CATHERINE KARAKATSANIS

COO MORRISON HERSHFIELD LIMITED

A partner since 1988, Colleen McMorrow is responsible for assisting a broad range of businesses, implementing EY’s go-to-market strategy for high-growth entrepreneurial companies and leading the firm’s national EY Entrepreneur Of The Year program, which honours Canada’s top entrepreneurs.

“I’ve been the only woman at the boardroom table many times over the course of my career. I always deliberately tried to see that as an opportunity to find my voice and use my difference to my advantage. Educating and helping others be self-aware of their real or perceived biases is a powerful weapon to help remove their conscious or unconscious biases or stereotypes.”

“I Lived” (OneRepublic)