Kathleen Finlay is founder of Lead by Compassion.  Described by CTV National News as “another modern thinker who can save lives,” her groundbreaking work over two decades to make patients safer in the hospital setting, reduce medical errors, combat gender violence and improve mental health delivery. In 2019 she launced a national campaign to introduce the digital platform using the numbers 988 for Canada’s suicide prevention hotline.  Innovations in public policy and care for the most vulnerable have made her one of Canada’s most impactful and recognized voices for making compassion the new normal.

Building on a public policy career in finance, capital markets regulation and intergovernmental affairs that spanned more than two decades, she regularly appears before committees of the House of Commons and Senate.

Many of the ideas that shape her compassion mission have been the subject of op-eds, media interviews and parliamentary submissions and have been adopted into law.