As the first leader of the Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation, Leila is responsible for overseeing all aspects of this new corporate foundation, focused on the issue of supporting family caregivers in Canada. With a career spanning over 20 years of creating meaningful social impact programs for such leading corporations as Deloitte, Loblaw and Rogers she has extensive knowledge of best practices in corporate social responsibility. Leila has also leveraged her professional experience on behalf of the NFP sector, by providing strategic planning counsel to such clients as the United Way.

Leila is a past Board member of Volunteer Canada, as well as Philanthropic Foundations Canada (PfC), Canada’s leading membership organization for Canadian foundations, and has served on a variety of Executive Councils, such as the Conference Board’s Community Investment Council. She is often asked to speak on such topics as corporate volunteering, community partnership and corporate grantmaking.

Leila holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, an M.A. in Communication and Culture from York and Ryerson Universities, a post-graduate certificate in Public Relations, and her B.A. from the University of Toronto.