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Rumeet Billan, PHD

ENTREPRENEUR | RESEARCHER |
CANADA’S TOP 10 POWER WOMEN, 2020
Perspective building. potential raising. possibility thinking.

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Dr. Rumeet Billan is an award-winning, internationally recognized entrepreneur, learning architect, speaker, author, and humanitarian. Her mission is to transform workplace cultures through research, training, and experiences that foster trust, belonging, and resilience.

Dr. Billan is the CEO and owner of Women of Influence+ and is the CEO and founder of Viewpoint Leadership. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, and has designed and facilitated programs, courses, and training sessions across industries and sectors. She has twice led the groundbreaking research study on Tall Poppy Syndrome, which reveals the impact of the silent systemic syndrome on women in the workplace. She also co-led the Canadian Happiness at Work Study in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association. In 2022, she sold her first company, Jobs in Education, and it was successfully acquired on June 1, 2022.

Dr. Billan was named one of Canada’s Top 10 Power Women in 2020, and is a regular guest on Global News, CTV, Breakfast Television. She has been featured in Forbes, The Globe and Mail, and The Financial Post, among many other publications. Her talk on The Future of Education at TEDx was highly lauded and later adapted into a workshop for students. In 2018, she authored her first award-winning and bestselling book Who Do I Want To Become? designed for anyone, of any age, who has been stumped by the question of what they’re going to be when they grow up. Dr. Billan currently sits on the Board of Directors for First Book Canada, is the former Chair of the Board for Fora: Network for Change, and served her term on the Board of Directors for CODE.

Through her work, Dr. Billan provides a platform that encourages youth, women, communities, and organizations to envision what could be possible. Since 2004, she has contributed to social impact initiatives that improve the accessibility and the quality of education in North America, South America and Africa. In addition to building 3 schools, supporting 120 scholarships, 2 full year breakfast programs, and 5 soccer tournaments around the world, her vision led to the creation and development of a teacher’s college in rural Kenya. In 2019, Dr. Billan made a donation of over 280,000 brand-new books from various publishers and authors to be distributed to children and youth in need in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Billan continues to support causes, and lead initiatives, that promote human welfare.

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