonging
Wherever you are, you can find stories and connections that foster deeper connections to yourself and your surroundings.
Uncover stories from your past and create stories about your present to feel a sense of well-being and belonging that is deeply needed in the world today.
““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.” ”
Prior Keynotes Include:
2014
National Association of State Park Directors Conference, Omaha, NE
National Association of State Park Volunteer Coordinators, Lawrence, KS
Social Venture Network, Greenwich, CT (Keynote concert)
2013
TEDx, Shelburne Falls, MA (2013)
2011
Partners in the Parks Celebration, Howard County Parks and Recreation, Belmont, MD
Maryland Land Trust Alliance Conservation Conference, Towson, MD (Keynote & seminar)
American Horticultural Society Youth and Garden Symposium
Arkansas State Parks Spring Training
Idaho State Parks and Recreation Conference
Montana State Parks and Recreation Conference
2024
New Mexico Council on Aging Conference
2019
Arkansas Governor's Conference on Tourism
New Mexico Governor's Conference on Tourism
2018
Association of National Park Rangers Rendezvous
National Association for Interpretation Region 2
2017
Wisconsin Governor's Conference on Tourism
Festival of the Cranes, Wheeler Wildlife Refuge
2016
BioBliz, National Geographic, National Mall, Washington, DC
NPS Centennial Founders Day, National Mall, Washington, DC
Parks Ontario Spring Training, Canada
Take home the lessons of Erica’s keynote.
Breakout Sessions
Find and share sense of place stories. This hands-on session gives participants a process to follow to generate ideas for stories, tours programs and more. Get a framework to dive into your deeper stories.
““We invited Erica out for a week to help celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Big Sur Land Trust with a variety of events. Her positive impact reverberated throughout our community and continues to this day. Erica’s ability to connect people and place beautifully aligned with our mission to strengthen communities and inspire stewardship”
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BIO
Erica is a visitor experience specialist, speaker, educator and award-winning songwriter based in western Massachusetts.
She has keynoted at events from the Wisconsin Governor’s Conference on Tourism to the National Association of State Park Directors Conference.
Over the past decade she has worked extensively with the National Park Service, providing her signature interpretive skills training at over 45 NPS sites, from Yosemite National Park to Independence Hall.
Erica has also worked with other cultural and natural heritage sites across the country, including state parks and museums.
Additionally she has six CD’s to her credit. Her music has charted in the top ten on Billboard’s Gavin Americana chart. Her most recent CD “Good Summer Rain” was sponsored in part by the Trust for Public Land.
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