Chef LaToya Larkin

Chef/Culinary Educator

Retired Public School Teacher at 40 aka the Bandemic Grinder Chef LaToya Larkin is a transformational impactful speaker, life visionary strategist, and internationally award-winning chef. She empowers women to live limitless lives, celebrate confidence, and inspire the youth to discover true self-worth. But once you are in her presence, it doesn’t take long to realize that she is a woman of impact and knows no bounds. She is a divah. She is rholentless. An unleasher. A ceiling shatterer who proves that when powered by passion, focus, and drive, women are unstoppable.
Known for her intelligence, effortless sophistication, style, and grace, Chef Larkin is a woman who instantly shifts every space she steps into. In her highly successful restaurant and education career, what she found she loved most was introducing people, particularly women, to upgrade mindsets and empowering them to develop into someone beyond their wildest dreams.
As beautiful as she is brilliant, Chef Larkin is the creative genius and fusion mastermind behind some of the most remarkable dishes, business ideas, and a game changing culinary educator in the country. With a revolutionary approach to thinking outside of the box, strategic planning, and impactful reach, she has empowered and inspired many of her students to believe in themselves to create profitable businesses they are passionate about. Her career roster already reads Wall Street Journal, USA Today, 10X Amazon Best Selling Author; James Beard Legacy Mentor Chef; First African American Female Chef in Spring ISD; Brainz 500 Senior Executive Contributor; Tap-In Top 20 Women to Follow in Business, the recipient of 17 prestigious awards, and internationally known. If you give her a notepad and a pen, Chef LaToya will erect a visionary strategy, to guide you from message to movement and push you into a plethora of opportunities overflowing with revenue, impact and power. You don’t come to Chef Larkin for your business ideas; you come for your legacy. You don’t come for your single hustle right-now-money-you come for your multiple brand concepts to build a forever lasting empire.
Born to change the game, Chef LaToya Larkin is the Creative Culinary Genius and Visionary you find when you know it’s time to step up your food game and try something different outside of the proverbial box. A visionary whose name will be spoken alongside the most celebrated food innovators of her time, Chef LaToya has an imagination and a pulse on innovation that keeps her paces ahead of every industry she’s worked. With her incomparable formula of business strategy, unquenchable creativity and food-savviness, Chef Larkin is a force that is impossible to reckon with.