Raghad Ebied

Dr. ​Raghad Ebied is an education, training and research consultant, author, speaker, and emerging scholar in compassionate and resilience-based approaches to support holistic well-being, equity and belonging. She completed her PhD in Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies at the Faculty of Education at one of Canada's top 10 Universities: Western University in London, Ontario, Canada with a research focus on supporting diverse students through a compassionate and resilience-based approach.

Her desire to inspire more compassion in others led her to complete Compassion Cultivation and Spiritual Care Training at Stanford University in the U.S, which crystallized her vision of inspiring more compassion, courage, and contribution so we can work collectively for the betterment of of our schools, organizations, and communities. She is also Research Fellow and faculty member at the Center for Leading Research in Education at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) and a Contract Teaching Faculty at WLU’s Faculty of Education where she teaches courses related to global and international education, equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-discriminatory and compassionate education.

She is a contributing author of "Leading for Equity and Social Justice: Systemic Transformation in Canadian Education" published by University of Toronto Press (2022) and "Leading for Refugees and Newcomers: Cases for K-12 Schools" published by Harvard Education Press (2026). She also developed an audio course on Intercultural Leadership for professionals with Prodio.

As an Ontario certified teacher by profession, strategic thinker, excellent communicator, and solutions-oriented educator, her experience includes over 15 years of working with government, non-profit, schools, health, universities and private sector in program development and management, teaching, leadership and teams training, consulting and coaching both in Canada and the Middle East.