Inclusive Leadership Masterclass

Alia is an Organizational EDI Consultant, Sustainable Innovation Lecturer, and Social Entrepreneur committed to advancing systems change through inclusive innovation. With over eight years of experience teaching at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, she specializes in equity, sustainability, and community-engaged learning.

As a Portfolio Manager with RADIUS SFU’s Consulting Services Team, Alia supports organizations to embed equity and justice into their strategies, policies, and leadership. A notable project includes co-leading a multi-year Community of Practice with SFU staff and faculty, guiding them to apply equity-centered design and share power in decision-making processes that impact students, staff, and communities.

Alia is passionate about redistributing power in decision-making and shifting leadership away from top-down models. She challenges how decisions are often made furthest from the communities most affected, and advocates for leadership approaches that prioritize proximity to the work, lived experience, and collective ideation. For her, inclusive leadership isn’t about holding power—it’s about sharing it.

Miranda (she/her) leads RADIUS’ Consulting Services team, and brings over 15 years of experience working in and consulting for all levels of government and other large institutions. Her career began working with executives and middle managers in the federal public service in leadership development, employee engagement, strategic planning, and change management.

As a former Director of Engagement at Argyle (formerly Context), she worked with decision-makers to seek and understand community input and impacts to better shape public sector policies and infrastructure projects, from mobility pricing, Northern housing strategy, climate emergency, Olympic and Paralympic bids, and transit planning. An equitable engagement specialist, she has delivered several industry presentations and is a recipient of an International Association of Public Participation’s (IAP2) Core Values Award.

At RADIUS, she has led extensive equity reviews for the City of Vancouver, City of Coquitlam, and SFU’s Outstanding Alumni Awards, and co-designed and co-facilitated leadership training programs for the University of Victoria, SFU Beedie School of Business, and the City of Burnaby.

Her credentials include a UBC Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Economics, a MSc in Strategic Management and Planning from University College Dublin, and a Prosci Certification in Change Management. Miranda was co-chair and board director for the hua foundation, a non-profit working with Asian diasporic youth for a more equitable future. She is a second-generation immigrant from a lineage of strong Chinese matriarchs.

With two decades of leadership experience in education, operational strategy, and social innovation, Bonnie specializes in driving high-impact initiatives that blend conscientious leadership with operational excellence.

Bonnie believes in creating space for her team to ideate, problem-solve, and be human. As a Director at RADIUS, Bonnie considers her role to be in service of the entire organization, ensuring there are the right people, processes, and resources in place to meet our goals, while mindfully ensuring our guiding principles are foundational in all that we do. A critical thinker and a logistical wrangler, Bonnie balances her analytical brain with a human heart, striving to lead with compassion, empathy, and curiosity.

While on Banff Centre’s Leadership Development Team, Bonnie supported dozens of leadership programs for thousands of leaders, including leading design sprints to create programs such as “Creating Positive Change”, “Leading by Design”, and a UX Design program based on video game design that never saw the light of day (but she still thinks about sometimes).

Bonnie is a newcomer on the unceded Coast Salish lands and is grateful for the opportunities she has to appreciate and be in relationship with not only the lands themselves but their stewards (including the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Urban Indigenous peoples in this place). Bonnie holds an Executive MBA from Simon Fraser University as well as a Bachelor of Musical Arts from Western University. Bonnie is a board member and singer with Vancouver’s reknowned adult treble choir, Elektra.

Véronik (elle/she/her) is a strategic thinker with heart—bringing clarity and care to every conversation, relationship, and decision. Her leadership is recognized as rooted in vulnerability, creativity, and a fierce commitment to justice.

With 15 years of experience in strategy and organizational development, team leadership and governance, fundraising and partnerships, and programmatic design, management, and evaluation, Véronik brings a powerful blend of strategic insight and relational leadership. She understands the complexity of leading change and, as such, has thrived supporting the impact making of dozens of systems change initiatives spanning food security, migrant justice, and healthcare equity. 

As Co-Director of RADIUS, she helps build the kind of environment where bold ideas and deep care thrive. She is a listener, problem solver, funding go-getter, creative convener, and strategic guide. She helps nurture the “nest” where her team can laugh, cry, and take on the big work of transforming systems. She sees the big picture AND the human heart, altogether bringing strategy, soul, and systems thinking to every challenge. 

Véronik holds a BSc. in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, a MSc. in Ecosystem Functioning, and a Diploma in Business Analysis. She is a mother, daughter, sister, and friend. She is a heterosexual, cisgender, non-visibly disabled, francophone, white woman of French and Scottish ancestry. She currently resides as an uninvited guest on the territories of the Squamish people, where she finds happiness in growing food and cooking it for the many solidarity and family dinners that take place around her dinner table.