Janet McCrimmon is a strategic, transformative leader with over 20 years of senior leadership experience in not-for-profits. Since 2016, she has served as Executive Director of Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre, which amalgamated with East Metro Youth Services to form Strides Toronto in 2020. Previously, Janet was the founding Executive Director of Community Organizational Health Inc. (COHI), a provincial organization accrediting community health centres across Ontario. Janet was later part of a consulting team that completed a business feasibility study resulting in COHI transforming to become the Canadian Centre for Accreditation, a national non-profit that accredits nine different types of organizations today. Janet has also served as Director, Building Inclusive Communities at Family Service Toronto (FST), a department that provided developmental services to adults and children as well as a range of community development programs, and as FST’s Director, Research, Evaluation and Planning. Her prior roles include work in a community health centre, a violence against women shelter and two years volunteering in Africa as Non-Formal Learning Advisor with ActionAid Sierra Leone.