Keynote speaker & workshop facilitator

For the conversations your organisation cannot afford to get wrong.

Ratu Nida Farihah helps leaders turn silence into signal, policy into felt safety, and complex human experiences into meaningful change.

Portrait of Ratu Nida in a purple jacket

Recent Speaking & Sector Work

Stories that hold complexity, safety and belonging.

Ratu's keynotes sit at the intersection of psychosocial safety, belonging, coercive control, lived expertise, multicultural identity and trauma-informed leadership — bringing the rare combination of lived experience, strategic clarity and humanity that helps people not only understand differently, but lead differently

Ratu Nida speaking on a panel at The Hatchery Ending Coercive Control and Domestic Violence Conference.
Panel speaker The Hatchery

The Hatchery — Ending Coercive Control & Domestic Violence Conference

Speaking on trauma-informed engagement and centring lived expertise in domestic, family and sexual violence work.

Ratu Nida speaking on stage with another panellist during a leadership and impact event.
Speaker / panel contributor Global Impact Summit

Global Impact Summit

Sharing the intersection of story, belonging, social impact and trauma-informed leadership.

Ratu Nida presenting Women’s Lantern to an audience at the UNSW Female Founders Showcase.
Founder showcase speaker UNSW

UNSW — Social Impact Innovation

Presenting Women’s Lantern and sharing how social innovation can build safer, more connected pathways for women and communities.

Ratu Nida with fellow speakers at The Hatchery Ending Coercive Control and Domestic Violence Conference, holding Homecoming.
Speaker & author

The Hatchery — Sector Conversations

Bringing Homecoming into rooms doing the hard and hopeful work of ending violence and building safer systems.

Spoken at and invited into rooms with

Ratu has spoken and built work across spaces exploring psychosocial safety, coercive control, domestic, family and sexual violence, lived expertise, multicultural leadership and social impact.

The Hatchery
Global Impact Summit
StartSomeGood
Australian Catholic University
UNSW
City of Parramatta

Speaking & workshops

Keynotes and workshops that bring language to what people feel, and structure to what organisations need to change.

Ratu Nida in conversation on stage at the Homecoming book launch
Author conversation and literary events
Audience seated with candlelight during the Homecoming book launch
Collective reflection shaped by Ratu's conversation
Ratu Nida facilitating a Women's Lantern session with an audience
Community education
Domestic and family violence remembrance event with audience candlelight
Belonging, reflection and collective action

Lived Experience

  • DFSV survivor & advocate
  • Migration & multicultural identity
  • Author of Homecoming

Professional Authority

  • A decade of experience in healthcare and product marketing
  • Trauma-Informed Leadership
  • Behaviour change and wellbeing

Room Impact

Audiences leave with better language for human complexity, clearer insight into systems and a stronger sense of what ethical action can look like.

Speaking response

For rooms that need more than inspiration.

“She made complex trauma-informed ideas feel practical, safe and deeply relevant to the room.”
Workshop participant
“Ratu brings clarity, courage and humanity to conversations organisations often struggle to hold.”
Event organiser
“A rare blend of strategy, lived experience and language that stays with people.”
Leadership audience member

Speaking FAQ

Questions event organisers often ask.

What topics do you speak on?

Ratu speaks on belonging and identity, trauma-informed leadership, psychosocial safety, migration and multicultural communities, storytelling for social impact, domestic and family violence, healing, visibility and voice.

Do you offer workshops as well as keynotes?

Yes. Ratu offers keynotes, panels, workshops and facilitated conversations for conferences, universities, leadership rooms, social impact organisations and community spaces.

Are your talks suitable for corporate teams?

Yes, especially teams working across leadership, health and wellbeing, inclusion, psychosocial safety, social impact, communication and culture change.

Do you speak about domestic, family and sexual violence?

Yes. Ratu brings a lived-expertise lens to domestic, family and sexual violence conversations, grounded in trauma-informed and culturally aware engagement. Her speaking does not replace clinical, legal or policy advice.

How do I enquire?

Use the speaking enquiry pathway on the contact page and include your audience, event date, location and the outcome you want people to leave with.

Speaker enquiry

Invite Ratu to bring trauma-informed depth, strategic clarity and human language into your room.

From sector conferences to leadership rooms, Ratu brings trauma-informed storytelling, lived expertise and strategic clarity to conversations that ask us to build belonging without bypassing harm.

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