Heather Hester

There are plenty of speakers who can talk about LGBTQ inclusion. There are clinicians, advocates, and activists who know the research and can cite the statistics. I am not that speaker. I am the parent who got the news and didn't know what to do next. Who loved fiercely and still got it wrong sometimes. Who did the hard, slow work of unlearning everything I thought I knew so I could show up fully for my child and for the families I now serve. That is what makes me different. I speak from the inside of the experience, not from above it. I reach the parents who are still figuring it out, the allies who are afraid of saying the wrong thing, and the organizations that want to do better but don't know where to start. I get into rooms that other speakers never reach, because I meet people exactly where they are without judgment, without an agenda, and without tidy answers. And I bring all of that to every stage. The lived experience. The years of research. The coaching wisdom. The storytelling. The willingness to tell the truth in a way that makes people feel seen rather than lectured. When you book me, your audience doesn't just leave inspired. They leave changed.