Kindree Chescoe
Kindree Chescoe
Founder & Principal Designer, KLC kre-a-tiv
Vancouver, BC
About the Presenter
Kindree Chescoe is a Canadian entrepreneur, award-winning designer, speaker, and founder whose work sits at the intersection of business, creativity, product development, faith, and social impact.
She is the founder and principal designer of KLC kre-a-tiv, a design firm known for creating peace of mind through thoughtful, highly personal design. Over the past 18 years, Kindree has built KLC across legacy residential projects, commercial spaces, multi-family developments, and now product design through the launch of the FILL THE GAP COLLECTION.
Kindree’s path into entrepreneurship did not begin in a boardroom. It began at 17 in theatre, video, and the creative arts, where she founded Thysia Productions and received awards for directing and screenwriting. That early creative leadership shaped the way she still builds today: with vision, conviction, and a deep understanding of how people experience a room, a story, a product, a business, and each other.
Before founding KLC, Kindree also helped build an insurance brokerage firm, giving her a strong foundation in business, relationships, service, and practical leadership. Today, her work continues to expand beyond design through the FILL THE GAP COLLECTION, a product line created from seeing what was missing in the marketplace and deciding to build it, and the kre-a-tiv Vault, an upcoming platform that matches homeowners and design professionals and trades.
Kindree’s work is shaped by her faith and by a simple but powerful conviction: people come first. Whether she is leading a client, building a team, developing a product, speaking to leaders, or launching a new initiative, her goal is to bring clarity, courage, care, and excellence into the room.
She is also the founder of Calling On All Good Men, a registered charity and charitable society focused on preventing sexual violence by equipping men, especially athletes, to lead with strength, respect, and courage. Through this work, the Calling On All Good Men team is calling men to stand together, protect what matters most, and become part of the solution before harm happens.
Kindree is not only a creative leader. She is a builder, a business owner, and a faith-shaped entrepreneur who turns conviction into real-world action. At the center of her life and leadership is her faith, her love for people, and her two adult children, who are one of the greatest joys in her life. Outside of building businesses and leading new initiatives, she is happiest outdoors, staying active, and making space for the people and purpose that matter most.
About the Presentation
The Human Advantage: How AI Gives Us Back Time to Invest in People
AI is changing how we work, but the greatest competitive advantage in business may be something technology cannot replace: our capacity to care. In this interactive session, Kindree will explore two resources that shape every business - time, which is finite, and love and care, which expand when we invest them in people. She shares how she is using AI to remove bottlenecks, accelerate learning and create capacity, while deliberately reinvesting that capacity into clients, teams and relationships. Through practical AI examples, personal stories and audience exercises, the session challenges leaders to train AI as a collaborator without outsourcing the human work that builds trust, loyalty and legacy. The goal is not less ambition. It is a version of success where technology helps us grow, while our hands can still hold peace.