Motivational Speaking

Shannon Peterson has spoke on many panels from High-School panels, STEM summer group panels, and panels at Ball Aerospace. She spoke on a panel at the 2022 American Indian Science and Engineering Society National Conference with other Indigenous Engineers. And recently she spoke in Richfield, UT to an entire high-school class for Indigenous students!

Topics that she is familiar with and can speak on are below. Please see Contact page to reach out!

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Speaking Topics:

  • Motivational Speaking for Students (All Grades)

    Do you know how powerful it is to be an Indigenous person?
    How much resilience runs through our veins by just being? Hear Shannon's
    motivational story of how she became a Lead Engineer building Satellites by
    harnessing the ancient knowledge of our ancestors. By enduring homelessness,
    reservation life, poverty, alcoholism, first-generation struggles, medical
    issues, and much more...Shannon has gained many insights and wisdom for those
    that are walking the path to greatness! Shannon Peterson is an Indigenous
    Motivational Speaker that shares her life on Social Media to her 40K+
    followers. She shares stories of what it is like to be an Indigenous woman
    within her career in Aerospace. Being a mom, working, and obtaining her
    master's degree at night. Balancing her life of giving back to the community
    and maintaining Hozho (balance/peace/beauty/harmony).

  • Navajo Nation Speaking Topics

    • What has growing up on the reservation taught me?
    • How do I leverage the lessons I have learned growing up on the reservation in my day-to-day career?
    • How has leaving the Navajo Nation impacted my life goals and dreams?
    • The struggles that I face as a Navajo woman in the Aerospace professional sector. And how I have overcome them.
    • My goals in giving back to my community and how I plan to leverage my degrees.

  • College Speaking Topics

    • How to prepare for your first job out of college.
    • What to expect in the Professional workspace as an Indigenous person.
    • The guide of giving back to your community while working a full-time job after college.
    • Do not know what you want to do for a career? That is OK! Sharing my journey on my path to finding myself and my career.

  • Leslie Ortiz-Cadwallader

    "Fantastic presenter. I had the privilege to see her at NIEA conference"

  • Fatima Saleck

    What an incredible young woman. I’m so grateful to have been in this speech. Thank you. “We are never alone, our ancestors are always with us.

  • Lydia Rodriguez

    "Great speaker to start the day with our students"
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