Webinar: Women’s mental well-being in the workplace

Priya Chopra founded 1Milk2Sugars, a communications and marketing agency, in 2012. Her talented team, known as the “Sugars,” now operates across Montreal, Toronto, and New York.

In 2020, 1Milk2Sugars received multiple awards and was recognized as one of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies by Maclean’s Magazine and Canadian Business.

Chopra has integrated her passions for diversity, social awareness, and female empowerment into the core values of her agency. In 2020, she also established Double Shot, a Globally Inclusive and Diverse Talent Agency, with a mission to highlight the voices of underrepresented communities. Her exceptional leadership has garnered recognition from the Forbes Agency Council, Canadian Business, Maclean’s, Bloomberg Canada, Ernst & Young, PR in Canada, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Claudine Mangen is a full professor and the RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She focuses on how organizations function and contribute to inequalities, particularly gender inequalities. Her current research investigates how organizational governance affects the maintenance and disruption of gender inequalities.

Mangen leads a research program titled “Disruptive Dames? The Process of Disruption Underlying Women’s Transition into Organizational Leadership,” which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This program examines the processes that contribute to the disruption of gender inequalities in the leadership of for-profit organizations in Canada.

Mangen's research has been published in leading academic journals, and she also shares her insights in the media.

Dolly Shinhat, BA 88, is the Director General of Our Harbour, an organization that provides long-term, supported, and caring housing programs for people with mental illness on the South Shore of Montreal. 

Since 2017, Dolly has served Our Harbour's mission by building a more professional, securely funded, and higher-profile organization. As a result, Our Harbour has doubled its capacity from 15 to 30 spaces, its fundraising and funding results, and staffing. 

On January 25, 2025, Dolly was awarded the King Charles III Coronation medal. Created to mark the Coronation of King Charles III, the medal is conferred on individuals who have made significant contributions to Canada, or to a particular province, territory, region or community, or have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada. 

Ingrid Chadwick is an Associate Professor of Management and the Academic Director of the Barry F. Lorenzetti Centre for Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business. She has a PhD in Organizational Behaviour and a Master of Education in Organizational Learning from Queen’s University.

Chadwick’s research focuses on the gendered nature of leadership and entrepreneurship and has been published in leading academic journals. She is an active speaker at academic conferences and women in leadership and entrepreneurship events. Prior to her academic career, Chadwick worked with employee and organizational development initiatives at corporations in Sweden and Canada.