Cloverdale Shoppers Drug Mart associate owner among tops in B.C.<\/p>\n
Published 6:00 pm Monday, May 11, 2026<\/p>\n
A local pharmacy owner has been name tops in B.C.<\/p>\n
Shenaz Lakhani considers herself a lifelong student of leadership, and her goal is to inspire the next generation of leaders in pharmacy.<\/p>\n
Her dedication has earned her a 2026 B.C. Pharmacy Association Award of Excellence, one of eight people in the province to earn the award.<\/p>\n
Lakhani is an associate owner of three Shoppers Drug Mart locations, including: one in Cloverdale, one in South Surrey, and one in Walnut Grove.<\/p>\n
She began her pharmacy journey as a pharmacy assistant in 2004 and since then, went on to graduate from the University of British Columbia\u2019s pharmacy program in 2009 before working in multiple roles at her company \u2014 as a pharmacist in more than 20 locations and as an associate owner of 10 locations, and even as a British Columbia\/Yukon Pharmacy operations specialist supporting 179 stores.<\/p>\n
In addition to her current role, Lakhani is the B.C.\/Yukon lead for her company\u2019s Women in Leadership for Associate Owners, a group with the goal of improving gender parity in associate ownership and building the next generation of women leaders. In this role, she organized the company\u2019s inaugural region-wide women\u2019s leadership event for the B.C.\/Yukon region in 2025, plus a host of other events.<\/p>\n
She is also actively involved in fundraising for Shoppers Foundation for Women\u2019s Health, where she regularly organizes fundraising events along with her peers to support women\u2019s health initiatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Canada, there are more actively practicing female pharmacists than male pharmacists, but the percentage of male pharmacy leaders is higher than the percentage of female pharmacy leaders. That\u2019s a gap,\u201d she said. \u201cUncovering the root cause of that and encouraging more women to become leaders in pharmacy is something I believe strongly in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Formally, her leadership has been recognized by Shoppers Drug Mart\u2019s leadership in her selection as the B.C.\/Yukon 2022 Associate-Owner of the Year. Her store in Thunderbird Village in Walnut Grove was selected to be part of her company\u2019s first group of Pharmacy Care Clinics in the province in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cloverdale Shoppers Drug Mart associate owner among tops in B.C. Published 6:00 pm Monday, May 11, 2026 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-663515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}