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Keynote Speaking

Do you need to motivate your team/employees, your members, your community, your agency, or just would like a keynote speaker at a particular event? 

Michelle Buckland as Keynote Speaker at Ministry of Transportation for United Way Campaign

Closed Caption: 2014 United Way Campaign – Keynote Speaking at Ministry of Transportation

As an award-winning Motivational Speaker, past speaking engagements have been commented as inspiring, engaging, heartfelt, educational, and informative.  Michelle’s storytelling, personal living experience, and presentations help break down corporate barriers, build awareness, change mindsets and unconscious biases, and make a difference in the community for people who identify themselves of living with a disability – both visible and invisible ones.

Past clients range from banks, law offices, community organizations, a consulting/advisory firm, an insurance company, a manufacturing firm, non-profit organizations, high schools, post-secondary education, government ministries to fundraising events.  Michelle has shared keynotes to audiences of 250+ attendees as a member of the United Way Speakers’ Bureau for 5 years, virtually via social media platforms including 1000+ participants, via online summits, at health forums, local career development conferences and in the United States, and within the disability community.

Over the last number of years, Michelle has become nationally-known as an expert in accessibility and inclusion for people who identify themselves of living with a disability.  She virtually co-presented an on-demand session named Accessible Transition: From the Classroom to the Boardroom at the CANNEXUS21 Virtual Conference: 6th Annual Canada’s Career Development Conference.  Also, she has been selected to present at the Durham Disability Employment Awareness Conference, Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators 6th Annual Conference: Empowering Educational Excellence Through Equity, and the Transition and College Center of the New York Department of Education, Division of Specialized Instruction and Student Supports

“One of my passions is to spread accessibility knowledge and benefits to support individuals with disabilities in an empowering, motivating and sustainable way.”

Be Inspired

They can be presented as a 45 to 60-minute presentation, at an event or conference, and/or a 1-hour breakout session.

The speeches, keynotes and thought-provoking presentations are catered to a variety of purposes and to your needs.

  1. Building an Accessible Culture
  2. Build Awareness and Motivate Companies of Hiring People
    with Disabilities
  3. Breaking the Stigma of People with Disabilities
  4. Personal and Professional Development:
    • Help Students Explore Their Potential and Make Dreams a Reality
    • Career Development
  5. Community Support:
    • Individuals Diagnosed with a Disability
    • Hospitals
    • Rehabilitation Centres
    • Disability Agencies
  6. Be an Ambassador

While being a voice to the “voiceless”, we always aim to raise awareness of accessibility and inclusion as a significant step to combat stigma, instill accommodation as a common place, and encourage companies to be allies.

Through powerful personal stories and professional insights, our keynotes challenge perceptions, build empathy, and inspire lasting transformation.  Inspiring change. One story at a time.

Motivational Speaking Flyer

**To be acccommodating, services are provided both in-person and virtual.

What Our Clients Are Saying

It was an honour to have you with us and your talks were both heartfelt and informative. You could hear a pin drop in the room when you spoke, a true testament to your important messages and wonderful delivery.

— Rhonda Gribbon, Transportation Event Planner, Ministry of Transportation

Let's Spark the Shift—From Awareness to Action

We bring authenticity and expertise to every stage—bridging the gap between disability awareness, inclusive practice, and transformational insight.

Thought-provoking. Real Stories. Lasting Impact.

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