EDIA Strategy & Measurement

Turning Insight Into Lasting Change

I help transform equity commitments into measurable outcomes through data, research, strategic measurement, unified strategy and human-centered design

About

I bring over 20 years of experience in research, analytics and strategy across STEM, non-profit and corporate sectors. My work is grounded in integrity and driven by the belief that equitable systems must be both inclusive and accountable. As a pattern whisperer, I specialize in bridging full-stack data analytics with unified equity strategy and measurement design to create sustainable, measurable impact.

After years in STEM, I’m now applying my experience in research, analytics, and problem-solving to advance fairness in workplaces and communities, evidence-based, measurable strategy, programs and measurement systems that support sustainable outcomes.

My work focuses on transforming raw data into actionable insights that inform analytics-driven, community-centered initiatives, helping groups and communities thrive. Alongside this, I’ve led non-profit programs and community initiatives that advance career, inclusion, and opportunity for underrepresented populations, particularly in STEM.

My path has been shaped learning to build a foundation for myself, this demanded resilience; experiences that continue to inform my perspective on how inclusive systems, or their absence, shape human experience. This awareness grounds my work in both evidence and empathy. I design with people at the center, ensuring strategies aren’t just theoretical but practical and lived.

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Credentials & Community

I bring both professional credentials and a strong track record of community leadership, always guided by integrity in action.

Community Collaboration

Specialized Training & Certificates:

Certificate-awarded training requiring demonstrated proficiency in key concepts and practices

  • Autism and Neurodiversity in the Workplace | University of British Columbia

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Strategies for Business Impact | University of Cambridge Judge Business School

  • Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in the Workplace | York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

  • Labour Law | York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

  • Workplace Mental Health Law | York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

  • Trauma Informed Care | Alberta Health Services (AHS)

Board Leadership:

APEGA Foundation, AVE Network,

Large residential condominium corporation, Calgary AB (Director —> Vice President—>President )

Founder & Consultant:

M Consulting - specializing in Equity Insights to Guide Strategies & Program Design via Collaboration & Full-Stack Data Analytics

Founder & Chair:

AVE Network - a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Education & Networking Community for Diverse STEM Professionals

Mentor & Speaker:

Equity in STEM, underrepresented community mentorship, school programs

“Data and strategy matter, but people are what make equity real.”

~M~

Intersectional Lived Experience

Content Warning

The following section discusses personal lived experiences that inform my professional EDIA perspective.

These experiences help me navigate complex dynamics. Building for human rhythms, I apply empathy, inclusive design and actionable strategies.

While personal and cultural experiences may seem separate from work, they shape how individuals engage, collaborate and influence workplace culture, positively and negatively. They are essential to consider in creating effective, inclusive teams and systems.

Sharing these experiences reflects my commitment to integrity and transparency, because authenticity is essential for building trust.

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Dimensions of Diversity

Identity

  • Insight: Lived experience navigating systemic bias & overt racism

    Impact on My Work: Drive equitable talent strategies and community engagement

  • Insight: My gender is expansive; this helps me understand the complexity of gender beyond the binary

    Impact on My Work: Design inclusive policies, programs and communications to support understanding, self acceptance and confidence

  • Insight: Navigating neurodiversity in personal and professional life

    Impact on My Work: Create accessible processes, empathetic design, and inclusive communication to ensure inclusion, awareness of differences & personal empowerment in the workplace

  • Insight: Direct experience with bias & accessibility barriers - had an apparent disability 20+ years. In my 30s I was given surgery and took over a year to relearn to walk for the 3rd time.

    Impact on My Work: Ensure programs and systems are inclusive, accessible, unbiased & fair

  • Insight: Navigating education, career & personal finances on my own as a first-generation individual

    Impact on My Work: Guide mentorship programs and equity initiatives

  • Insight: Understanding historical and systemic oppression affecting generational behavioural & thinking patterns. Reclaiming the truth of ones heritage from erasure.

    Impact on My Work: Inform culturally aware & inclusive program design that ensures people first, education, psychological support/awareness and personal empowerment

  • Insight: Navigating cross-cultural identity and belonging

    Impact on My Work: Shapes culturally responsive strategies and community engagement ensuring sharing of cultural similarities, connection and support

Life Experiences

  • Insight:
    Worked from warehouse & admin roles to leadership, seeing how workplaces operate at every level.

    Impact on Work:
    Experience breadth helps me design equity strategies that work for both frontline staff and leadership.

  • Insight: Experience with harmful relational dynamics & its effects on the workplace

    Impact on My Work: Informs trauma-informed program and policy design ensuring respect, trauma informed care & inclusive processes

  • Insight: Experienced in relational and workplace contexts

    Impact on My Work: Guides risk assessment, conflict management, and solution design to ensure culture stability and collective empowerment for organizational safety

  • Insight: Experienced in relational and workplace contexts

    Impact on My Work: Shapes programs addressing economic equity, protection & fairness

  • Insight: Grew up with significant responsibilities toward others

    Impact on My Work: Informs inclusive work-life policies, community-focused solutions and complex social dynamics

  • Insight: Exposure to loss and relational trauma

    Impact on My Work: Supports empathy-driven policies, team engagement & workplace support framework

Systemic Context

  • Insight: Transitioned from financial insecurity & illiteracy to self-sufficiency

    Impact on My Work: Informs programs that enhance economic inclusion, mobility & empowerments

  • Insight: Experienced denial of opportunities and salary inequities due to identity

    Impact on My Work: Drive mentorship, pay equity advocacy & equitable organizational strategy; knowledge sharing for personal empowerment while identifying and correcting systemic bias

  • Insight: Understanding of toxic organizational behavior

    Impact on My Work: Enables proactive strategies for safe, equitable workplaces

Mental Health

  • Insight: Combination of lived experience & interactions across a range of mental health challenges

    Impact on My Work: Strengthens barrier analysis, strategy design, and the application of an equity lens to build trauma-informed, empathetic, and inclusive workplace practices.

Reflection & Rebirth of Self

“Strength comes from the lessons lived and shared”

~M~

Shaped by these experiences and my professional training, I draw on a problem-solving mindset to help cultivate resilience, center equity and translate complex EDIA challenges into actionable, human-centered solutions that create sustainable outcomes.

Ready to make fairness part of your organization’s everyday practices?

Tailored EDIA: Clarity. Inclusion. Impact.