Leena Sharma Seth - Speaker
Founder & Principal
Mending the Chasm
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With over twenty years of experience in various leadership roles, both in Canada and in Asia, Leena has worked in non-profit, consulting, education, philanthropy, and supplier diversity spaces.
Leena has a Masters in Conflict Analysis & Management from Royal Roads, achieved her Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional (CCIP) designation with the Canadian Centre for Diversity & Inclusion, has received her Pride at Work certification, completed the 4 Seasons of Reconciliation program via First Nations University, and recently completed an Embodied Social Justice Certificate with Transformative Programs (led by Rev. Angel Kyodo).
As a part of her personal commitment to this work, Leena has been working with fellow South Asians to examine tensions between the ways Brown bodies, caste-privileged bodies, and northern Indians are both privileged and impacted by systems of oppression, and also perpetuating anti-Black racism, and to work intentionally to disrupt anti-Black racism and to collectively heal from the harmful impacts of colonization, patriarchy and white supremacy.
Her work in community-building has been recognized by MP Karina Gould with the Sesquicentennial Citizenship award, the Women’s Centre of Halton - 150 Years of Exemplary Women award, and the 2021 Mayor’s Community Service Award, Burlington Chamber of Commerce.
Leena has a Masters in Conflict Analysis & Management from Royal Roads, achieved her Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional (CCIP) designation with the Canadian Centre for Diversity & Inclusion, has received her Pride at Work certification, completed the 4 Seasons of Reconciliation program via First Nations University, and recently completed an Embodied Social Justice Certificate with Transformative Programs (led by Rev. Angel Kyodo).
As a part of her personal commitment to this work, Leena has been working with fellow South Asians to examine tensions between the ways Brown bodies, caste-privileged bodies, and northern Indians are both privileged and impacted by systems of oppression, and also perpetuating anti-Black racism, and to work intentionally to disrupt anti-Black racism and to collectively heal from the harmful impacts of colonization, patriarchy and white supremacy.
Her work in community-building has been recognized by MP Karina Gould with the Sesquicentennial Citizenship award, the Women’s Centre of Halton - 150 Years of Exemplary Women award, and the 2021 Mayor’s Community Service Award, Burlington Chamber of Commerce.
Leena Sharma Seth's Sessions
Workshop
As our communities and workplaces become more and more diverse, learning how to respond to difference and conflict in a way that is rooted in accountability, respect for all, and rooted in an awareness of power dynamics is a critical practice to hone, for leaders, teams, and communities.
In this engaging session, participants will be introduced to the concept of conflict transformation, an approach to conflict that builds the capacity of groups to respond to conflict in a way that centres equitable relationships, promotes harmony, facilitates healing, and often addresses systemic causes that contributed to the conflict at its core.
Together we`ll make the connection between the fact that a team that has the capacity to transform conflict internally can also effectively transform conflict with community partners, parents and caregivers, as well as children.
Date: October 20, 2023
Time: 11:00 am - 12:15 pm