Senior engagement and communications strategist, professional vintage dancer, best-selling author and award-winning speaker, Kristin Light has split her eclectic career between the boardroom and the ballroom.
Today, Kristin is channelling her extensive lived experience to drive change from within Canada’s corporate world – specializing in employee engagement and accessibility for the ONxpress transportation venture, where she is currently executing a federal grant (received through the Canadian Association for Supported Employment’s Innovation Lab program) to build a neuroinclusion and suicide prevention program for Canada’s rail construction industry.
Kristin is certified in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills), a trained Mental Health First Aider, and an engaging and innovative facilitator of the LEGO Serious Play methodology.
As a vivacious showgirl and co-founder of multiple successful companies, she was perhaps the last person you’d expect to be dealing with multiple mental health and neurodivergent challenges. But following a brush with suicide that left her confined to a psychiatric ward (twice!), she now speaks out to provide real insight and practical strategies that demystify the facts surrounding mental illness and neurodivergence including inspirational (and often hilarious) stories from her own personal and professional life.
