Achievements and Accomplishments:

• Winner of the 2021 ByBlacks.com People’s Choice Award for Best Author

• Winner of the Canada Book Award, 2021

• Grand Slam Finalist, Speaker Slam 2018 Inspirational Speaker of the Year

• Nominee, 2014 Black Canadian Award for Best Spoken Word

• Appeared on the CBC TV program Canada’s Smartest Person in 2012

• Canadian Team Poetry Slam champion and runner-up at Canadian Individual Poetry Slam in 2012

A. Gregory Frankson, OCT, B.Ed., B.A.
Voice Share Founder & CEO

Greg Frankson is the founder and CEO of Voice Share Inc., which provides training, coaching/mentorship, and consulting services focused on transformative organizational change through inclusive leadership and effective communication. He also works as the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Anti-Racism Advisor for the Canadian Real Estate Association. Prior to creating Voice Share in 2018, Greg was a teacher, arts educator, event producer, corporate trainer, and anti-discrimination facilitator.

Throughout his career, Greg has used his voice to create social change as an advocate, award-winning literary artist, and media commentator. Artistically, he published four poetry collections, contributed to five anthologies, edited AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets (2022), and released four full-length audio recordings, among many other achievements. He was also an on-air poetic commentator on Here and Now Toronto on CBC Radio One. In community, his leadership resulted in the overdue commemoration of Robert Sutherland, Canada’s first known university graduate of colour and first Black lawyer, at Queen’s University and across Canada. His words have been published in periodicals and poetry journals on three continents.

Greg is a former Canadian national poetry slam champion, an inaugural inductee to the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour, and past poet laureate of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (2007-2014). He served on the boards of Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) and Tropicana Community Services, and currently sits on the board of directors for Prince’s Trust Canada and chairs the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Advisory Council at the Abilities Centre. Greg has left a lasting impact at his alma mater, Queen’s University, as its first Black student government president, former student senator and ex-officio trustee, and as a long-serving current member of the University Council. He graduated from Queen’s in 1999 with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees, earned concurrently, and is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Ontario College of Teachers.

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