Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Enablers and Barriers to Success in Canada's Music Industry: Diversity Research Report

Biography

Celebrated as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women in 2021, Charlie Wall-Andrews is a Trudeau Scholar, SSHRC Bombardier Scholar, and researcher dedicated to teaching excellence and advancing research in the equity, entrepreneurship, and creative industries. Since 2018, she has continued to be an Arts and Media Management lecturer at the University of Toronto and recently a lecturer for the Arts Administration and Cultural Entrepreneurship graduate program at Northeastern University (USA). Wall-Andrews has over ten years of executive management experience and is an Edmond de Rothschild Foundation Legacy Fellow. She has pioneered many innovative programs as the current Executive Director of SOCAN Foundation, including the Incubator for Creative Entrepreneurship and equity-driven initiatives to empower artists to be entrepreneurs. She is a strategic planning consultant and has worked with many non-profits on developing their strategic plans, such as Women In Music and Inside Out LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Wall-Andrews is on the board of directors of WorkInCulture, TELUS Toronto Community Investment Board, Co-Chair for Canadian Music Week, and is the inaugural Vice-Chair of Music Canada’s Advisory Council. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Diversity Institute. She has generated private research funding in the creative industries and has designed training programs at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub. Wall-Andrews is a Ph.D. (ABD) Candidate in Management at Ted Rogers School of Management and will defend her dissertation Winter 2023.