Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, she was a top manager in the marketing and operations functions of a medium-sized, service-based firm in London, Ontario as well as working for other companies. She returned to the Ivey Business School in August 1998 to pursue a Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems, completing it during 2004. She received Ivey’s 2012 Emerging Leaders Award and The Case Centre’s 2014 Annual Business Education “Oscar” in the Case Writing Competition for her development of Service Learning in Africa, an HBA elective at Ivey.