Kike Ojo-Thompson is an award-winning equity thought leader. She is renowned for her work and expertise as an anti-racism and anti-Black racism educator, speaker, and organizational change facilitator. As founder and principal consultant of equity consultancy, KOJO Institute, Ojo-Thompson has spent 20 years guiding public and private organizations across a broad range of sectors towards more equitable outcomes. Notable clients include Canada’s largest school board, the TDSB; the nation’s biggest grocery retailer, Loblaw Companies Limited; top 10 North American bank, TD Canada Trust.
In addition to her full-time leadership of KOJO Institute, Ojo-Thompson’s career has been defined by leading provincial and national scale organizational change to address anti-Black racism within Canadian institutions. Her achievements include spearheading a first-of-its-kind initiative to address anti-Black racism in the Canadian child welfare system; developing an anti-Black Racism Practice Framework for child welfare adopted by the Ontario Human Rights commission; facilitating the review that led to a formal ban of Ontario’s controversial and racist carding practice; and developing Atlanta, Georgia’s first Environmental Justice program.
Ojo-Thompson’s decades of experience have made her a go-to voice in conversations on equity, anti-Black racism, and anti-oppression. She has shared her expertise with national and international audiences via noteworthy media platforms such as Forbes, Maclean’s, The Globe & Mail, and the Toronto Star, celebrated institutions like the UK’s Oxford University, and revolutionary organizations like Giants of Africa. Ojo-Thompson’s meaningful contributions to equity in Canada and beyond have been recognized by 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women (2018); Women’s Health in Women’s Hands (2019); Robert Small’s 25th Anniversary Legacy Poster (2019), Women’s Executive Network (2022, Inclusion Vanguard).