Oriana Sparks is a corporate mindfulness expert who teaches teams and leaders how to turn stillness into a competitive advantage. With more than twenty years immersed in meditation, yoga, breathwork, and mind–body practices — and a decade working inside high-pressure corporate environments — Oriana understands stress from both sides of the boardroom table.
Before founding **Oriana Sparks Joy**, she spent ten years in corporate communications at top Canadian law firms, where urgency was the norm and burnout was a badge of honour. It was there, in the middle of deadlines, client demands, and the relentless pace of performance culture, that she discovered her life’s work: helping people regulate their nervous systems so they can reclaim their clarity, creativity, and resilience.
Today, Oriana is a sought-after speaker known for her warm, grounded presence, data-driven insights, and deeply human storytelling. Her signature talks — including **Calm at Scale**, **Stillness as Rebellion**, and **The Attentional Infrastructure of High-Performing Teams** — blend neuroscience, psychology, lived experience, and accessible mindfulness tools that audiences can use immediately.
Her approach is simple but revolutionary:
**Stress isn’t the enemy, dysregulation is. When people learn how to come back to themselves, everything changes.**
Oriana’s work has touched corporate teams, educators, athletes, and leadership groups across Canada. She specializes in supporting ambitious, high-performing professionals who want sustainable success without sacrificing their well-being.
Event organizers book Oriana because she delivers:
* **Transformational storytelling** that moves audiences emotionally and leaves them with practical tools.
* **Science-backed strategies** for improving focus, communication, and resilience.
* **A signature presence** that feels calm, confident, relatable, and real.
* **A premium experience** tailored to the transformation each event wants to create.
Whether on a main stage or in an intimate workshop, Oriana’s message lands:
**Stillness isn’t the pause from life — it’s the power source for it.**
She is based in Toronto and speaks for corporations, conferences, schools, and organizations seeking to build regulated, connected, high-performing cultures.
