Claire Sault was elected Chief on December 9, 2023, and served on the Missisaugas of the Credit Council through a bi-election since October 22, 2022. She formerly worked as the CEO of Northwind Business Development, a company wholly owned by Caldwell First Nation. Prior, Chief Sault served as the CEO for Kettle & Stony Point First Nation Administration with a large staff. During the Covid pandemic, Ms. Sault worked in a consulting capacity and prior to that, served as CEO of Noozhoo Nokiyan Limited Partnership owned by the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. She was the President of a non-profit in California called Divine Choices and Vice President and Director of Human Resources for a large public company and its subsidiary called First American Trust. Both, in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was born and raised on the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation with deep roots and strong ties to her mother\u2019s First Nation (Six Nations) as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After returning to Canada, she functioned in various consultative capacities including working with a First Nation in Saskatchewan. Prior to moving to the United States though, she gained experience within various Aboriginal agencies, including tourism, addictions treatment, First Nation governments and various service organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As President of a non-profit and services company, from 2007 through 2013; she travelled extensively promoting the mission and cause of child sexual abuse prevention through public speaking engagements, social media, and TV commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She\u2019s also an author and co-author of various papers, teaching materials and a book called \u201cThe Lie That Binds\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Sault received a master\u2019s degree in business administration from Simon Fraser University with her focus on Aboriginal Business and Leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her background provides a broad expertise in business and financial management and more importantly, an understanding of the Indigenous way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Sault is the second youngest of a large family and resides on the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4297,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"conference_year":[49,43],"speaker-type":[],"class_list":["post-4296","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","conference_year-49","conference_year-43"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.thewestharbour.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.thewestharbour.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.thewestharbour.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.thewestharbour.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.thewestharbour.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"conference_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.thewestharbour.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference_year?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"speaker-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.thewestharbour.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-type?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}