Anouk co-leads Future of Good with the CEO and offer executive direction to day-to-day management, business performance, program and partnership strategies, financial health, talent, culture and operations. Anouk is an exceptional analytical thinker, mobilizer and problem solver. Every day, she sees the nuances and systemic angles in every organizational situation and scenario. Over the past year, Anouk’s executive leadership has resulted in a number of positive step changes, including overall financial health, systems and policies, program management and team culture. She also continues to lead the way in scaling the organization’s infrastructure, business performance, hiring, and operations. Anouk’s leadership also led to the growth and traction of some of Future of Good’s signature learning programming, including the 2023 Social Finance Forum and the 2023 Black Leadership in Social Impact Summit. She has led the way to model the type of workplace Future of Good wants to see in the social purpose world, expanding health benefits to all part-time, contract and full-time team members, introducing unlimited paid wellness days, compensating interviewees, and a whole lot more. Anouk has a heightened sense of the systemic changes required in the social purpose world for changemakers and organizations to create the lasting change they want to see. It takes a high-quality leader to both appreciate the sector’s challenges and struggles and call out business-as-usual behaviours and orthodoxies that keep teams, boards and systems stuck. Anouk has a strong vision for enabling a smarter social purpose world. Her deep passion for justice and innovation shows up when Anouk speaks in public settings and her internal leadership. She is a committed leader who can oscillate seamlessly between player, captain and coach.

Ensuring that our team has the resources and structure to deliver on an ambitious and important mandate. My role is to set a sustainable pace for aspirational targets; build and organize our team structure, capacity and effectiveness for growth; nurture a culture that is bold and daring, yet caring and fulfilling; and implement streamlined day-to-day decision-making, workflow and processes.

ProCo is an intersectional feminist consulting cooperative founded in 2019. Our goal as a community is to support people and organizations realize their vision for a better world. To do this, we bring together progressive experts and work with future-builders to tackle projects that create meaningful change.ProCo has two founding members and works with consultants across the country with subject matter expertise, deep experience and common values to provide our clients with the best outcomes possible.

• Full budget responsibility for generating, managing and reporting on organizational budget. Includes CRA filing T3010, voluntary annual audit, P&L, quarterly internal reports and grant reporting.• Development, implementation, and maintenance of management systems and processes to run a small non-profit organization.• Grant writing and reporting, development of annual report.• Leadership and management of 13 staff, 7 direct reports.• All media appearances including television, radio, newspaper and social media. Giving speeches, and sitting on panels. • Support of Board of Directors including recruiting and training new members, preparing documents and leading strategic planning sessions.• Development of organizational partnerships applicable to our work in the charitable and textile sectors including a Textile Summit launched in 2017.• Operation of three social enterprise revenue streams: Sewing Production, Public Sewing Courses and Textile Recycling.

• Transformed EcoEquitable’s three social enterprises from struggling entities into profitable ventures. Shut down two unprofitable and unstrategic enterprises.• Recruited over 10 sewing teachers to our public courses.• Developed processes for better operations from payroll to accounting to logging pounds of fabric recycled.

Leadership and Management of EcoEquitable including:-Operational Planning -Program Planning-Human Resources -Financial Planning-Community Relations -Risk Management

Provide advice to Responsible Care on strategy and advocacy issues relating to sustainability in the chemical industry (position paper on Shale Gas exploration in Canada)Member of subcommittee on Business Continuance Planning with CIAC member companies

Developed, launched, managed, and reported on Emerging Leaders ProgramPlanned, designed, delivered, and reported on MBA Sustainability Leadership BootcampFacilitated board and staff process to update mission and visionDesigned and launched national sustainability program for university students, the IMPACT! Sustainability Leadership Champions Program in partnership with The Co-operatorsDesigned and delivered IMPACT! Sustainability Conference Presented action plans and progress reports to board of directorsLed strategic planning, internal learning events, and created a culture of sustainabilityMember of Management Committee, responsible for organizational strategic and operating decisions, reporting to Board of Directors

Created and launched Natural Step website to represent 11 country offices in 6 languagesCreated and launched an international sustainability newsletter Managed international budget over $200,000 with several contractors and a team of employeesLiaised with international stakeholders regarding marketing and branding (including clients such as Nike and Dow Inc).Produced annual reports, newsletters, website updates, an blog posts

Communications for The Natural Step Canada including a redesign of the website, annual reports, case studies, leadership profiles, and other communications materials.

Behavioral genetics. I looked for correlations between genetic predispositions to alcoholism and anxiety disorders in mice.