Ogho Ikhalo

DEI Facilitator/Consultant | Program Facilitator

Ogho Ikhalo (she/her) is an award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist, a professional strategic communicator, a social justice activist, and a community advocate. She has 15+ years of experience providing C-Suite strategic communication advice, diversity, equity and belonging training, and issues management and media relations support on complex and often contentious issues. Her day-to-day involves leading efforts to develop, enhance, and execute strategic, roadmaps, and programming to propel diversity, equity, and inclusion, and attract/retain top talent for major enterprises. 

Ogho has worked with various regional and provincial activists to enforce social justice for members of equity-seeking groups, including 2SLGBTQI+, Womxn, Workers of Colour, and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, who are often marginalized. She has a keen knowledge of provincial employment and labour standard laws and a strong understanding of human rights policies. Ogho has assisted in developing effective public engagement campaigns to improve the lives of womxn and the girl child in Canada and the global south. She has also served as a government spokesperson, providing strategic support on key provincial issues, including immigration, occupational health, and safety, womxn, education, youth employment, and legal aid. A former broadcast journalist, Ogho holds a master’s degree in strategic communications from Washington State University, a Sociology and Communications degree from York University, and a Broadcast Journalism diploma from Seneca College.