How my journey began

Hey there. I’m Katrina (Kat) Daaca.

Negotiations Educator | Workshop Facilitator | Speaker

I am a negotiations educator, workshop facilitator, and speaker specializing in decolonized negotiations strategies. I empower racialized folks to better self-advocate for themselves in the colonial spaces they occupy.

As a designated Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP), I spent the last decade as a buyer, which involved negotiating everything from parts, equipment, furniture, and bugs (yes, insects), to multi-mullion dollar supplier contracts. I quickly grew an interest and passion for negotiation. Throughout my career, I became increasingly aware of the fact that negotiations training and resources are mostly authored by white folks and the available education lacked cultural nuance. I didn’t see myself reflected in what was available and it never felt relevant to how I walk through the world as an Asian woman. Although I love to radically reimagine a world where racialized folks are not oppressed by systems of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism, the reality is that we still exist within these systems.

In 2022, I launched Reclaim Your Wealth, a community workshop where participants are held in a safe space to explore their current beliefs around negotiation and offers them the skills to use negotiation to inspire daily acts of liberation. Today, this has expanded to include course work and training to help people use negotiation as a life skill to get their best possible outcomes.

Previous to my work in decolonized negotiation strategies and after working ten years in supply chain management, I quit my corporate job and started Kanekta, the first and only Filipina-Canadian owned supply chain management consulting company. There, I completed supply chain consultation for various SME, Bioscience Manitoba and Supply Chain Manitoba; and was a supply chain management instructor at MITT, Robertson College, and the University of Winnipeg. I am presently the Vice-President of the Manitoba Filipino Business Council, as part of the council’s first-ever female-majority board of directors; as well as a Chairperson for Kultivation FAMD, a grassroots volunteer-driven group promoting the modern cultural scene in Manitoba’s Filipino community.