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!
In 2026, Sandi will begin delivering not one, not two but FIVE powerful and impactful keynotes, each targeting one of the industries she has supported for more than a decade.
What are those industries?
Industries ..
Colleges and Universities
The Indigenous population is the only population in Canada that is growing and the Indigenous population is YOUNG with most of our people under the age of 30. With restrictions on foreign students, colleges and universities began to become seriously concerned about their availability. They need bums in seats and Indigenous students need an education. But maintaining students or attracting them proved to be a challenge, so …
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Hospitals and Clinics
Indigenous lives are often impoverished lives and with poverty comes a wide variety of health challenges. But hospitals and clinics are challenged when servicing Indigenous patients. Appointments are not kept. Many patients are almost non-verbal. Frustration is high on both sides. Sandi provides not only understanding of the cultural differences that can make engagement challenging but solutions as well.
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Municipalities
Every community who has reached out to Sandi faced the same challenge – working with a nearby First Nation community. Some had a challenging history spanning decades. All wanted to improve their relationship with their neighbours even when colleagues didn’t understand the need. Sandi provides understanding and proven solutions that build lasting, respectful relationships for all while lifting the voices of those who need to be heard!
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SMEs
As a small business owner herself, Sandi Boucher is well aware of the challenges faced in this sector. Nevertheless, she continues to believe that real change in this country will begin and grow in the hands of small to medium-sized businesses.
Why? Because business owners determine the culture of their store or office. They decide how Indigenous customers and partners are treated and time and time again, they choose respect and engagement.
Why? Because their bottom line matters and serving ALL customers with dignity and respect ensures their viability. Sandi is passionate in her support of this sector, adding to their knowledge the nuances and understanding they need to succeed with Indigenous individuals and/or communities.
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First Nation Communities
Sandi Boucher is a proud member of Seine River First Nation in Treaty 3 territory in northern Ontario and she has walked the walk.
Sandi is a 10-year domestic abuse survivor. Sandi has sold furniture to feed her children. Sandi cannot count how many times alcohol has blown her family apart but she is also a proud, empowered, successful entrepreneur who has run her own business for nearly two decades.
Sandi knows the challenges and she knows her teachings. Further, she knows what oppression does to a family or community and more importantly, she knows how to overcome it (and the solutions are NOT dependent on what others do!).
For all those reasons, Sandi is on a mission to share her knowledge so that all Indigenous youth, adults, and elders can thrive too!
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Sandi uses conversational English, metaphors, and even cartoons to promote understanding. She offers KEY INFORMATION needed to build sustainable, profitable, respectful bridges and she does it in true Anishinaabe-style, giving her audiences a sneak peak at what it can mean to work hand-in-hand with Indigenous peoples.
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 in YOUR bottom line!
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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