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Illuminate
Leadership Academy:
An Innovative Private High School where we build future CEOs, Executives, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs from aspiring talent.
Receive mentorship from celebrity Fortune 500 leaders
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Earn a grade 12 high school credit in a week
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Learn through Virtual
or in-person experiences
Learn From the World's Best Instructors
That's why you'll be surrounded with leading global leaders, ambitious entrepreneurs, and experts such as PHDs, MDs, and MBAs.
Expect to be taught by leaders of this caliber:
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We are an accredited private school (BSID#: 884993) where students: Adventure, Discover, and Innovate.
Illuminate Leadership Academy is the quintessential educational experience for high school students, allowing them to discover new passions, find adventure in a unique learning format, and be innovative in their approach to problem-solving.
Learn your way with Illuminate:
🚀 Step #1: Pick your stream(s).
🎨 Step #2: Customize your learning delivery modes
• BOH4M (Business Leadership: 30% Learning, 70% Doing)
• COP4O (CO-OP: 10% Learning, 90% Doing).
💚 Step #3: Pick a university buddy and career coach of your choice.
Attract and teach the next generation of business leaders about world of consulting
Host case competitions, lectures, workshops, or learn all the essential aspects to create a startup.
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3000+ students
Impacted Since 2014
Illuminate is here to help you grow, but only with you can our Illuminate family grow.
25+
Conferences Hosted
Join us to continue this legacy.
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Cultivating Leadership
Develop your leadership through hands-on projects.
Experiential Learning
Gain experiences and set up fundamental mindsets to get ready for future challenges.
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Global Community
Join a global community, connect with alumnus, and make the world a better place.
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Diverse Mentorship
Connect with mentors from various backgrounds to receive personalized mentorship.
Unleash your potential.
Build tangible projects.
Leave a lasting legacy.
No business experience necessary!
We mentor our students through every step
of the process of learning to help you better
understand the various fields of the business world.
Here's What Alumni Have to Say.
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Create meaningful projects & friendships.
The Illuminate family is here to help you grow, but only with you can our Illuminate family grow.
Our alumni have all gone on to accomplish amazing things in their career, whether it be discovering a new industry or landing the job or school offer they have dreamed of landing since childhood.
We are here to help you achieve that same goal.
Amy Wang
Amy is getting her bachelor's degree in Commerce at McGill University. She landed a consulting internship position at Deloitte and is now a senior consultant at JED Consulting and a campus ambassador for Deloitte.
Tiffany Too
Tiffany is about to graduate from the HBA program at the Ivey Business School in 2024. Before entering the HBA program, she studied management and organizational studies at Western. Tiffany interned at PwC with the Asset and Wealth Management Team and she is now working at Global Research and Consulting Group as Global Director of Client Relations.
Miren Vijayaranjan
Miren graduated from the HBA program at the Ivey Business School in May of 2024. Before entering the HBA program, Miren studied management and organizational studies at Western. During his previous summers, he has completed internships within CI Financial's Private Client Operations team and RBCx's Venture Strategy team.
Austin Teshuba
Austin is currently Illuminate's Learning and Development Manager. Prior to this, he interned as an Associate Product Manager at Google in summer 2022 and has done STEM tutoring in the past. Austin is no stranger to the interdisciplinary tasks of coding and business management, holding a bachelor’s degree in computer science and another in business administration.
Paul Skuja
Paul was one of Illuminate’s national leads in 2021. He co-managed the strategic development of corporate partnerships for the National Collegiate Business Competition. He is now working as a student client service and pension assistant on the Pension Benefits Division Act team in Public Services and Procurement Canada.
Ali Malik
Ali studied Business Management at Western University. He continued his study at LSE and graduated with a bachelor's degree in science. He is now the product owner of Surf, which is a company providing brands with a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data.
Tyler Han
Tyler received a computer science degree from the University of Toronto. After graduating, he became a software engineer and worked as a full-stack developer for Markus, an academic SAAS platform. Tyler is the CTO of Voiceflow. Tyler is also a co-founder of ChairMUN, a timer website specifically designed for Model United Nations conferences and is currently in use by conferences all across the world!
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Sarah Sheppard
Sarah is studying education at Queen’s University. She focused on the strategic development of partnerships for the National Collegiate Business Competition. As an associate national lead, Sarah developed meaningful relationships with educators globally to advance business leadership education.
James Quinlan
James graduated from Western Ivey Business School. He was a national lead when first started his journey with Illuminate and was promoted to general manager focusing on strategy and innovation later. James worked under the Financial Service team at Deloitte and is now working as a business analyst at McKinsey.
Amy Zhang
Amy is an Honours Business Administration candidate at Ivey Business School, serving as our Communications Advisor. She is also the co-director of Hack Western, the annual hackathon taking place at the University of Western Ontario. She has previously worked at Proctor and Gamble as an IT Product Manager and Brand Management Intern.
João Costa
João is a BComm student studying at the University of Toronto. He landed his summer internship at EY's Technology Consulting practice with the cybersecurity team and later gained more experience in Microsoft as a Partner Development Manager Intern.
Emily Liu
Emily is our Business Operations Coordinator and is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Ivey Business School. Emily has worked in various roles, including SEO, marketing, and consulting. She has interned at Staples and will be working at Deloitte this summer.
Erinna Ma
Erinna graduated from Ivey Business School at Western University. She worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banking analyst and is now the Growth Finance Manager at IL MAKIAGE.
Tianhui Yang
Tianhui is a software engineer and computer science student at the University of Waterloo, class of 2024. She landed several software engineer internship positions in Fortune 100 companies such as RBC, Intuit, and Amazon. She is now interning at Roblox.
Briana Tang
Briana was one of Illuminate’s 2020-2021 national leads. She focused on logistics and event planning as a national lead. Briana’s team successfully executed national and international business competitions with 400+ participants. Briana later landed a internship at Canadain Tire as a services portfolio intern in 2022.
Illuminate is Parent-Approved.
Here's why parents love Illuminate, and why you should too!
