Heather Reisman

Founder & Executive Chair, Indigo

Heather Reisman is the founder and Executive Chair of Indigo, Canada’s largest book, lifestyle and specialty kids’ retailer and the host of the podcast, Well Said. She is also the co-founder of Kobo, a leading global eReading company.

Ms. Reisman was born in Montreal and educated at McGill University.

For the first 16 years of her career, Ms. Reisman was Managing Director of Paradigm Consulting, the strategy and change management firm she co-founded in 1979. Paradigm was the world’s first strategic change consultancy and pioneered many organizational change strategies still in use today.

Ms. Reisman is a former Governor of McGill University and of the Toronto Stock Exchange. She has served on many North American boards and continues to serve as a Director of Onex Corporation, Sinai Health and The National Library of Israel.