Our mission is to educate, elevate and empower women to collectively move the dial.

Our Executive Team

President & Founder

Joanna Jagger is passionate about educating future leaders and moving the dial for gender equity. She is the President and founder of WORTH Association, where she advocates to ensure a more equal future for women in industry leadership. Joanna is an instructor and researcher in the School of Tourism Management at Capilano University. She has held leadership roles in sales, catering and human resources at top hospitality brands including Marriott, Shangri-La, Sequoia Company of Restaurants and Joe Fortes Seafood and Chophouse. A Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR), she provides HR solutions through her consulting practice, Adanac HR Services. Joanna has a Provincial Instructor’s Diploma from VCC and a Masters in Leadership from Royal Roads University.

Caitlin began her career in tourism and hospitality just over 8 years ago. Today, she is a Marketing & Communications Manager for Wall Centre Hotels and Director of Marketing for WORTH. She is enthusiastic to share captivating content and is eager to make an impact while educating, elevating and empowering our community. More recently, Caitlin welcomed her first daughter, Olivia - WORTH's newest (and probably youngest) member. 

Jennifer (Jen) Rhind is the Assistant Director of Finance at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, BC. She has been in the accounting field for the last fourteen years and has a wide breadth of knowledge in many areas.

Jen is an avid sports fan, she enjoys playing baseball, basketball and soccer and watching every sport imaginable. She enjoys learning languages, currently learning Spanish, French, and Korean. She has aspirations to be the General Manager of a hotel in the future.

Clea Cosmann sits on the WORTH Board as the Director of Events, planning impactful events such as ‘Yes Shef’ and ‘Empower Her’ to advocate for equality. She appreciatively calls Vancouver home, and holds the position of Director of Sales for one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in Canada, Glowbal Restaurant Group. Clea has a passion for empowering other women in the restaurant industry and counts the opportunity to provide mentorship and motivation the richest part of her work life.

Shobna Kannusamy is the Founder and Principal Coach at Soirette Connections and the host of the Colour Me Brave Podcast. With a dynamic career spanning 25 years, Shobna’s journey led her from engineering to hospitality, opening her own bakery in downtown Vancouver, which she successfully ran for 10 years. She gained national recognition for her innovation and became a judge on Food Network’s Wall of Bakers. As a Certified Leadership and Organizational Coach, she is dedicated to guiding her clients in discovering authentic leadership rooted in their values, strengths, and purpose. Shobna leverages her creative, analytical, and entrepreneurial expertise with a vision-focused mindset and agility in navigating change to empower her clients, enabling them to unlock their leadership potential and thrive in their community. She currently serves clients and their teams across the globe.

As a multi-immigrant, she has the privilege of viewing the world through various lenses of culture and dynamics which informs her work as a coach, and as a mother. She finds immense fulfillment in executing her business through her purpose, working with entrepreneurs in their Leadership Development.