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“Accidental entrepreneur” Sascha Boulet-Devost is Atlantic Business Magazine’s 2026 CEO of the Year.
“I’m a practitioner,” 38-year-old Sascha Boulet-Devost says about half a dozen times during our interview, a week after she was named Atlantic Business Magazine’s CEO of the Year.
Sure, she may be an award-winning CEO, overseeing some 80 employees and five Capture Therapeutics clinics in two provinces. And yes, she has a string of honours—from McMaster University, CBDC Atlantic, the Wallace McCain Institute and more. But even though she’s widely recognized for her business leadership, it’s the values she learned as a practicing physiotherapist that underpin much of her work.
Just a few days after winning the region’s highest honour for corporate leadership excellence, Boulet-Devost was back in the clinic for a week, treating patients. This interview, we were told, would have to wait until her clinical responsibilities were over (it did).
Normally, she does four days of clinical work a month. But with a therapist on maternity leave, she’s stepped in and taken on more. “I usually try to only do four days a month to keep my relevance, keep my ethics, keep my license,” she says, with a laugh. “But right now, I’m doing about eight extra days and it’s totally taking over my life.”
On those days, CEO Sascha takes a back seat to physiotherapist Sascha.
“I’m not CEO that day. Yes, I’ll show up if something happens, but I’ve built a good enough team to understand that I’m a patient practitioner. That day, I am a practitioner. I’m not a good practitioner if I’m having to deal with either fires or noise. So I won’t check email during that shift. I used to try to do both and then I was a little sucky at both,” she says. “As you mature, you realize most things don’t need an immediate response.”
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