Women in Sport Business Speaker Series

Shireen Ahmed is an award-winning, multi-platform Senior Contributor with CBC Sports, a TEDx speaker, a valued mentor, and an internationally recognized sports activist who focuses on the intersection of racism and misogyny in sports, She is a global expert on Muslim women in sport, and is the National Ambassador of Sakeenah Canada. Shireen is the co-creator and co-host of the "Burn It All Down" feminist sports podcast team, and teaches Journalism and Sports Media at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. She is happily married, has four amazing kids and a phenomenal cat. She drinks coffee as a tool of resistance.

Ann Pegoraro is the Lang Chair in Sport Management in the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics and the Director of the International Institute for Sport Business and Leadership, an industry focused research centre at the University of Guelph. A holder of a BA, MBA, and PhD degrees, Ann is an active researcher, who has presented at international conferences and published in the areas of marketing, communications, digital media, gender equity and sport management. Her research primarily focuses on gender, marketing and communication. Ann is also a life-long sports enthusiast, transitioning from playing to coaching and now teaching and sharing her knowledge and experience where possible. She is a board member of True Sport Foundation and Ontario Soccer and has consulted with amateur sport organizations in Canada and abroad. Ann is passionate about contributing to sport in Canada and ensuring access for future generations.

Isabelle Germain was born and raised in Ontario, and moved to Halifax for university and hockey, playing the sport competitively for 20 years before a concussion led her to step back. Since then, she has had the privilege of breaking barriers in sports broadcasting, becoming the first female play-by-play announcer for a men's university hockey game and the first female PA announcer at the World Junior Championship. She has also done play-by-play for the Halifax Mooseheads and served as a PA announcer at the Women's World Championship. She was the first Director of Hockey Operations for PWHL Boston and has organized hockey camps, golf tournaments and summits for renowned Olympic athletes like Jill Saulnier, Blayre Turnbull, Sarah Nurse, and Hillary Knight.

Lindsay MacPhee (she/her) is a goofy, open-book who loves that she works in a space where she can encourage others to be themselves and come as they are. She spends her days doing her best to gently encourage others to meditate, be kind, have fun and live a life in service. A former chemical engineer turned happiness enabler, she digs spinning the yarn with folks about what they're doing to elevate their quality of life! Lindsay continues to bumble her way through this whole entrepreneurship gig while finding harmony in her own self-care and health sovereignty. She founded the Floatation Centre Health and Wellness in 2015 and has been sharing the benefits of floatation therapy, meditation and mindfulness far and wide since. Outside of TFC, she is a new co-owner of Dee Dee's Ice Cream where she brings joy to others through homemade tasty treats!