Helping you BUILD  inclusion and belonging.

ABOUT

Michèle Newton                      Speaker | Expert | Advocate

Michèle Newton is a renowned communicator turned speaker, advocate and educational consultant, driving inclusion and belonging. Building inclusion from a bi-racial perspective, Michèle’s bold, forward-thinking approach provides clients and audiences with a new lens on inclusion and diversity.

Spreading inspiration far beyond her local community, Michèle remains a social entrepreneur passionate about empowering equitable leadership and fostering dynamic conversations through her various social enterprises.    

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Guided by her “better together” philosophy, Michèle is focused on growing relationships, nurturing collaborations and facilitating partnerships, especially those with a shared focus on strengthening community. With the Black Lives Matter movement and heightened awareness of systemic racism impacting all sectors, ensuring communicators develop and hone the effectiveness of their cross-cultural communications couldn’t be more important. The intersection of Michèle's public, private and corporate sector communications background with her community-based diversity and inclusion work enables her to provide clients unique insights and leading expertise.

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As a community changemaker, Michèle created Our Mosaic Lives™  - a passion project exploring diversity and inclusion, launched Community Conversations – a live D&I interview series, and co-founded Making Change - a non-profit organization focused on awareness, education and exposure to Black people, Black culture and anti-Black racism; and contributes a monthly Diversity and Inclusion Opinion column to Simcoe.com.

Recognized for her advocacy, Michèle was honoured as one of 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women and as a Peace Champion by the YMCA of Simcoe Muskoka.