Michael Kehinde

Extensive leadership and strategic experience in organizational and cultural transformation, anti-racism, equity, accessibility and inclusion strategic planning and implementation. A professor and researcher with extensive university teaching experience.

Special Advisor/Executive Assistant, Ontario Anti-Racism Directorate (2021-Date)

• provide strategic support, including research and SME supports to the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM)
• provide overarching guidance on the review of Ontario’s Anti-Racism Strategy Review
• developed and overseeing the implementation of the Division’s operational plan
• coordinating the development and pilot of the Anti-Racism Impact Assessment Tool
• coordinate internal and external stakeholder engagement
• leading change management in a new ministry
• project coordination of ongoing Ontario-wide initiatives, including the Anti-Racism Anti-Hate Grant program and the Ontario Anti-Hate Plan

• leading ongoing HR support – establishment of new units, including Job specs development, classification and hiring
• supporting the Public Service’s Senior Leadership Diversification Plan
• coordinating divisional financial reporting and accountability
• coordinating emergency management and developed the continuity of operations plan
• developed and launched a divisional People Board (employee engagement)

• providing ongoing subject matter expertise on the development and delivery of Ontario’s Anti-Racism Competency and Capacity building
• promoting the adoption of learning experience design in the development of the learning resource
• project lead, provided seamless communication between project team, project owners and external vendor 
• leading the development and implementation of Divisional Accessibility training
• led the development and rollout of Equity and Fairness - Anti-Racism in Digital Government micro-course

Lead/Senior Policy Advisor, Ontario Digital Service (2018-2021)

• led the Ontario Public Service (OPS) learning curriculum development for digital government and service delivery, including learning resources for distributed teams (remote work)
• coordinated the development of an enterprise-wide digital learning standard
• led performance measurement and evaluation

• led partnership with Apolitical to develop Digital 101 Boot Camp with over 5000 participants across Canada, saving the organization over $500,000 in costs
• worked with Canada School of Public Service to deliver digital training for Ontario Public Service’s (OPS) senior executives
• led a pan-Canadian and an OPS-wide working group

• led the development and delivery of the OPS digital micro-learning sprints in Agile, User Research, Product Management, Content Design and Web Accessibility with over 8000 participants

• led a nudge campaign across Ontario Digital Service and the Digital First Assessment (DFA) process to support digital teams in the DFA process
• developed an Accessibility Guide (IASR) for all obligated organizations in Ontario
• developed and delivered a foundational accessibility module for the Ontario Public Service
• provided consultation and advisory role to the Deputy Minister

Lead, Diversity and Accessibility, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services (2014-2018)

• developed, managed and assessed multi-year strategic inclusion and accessibility plans including a mental health strategy 
• led and managed the ministry’s mentoring program for under-represented groups. MGCS had the highest number of cohorts, annually, from 2015-2018 in the OPS 
• coordinated the ministry’s diversity and inclusion annual report to the Public Service Commission 

• developed and managed the ministry’s inclusion and accessibility networks to help promote awareness and understanding of inclusion across the organization
• created and led the Inclusion Core Group as the corporate inclusion steering committee 

• developed a training framework
• developed, delivered, and assessed training modules and resources, including a train-the-trainer on anti-racism, privilege and bias

• advised ministry branches and program areas on accessibility and inclusion requirements in the ministry’s program and policy initiatives
• member, Ontario Public Service’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism, and Accessibility Learning

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

• designed and teaching race, ethnicity, and social policy
• designed, taught and examined political science and international relations courses
• directed students’ research projects on race, ethnicity, governance, and poverty
• conducted and managed research projects/teams as well as presented and published research findings 

EDUCATION & TRAINING

• Ph.D., Political Science, Durham University, UK (2010)
• Certificate, Leadership and Inclusion, Centennial College (2016)