Christopher Thompson

(HBA 2012 University of Toronto Mississauga)
Executive Director, Federation of Black Canadians

Christopher Thompson is a passionate leader who has a desire to empower others and give back to the community. He currently serves as the Executive Director of The Federation of Black Canadians, a national non-profit organization with over 13 employees across Canada, that advances the social, economic, political and cultural interests of Canadians of African descent. Furthermore, in 2016 Chris also founded a local charity in the Peel Region that focuses on life skills development for youth and young adults called Skills for Life which has over 7 full-time staff. Chris has over 15 years of experience in community engagement and grassroot organization capacity building. Furthermore, he has developed grassroot organizations from having no funding and no staff, to groups attaining $100k-2 million+ in annual budgets, while managing over 20 staff collectively across several organizations. Chris is also the founder and Principal Consultant of Chris Consulting Group where the focus is preparing NFP’s for success in new a new age of challenges and opportunities.