Ekua Cant

Ekua Cant is a Permission-Based Leadership speaker, LinkedIn strategist, and award-winning author of Your Platform Power: How to Build a Profitable Speaker Brand in a Polarized World (2025). She helps diverse leaders, entrepreneurs, and diverse speakers stop waiting for permission, claim their voice, and lead with confidence in uncertain, high-stakes environments. She combines real-world leadership experience with a rare mix of energy, insight, and story to make complex ideas practical, actionable, and inspiring.

Founder of the Get Paid to Speak Global Movement and creator of the CASH and PAID frameworks, Ekua equips audiences to turn visibility into influence, impact, and paid opportunities. She also brings deep expertise in AI and change adoption, helping organisations navigate uncertainty with people-centered leadership.

She delivers every keynote and session with her signature energy and insight, leaving audiences inspired and ready to act, claiming their narrative, speaking their truth, and leading without waiting for permission.