Redefining Leadership Through Indigenous Identity: How Myan Marcen-Gaudaur Is Charting Scotiabank’s Path to Reconciliation Women of Influence

May 12, 2025

With deep roots in community and a vision for lasting change, Myan Marcen-Gaudaur is reframing what reconciliation looks like inside corporate Canada.

“My grandpa built his career by abiding by the policies of assimilation. Never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined that I would be building my career on assimilation’s great undoing,” says Myan Marcen-Gaudaur, Director of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation at Scotiabank, Ojibwe-Métis and settler descent and descendant of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation.

Her grandfather, Jake Gaudaur — a mixed-race football player and former commissioner of the Canadian Football League — kept his Ojibwe roots private, a common survival practice of all Indigenous Peoples of his generation. (She also descends from Chief Big Shilling, hereditary chief at Lake Couchiching.)

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