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The first woman elected mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante has distinguished herself through her leadership, attentive listening and closeness to the Montreal population. It is with a progressive, ambitious and innovative vision that she has been able to rally Montrealers from all four corners of the city. Both warm and rigorous, she works with her team to make Montreal a city at the forefront.

Her career outside the political arena is one of her strengths. After completing studies in anthropology, museology and multi-ethnic intervention, Valérie Plante developed extensive field experience within several community organizations, including the Fondation Filles d'action. These experiences taught her a great deal about the various issues affecting the metropolis.

Following these apprenticeships, Valérie Plante made the leap into municipal politics in 2013. First elected as a councillor for the Sainte-Marie district, she stood out for her audacity and became head of Projet Montréal in 2016. It only took her one year to be elected mayor of Montreal. After four years as mayor of Montreal and the borough of Ville-Marie, the people of Montreal reaffirmed their confidence in her by giving her a second term in the 2021 elections.

Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change-makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world.

Vicki is Founder of #radical generosity and Coralus (formerly SheEO), a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the World’s To-Do List.

Vicki has co-founded and run ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley and taken a company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Vicki was received numerous awards for her work at Coralus including; UBS Global Visionary in 2020, YWCA Women of Distinction Award in 2020, Business Leader of the Year 2019 by the Toronto Regional Board of Trade, 2018 Startup Canada Entrepreneurship Promotion Award and was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2001.

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Scaling Deep: The Coralus Case Study

zohra moosa is a facilitator, coach, trainer and advisor to individuals, groups, organisations and funders engaged in the non-profit and for purpose sector. Her aim is to accompany movement actors to change how we make change. In particular, she specialises in supporting feminist, queer and anti-racist approaches to thrive in contexts where there is a will but not yet clarity about the way.
As a coach, she focuses on supporting BIPOC femmes in leadership positions to recognise and release the toll that working in predominantly white spaces takes, regather purpose and vision, and generate options, so they may act with renewed energy.
In addition to her current activism and contract work, she serves on the boards of climate justice group Fossil Free Netherlands and Transnational Institute (TNI), an international research and advocacy organisation.
She has been engaged in multiple social movements over the last three decades, including feminist, anti-racist, 2SLGBTQIA+, and environmental justice movements. She has done so as an academic, as an activist and as a professional/practitioner, working at local, national, regional and international levels. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, zohra worked as the Executive Director of Mama Cash, the first and oldest international women’s/feminist fund in the world.
Now living in Amsterdam, zohra has also lived in London and Toronto. You can read more about zohra’s work here and here.

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