The Year of the Keynote!
Sandi Boucher is declaring 2026 her “Year of the Keynote”.
No time for a seminar or workshop?
No time to read a book or watch a bunch of videos!
Then YOU and your conference audience are THE PERFECT GROUP for one of Sandi’s powerful, impactful and perception-changing keynotes!
Stay tuned as each is released on this page!
The First ...
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words … can heal me.
Like new leaves on a tree thought dead, join Sandi as she shares 7 examples of words that healed her, allowing participants not only to embrace the words that healed them but to begin considering words they could share to help others.
*Includes an interactive activity
Here is a sneak preview of the valuable information contained in this, the first of Sandi’s 2026 keynotes …
Sandi uses conversational English, metaphors, and even cartoons to promote understanding.
A proud member of Seine River First Nation in Treaty #3 territory in northern Ontario, Sandi is internationally recognized as an engaging speaker, a traditional knowledge keeper, and a best-selling author. Her audiences include First Nation communities, corporations, small to medium size businesses, municipalities, hospitals, school boards, universities, colleges, and participants at countless conferences and seminars.
Her Keynotes and Training Sessions are memorable, informative, enjoyable AND most importantly, they make a difference!
Check out the testimonials from her thrilled audience members on the home page of this website.
How it all began
Sandi began life in a small sawmill town in northern Ontario. The daughter of a beautiful Anishnaabekwe (Ojibwe woman) and a proud French Canadian man, Sandi grew up in a house of two cultures, watching as both simultaneously respected and loved differences while building on similarities.
But it wasn’t long before Sandi realized the world did not operate as her home did. As a young girl of 4 or 5, she registered how her father was treated differently than her mother by strangers than knew nothing about them. The separator – her Mother’s beautiful brown skin.
Sandi would go on to enjoy academic and career success but personally she struggled against the effects of colonialism. In her own words (taken from the cover of her first best-selling book “Honorary Indian”) …
“I am a strong Ojibwe woman who is living proof of the strength and survival power of the human spirit. I lost the man who meant everything to me, my Father, at the tender age of 17. At 20, I lost my newborn daughter to SIDS. I lost one of my best friends to a brain aneurysm and recently, I said goodbye to my mentor and guide, my Mother.”
“I have spent more nights that I care to count in a shelter for abused women and know what it’s like to close your eyes and HONESTLY believe you will never see your children again. I know poverty, the type of poverty that has you boiling water to bathe and eating once every 3 days because there simply is no other option. I have sold furniture for food and I have debated whether this life was truly worth continuing.”
“But I also know the beauty of a child’s love and the serenity that can be found in knowing with all your heart that you are going to be just fine. I know the strength that can be found in counting your blessings and forgiving yourself. I know the strength of my belief system and the healing power of laughter and I know how simply amazing and wonderful this life can be, right now, not in some distant future for I live it every day.”
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