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John has held various management roles for over 20 years in numerous organizations.  Currently, he is the executive director at Sheena's Place, a community-based organization offering mental health support for those with eating disorders.  John has extensive experience with all aspects of non-profit work, including strategic planning, finance, risk management, human resources, communications, fundraising, and working closely with boards. 

Coaching sessions can cover any of these subject areas, leveraging existing strengths to improve an individual's satisfaction with their work.  Supporting other leaders to grow and maximize their potential has consistently been a favourite part of every role John has ever held.

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Gilad Cohen is a Toronto-based artist, photographer, podcaster, public speaker, and advocate for human rights. Since 2008, Gilad has worked as a community mobilizer with a focus on connecting audiences to urgent and compelling stories through multimedia arts.

In 2012, Gilad founded JAYU, an award-winning Toronto-based charity that serves the arts community through the annual Human Rights Film Festival, The Hum, a human rights podcast which he produces and co-hosts, as well as the iAM Program, an initiative that provides arts and social justice mentorship to more than 200 equity-deserving youth from across the GTA each year.

Gilad is deeply passionate about mental health, often speaking about it publicly and advocating for better practices in the arts and non-profit sectors. In 2020, this led him to shifting his organization to a 4-day work-week, extended paid sick and vacation leave, and more.

As a photographer, Gilad specializes in portraits and travel photography.

He is an alumna of the Toronto Arts Council Leaders Lab and the Rothschild Fellowship at Cambridge University in the UK. He has sat on the Board of Directors for several arts and human rights charities including Global Youth Volunteer Network, Scarborough Arts, and RISE Edutainment. He currently sits on the Board of HanVoice, Canada’s largest North Korean human rights advocacy group.

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Rickesh Lakhani believes that we are all responsible for each other’s success. He is the Founder of Radiance Advisory, supporting social impact organizations and leaders to align their actions with their values and build stronger cultures based on truth and trust.

He has over 20 years of experience in the social impact sector, including serving as the Executive Director at a community-based organization serving children and as the Development Director leading an $8M annual fundraising campaign. Rickesh is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), served on the inaugural Global Council for the Community-Centric Fundraising movement, and has volunteered with numerous causes and boards.

He enjoys spending time with his family including his 3 children, camping, bike riding, cooking, and playing drums. He is a work in progress.

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Sahar has worked for 20 years in the nonprofit sector at the intersection of equity, community, and systems change. As a former refugee and racialized woman, her lived experience shapes how she understands systems and power and drives her commitment to grounded, actionable equity. She has worked alongside communities to co-create solutions that are both responsive to people’s lived realities and create systemic change.  As Director of the East Scarborough Storefront, Sahar provided executive leadership across six program areas serving one of Toronto’s most racially diverse and economically marginalized communities. Sahar is energized by the complexity of nonprofit leadership and by the questions that emerge when strategy, people, values, and changing circumstances collide. As facilitator, she hopes to create a space where leaders can step out of the day-to-day, bring the challenges they are navigating, and think alongside one another about what it means to lead with clarity, courage, and care.

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Hildah Juma is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Kijani Consulting where she supports nonprofit leaders and boards in strengthening governance, navigating transitions and building effective working relationships.

Hildah brings extensive executive leadership experience, including serving as Executive Director of the Black Talent Initiative and the Canadian Federation of Students and Canadian Federation of Students - Ontario. Her work spans organizational strategy, people and culture, labour relations, advocacy and board governance.

Hildah approaches leadership as stewardship: a responsibility to care for people, honour an organization’s purpose and strengthen its capacity for the future. She creates space for honest reflection, peer learning and practical problem solving, helping leaders navigate complex dynamics with clarity, confidence and care. Her work encourages leaders to share responsibility, build trust and leave their organizations stronger than they found them.

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Sara Yacobi-Harris is the co-founder of No Silence on Race and the Director of content and programming. She is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist, learning designer and social entrepreneur. Using digital content to inspire agents of social change, her work explores some of the most complex social issues facing our generation with curiosity and care. Her distinct voice and social entrepreneurship has garnered recognition from the prime minister of Canada, CEOs and executives across the film and television industry and funding from educational organizations and community federations across North America. She recently produced 5 episodes on the new CBC GEM docu-series, For the Culture with Amanda Parris as well as an educational video for Facing History and Ourselves and Edutopia. Sara is the director, producer and co-writer of the multimedia project, Periphery. She holds a M.Ed from OISE at the University of Toronto and her work has been featured on podcasts and media publications across North America and the middle east. She is currently a Psychotherapy student at the Gestalt Institute.

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