About - Haleh Bahrami

About me

Hi, I’m Haleh—a seasoned healthcare leader with over 25 years of experience transforming organizations across both private and public sectors.

Over my journey, I’ve learned that real change starts with strong teams, authentic partnerships, and a relentless commitment to radical candor. Whether merging national laboratory operations, executing multi-million-dollar M&A deals, or driving capital projects, I’ve built my career on uncovering unlikely synergies, streamlining processes, and forging high-performance teams where accountability and growth are paramount.

I blend strategic vision with unwavering integrity and a no-nonsense approach, and I’m excited to share the insights I’ve gathered to help make high-quality healthcare a shared reality.

My mission

To empower leaders to show up with courage, clarity, and authenticity—and help organizations unlock their full potential through strategic focus, operational rigor, and human-centered leadership.

I believe excellence and empathy are not opposites, but powerful allies in transformation. My mission is to build environments where growth is expected, dysfunction is addressed head-on, and every challenge becomes an opportunity to lead with greater alignment and impact.

Professional Bio

Haleh Bahrami is a visionary leader in the healthcare industry, currently serving as the Founder and CEO of Praxis Enterprises Inc., based in Vancouver, BC.

At Praxis, Haleh is redefining healthcare consultancy through an integrated strategy that emphasizes adaptive leadership, operational agility, regulatory excellence, and digital transformation. Her approach fosters forward-thinking leaders, enhances system efficiencies, ensures exemplary compliance standards, and leverages cutting-edge technology to transform healthcare delivery.

In addition to her role at Praxis, Haleh serves as a Healthcare Operations Executive Consultant at the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IQMH), where she has been instrumental in improving proficiency testing processes and expanding market share both nationally and globally. Her efforts focus on delivering high-quality services, maintaining regulatory compliance, and overseeing strategic operational plans.
Previously, Haleh worked with Accreditation Canada, where she supported her team in developing comprehensive frameworks for over 900 community surgical and diagnostic centers in Ontario. Her work at Accreditation Canada involved delivering high-quality services, reducing wait times, maintaining regulatory compliance, and overseeing strategic operational plans.

With over 25 years of experience in management and leadership, Haleh has held various senior positions, including Vice President of Laboratory Operations at LifeLabs Laboratory Services. There, she oversaw operational excellence for 13 laboratories nationally, ensuring the overall strategy was integrated into day-to-day operations to achieve efficiencies. Her leadership style is collaborative and data-driven, cultivating high-performing teams and building partnerships with interest holders, including unions and regulatory bodies.
Haleh holds a master’s degree in leadership, specializing in healthcare, from Royal Roads University. She is passionate about advancing women in science, actively mentoring and supporting career development.

Based in Vancouver, BC, Haleh enjoys spending time with her partner, two children, and family. She loves traveling to new places, trying new foods, taking long walks on the seawall, and hiking trails with her dog.

Clients & partners

My Values

Growth starts with honesty — about yourself, your team, and the systems you’re part of. I speak the truth—even when it’s hard—and teach others to do the same. With courage and compassion, I help people face what’s real, hold high standards, and grow through discomfort, not around it.

Care and high standards aren’t opposites. Caring deeply doesn’t mean lowering the bar. I lead with care, but I don’t coddle. People thrive when they’re seen, respected, and challenged to meet their full potential—with no judgment, just truth and trust. This helps people rise, not let them hide.

Leadership means stepping into uncertainty with your full self. I stand for courage, not performative perfection—and help others do the same.

Great leadership is both principled and human. I build strong structures, grounded in trust and integrity, where spinelessness has no place.

You won’t find performative empathy or virtue signaling in my work. I don’t dance around dysfunction—I name it and fix it. I meet people where they are—with radical acceptance and zero tolerance for B.S. This helps teams and organizations operate with clarity, integrity, and strategic rigor.

My Story

Know more about Haleh through her life storyline in pictures and personal notes

1970

Born in Tehran, Iran

1973

3 year old me… I developed an early love for sciences and wanted anything to with microscopes and being in health care at younger age.

1975

Read a lot of books. Was and still am a proud nerd. I remember being obsessed with being the top student

1977

Early family life, weddings, and festivities in Iran

1979

I lived through the Iran-Iraq war and Islamic Revolution. Life felt very eery and unsettling. But we still made moments for “life” - going to the mountains - trying to learn how to ski

1988

After many years of instability and deterioration to social and economic conditions in Iran, my family and I decided to leave Iran. I was 15 years old and we immigrated to Canada.

1989

Began going to highschool at Carson Graham in North Vancouver. Hello culture shock! Despite that, I built some life-long friendships with people I still consider best friends to this day. People like me who escaped Iran with their families for a better tomorrow.

1990

Despite being bullied (for my accent, clothes and weird lunch meals), I still rocked my proud hair do and cheek to cheek smile

1990

I graduated from Carson Graham (high school) and got accepted into UBC to study Sciences - Degree in Microbiology. This is first year university outside of SUB

1991

The Year I became a Canadian Citizen

2000

I met Judah, my ex-husband and father of my two children.

2001

Judah and I got married