Board of Directors
Meet the Black Leadership Institute Board of Directors. They’re a dedicated group of industry leaders who share a deep belief in the Centre’s mission. The Board of Directors provides outstanding executive leadership, experience and expertise from areas of spirituality, business, finance, and more.
Ruth Dorsainville
Ruth Dorsainville is an author, scholar, and career leader, and is the founder of DNA Black Leadership Institute.
Ruth left Wall Street to become a humanitarian and conscious entrepreneur devoted to empowering billions of people to live their true purpose on earth and change the world towards positive consciousness.
She considers the purpose of her work to be teaching people how they can achieve true lasting fulfillment, and become limitless through personal transformation.
Peggy McColl
Peggy McColl, New York Times Best-Selling Author
Peggy McColl is a world-renowned wealth, business and manifestation expert as well as the New York Times Best Selling Author. Peggy is the author of 20 books; written in both the non-fiction genre and the fiction genre. Her books have been translated into 37 languages and sold in more than 100 countries.
For over 27+ years, using her techniques — along with her unique intimate understanding of the Universal Laws – she has been showing people from around the globe how to:
Manifest any result they desire in their personal and professional lives, from dream homes and soulmates to perfect health and multi-million-dollar businesses; become International Best-Selling Authors; create wealth and complete freedom; And much more.
Cliona Ohara
Cliona moved from Northern Ireland to the U.S at the young age of 18. She worked in the healthcare industry for over 20 years, Since 1998 she has been involved in leadership and management roles within some of the largest IPA's nationally.
In 2016 Cliona left Healthcare to Pursue her true calling and purpose: Personal Development.
After spending 2 decades working in the mundane stress filled corporate world she knew there had to be a better way to work and live.
Cliona has since become a VP at the Proctor Gallagher Institute and Senior Coach.
Her mission is to transform lives through the power of the mind, she believes that if we change the way we look at things the things we look at change.
Now as the CEO of the Napoleon Hill Institute she is coaching clients and training coaches to deliver and share the laws of success by Napoleon Hill.
Ross Cadastre
(pronounced Ca-dasse)
Ross Cadastre is the founder and CEO of Innovative Talent Solutions Inc. a leading talent company with two distinct brands ITS Global & Kontingence Recruitment, which address recruitment challenges for organizations throughout Canada. His passion is people, their elevation, their development, and ultimately helping people find their true purpose and power.
He also founded Lyenn Dous — a near-shore Knowledge Process Outsourcing operation located in Saint Lucia, providing back-office services to North American technology start-ups and high growth companies.
Ross is a known champion of the advancement of the work of under-represented people. His establishment of www.bipocjobs.ca, the leading job board for BIPOC talent across North America, has provided BIPOC professionals with the avenue necessary to break barriers in their various fields.
A believer in building generational wealth within the black community, Ross serves as the President of the Black Business Professional Association (BBPA), an organization that addresses equity and builds programming to support black-owned businesses across Canada.
In 2017, Ross was acknowledged at the Black Business Awards and inducted into the Black Canadian National Wall of Role Models.
In 2020 he was recognised as one of Canada’s Top 100 Professionals and then accepted as a member of the prestigious Forbes Business Council in 2022, the foremost growth and networking organization for successful business owners and leaders worldwide.
As he journeys on his quest to develop the next generation of black professionals, Ross continues to positively influence the world of recruitment by imparting knowledge at every opportunity.