I help people see the systems they're standing in — then rebuild them.

Speaker, writer and consultant on money, fairness and systems change. Founder of Maslow — building a new financial industry that advocates for, serves, and is owned by billions of people. Byron Fellow, 2025. Host of Chasing Financial Equality. Based in Melbourne, working globally.


Kane Jackson

An unusual route to the stage. Officer training in the Australian Army. Training as an intensive-care paramedic. A decade founding startups for underserved people — including Maslow, designing a post-extractive finance system with collaborators across five continents.

That mix — command, crisis, care and capital — is why audiences and organisations trust him with hard subjects.

Byron Fellowship, 2025 Fellow
Government bravery award recipient
Panelist, inaugural SXSW Sydney, 2023
Columnist — SmartCompany, Startup Daily, Rampart
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Speaking

The Finance Industry Emergency

Why money's business model endangers everything else we care about — and what a fair alternative actually looks like, from the founder building it.

Investing in Systems, Not Symptoms

Findings from a 48-day global research tour through the world's systemic-investing community, delivered for boards, funds and founders.

Moderation, panels & MC

Deeply researched, generous, unafraid of silence. Currently hosting the Victorian premiere tour of Common Wealth, the feature documentary on wealth inequality.

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Selected writing

How 'smart' investors are killing your future — and theirs too

Startup Daily · 2025

There's a forest fire threatening banking — and Apple lit the spark

SmartCompany · 2021

Wealth inequality crashes the party at SXSW Sydney

SmartCompany · 2023

My Reckoning with America: Where Selma Rusts and Plantations Shine

Medium · 2026
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Podcast

Chasing Financial Equality

Twenty-three conversations with people rebuilding money and power — Cindy Gallop, Fiona Patten, Vicki Saunders, Erinch Sahan and Dr Niki Vincent among them.

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Consulting

Everything with a social impact lens.

Systems change and strategy, founder advisory, startup structuring for social impact, stakeholder and community engagement, strategic comms, red-team analysis, AI enablement and more.

Systems changeFounder advisoryFintech strategyStrategic commsRed-team analysisAI for founders
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Kind words
"Best part about your articles and posts is that they are always 100% straight-talking (no BS)."
Dominic Pym — co-founder, Up Bank
"It was a joy talking to you, Kane Jackson ❤️"
Cindy Gallop — founder, MakeLoveNotPorn
"One of the best talks I went to all week… honest, direct and insightful."
Ilan Hurwitz — designer, Shopify (SXSW Sydney)
"Smart guy and very good human. Mission obsessed."
Kirstin Hunter — co-founder Future Super, MD Techstars
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"A CV is for a person who plans to move on to other things. I don't. My mission has me where I need to be."
Kane Jackson