Candace Huntly

Candace Huntly is the Founder of SongBird Marketing Communications, an award-winning agency that helps businesses find their voice in the world of Social Media, Public Relations, Branding, and Marketing. She believes strongly in using both traditional and non-traditional tactics when it comes to building strategies for brands, merging the digital and face-to-face worlds. Candace has run successful strategies for both individual experts and organizations leading to increased brand awareness, community engagement, influencer buzz, and widespread media coverage in top tier print, digital, and broadcast media outlets.

In addition to working with clients, Candace works with The Founders Fund and The Fashion Zone at Ryerson University as a Business Advisor and mentor, and with the Women’s Entrepreneurship Hub and Newcomer’s Entrepreneurship Hub, offering workshops, one-on-one consultations, mentorship, and guidance for entrepreneurs and startups in various industries such as Fashion, Cryptocurrency, Tech, Consumer, and e-Commerce.

Candace is also a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, teaching courses mostly in the Business Technology Management program.

With a background in teaching and as a professional singer and actor, her career has shifted significantly to get to where she is at now, and she doesn't shy away from talking about the unique path she's taken to get to entrepreneurship.

Her most important achievement, though, is raising a strong-will daughter who is growing up to believe that anything is possible.