
CEO/Founder
Ranked #15 globally on the 2020 EmPower Ethnic Minority Future Leaders list, Manpreet Dhillon is an equity, diversity, and inclusion specialist with a unique lens as a leadership coach for people of culture empowering them for equality of pay and representation. She focuses on creating systemic change to address institutionalized inequalities through representation from the communities being served.
Manpreet has over 20 years of leadership, coaching, human resources, and community development expertise.
Manpreet is the founder/CEO of Veza and an Entrepreneur in Residence with Women’s Enterprise Center. Veza has worked with the following selected notable organizations, including UN affiliates: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, UN Women, BC Cancer Foundation, Allied REIT, HR Tech Group, Immigrant Employers Council of BC, 7-Eleven and Terramera. She also led a trade mission of women entrepreneurs to Croatia – one of the first held by a private company to further the mission of increasing export by women entrepreneurs.
Manpreet has held positions as a board member of Canada India Education Society, liveBIG Society, British Columbia Institute of Technology Alumni Board of Directors, past Board Member of Royal Roads University, and has served on various arts and health boards.
Manpreet is a twice contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul, and a contributing author to Forbes, Thrive Global, and Small Business BC.
She received her Masters in Organizational Management and resides in Vancouver, BC, Canada.