Susan Chalmers-Gauvin is a results-driven leader with over 20 years of management experience. Ms. Chalmers-Gauvin is the Co-Founder and driving force behind the international company, Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada. She has brought the Company from a start-up enterprise to an international success story with tours through-out Europe, United States and Canada. Ms. Chalmers-Gauvin has a demonstrated ability to develop a vision, inspire a broad base of support from community, private and public sector, achieve consensus and deliver results. Ms. Chalmers-Gauvin was was a recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal in 2021, inducted in to the Order of New Brunswick in 2017. She is a recipient of Top 50 CEO's in Atlantic Canada Award (2015 and 2023),In 2013 she received Canada’s TOP 100 Award- Canada's Most Powerful Women, by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN). She received an Honourary Doctorate from the University of New Brunswick (2012) and the YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2009).Ms. Chalmers-Gauvin actively pursues innovative partnerships which include collaborations with the education and social sectors. She spear headed the development of CELEBRATE COURAGE an award winning, national, cross sectorial program that uses ballet-art as a vehicle for dialogue and action on the issue of violence against woman and girls. She is a frequent guest speaker on the topics of performing arts management, the importance of Canadian arts and culture to our regional, municipal and national economies; and the key role the arts play in enriching the quality of life in our communities.Susan Chalmers-Gauvin has over 8 years of experience providing strategic counsel and program development expertise to First Nations communities and NGO's in her previous role as President of Stellar Consulting, She has also held leadership positions within the health care sector.