Dr. Helen Ofosu has been practicing Industrial / Organizational Psychology in the public and private sectors for over 20 years. In addition to Career and Executive Coaching, her specialties include assessing and developing leadership skills and navigating the complex issues of workplace bullying, harassment, equity, diversity and inclusion.

In 2012, she founded I/O Advisory Services Inc., a practice where she offers Executive Coaching, HR Consulting, and some speaking and training.

She’s pleased to be one of the founding officers of the Section on Black Psychology, Canadian Psychological Association and the current Chair.

Dr. Ofosu is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa. In 2023, her first book, “How to Be Resilient in Your Career: Facing Up to Barriers at Work,” was published by Routledge. Her book was nominated for a 2024 Trillium Book Award! With past winners like Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," this nomination is a significant honour.

In June 2024, she received the first-ever Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (CSIOP) Outstanding Practitioner Award.

Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese Artist, Liberation Educator, Abolitionist, Anti-oppression Consultant , multidisciplinary performer, speaker and published writer. Her work explores reproductive justice, transformative justice & abolition, art as liberation and digital justice. 

As a writer, Rania's work explores themes of identity, womanhood, Blackness, flight, exile, migration, belonging, gender, sexuality and beyond. Rania's primary mediums are poetry, spoken word and oral storytelling. She is a published poet, storyteller and playwright. Rania is deeply interested in poetic form and the auditory texture of words as well as the visual/aesthetic impact of language and form. 

Rania is an experienced anti-oppression, abolition and liberation educator and consultant who is unflinchingly committed to decolonization and freedom as the ultimate goals of her work. She has worked extensively with contemporary arts institutions, STEM based enterprises, media organizations, educational institutions and community/grassroots spaces.