Kevin Freedman

Kevin Freedman (he/him) is a speaker, thought-leader, educator, and social entrepreneur who supports organizations across Canada with their leadership and governance. He is the founder and president of the Governance Guru, a boutique consulting firm that provides training, facilitation, and expert consulting services to non-profit organizations, cooperatives, and school boards. He has taught thousands of board members and executives from hundreds of organizations, has developed governance and leadership programming for MacEwan University, Volunteer Manitoba, and the Governance Professionals of Canada, and has helped hundreds of boards improve their policies, strategies, and processes.

A prolific board member, he has sat on more than a fifteen local and national boards, chairing six of them, and before launching his business, he spent several years in executive roles. Kevin has also been a member of the faculty with the Department of Business and Administration at the University of Winnipeg since 2015 as well as with the Redekop School of Business at Canadian Mennonite University where he teaches courses on governance, strategy, leadership, and business psychology.

An award winning leader and social innovator, Kevin has started and led numerous initiatives and  has been recognized for his community service and human rights work by the YMCA, the Mayor of Winnipeg, and the Governor General of Canada  He lives in Winnipeg with his family and is known for telling what has been called the most Canadian story ever, which was briefly featured on Saturday Night Live.