2025 Cohort
2025 Profiles
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Leadership is often celebrated through stories of confidence, decisiveness, and achievement. Far less attention is given to the quieter work that makes sustained leadership possible: managing emotions, navigating criticism, learning from failure, and finding the strength to continue serving others over time.…
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Before reconciliation became a political buzzword, Indigenous women were already leading through community, culture, and resistance. Yet dominant public discourse continues to frame Indigenous peoples primarily through crisis, relying on deficit-based narratives that obscure Indigenous knowledge, joy, and political leadership. It is…
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This profile analyzes emotional labour through the leadership experience of my mentor, Linda Steel, a Catholic school board trustee working within a historically male-dominated institution. While emotional labour is often framed as invisible or secondary to formal decision-making, Linda’s leadership demonstrates that…
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Women now make up 53 percent of union members in Canada, a proportion that has steadily grown over recent decades (Statistics Canada 2025). Yet numerical representation does not automatically translate into leadership power. Women, particularly racialized, Indigenous, disabled, and immigrant women, remain…
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"Well, do you know what a trustee is? Do you know what a trustee does? … Nobody knows what we do. We have to spend more time showing people what we do." (Sherri Moore, Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) Trustee, October…
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Across Canada, there is growing recognition of the need for greater gender representation in politics, particularly at the municipal level where policy decisions directly shape everyday life. While progress over the past decade has increased the visibility of women in local government,…