Our Team
Leonie Smith
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Leonie Smith is a first-generation Canadian of Jamaican heritage. She is founder of a consultancy dedicated to supporting organisations and individuals find ways of working that are less harmful and more inclusive, The Thoughtful Workplace. She has more than 20 years experience in senior management positions championing an approach to leadership that supports care and efficiency towards a shared purpose.
Uma Lo
Co-Founder (retired)
Uma is a first-generation New Yorker and daughter of Taiwanese immigrants to the United States. She applies what she learns from an ongoing journey reclaiming her cultural heritage, confronting internalized racism and other oppressions, and applying privileged access to resources (including NVC) to her work with POC4NVC. As a collaborator, facilitator, coach, and consultant, Uma seeks to restore/discover our human capacity to live fully empowered and fully expressed through interdependence with each other and all life.