Blog – Leading with heart: Jeff Cyr on investing in Indigenous well-being – Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund
Sep 26, 2025
At Raven Outcomes, I lead our outcomes purchasing, act as Chief Investment Officer, and help build the partnerships and investments that drive better outcomes for Indigenous communities.
This work is deeply personal to me. I’m Métis and grew up in a large Indigenous family shaped by generations of poverty and survival. I saw firsthand what happens when systems don’t support our people. From a young age, I knew I wanted to make a change. Wherever my skills could be useful, I’d use them to make things better.
I’ve worked in various roles, including as a negotiator for Indigenous Nations, an advisor within the federal government, and later in the non-profit sector. Through those experiences, one thing became clear: we didn’t have the right tools to drive real, lasting change. The systems we were working within just weren’t built for Indigenous well-being. And while it’s easy to point fingers at individuals, the truth is that it’s a systems problem. So, I turned my attention to system-level solutions.
