Kane Jackson — Speaker, Writer, Consultant

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An unusual route to the stage. Officer training in the Australian Army. Training as an Advanced Life Support paramedic. A decade founding startups for underserved people — including Maslow, building the shared infrastructure of a post-extractive financial system with collaborators across five continents.

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

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At a glance

Tour host

Common Wealth, 2026 national release — panels with Senator David Pocock & Dr Katherine Trebeck

MC

Audiences from Magda Szubanski to Dave Hughes

Worked with

Madman Entertainment · Garage Films · Darkwood Entertainment

SXSW Sydney 2023

"One of the best talks I went to all week"

Podcast

Chasing Financial Equality — ★★★★★ on Apple Podcasts & Spotify

Author

SmartCompany · Startup Daily · Women's Agenda · Joe Aston's Rampart

Interviewed by

Alan Kohler AM — CEO interview, Eureka Report

Reach

6.1 million organic impressions in a year — zero marketing spend

Crowdfunding

Record-breaking crowd-fund capital raise — $410,000 from 288 public investors, 2024

Fellowship

Byron Fellow, 2025 — for his work to build a flourishing world

Honours

Government bravery award recipient

Firsts

Australia's first mobile-app-based retail derivative fund, 2014

Known for

People tell him things on stage they'd said they wouldn't talk about

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 co-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 — on stage, people tell Kane things they'd said they wouldn't talk about. Host of the 2026 national release tour of Common Wealth — panels with Senator David Pocock and Dr Katherine Trebeck, MC work for Madman Entertainment, and audiences from Magda Szubanski to Dave Hughes.

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Selected writing

Podcast

Chasing Financial Equality

Two seasons — twenty-three conversations with people rebuilding money and power — Cindy Gallop, Fiona Patten, Vicki Saunders, Erinch Sahan and Dr Niki Vincent among them. Rated ★★★★★ on Apple Podcasts.

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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