Dr. Nzinga Harrison
Dr. Harrison is a psychiatrist, addiction medicine expert, author, speaker and activist. She is Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of Eleanor Health.
Nzinga is a vocal advocate for stigma reduction and is passionate about the necessity for whole-person care as individuals and communities seek to recover from and prevent substance use disorders.
She is the author of Un-Addiction: 6 Mind-Changing Conversations That Could Save a Life and host of the podcast “Un-Addiction” which shares empowering stories of recovery from substance use disorder and answers common questions surrounding addiction and mental health.
Dr. Jillian Horton
Jillian Horton is a specialist in general internal medicine, an Associate Professor of Medicine, a distinguished medical educator, and an internationally renowned speaker and thought leader on medical culture, training, practice, and physician health. She is the author of “We Are All Perfectly Fine: A memoir of love, medicine and healing”, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed Canadian national bestseller. It is currently being adapted for television.
In 2020 she was awarded the US-based Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s prestigious Gold Humanism Award, recognizing her as a leading medical educator and voice of authority on compassionate patient care and medical education.
An expert on both mindfulness for clinicians and patients, Jill has completed a year of master teacher training in Mindful Practice at the University of Rochester, and is regularly invited to speak and lead workshops on mindfulness at conferences, universities and health systems. In recent years, she has begun offering mindfulness-based work to patients living with addiction. Her op-eds and long features have appeared regularly in Canadian print media (The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, MacLean’s), and a number of US newspapers by syndication, and she has produced and delivered lectures for CBC Ideas.
In 2025, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wilfred Laurier University for her compelling translations of the experiences of healthcare workers for the public.
Dr. Janine Rowe
Janine Rowe, PhD, LMHC, CASAC, is Director of the University of Rochester Employee Assistance Program in Rochester, NY. Her work focuses on workplace mental health, and trauma-informed care in high-stress environments. She specializes in supporting organizations through critical incidents, developing mutual support models, and advancing employee well-being initiatives.
Françoise Mathieu
Françoise Mathieu, MEd, RP, is the Executive Director of TEND, a consulting firm that offers training to a broad spectrum of workforces encountering stress and intense workloads. She is a Kingston-based Registered Psychotherapist and a subject matter expert on topics related to workplace stress, trauma and burnout.
Before becoming a specialist in organizational stress and trauma- exposed work, Françoise worked as a front-line crisis counsellor and with members of the Canadian military who were returning from combat. Françoise is a founding member of the Secondary Traumatic Stress Consortium, and author of The Compassion Fatigue Workbook as well as numerous articles and publications.
