A Powerful Conversation With Heather Tay

Many years ago, Heather decided she would have a life of playful adventure and has never looked back.  Since then she’s called five countries her home, swam with sharks, danced on a volcano, rode a Ducati named Princess, and has generally said yes a whole lot more than she’s said no.  She started out her adult life as an engineer, quickly realized she had a greater fascination with business, trekked to the land of the start-up (San Francisco) where she led an extraordinary sales team providing business intelligence for mobile operators and content providers.    Now having returned to Toronto, Heather’s committed to bringing beauty to our world through the creative design of the spaces we live in. She’s currently running a business accelerator for design-led companies and creative entrepreneurs at OCAD University.  She continues as a board member for the SF based dance company ODC/Dance and sits on a committee for Toronto based creative spacemaker Artscape.  When she’s not working or volunteering she’s either wandering the wooded paths around Evergreen Brickworks, zipping around town on her Vespa, exploring another country or planning for the next stamp in her passport.