SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Louise Bradley
President and CEO
A proud Newfoundlander, Louise started her career as a registered nurse in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where she discovered an immediate passion for mental health. Her work has taken her across the country, where she has held a range of positions across the health sector. From front-line nursing, to forensic and corrections care, to research, teaching, and large-scale hospital administration, Louise has seen mental health issues on the ground and at the highest administrative level.
Louise became President and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada in 2010, after serving as Senior Operating Officer for the University of Alberta Hospital, one of Canada’s leading clinical, research and teaching hospitals. She holds degrees from Dalhousie University and Northeastern University in Boston, where she received a Master of Science with a specialization in mental health. She also received a Psychiatric Nursing Diploma with clinical practicum at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Harlow campus in Essex, England.
In June 2015, the Canadian College of Health Leaders presented her with the Innovation Award for Health Care Leadership for her work with the MHCC in encouraging future mental health pioneers. She was also given the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for her outstanding contributions to Canadian mental health. In her years of work, Louise has heard from hundreds of Canadians living with mental health problems and illnesses.
Their stories are her inspiration to spark leading and lasting change for mental health care in Canada.
Kathryn McDade
Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Income Security and Social Development Branch, Employment and Social Development Canada
Kathryn McDade is a Senior Assistant Deputy Minister at ESDC. She was previously on assignment at Health Canada with a part-time assignment at Policy Horizons Canada, where she provided guidance and leadership to the organization. Policy Horizons Canada is a federal scanning and foresight organization that reports to the Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development Canada who chairs its steering committee of nine Deputy Ministers.
Kathryn was previously Assistant Deputy Minister of the Learning Branch at ESDC, where she was responsible for programs that enable Canadians to participate in, and complete, post-secondary education. She was also the Director General of the Health Care Policy Directorate at Health Canada and Director of Operations at the Privy Council Office, where she advised the Prime Minister and senior officials on a wide range of social policy issues, including immigration, culture and heritage, Veterans’ affairs, employment insurance, labour relations, and social development.
Kathryn has experience as a policy analyst or policy manager in other Government of Canada departments, including Citizenship and Immigration and Finance Canada. She has degrees in Political Science and Public Administration from Carleton University.
Ryan O’Neil Knight
Founder and CEO, Detailing Knights
Ryan Knight is the founder and CEO of Detailing Knights, a mobile waterless car cleaning service that focuses on environmental sustainability and uses a social enterprise model. Detailing Knights hires marginalized young men and women from high-risk neighborhoods and trains them to become leaders by running their own business.
Detailing Knights has been in operation since 2009. In addition to the mobile service, Detailing Knights had access to a shop location where customers could bring their vehicles during the winter months. In the fall of 2014 Ryan signed a contract with ZipCar to clean 300 cars a week and received a loan from Rise to prepare for this expansion.
Ryan is passionate about helping youth from his neighborhood and others by giving them a chance to work for themselves. He feels the most important part of his business is its ability to give back to the community and help others become successful through entrepreneurship. He is not shy to mention his battles with ADHD and Depression and uses his success to prove that it can be done. He also facilitates entrepreneurship workshops in the community and was the recipient of the Toronto Regional Board of Trade’s Business Excellence Award for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.
Michelle Quintyn
President and CEO, Goodwill Industries
Michelle Quintyn is President and CEO of Goodwill Industries, Ontario Great Lakes where she has guided the evolution of Goodwill’s mission and operation since 2005. She helped grow individuals served from 4,000 to 20,000, increased social enterprise revenue from $5.8 million to $23 million, and created more than 400 new jobs. Goodwill’s aim is to strengthen individuals who face barriers through real work experience with an emphasis on skills development and social inclusion and graduating 30% of Goodwill’s workforce to more competitive and sustainable employment annually. Michelle has extensive experience in non-profit
management, community development, fundraising, government relations, and strategic communications. She is responsible for founding and transforming several non-profits addressing social, cultural, community and environmental change. Michelle has a Bachelor of Science, Occupational Therapy, from the University of Toronto and a Registered Nursing Diploma from Ryerson University. She lends her design expertise to work- related capital projects, earning five urban design, signage, construction and architectural awards. In 2012, she received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Shaughn Schwartz
Executive Director and General Manager, The Cleaning Solution
The Cleaning Solution is led by Shaugn Schwartz. After completing his Masters Degree in Planning at UBC, he joined Evergreen - a national environmental charity - and managed the Western Regional offices with energy and distinction for 10 years. In 2008, Shaugn joined The Cleaning Solution as the inaugural General Manager and Executive Director and has accumulated 13 years of experience operating social enterprises in embedded and stand-alone environments. Shaugn believes that thoughtful use of business tools can help tackle some of today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.
