A voice that bridges boardrooms and communities.
Jackee Kasandy brings twenty-five years of corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, and systemic advocacy to the stage. Her sessions are direct, evidence-based, and designed to move rooms — not just inspire them.
Substance, not just presence.
Jackee Kasandy is not a motivational speaker. She is a practitioner — someone who has built a business, founded a national non-profit, trained over 3,000 entrepreneurs, sat on government boards, and worked inside the systems she talks about. When she speaks about procurement, supplier diversity, or leadership, she is drawing from years of direct experience — not research summaries.
Her speaking style is direct, structured, and engaging. She moves fluidly between lived experience and systems thinking, between policy and practicality. Audiences consistently describe her sessions as "the most honest room they've been in" — because she says the things that usually get softened.
She has spoken at government briefings, national entrepreneur conferences, corporate leadership sessions, trade events, and university programs. She adapts her content for the room — but the standard stays the same.
Speaking Stats
3,000+
Entrepreneurs trained through live programs
National
Programs delivered coast-to-coast across Canada
Multi-sector
Government, corporate, non-profit, and entrepreneur audiences
Six Signature Sessions
All topics are adapted to context and audience. Custom sessions available for organisations with specific program needs.
01
The Procurement Opportunity Nobody Talks About
Ideal for
Government agencies, corporate procurement teams
Canada spends over $200 billion annually on government contracts — and most of it goes to the same suppliers. This keynote breaks open the system: who holds the contracts, what buyers are actually looking for, and how underrepresented suppliers can compete for and win public sector business. No jargon. No feel-good framing. Just the system, mapped.
02
Supplier Diversity as Economic Strategy
Ideal for
Corporations, C-suite
Supplier diversity is not charity. It is one of the most underpowered economic growth strategies available to Canadian corporations — and most executives still treat it as a compliance issue. This session builds the business case from first principles: what happens to margins, talent, and innovation when you diversify your supply chain intentionally.
03
From Founder to Procurement-Ready — What They Don't Teach You
Ideal for
Entrepreneur conferences
The gap between running a great business and winning a government contract is not about quality. It's about knowing the language, the systems, and the unwritten rules. After training over 3,000 entrepreneurs, Jackee breaks down exactly what founders get wrong — and what a procurement-ready business actually looks like.
04
Building for Belonging — Equity-Centred Leadership in Practice
Ideal for
Non-profit leaders, HR teams
Equity-centred leadership isn't a values statement — it's a decision-making framework. This session examines what belonging looks like when it's built into hiring, policy, and program design rather than bolted on after the fact. Practical, uncomfortable, and necessary.
05
The Global Opportunity — African Businesses and the Canadian Market
Ideal for
Trade conferences, diaspora networks
Canada is one of the most transparent and accessible procurement markets in the world — if you know how to enter it. This session is a direct briefing for African entrepreneurs and diaspora founders on what Canadian buyers look for, what disqualifies applicants early, and how to build credibility in a new market.
06
The Non-Profit Trap — Why Good Missions Fail and How to Break the Cycle
Ideal for
Non-profit conferences
Passion is not a business model. Too many non-profits are one funding cycle away from collapse — not because they lack impact, but because they've built their organisations on dependency rather than sustainability. This session diagnoses the structural patterns that keep mission-driven organisations stuck and maps the way out.
Available Formats
Keynote
45–60 min
Panel
Moderator or panellist
Workshop / Masterclass
2–4 hr
Corporate Lunch & Learn
60–90 min
Conference Breakout
45–60 min
University / Academic Lecture
60–90 min
Emcee / Host
Half or full day
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