Recognition for equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives

The Ted Rogers Students’ Society (TRSS) won the Best Wellness Initiative Award for the EDI Well-Being Space at the Canadian Association of Business Students (CABS) Awards in 2023 (external link) . The not-for-profit organization, which represents over 70,000 business students across Canada, celebrates excellence with awards each year given to business students and business student associations. The Best Wellness Initiative Award is given to a meaningful initiative that promotes wellness to students that brought the most incremental value to its business school student community.

BTM graduate Jacqueline Chung won the Ted Rogers School of Management’s 2023 Gold Medal and the TMU Board of Governors Leadership Award and Medal in 2023. Over their university career, Chung also won Adobe Research's $10,000 Women-in-Technology Scholarship which recognizes outstanding female undergraduate/master's students in North American universities studying computer science, computer engineering or closely related fields. Chung also previously received the 2022 Alan Shepard Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award and 2021 Ted Rogers School of Management Leadership Award. Read more about their work for women in STEM and environmental sustainability.

First-year student Kanya Navanathan won the Dean's Social Innovation Prize this year, for their project, ADH-Meet. The Dean’s Social Innovation Prize, created in 2018, is funded annually by alumni and other external supporters of the Ted Rogers School. The $2,000 award will fund ADH-Meet, which brings young people with ADHD together by playing board games that encourage people to work together. The goal of the games is for people to get to know each other, to combat social isolation and facilitate connections among youth who experience bullying because of their ADHD diagnoses. The Dean’s Social Innovation Prize will be used by Navanathan to secure venues to run board game events for the ADHD community and fund the purchase of games.

Out of 185 applicants, Ted Rogers School students Madeleine Martinho (Global Management Studies), Daniela Kuntzevitsky (Business Management) and Sinduja Sriskantharajah (Finance) were among 25 selected as mentees for the year-long National Bank Financial 2022 Young Women Student Mentorship Program. The program highlights the Financial Advisor role and aims to increase the number of women in wealth management.

Morgan Blackett, Denise Campbell and Jacob Kamps were named inaugural Ted Rogers MBA Black Graduate Leadership Award recipients.

This year, an inclusive clothing start-up for women won the 2023 Slaight New Venture Competition, the annual pitch competition presented by Slaight Family Foundation for $25K startup seed funding. Third-year Entrepreneurship student Claire Chisholm won $25,000 in funding for her startup Bear Workwear, which creates functional, comfortable and durable workwear for women in skilled trades, to meet their sizing and style needs.

Third-year Marketing Management student Cody Anthony received the Defining Your Success Award for Creative Excellence at Indigenous Student Showcase and Open House, and the Reconciliation in Business 2022 event that he spearheaded won Best Indigenous Relations Initiative in Canadian Council for Advancement of Education’s 2023 Prix d'Excellence Celebration.