Joseph Giulione
Director General, L’Arrimage Inc.
After graduating from Concordia University with a Bachelor’s in Arts (Sociology), Joseph started at L’Arrimage as an Employment Counselor in 1984. He has been the Director General since 2004. Funded by Emploi Quebec, L’Arrimage is a non-profit organization offering Supported Employment Services to people living with severe mental illness. Its goal is to help people, who are often excluded from the workforce, obtain and maintain competitive employment. Services are offered on an individual basis adapted to the client’s needs and capabilities and help over 400 people integrate into the labor market every year.
Warren Hawke
Director of Food Services, Out of This World Café and Catering
Warren worked for 13 years in the Financial Services sector first as a banker, then as an Investment Advisor. In 2002 he embarked on a career change to become a chef, working at several restaurants in Toronto, including some fine dining restaurants. He then joined Out of This World Café in 2009 as the Business Manager and has overseen the growth of the business from one café and catering business to four cafes and two catering
businesses employing more than 30 people with mental health challenges. He was promoted to Director of Food Services in 2012.
Oana Branzei
Senior Donald F. Hunter Professor of International Business and Associate Professor of Strategy, Ivey Business School, Western University
Dr. Oana Branzei is the Donald F. Hunter Professor of International Business and Associate Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School, Western University. She is also the Director of the Sustainability Certificate program, the Director of the Social Innovation lab, and the founder, convener and host faculty of the Ivey PhD
Sustainability Academy, an annual event of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Oana held a 2012/2014 visiting appointment with the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship and the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Oana’s research interests, at the intersection of strategy and sustainability, include the pro-social foundations, forms, and functions of business as agents of positive social change and the relational micro-processes of value creation, capture and distribution. She leads major research initiatives on positive social change, social
enterprise, sustainable communities, and cross-sector partnerships. At Ivey, Oana has taught in the HBA, MBA, EMBA and PhD programs. Prior to joining Ivey, Oana taught in the MBA and the PhD programs, the Kellogg- Schulich Executive MBA and the Sustainable Enterprise Academy at the Schulich School of Business at York University. She was also a Deputy Director of the Erivan K. Haub Program in Business and Sustainability. Oana is currently the social enterprise editor for the Journal of Business Venturing and serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Journal of Management and the Academy of Management Learning and Education.
Terry Krupa
PhD, OT Reg (ON), FCAOT
Dr. Terry Krupa has been involved in research related to a range of community-based initiatives focused on improving the health, well-being and full community participation of people with mental illnesses. She has a special interest in social business and has been involved in the sector for over 20 years. Terry was the inaugural recipient of the Pioneer Award for Recovery Research presented by Psychosocial Rehabilitation Canada. She is a Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University, Canada
Rosemary Lysaght
Associate Director, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen’s University
Dr. Rosemary Lysaght is Associate Director (OT), School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University, and an Associate Professor in the Occupational Therapy Program. Her primary research focus relates to work
participation and social inclusion of persons who experience social exclusion, particularly those with intellectual and mental health disabilities. She has led research and evaluation studies in Canada, the U.S., and
internationally and studied both traditional and non-traditional models for promoting work and productivity. As a practitioner, Rosemary has worked with persons living with serious mental illness, intellectual disabilities, work injuries, and other challenges in programs addressing employment, inclusion and community living.
Arlene McDougall
Assistant Professor, Western University and psychiatrist
Dr. Arlene MacDougall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Western University and a psychiatrist with the Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses at London Health Sciences Centre and the Southwest Aboriginal Health Access Centre in London, Ontario. After obtaining her medical degree from the University of British Columbia, she went on to complete her psychiatry residency and master’s degree in neuroscience at McMaster University. She subsequently performed a joint-fellowship in Global Psychiatry and
First Episode Psychosis at Dalhousie University. Arlene is leading a multi-institutional Grand Challenges Canada funded project (www.createkenya.com) that involves the development of a social business and accompanying psychosocial rehabilitation toolkit as a means of creating meaningful employment and fostering overall functioning of people living with serious mental illness in Kenya. She is also studying the use of mindfulness meditation and participatory video interventions to promote recovery among youth with early psychosis.
Susan Tolton
Director, Community Development and Homelessness Partnerships, Employment and Social Development Canada
Susan Tolton is currently the Director of Policy and Programs within the Community Development and Homelessness Partnerships Directorate at Employment and Social Development Canada. She studied
Community Development at the University of Toronto`s Faculty of Social Work and has worked in not-for-profit and public sector organizations for over 30 years, focusing on numerous issues including HIV/AIDS, addictions, homelessness, settlement, family violence, disability and mental health. One of Susan’s current files is leading ESDC's work on social enterprise.
