Racheal Awe
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
Elections Ontario
Racheal Awe is a strategic executive leader with almost 25 years of experience guiding enterprise strategy, governance, and transformation across industries including government, retail, financial services, infrastructure, and oil & gas. She is known for her ability to connect vision to execution – delivering multi-year corporate strategies, transformation programs, and stakeholder engagement initiatives that drive innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.
Racheal currently serves as the Chief Strategy and Innovation officer at Elections Ontario – leading work that strengthens the bedrock of our democracy and the public trust that underpins it. Her previous experience includes serving as the Vice President & Chief of Staff to the CEO at Canadian Tire Corporation, where she helped lead multi-billion-dollar strategies, digital modernization, and enterprise resilience through disruption; and earlier in her career, she held management roles with global organizations such as TD Bank, Sears Canada, Saks Fifth Avenue/HBC, and ExxonMobil.
Schedule
15 mins
St. Lawrence Centre — Bluma Appel Theatre
Can Democracy Keep Up? Elections in the Digital Era
Our world is changing faster than institutions can adapt, and people expect more transparency, responsiveness, and trust. Can democracy keep up? How does one of our most important institutions, our elections systems, adapt, when many institutions struggle to respond? This keynote begins with democracy but ultimately reveals a much bigger question – one that challenges how every leader thinks about change, trust, and the future.