Initiated by Change: A Practical Playbook for High-Stakes Transitions

Session Summary: Change rarely waits until you feel ready. This session is about what to do with your body — and your story — when it arrives anyway.

Erika Latta, MBA, spent 25 years in male-dominated industries doing what a lot of us do: winning by every measure the industry uses, and quietly exhausted by the performance of it. This talk is the practical version of what it took to get out of that pattern. Real strategy, paired with nervous system tools that work in a conference room, not just on a yoga mat. The goal isn't to help you manage change. It's to help you initiate it.

Key themes:

  • The four moves:

    • Reveal — see what's actually true.

    • Interrupt — stop doing the thing that isn't working. 

    • Repattern — build from who you're becoming. 

    • Regulate — so it lasts.

  • Why change lands differently for women in our industry, and which myths keep us loyal to the old story.

  • What's actually happening in your nervous system when everything shifts — and why willpower is the wrong lever.

  • Regulation in forty-five seconds: a practice you can run before your next hard conversation.

  • One thing to do the next morning, plus a Reset Playbook to take home.

Erika Latta, MBA

Erika Latta is the founder of Inner Edge: The Whole Human, where she works with high-performing women in male-dominated industries who are ready to stop leading from survival mode and start leading from strength. After 25+ years in the chemical industry—serving aerospace, mining, and pulp and paper sectors from Account Manager to Key Account Executive on a global scale—Erika knows exactly what it costs to succeed in these environments. Her background includes the US Air Force, an MBA, and hard-earned lessons about what happens when external competence isn't matched by internal capacity. She created The Inner Edge Method™ to address what traditional leadership development misses: the nervous system regulation that allows women executives to navigate high-stakes transitions without burning out or people-pleasing their way through. Whether you're a rising leader or seasoned executive in chemicals, mining, tech, or operations, Erika helps women who are done performing and ready to lead with regulated authority. Based in Vancouver, she's also a Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitator who believes the best leadership infrastructure is built from the inside out.