Helen Leask

Helen is also a certified professional facilitator (CPF) endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators. Helen's facilitation practice, Vision Workshop Facilitation, assists organizations to work collaboratively towards new visions for the future.  She uses her own photography to enhance group collaboration and sells VisionBOX, an image kit for facilitators.

Helen gained a PhD in zoology from the University of Bristol, UK, then worked as a science journalist. In Canada she founded three healthcare-related companies, including a book publisher, a research company and a medical communications agency on Yonge Street in Toronto that she ran for almost 20 years before selling up in 2017. Her book-publishing list included The Canadian Guide to Prostate Cancer, 2nd Edition. After she turned 40, with the help of a student loan Helen qualified as a private pilot, writing about the experience for The Globe and Mail. She crossed two oceans as the sole passenger on a freighter, a photojournalism project published by Quartz. Following lockdown, she travelled to the most remote islands on Earth, the Marquesas in French Polynesia, resulting in a solo photographic exhibition, Faces of Paradise. She is an adjunct professor at the San Diego Biomedical Institute (San Diego Biomed) and a reviewer for the British Medical Journal.