Mary Jane Braide is a strategy consultant specializing in corporate branding and organizational alignment. She has her own firm in Toronto (MJ Braide Corporate Development) and has consulted for over 20 years to some of Canada’s premier public and private sector organizations, including in the arts and education.

Mary Jane dedicates approximately 10 percent of her business to pro bono work. She is actively involved in community development in volunteer board roles with Parkdale Project Read, a community-based adult literacy organization, and for over a decade with the not-for-profit, the Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation, Canada’s first and largest group RESP provider.

She holds a Master of Arts in Economic Geography from the University of Toronto and an Honours BA from Queen’s University, Kingston.