Jennifer Fiddian-Green, CPA, CA-IFA, CFF, CFI, CFE, CAMS Partner, Grant Thornton LLP, Board Chair
Jennifer is a partner with Grant Thornton LLP and she leads the firm’s Risk and Forensic practice. She has worked to support and raise awareness of fraud, corruption, money laundering and human trafficking issues across the country and across communities for many years. Jennifer has investigated, reported on and managed investigative teams for fraud and money laundering and she works with clients on the governance structures needed to support good business, ethics, anti-corruption, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance.
Larissa Maxwell, CEO of The Maxwell Consulting Group, Board Member
Larissa is the CEO of The Maxwell Consulting Group, where she builds responsible, accountable, and purpose-driven businesses. She leads worldwide ESG projects that protect ecosystems, end human suffering, and create lasting systemic change.
Dr. Sara Filbee, Board Member
Dr. Sara Filbee has degrees from Acadia University (B.Sc. Biology), Dalhousie University (MBA / LLB) and a Doctor of Management in Organizational Complexity from the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
She began her career with the law firm McInnes Cooper & Robertson in Halifax, where she practiced for 11 years, the last three as a corporate law partner.
Jim McDade, Chief Operating Officer, Aware360, Board Member
Jim McDade is a passionate leader as the Chief Operating Officer at Aware360, a Calgary-based technology company providing real time monitoring innovations that help companies and organizations around the world manage their people, places and things with optimal efficiency and safety.
Laine McGarragle, JD, Director & Counsel, Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP, Board Member
Laine is a lawyer working in Toronto as a Director and Counsel with Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP. Laine cares deeply about empowering survivors and promoting legislative change to end human trafficking in Canada.
She has worked in both English and French with Community Legal Aid and Avocats sans frontières (Lawyers Without Borders), to advocate on behalf of underserved populations.
Angela Kermer, In a Good Way Consulting, Board Member
Angela’s ancestry includes Haida and Coast Salish, and she carries the Haida name Sgaan Jaad Kwahst’aang, Finning Killer Whale Woman. As principal of In a Good Way Consulting, Angela uses strength-based values from her cultural, academic, career, and life experiences to create future reconciliatory legacies at organizational levels.
Board Chair Emeritus
Margot Franssen, O.C., Founder
Margot Franssen passionately and effectively brings women’s issues to the forefront of public consciousness. Margot founded The Body Shop Canada which raised awareness and funds and dedicated thousands of volunteer staff hours to help STOP Violence Against Women.
Sheila O’Brien, C.M., Founder
Sheila O’Brien, President of Belvedere1 Investments, is a corporate director and business consultant specializing in workforce and leadership capacity with over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas, pipeline and petrochemical sectors in Canada, USA and Europe. Ms. O’Brien has held executive positions in the areas of human resources, investor relations, public affairs and government relations with Amoco International, Petro-Canada and NOVA Corporation. She created and implemented an innovative workforce restructuring program, based on the dignity of the employee, which was designated a World Wide Best Practice by Watson Wyatt International Consultancy.