Megan O'Neil

Do you value creativity and cutting-edge thinking in your journey for new ways of doing old things? Then you will want to experience Megan O'Neil's innovative leadership and pragmatic approach to doing business and changing the world.

Megan is the CDO (Chief Duck Wrangler) of the Focus Company. Her firm helps businesses and social innovators get their ducks in a row using innovative tools and practical project planning. In her presentations, Megan is always surprising people with her new perspectives, and inspiring them with her contagious energy. She is a career project manager, and has over 25 years of experience enthusiastically applying entrepreneurial tactics in charities, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

She was the Founder and former CEO of One Tomato, a social enterprise which continues to inspire ordinary citizens to feed hungry people while supporting sustainable food systems. She also founded Food Works, the largest private food education program in Canada, teaching over one million minutes of cooking to grade school students each year.

Megan brings her fearless innovation to the people she works with, whether it is deploying with Red Cross to respond to wildfires in British Columbia, interviewing over 1000 Canadian social entrepreneurs to see what makes them tick, or handing out free soup to hundreds of people on a random Thursday. Organizations who have benefitted from her work include the Canadian Red Cross, Pillar Nonprofit Network, the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs, Sarnia-Lambton Rebound, and tech start-up Frontier Learning.

She is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal, Outstanding Business Achievement Award for Non-profit Leadership, the Suncor Sustainability Award, and the Director's Award for Innovation in Education. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Western.