our story
ADO was founded from a shared belief that occupational therapy has the potential to influence far more than traditional clinical care. As emerging occupational therapists, we saw an opportunity to bring OT perspectives into conversations around women’s health, productivity, work, and everyday life.
Through both academic and real-world experiences, we observed how many women navigate burnout, role overload, and systems that are not designed with their physiological, emotional, and occupational realities in mind. Despite this, there remains a gap in how health and productivity are understood and supported across a woman’s lifespan.
Through our education, clinical training, entrepreneurial work, and content creation, we are committed to helping bridge the gap between research, practice, and real-world application—bringing occupational therapy perspectives into spaces where they have historically been underrepresented. At the core of our work is a simple belief: when women are supported to function well, everything else follows.
Meet our founders
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Meet our founders 〰️
tchiana augustin, co-founder
Tchiana is a co-founder and Master of Science in Occupational Therapy candidate based in Calgary with a focus on the intersection of health, function, and productivity.
Her work centers on how people navigate everyday roles at work, at home, and through periods of transition. With clinical experience in hand therapy and return-to-work mental health, she has developed a strong foundation in supporting individuals managing injury, fatigue, and changes in capacity.
Her perspective is also shaped by lived experience. As a mother, she understands the physical, cognitive, and emotional demands of balancing multiple roles. This has influenced her growing focus on women’s health, particularly how life stages such as pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause impact a woman’s ability to function and sustain productivity.
As an immigrant who moved to Canada from the Bahamas ten years ago, Tchiana brings awareness of the cultural and systemic barriers many women, especially those from BIPOC and immigrant communities face when navigating healthcare and workplace systems. Her work is driven by a commitment to advancing more inclusive and accessible approaches to women’s health and participation.
Tchiana is building toward a career that integrates clinical practice, consulting, and education, with a long-term vision of creating models that support sustainable performance across all stages of life.
tina do, co-founder
Tina Do is a co-founder and a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy candidate at the University of Alberta, and she's been preparing for this work her whole life, even when she didn't know it yet.
She brings clinical experience across families, child development, acute care, and mental health, and has spent years translating complex health concepts into language that actually reaches people. That same instinct drives her work in marketing, content, and education.
Her volunteer work with CCASA, where she staffed the crisis and information hotline supporting survivors of sexual abuse, shaped the way she shows up in every room — with steadiness, without judgment, and with a deep belief that people deserve to be met where they are.
Women's health isn't a professional interest for Tina. It's personal. Growing up as a first-generation Canadian, raised by Vietnamese immigrant women who carried enormous weight across every role: worker, mother, caregiver, provider — she saw firsthand what it looks like when women's health and wellbeing get deprioritized in the name of survival. She also saw what women are capable of when they're supported.
That's what Ado is built on. Not a gap in the market, a gap she lived.