Barbara Grantham of VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation named a WXN 2016 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation top executive joins community of Canada’s most iconic women leaders

VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is pleased to announce that Barbara Grantham, President and CEO has made the list of the Women’s Executive Network‘s annual Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.

Launched in 2003, the Top 100 Awards celebrate the incredible accomplishments of Canada’s top female executive talent as well as their organizations and networks. Barbara, who will receive the PwC Public Sector Leaders Award, will be honoured during a gala celebration at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on November 24.

Over her 25-year career as a senior executive and consultant in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors, Barbara Grantham has held positions with the Vancouver Foundation, Streetohome Foundation, BC Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Canadian Mental Health Association. She excels in strategic planning, organizational assessment, project management, board governance, financial sustainability and public policy issues, also bringing those skills to her board work with the YMCA of Greater Vancouver and Awkward Stage Theatre Productions. Grantham also serves as a member of the national advisory council of Imagine Canada.

“This is a great honour, and I am grateful to KPMG for nominating me for this humbling award,” says Barbara. “Being recognized as a WXN Top 100 Award Winner is very meaningful to me because it’s an opportunity to send a message to young female leaders that glass ceilings are shattering and possibilities are endless.”

The Top 100 Awards serve to recognize talented leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and to inspire the current and next generation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

“Women are not just leading companies, headlines and new deals, we’re doing so in record numbers. In addition to closing the gender gap for participation in post-secondary education and the workforce, we’re excelling at the top levels of every sector,” says WXN Owner and CEO, Sherri Stevens. “When WXN created Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards, part of the purpose was celebration. By recognizing a community of now 939 remarkable women, we get the opportunity to look back and appreciate the hard work and hurdle jumping it took to get here.”

Barbara joins a prestigious community of past Award Winners, including Canada’s most iconic women trailblazers: Margaret Atwood, best-selling author; Dr. Roberta Bondar, astronaut; Arlene Dickinson, chief executive officer, Venture Communications; Christine Magee, president, Sleep Country Canada; Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada; Heather Reisman, founder and chief executive officer, Indigo Books & Music; and, Kathleen Taylor, chair of the board, Royal Bank of Canada. This year, there were 18 recipients from BC and only two – including Barbara – represented in the category of Public Sector Leadership.

The full list of WXN’s 2016 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winners

About the Women’s Executive Network (WXN)
At WXN, we inspire smart women to lead. WXN delivers innovative networking, mentoring, professional and personal development to inform, inspire, connect and recognize our global community of more than 22,000 women, men and their organizations. WXN enables our partners and corporate members to become and to be recognized as employers of choice and leaders in the advancement of women.

Founded in 1997, WXN is Canada’s leading organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of women in management, executive, professional and board roles. WXN is led by CEO Sherri Stevens, owner of the award-winning, multi-million dollar Workforce Management Company Stevens Resource Group Inc., which she established in 1990. In 2008, WXN launched in Ireland, followed by London, UK in 2015, creating an international community of female leaders.