SONIA SENNIK

Executive Director, Creative Destruction Lab ROTMAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

BIO: Sonia leads CDL’S strategy, operations and programs across 10 sites at University of Toronto, Oxford, Washington, Calgary, UBC, HEC Montréal, HEC Paris, Uw-madison, Dalhousie and Georgia Tech. Sonia is also Executive Director of CDL Rapid Screening Consortium, a non-profit that delivers a free program to launch COVID-19 rapid screening in workplaces and schools across Canada. In 2020 they founded the Sonia Sennik Resilience Fund, the largest multi-donor endowment in Mcmaster Engineering history.

BEST CAREER ADVICE: Be loyal to yourself first - let your intuition guide you as a leader.

IF I HAD CHOSEN A DIFFERENT CAREER PATH: Announcer at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I understand that this would require a time machine.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A TOP 40 HONOUREE? The self-awareness to learn from your failures, a drive to continuously improve the world around you, and an understanding of the responsibility you have to your community.