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Andrea Seale

Chief Executive Officer | Canadian Cancer Society

A nonprofit leader who empowers people to build and support the causes that make our world more compassionate, healthy and just.

Teresa Isabel Dias

Pharmacist, NAMS Certified Menopause Practitioner | MenopausED

Menopause, menopause education, menopause at work, perimenopause, women's midlife health, women's health advocate, pharmaceuticals, health and wellness

Rona Birenbaum

Founder and President | Caring for Clients

Personal Finance Expert, Entrepreneur, Working Mom

Julia Chung, CFP, CLU, FEA, TEP

CEO & Senior Financial Planner, Spring Planning and President | Financial Planning Association of Canada

Julia Chung is a leader in Canadian financial planning and global family business advisory. She is an expert in connecting personal, corporate, and multi-generational family finances with the values, legacy, and goals unique to each individual. A sought-after speaker and writer, Julia deeply enjoys helping people create lives of great personal meaning. Julia is CEO of Spring Planning, an advice-only financial planning firm, and a family business consultant with Trella Advisory Group. Julia also co-founded the Advice Only Planners forum, and the Financial Planning Association of Canada. She is the author of several books on business and finance and a successful entrepreneur who has - so far - founded more than five businesses.

Dr. Julia Smith

Assistant Professor, Health Sciences | Simon Fraser University

gender-based analysis, women's health, human rights, COVID, infectious disease outbreaks, tobacco control, tobacco industry attempts to influence policy, global health, HIV/AIDS, health policy