Panellist
Sarika Gundu, head, Canadian benefits and enterprise recognition, BMO Financial Group
Sarika Gundu is an influential people and culture leader, known for her bold innovative solutions leveraging her extensive experience in employee health to transform workplaces into performance-driven cultures. Sarika has a proven track record for building spaces where employees feel engaged, empowered and psychologically safe to bring their whole self to work.
She currently represents the voice of 30,000 employees as the head of BMO’s Canadian Benefits and Enterprise Recognition Program. She’s transformed her passion and advocacy for advancing the role of women in the workplace through the architecture of BMO’s first ever women’s health strategy. Prior to joining BMO, Sarika led Deloitte Canada’s wellness and benefits program and was the firm’s in-house mental health SME. Prior to Deloitte, she pioneered the development of a national workplace mental health program called the Workforce Mental Health Collaborative at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), National Office.
Sarika serves in key roles as a board director for the Mental Health Commission of Canada and the Community Association for Riders with Disabilities. She is a member on the marketing committee for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation and serves as technical committee member for the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard) – the first of its kind in the world, is a set of voluntary guidelines, tools and resources intended to guide organizations in promoting mental health and preventing psychological harm at work.
As women’s health and mental health is near and dear to Sarika, she is a member of womenmind™. The womenmind™ community is united in philanthropy, purpose and impact, working together with CAMH to close the gap in research on the mental health of girls and women, and to support women to become leaders in mental health research.
Sarika holds a master of science in health services administration and a bachelor of psychology.
She currently represents the voice of 30,000 employees as the head of BMO’s Canadian Benefits and Enterprise Recognition Program. She’s transformed her passion and advocacy for advancing the role of women in the workplace through the architecture of BMO’s first ever women’s health strategy. Prior to joining BMO, Sarika led Deloitte Canada’s wellness and benefits program and was the firm’s in-house mental health SME. Prior to Deloitte, she pioneered the development of a national workplace mental health program called the Workforce Mental Health Collaborative at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), National Office.
Sarika serves in key roles as a board director for the Mental Health Commission of Canada and the Community Association for Riders with Disabilities. She is a member on the marketing committee for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation and serves as technical committee member for the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard) – the first of its kind in the world, is a set of voluntary guidelines, tools and resources intended to guide organizations in promoting mental health and preventing psychological harm at work.
As women’s health and mental health is near and dear to Sarika, she is a member of womenmind™. The womenmind™ community is united in philanthropy, purpose and impact, working together with CAMH to close the gap in research on the mental health of girls and women, and to support women to become leaders in mental health research.
Sarika holds a master of science in health services administration and a bachelor of psychology.