Carla Johanns is the kind of leader who sells a million dollars in ten months during a brutal market — and still wonders if it was enough. As CEO of Simpson Print, a 63-year-old diversified print manufacturing company based in Ontario, Johanns has built something that’s hard to categorize.

In this episode of Her Imprint, Carla opens up about coming back to the family business after a devastating loss, confronting quiet but persistent gender bias head-on, and why she’s deliberately stepping back from day-to-day leadership — not as a retreat, but as a strategy.