Annemarie Shrouder

Annemarie Shrouder

BASc, BEd, MA

ON, CANADA
Experience the difference inclusion can make in your workplace and community from a woman dedicated to helping people thrive.

An engaging and dynamic speaker and workshop facilitator, Annemarie Shrouder is passionate about creating diverse and inclusive spaces, where all people can thrive and reach their potential. Her interactive sessions are engaging and thought-provoking, inspiring people to see more and to think again. She presents the issues in a way that reaches the heart and helps people to connect across difference.


For over 16 years, Annemarie has developed and delivered customized workshops to assist in the creation of inclusive workplaces and client/customer experiences. Annemarie's main focus in her work is to raise people's awareness about their own bias, and how this lens (and lack of awareness of it) impacts our relationships and affect the work environment by creating or sustaining barriers to inclusion.


Clients include KPMG, CIBC, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI), Girl Guides of Canada, Toronto Public Library, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Egale and Travel Gay Canada.

In addition to workshop development and delivery, Annemarie has assisted with the Ontario Ministry of Education's Equity & Inclusive Education Strategy, has reviewed curriculum for the Toronto District School Board and the Girl Guides of Canada through an inclusion lens, has designed a Diversity Strategy for The Canadian Diabetes Association, and has written the LGBTTTQQI Strategy for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health which has led to exciting changes in structure and client care. She was the Cultural Competency Coordinator for the Central LHIN Diversity Initiative in Mental Health, and has worked at Egale, developing LGBTQ inclusive education resources for New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Manitoba, as well as designing and delivering LGBTQ safer space workshops for schools across Newfoundland and Labrador.


Annemarie is the co-author of The School that Equity Built, and has a Masters Degree in Equity Studies from the University of Toronto.

An engaging and dynamic speaker and workshop facilitator, Annemarie Shrouder is passionate about creating diverse and inclusive spaces, where all people can thrive and reach their potential. Her interactive sessions are engaging and thought-provoking, inspiring people to see more and to think again. She presents the issues in a way that reaches the heart and helps people to connect across difference.


For over 16 years, Annemarie has developed and delivered customized workshops to assist in the creation of inclusive workplaces and client/customer experiences. Annemarie's main focus in her work is to raise people's awareness about their own bias, and how this lens (and lack of awareness of it) impacts our relationships and affect the work environment by creating or sustaining barriers to inclusion.


Clients include KPMG, CIBC, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI), Girl Guides of Canada, Toronto Public Library, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Egale and Travel Gay Canada.

In addition to workshop development and delivery, Annemarie has assisted with the Ontario Ministry of Education's Equity & Inclusive Education Strategy, has reviewed curriculum for the Toronto District School Board and the Girl Guides of Canada through an inclusion lens, has designed a Diversity Strategy for The Canadian Diabetes Association, and has written the LGBTTTQQI Strategy for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health which has led to exciting changes in structure and client care. She was the Cultural Competency Coordinator for the Central LHIN Diversity Initiative in Mental Health, and has worked at Egale, developing LGBTQ inclusive education resources for New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Manitoba, as well as designing and delivering LGBTQ safer space workshops for schools across Newfoundland and Labrador.


Annemarie is the co-author of The School that Equity Built, and has a Masters Degree in Equity Studies from the University of Toronto.