National Post - Financial Post Magazine
KPMG Inclusion Vanguard Awards
Recognizing individuals, regardless of their gender identity, who have made a profound, thoughtful and measurable impact on diversity within their organization and in Canada.
BIO: Judy excels at building collaborative, cutting-edge business ventures. Together with Shelley Kuipers (COCEO) and an amazing team, The51 has built a democratized Financial Feminist platform and venture fund with a global community of 15,500-plus and 100-plus investors (90% women). She is also a corporate board director, an award-winning Creative Destruction Lab mentor, Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, and recipient of the 2020 Calgary Influential Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award.
ON WHAT MAKES A LEADER: Leadership is courageously tackling challenges, often behind the scenes and by enabling others.
POWER SONG: "Confident", by Demi Lovato.
BIO: Human rights lawyer and consultant Lorin Macdonald of Toronto continually demonstrates her leadership and passion for disability inclusion, drawing on her experience as a woman born with profound hearing loss. As a writer, trainer and professional speaker, Lorin highlights the challenges Canadians with disabilities face. One of Canada's top disability inclusion leaders stemming from her decades-long pioneering and transformative work, Lorin has been the recipient of several well-deserved accolades.
MY RAW COURAGE: I AM resilient. I have survived many personal and professional challenges. Every triumph and every failure provided me with powerful tools for my toolbox – what worked, what didn't work, and the lessons learned from the experience.
BIO: Lea is a trailblazer, mentor for Indigenous youth and member of the W last kwey (Maliseet) Nation. She is experienced in international relations focused on the human rights of Indigenous peoples. She has served as Special Adviser for Indigenous Issues at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN; Chief of Staff to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; and Chief of Protocol for the Four Host First Nations during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
MY RAW COURAGE: I AM a Warrior Princess. I was raised to fight for our rights as Indigenous Peoples.
ON WHAT POWERFUL MEANS: To refuse to compromise your values and principles in the face of unrelenting pressure. No matter the consequences.